Cork Midsummer Festival

Weekend number 2 of Cork Midsummer Festival features a tour of local homes to view their art, dancing with buckets, and more, says Ellie O’Byrne

"The past is never dead," wrote William Faulkner. "It’s not even past." Between Trees and Water, a new show by Cork theatre company, Painted Bird, is convinced of this stubborn relevance of the past to the present.

Treatment with human stem cells has allowed mice crippled by a version of multiple sclerosis to walk again after less than two weeks.