Mark O’Halloran explains to Padraic Killeen how the central character of Davoren in The Shadow of a Gunman echoes O’Casey’s view of his younger self

Abbey Theatre, Dublin

Staff mortgages are not set to be a major issue when AIB and the Irish Bank Officials’ Association meet today to try and thrash out the terms and conditions for staff at AIB facing redundancies.

The SDLP is to press for National Insurance numbers to be used at polling stations in a bid to stamp out electoral fraud, the party revealed today.