Ciara Higgins is the artistic director of the Great Music in Irish Houses Festival, running June 13–18. 

ON ISRAEL’S annual Holocaust memorial day yesterday, a 78-year-old concentration camp survivor slowly read the names of dozens of relatives murdered in the Nazi death camps, pausing to choke back tears.

Sirens sounded across Israel this morning, bringing life to a standstill as millions of Israelis observed a moment of silence to honour the memory of the victims of the Holocaust.