The Irish passport is rather wonderful — a montage of graphics, images, music and writing, communicating our Celtic past and present. It’s ideal if you’re stuck on a plane, with no reading material other than the mildly depressing sky-shopping and sky-café brochures.

An exhibition at the Crawford showcases Cork’s place in the Arts and Crafts movement, writes Colette Sheridan

The former director of the National Museum is furious that the Seanad is to move into the building while staff are so anxious they have been “weeping”.

THE Tullylough Cross could have been lost forever to the Irish nation. The 9th century metal processional cross was stolen from a crannóg near Tullylough in Co Roscommon in the late 1980s.