IT’S been a long day already for James Galway, his schedule filled with a host of media appearances and other duties in the run-up to a performance at the National Concert Hall.

ONCE again, Francis Humphrys has succeeded in attracting a host of wonderful performers to Bantry for the West Cork Chamber Music Festival, which begins on Friday.

Encounter

Austria’s culture minister today agreed to abide by a court ruling and give up ownership of five precious Gustav Klimt paintings to a California woman who says the Nazis stole them from her Jewish family.