Festival season approaches, legends come to the Opera House, and a young Irish phenomenon continues to impact on UK telly, writes Arts Editor Des O'Driscoll.

In advance of his visit to Kinsale, author Donal Ryan tells Des O’Driscoll about some of his favourite music, books and TV shows through the decades.

Pennywise the clown is back for a second terrifying instalment of IT, writes Kerri-Ann Roper

Offering an idea for sale to the week’s sport In the North London derby tomorrow afternoon, Unai Emery and Mauricio Pochettino will enjoy a welcome break from the tedious business of narrative control.

From film to fashion, books to TV, our writers pick the best cultural highlights of the season.

Legendary actors Liam Cunningham and Patrick Bergin are among a number of stars lined up to appear at a special event which will take place on Spike Island in Cork harbour next month.

You can see the evidence everywhere.

From movies to music, fashion to food, our writers pick the cultural highlights of summer.

To celebrate National Hug Your Cat Day, Nuala Woulfe chats to Irish celebrities about their feline friends.

From movies to music, food to fashion, our critics reveal their cultural picks for the year ahead

Brendan Gleeson tells Esther McCarthy about the fun he had working on ‘Paddington 2’, and his mixed feelings about Cork GAA.

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Well, we know what we're doing for the new few weekends.

As the film IT scares a whole new generation, Ed Power looks at why Stephen King’s stories are as popular as ever

Des O’Driscoll picks the best events for the week ahead

From movies to music, food to fashion, our critics round up the big tickets for autumn

Donal O’Keeffe tells the story of the mobile library service which brings a sense of community and joy to people of all ages.

The latest gaming news with Ronan Jennings

Last week, Colm Greaves had a terrific piece in this paper speculating on what Charles Haughey’s political and personal career would have been like if he’d retained a financial interest in a lucrative filly he sold on, Ballidaress.

Recent research has revealed that wild hamsters in France are losing their minds and turning cannibal.

Halloween is the ideal time to scare yourself with a good horror movie. Happy to oblige, Declan Burke lists the best horror movies of all time and, for good measure, throws in a list of the five most cursed film sets and five best scary movies for kids.  

Is all this clowning around far more serious than we think? Suzanne Harrington investigates.

KEVIN PEARCE thought he had escaped the district of his Boston upbringing and a deadly secret forever. 

His first book was a biography of Duran Duran, but Neil Gaiman quickly moved into the comic book world and from there to a successful multi-media career in fantasy and sci fi.

USA: Lightning, a spider, and now a snake — a central Florida man is proving to be a survivor.

The big summer silly season of movies has pretty much come and gone but that doesn’t mean that it’s a quiet time in the cinemas as there’s plenty of family fare still on the way in August.

Joe Hill didn’t want to ride on his father’s coat tails as a writer, so he invented a name and went out on his own, says Ed Power

FORMER police detective Bill Hodges, now a private investigator, knows time is running out. 

DRUG addict Jess Moulson wakes in hospital with no memory and a face scarred from reconstructive surgery to learn she is under arrest for the murder of a child, Alex Beech, who died in a fire at her apartment — a fire she supposedly started in a heroin-induced rage against her abusive boyfriend.

Cell is 2006 novel by Stephen King which is basically about a zombie apocalypse which spreads via mobile phones around the world.

SHANE DUNPHY’s true story starts with a transcript of his first psychotherapy session, and goes on to recount the strange sequence of events that led a case-hardened child protection professional to seek psychiatric help.

I celebrated my 31st birthday last week (I know! I think I’m freakishly young looking too) and I was reminded of a birthday from some years ago.

Ireland’s men’s team will make an official return to European basketball next year, it was confirmed yesterday.