The American comic Reginald D Hunter has gone through a series of emotions since Donald Trump took office as the latest president of his country, writes Richard Fitzpatrick

Thousands of people have gathered in Selma, Alabama, ahead of a speech by President Barack Obama at the 50th anniversary of a landmark event of the civil rights movement.

THERE might not be a funnier act in Ireland this year than Reginald D Hunter, who is performing in 14 venues over the next three weeks, with a later date at the end of May, at Vicar Street.

Ray Charles, a talent who erased musical boundaries between the sacred and the secular with hits such as “What’d I Say”, “Georgia on My Mind” and “I Can’t Stop Loving You,” died at age 73.

It may be subtitled, and it may be staggeringly gory, yet Christians across the United States also expect that seeing Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ will be a profoundly moving experience.