Sophie Hunter directs a rarely-seen work by Benjamin Britten that provides a link to major influences on Beckett, writes Padraic Killeen

The family of a 66-year-old woman who was found dead after being missing for over a week last year has launched a High Court action after her photograph was used in a Hollywood horror movie.

THE second Happy Days International Beckett Festival, devoted to Irish literary giant, Samuel Beckett, is on this week in Enniskillen. Beckett lived in the Fermanagh town during his teenage years, when he was a boarding student at Portora Royal School.

An international festival to celebrate the work of writer Samuel Beckett has begun in the town where the Nobel Prize winner went to school.

The captain of a ship which collided with a passenger ferry in the North, causing more than £1m (€1.25m) of damage, has today been jailed for a year.

The captain of a ship which collided with a passenger ferry causing thousands of pounds worth of damage had drunk up to seven bottles of beer, a court in the North heard today.

A RECORD breaking monkfish with an enormous fanged-mouth big enough to swallow a person is to be stuffed — not for dinner, but for display.

A NEW generation is in the ascendancy in Ulster following Eddie Carr's win over Michael Toal in last Sunday's senior semi-final at the Cathedral Road.