The inaugural Cork Proms will be staged at Cork Opera House during the Midsummer Festival, in June, and will, hopefully, become an annual event, says Siobhan Howe.

The black comedy, which also starred Aiden Gillen, is the second play in McDonagh’s Aran Islands Trilogy.

The sounds of the Indian stringed sarod and strains of the uilleann pipes and harp can be heard together in Co Cork next Sunday in an innovative international collaboration.

He has a CV that would be the envy of any highly- regarded chef worldwide and now Patrick Murphy is bringing that experience to his new restaurant at Stoneview in Blarney, Co Cork.

The festival opens its gates next weekend, August 4, 5 and 6.

Emirates longhaul

Guerrilla on Sky Atlantic from Thursday stars Freida Pinto, Irish actress Denise Gough and Idris Elba.

Irish nurse Berna Breen tries working in the A&E section of a hospital in Honduras on Toughest Place To Be, on Monday on RTÉ One at 9.35pm.

Tasmin Little is looking forward to returning to Cork for a concert at the City Hall, writes Cathy Desmond

Irish baritone Rory Musgrave will be one of the stars of Wexford Festival Opera, writes Cathy Desmond.

When the BBC's 'First Night of the Proms' kicked off this week the audience gave a standing ovation as the BBC Symphony Orchestra began their performance at the Royal Albert Hall with La Marseillaise as a tribute to the victims of the Nice terror attack.

2016 marks the 30th anniversary of one of the best films ever made by one of the greatest filmmakers of modern times - Aliens.

Paul Heaton hates nostalgia, but is aware why fans want to hear music from his days with the

Tommy Steele tells Ed Power about playing the big band legend, and how he was nearly typecast as a leprechaun

SATURDAY

Gwyneth Paltrow looked youthful and pretty in Cushnie et Ochs at the Environmental Media Awards in Burbank, California. 

Apple has retained its title as the coolest brand in Britain for a fourth year, but challengers are emerging in the form of Netflix and Instagram, according to an annual survey.

Conor Kane takes advantage of the new Waterford-London route and enjoys a day trip in the city.

Bill Bailey talks Darwin’s adventures and rubber bishops with Richard Fitzpatrick

A new movie on The Damned forms part of a season of punk films in Cork. Ellie O’Byrne speaks to the director and hears about the movement on Leeside

LONDON-BASED composer and saxophonist Jason Yarde teams up with Music Generation Cork City for a performance of his work, ‘Bold as Brass’, by 100 musicians on June 21 as part of Cork Midsummer Festival.

JOHN CREEDON presents a music show on RTÉ Radio 1 weeknights from the RTÉ Cork studios, and also the Fleadh Cheoil series on RTÉ One television on Fridays at 7.30pm.

ANGELA Scanlon is from Co Meath and presents RTÉ travel show, Getaways, as well as being the online presenter for The Voice UK.

The Cork tenor is celebrating a quarter of a century as a professional singer, writes Dan Buckley

ENGLAND: Chelsea are top of another league after their fans’ festive chant about manager Jose Mourinho was voted the funniest ever.

He’s not standing - ya, ya, ya!

Poor Elton John was a special guest at the Statoil Masters Tennis in London when his chair decided it wasn’t going to behave for him.

Matthew McConaughey has revealed Chewbacca is his all-time favourite sci-fi character.

USA: Police in Northern California say a man robbed a petrol station only to return hours later to give the money back and apologise. 

A bizarre audition secured a role in Anna Nicole for Cork actor Jason Broderick, writes Jo Kerrigan

Chris Martin is reportedly dating Jennifer Lawrence.

Latin crooner Julio Iglesias has backed Conchita Wurst saying the Eurovision winner was “a super singer”.

Colma Ni Bhrian has beaten all other Coldplay fans in what has to be one of the cleverest promotional stunts ever.

Did you hear the one about General Franco rigging the Eurovision? It’s the subject of a new radio documentary by Richard Fitzpatrick.

NEW ZEALAND: An endurance swimmer has spoken of being protected from a shark by a pod of dolphins as he swam one of the toughest stretches of open water in the world.

I am not averse to emotion, so l was lumpy-throated and dewy-eyed when president Michael D Higgins visited Britain recently.

Dermot O'Leary hosts highlights from a celebration of the Irish music tradition and its dialogue with Britain in the presence of the president of Ireland and the Prince and Princess Michael of Kent at the Royal Albert Hall on BBC4 at 8pm.

To be, or not to be theatrical, that was the question for President Michael D Higgins as he took to the stage of the Royal Shakespeare Company.

I was looking forward to the gala concert at the Royal Albert Hall, as the finale of President Michael D Higgins’ visit to Britain. How disappointed I was.

The Queen will bid farewell to the President Michael D Higgins today, drawing to a close an historic four-day state visit to the UK.