Cork Opera House has apologised to music fans for the issues that plagued its ‘frustrating’ booking system during the sale of tickets for a hotly anticipated show.

Des O’Driscoll sat down to get to know Cormac Ó Caoimh before he releases his new album Shiny Silvery Things.

As well as a production of La Traviata, Cork composer/conductor John O’Brien has a number of other projects on the way, he tells Jo Kerrigan

One of Ireland’s longest- running film festivals has requested a €200,000 loan from a local authority to save it from financial collapse.

Dean Strang rose to fame off the back of the hugely popular crime docuseries - Making a Murderer - released in late December 2015, detailing the recent life of Steven Avery.

In just one week they notched up nearly 10,000 YouTube hits, broke into the top 50 of the Irish iTunes charts, attracted fans from as far away as Kathmandu, Boston, and France — and now they’re set to perform in Cork Opera House.

You may hear lively sounds echoing from the Cork Opera House this week: the Rhythm of the Dance troupe, with director/ producer Kieran Cavanagh, choreographer Doireann Carney, and composer Carl Hession are rehearsing for their new show, which kicks off its international tour on Sunday. From Cork, they will journey across the UK and Europe, as far as Russia.

Whale song, the rush of waves and the buzz of a 1960s pirate radio station define the live-music drama, Dumbstruck, which opens at Cork’s Half Moon Theatre on Tuesday. Produced by Bristol-based Fine Chisel, the show, which combines narrative and live music, won the Fringe First Award at last year’s Edinburgh Festival.

FOLLOWING a successful tour in 2013, Decadent Theatre Company’s revival of Martin McDonagh play A Skull in Connemara is back for an 11-week whirl around the country.

ELECTRIC PICNIC: For many people, this week has revolved around the back to school shenanigans, but a lucky few thousand were preparing bags of a different kind as they set out for the Electric Picnic.

FROM relatively humble origins six years ago, Culture Night has become a hugely popular nationwide event.

A new documentary on Michael Collins: The Musical will be premiered at Cork Opera House tonight, says Colette Sheridan

MUSIC NEWS: After the incidents and controversy generated by the recent Swedish House Mafia concert in Dublin, chances are that promoters, gardaí, local authorities, etc, will go all out to be seen to be on top of events in their area.

THE 56th Corona Cork Film Festival closed last night with the Gala Screening of Ivan Sen’s Australian film Toomelah, set among the indigenous population of New South Wales.

“I SUPPOSE,” said a sarcastic pal of our acquaintance, “you’ll be writing about your old pal Levi-Strauss this week and how his anthropological innovations underpinned modern French thought in a variety of fields.”

SHOWBAND legend Brendan O’Brien died of cardiac failure in association with acute alcohol intoxication, an inquest was told.

HUNDREDS of Roy Keane’s hometown fans queued outside Cork Opera House yesterday as tickets for the critically acclaimed musical, I, Keano, went on sale.