The Queen of Crime, the champion of Other Voices, and the driving force behind Cork’s Penny Dinners were just some of the leading lights honoured by UCC yesterday.

Five things from the worlds of arts, culture and film to keep you occupied this week

Dingle’s celebration of music continues to charm whatever the weather, writes Joe Leogue

The Government is launching a ‘Home to Work’ campaign in the run up to Christmas to try to encourage emigrants to return.

Cian Ó Cíobháin celebrates another milestone in his popular radio show, writes Don O’Mahony

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Bjork, Christy Moore, and Derek Jarman will all feature in this year’s Cork Film Festival in a typically eclectic programme of screenings that will appeal to movie buffs and mainstream audiences alike.

Live music: FUAIM Opening Gala

As Philip King takes to the stage with Scullion at a musical celebration hosted by UCC, he tells Ed Power how his studies there helped shape him as an artist

Triskel Christchurch, Cork

Highlights of next week’s festival

Twin sisters Ellie and Louise McNamara of Heathers came to prominence with the Bord Fáilte ad, and have since been writing for David Guetta.

International pop star Joss Stone has told a court that she was only aware of an alleged plot by two Manchester men to kill her when she was visited by the police.

Eleven years ago when Philip King pitched the idea of a music event on the Dingle peninsula, he couldn’t have imagined it would be still thriving.

Other Voices’ simple, church concert format in a wintry location was an unlikely hit, but it’s ten years old, says Carl Dixon

A man who took part in a violent attack on a college student which led to the victim being thrown from a window on the top floor of a Dublin bus has had his suspended sentence re-activated.

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A MUSICIAN, a Supreme Court judge, the surgeon who led the team that separated Ireland’s conjoined twins, and a senior executive of a pharmachem giant will be honoured by their former college this week.

A teenager who along with others violently attacked a college student which led to the victim being thrown from a window on the top floor of a Dublin bus has been given a suspended sentence.

PLANS for a futuristic exhibition centre — projected to attract 73,000 visitors annually and create 16 jobs in Kenmare — were unveiled in the south Kerry town, last night.

A group of teenagers whose violent attack on a college student led to the man being thrown from a window on the top floor of a Dublin bus have been remanded for sentence next month.

GARDAÍ are to patrol passenger vehicles this weekend following a horrific attack on a man who was kicked out of the top-floor window of a bus in Dublin.

ARTS Minister John O’Donoghue announced the appointment of five new members of the Arts Council yesterday.

Minister for Arts John O’Donoghue has appointed five new members to the Arts Council to replace those members whose terms of office have expired.

NEW Arts Council chairperson Olive Braiden said yesterday she hopes to see the arts made more accessible especially to children and local communities, despite the 20% budget cut imposed by the Government at the start of this year.

Olive Braiden has been appointed as the new Chairperson of the Arts Council under the first Arts Act in 30 years.