MARQUEE REPORT: Over the next week performers at Live at the Marquee in Cork include the Coronas (tonight), Nathan Carter (Sunday), Bob Dylan (Monday) and Tom Jones (Thursday).

THE memories of Christmas may be fading, but that pudginess around the mid-riff is a lot harder to shake off.

Imeall on TG4 kicks off its new season with a revealing interview with playwright Tom Murphy, says Richard Fitzpatrick

Big things are expected of acoustic trio The Staves ahead of their debut album.

MUSIC NEWS: Snow Patrol singer Gary Lightbody, below, is one of the busiest men in show business at the moment.

This weekend’s Cave concerts are performed 88 steps down in a chamber beneath the earth, says Alan O’Riordan

They’ll be on opposite teams and opposite sides of the pitch in Semple Stadium on Sunday in the final round of this year’s Allianz Hurling League, but John O’Brien (Tipp) and Cathal Naughton (Cork) were all comradely smiles in the most unlikely setting of Mitchelstown Caves yesterday as they posed for a few publicity pictures.

NEW YORK’S Carnegie Hall, London’s Barbican, and the Cork Opera House are all celebrating the 75th birthday of Steve Reich, the great American composer.

THERE’S a huge emphasis on the coastal areas of the country for holiday and retreat homes, and the interior heartland is sometimes ignored.

A YOUNG Tipperary man has spent nearly €6,000 unsuccessfully trying to get planning permission in the last three years.