James Joyce’s famous short works are filled with music. Alan O’Riordan meets two gallants who decided to make them into an opera.

Ellie O’Byrne meets the people behind an end of life conference, including keynote speaker Jenny Kitzinger, the academic breaking the taboo around dying.

Laura O’Mahony is from Glanmire, Co Cork, but currently lives in Ballycotton, with husband, Shane, and daughter, Polly. She is on tour with comedy group, Cccahoots. They play Whelan’s, in Dublin, tomorrow.

This note is guaranteed to turn your Good Friday into a Great Friday.

FRIDAY, 10pm, and I’m in Cork Airport, anticipating the moment of my sister’s arrival from London with the feeling that this wonderful moment cannot come quickly enough.

Cormac O’Keeffe spends an adventure-filled weekend in the child-friendly, Newpark Hotel in Kilkenny.

Polly Samson’s novel The Kindness is built around a family secret — the suicide of a beloved uncle. She tells Sue Leonard about it and what it’s like to write songs for her husband David Gilmour’s band Pink Floyd.

The ex-husband of a woman accused of murdering their eight-year-old daughter while under the spell of her lesbian lover choked back tears as he told a UK court how his wife had become “possessed”.

Mark B Mills

It was a special day for a special little boy yesterday as supermarket chain Tesco created 104 new jobs by opening its latest Irish store.

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Your daily, spoiler-free guide to what to look out for on the box.

The good Samaritan who gave the coat, and more, off her back, to a baby born on a bustling New York street corner has been reunited with the child’s parents

A woman gave birth in the street in New York city after a taxi she waved down to take her to hospital was swiped by a passer-by.

GETTING children from birth to the school-gate is a major achievement, says psychologist David Coleman in the fourth series of his TV show, 21st Century Child, which begins on RTÉ One on Thursday.

Theatre: The Threepenny Opera

THE past 18 months have seen Mark O’Regan putting together some gallery of rogues on the Irish stage. In the Abbey Theatre’s Alice in Funderland he played an insidiously smug politician, the ‘Minister for All Your Needs’.

Kevin Prendergast is anticipating a good performance from La Collina as she goes for glory in the Oxigen Enviromental Pretty Polly Stakes at the Curragh next Sunday.

Don’t listen to the experts, says Andrew Clover. Sharing your ‘feelings’ with your partner could be the worst thing you ever do, he tells Sue Leonard

The endless energy and determination of a mother who died suddenly two weeks after the birth of her seventh son was remembered at her funeral yesterday.

Tributes have been paid to Clive Dunn, who died at the age of 92 on Tuesday.

'Dad's Army' star Clive Dunn has died aged 92.

I HATE to quote the Scottish play, but that line from Macbeth has never been so apposite.

Jessie Wallace's new boyfriend says they are "in love".

Sid Owen has split from his fiancee.

Jennifer Johnston was anything but confident when writing her new novel she tells Caroline O’Doherty , despite having firm views on its subject matter

Kym Marsh has returned to 'Coronation Street' five months after giving birth to her daughter Polly.

Jamie Lomas has quit 'Hollyoaks'.

GODOLPHIN’S dual Classic winner Blue Bunting is set to be the headline act in the Darley Yorkshire Oaks at York on Thursday.

CLIVE Cox is fitting Polly’s Mark with a visor for the first time in today’s Bet 365 Lancashire Oaks at Haydock.

Top-class fillies Midday and Snow Fairy feature among a field of eight declared for the Stobart Ireland Pretty Polly Stakes at the Curragh on Saturday.

Inxile picked up another decent pot for ’sprint king’ Dandy Nicholls with a customary all-the-way success in the Galtee Midsummer Sprint Stakes at Cork.

DUNDALK: 2.35 Danziger, 5.10 Amen, 5.40 Address Unknown

Kym Marsh’s baby, who was born prematurely, will stay in hospital for a few weeks, but will see lots of her family in the meantime.

Kym Marsh has given birth to a baby girl.

SHE may be playing a dead pirate but her special talents have helped breathe life into a swashbuckling Christmas pantomime.

WITH a maniacal manager, language-challenged waiter, hamster on the loose and racist Major in residence, it’s not the first place that springs to mind for a romantic weekend getaway.

Clive Cox still has faith in Balthazaar’s Gift ahead of the Eddie Stobart Park Stakes at Doncaster on Saturday.

BUSINESSMAN Asil Nadir has flown back to Britain, 17 years after he fled while awaiting trial on theft charges stemming from the collapse of his Polly Peck business empire.

Polly’s Mark could take her chance in the Darley Yorkshire Oaks later this month.

It was girl power all the way at Haydock as Hayley Turner gave Barshiba a brilliant ride to win back-to-back renewals of the Bet365 Lancashire Oaks.

ANTE-POST favourite Twice Over heads a select field of six runners set to go to post in tomorrow’s Coral-Eclipse at Sandown.