Sonya Kelly puts a funny spin on her battles with bureaucracy to secure an Irish visa for her Australian girlfriend, writes Pádraic Killeen

Dublin Fringe’s Show in a Bag plays are designed to tour cheaply

Ireland’s love of whiskey and stout is well established. What is less known, perhaps, is that the country has a long association with the grape, too, longer than the arrival of Blue Nun on our shelves a few decades ago.

The tradition of travelling theatrical troupes has been revived in Cork, writes Jo Kerrigan

Box office sales have opened for an event described as “one of the most significant multi-arts festivals” of the summer.

Fines totalling €2.2m have been imposed on Bus Éireann, Meath County Council and Keltank Ltd for breaches of health and safety legislation arising out of the fatal crash in which five Meath schoolgirls died.

The director of the garage that serviced the school bus involved in a fatal collision which killed five Meath schoolgirls has expressed the company’s deep regret and remorse for it’s deficient system at the time.

A court has heard that the first garda who arrived on the scene of the crash in which five Meath schoolgirls were killed described it as having "an air of unreality" with children walking around screaming and talking on their mobile phones.

The sentencing of Bus Éireann, Meath County Council and Keltank Ltd, arising from the investigation into the 2005 fatal bus crash in which five Meath schoolgirls were killed, has been set for next Thursday.

A County Louth test centre has been acquitted on charges arising from the investigation into the fatal bus crash in which five Meath schoolgirls were killed on May 23, 2005.

A DOE tester has told a jury that the ABS warning light was working on a bus two months before it was involved in a fatal collision in which five Meath schoolgirls were killed.

A specialist in braking systems has told a jury that the fact that the ABS was not working on a bus involved in an accident that killed five Meath schoolgirls significantly affected the outcome of the crash.

A garda who arrived at the scene of a fatal bus crash in which five Meath schoolgirls were killed has told a jury that he examined the underside of the vehicle and found two ABS cables were disconnected or broken.

The ABS system was not working in eight out of 18 vehicles tested by Bus Éireann four days after a crash in which five Meath schoolgirls were killed, a jury at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard today.

One of the companies on trial for breaches of the Health and Safety Act arising from the investigation into a fatal bus crash causing the death of five Meath schoolgirls in 2005 has pleaded guilty to a new charge.

The driver of the bus which crashed three years ago, which caused the deaths of five Meath schoolgirls, has revealed he had never been told the vehicle was supposed to have an anti-lock braking system (ABS).

A motorist who witnessed the school bus crash that killed five school girls has said she thought the temporary traffic lights assisting road works on the Navan to Kentstown road were too close to a bend.

The jury in a trial arising from an investigation into a school bus crash in which five schoolgirls were killed has been told that a company knew the vehicle's ABS system was defective but failed to repair it.