It has been a stellar year for the Everyman, particularly with the success of Asking For It. Artistic director Julie Kelleher is not resting on her laurels, says Marjorie Brennan.

Irene Kelleher is taking her fictional play, Mary and Me, to the Edinburgh Fringe. It was inspired by the tragic events in Granard in 1984, writes Colette Sheridan

There is a risk that we are raising children that are physically unscathed by injury but are psychologically fragile, Carl Dixon tells Mark Boyden.

Slapstick comedy and tumbling sets provided the belly laughs in The Play that Goes Wrong, writes Ed Power.

Anger issues…

THE question mark says it all in Ireland Shed a Tear?, Michael Collins’s dramatic response to the Carrickmines fire last year, in which 10 people, including five children, lost their lives, writes Alan O’Riordan

Garry Hynes of Druid tells Padraic Killeen why they’ve revived Martin McDonagh’s modern classic

This cat does not want to play.

A boom in ticket sales for works by Irish playwrights Brian Friel, Enda Walsh, and Conor McPherson contributed to the Dublin Theatre Festival last year recording a greater than threefold increase in profits to €107,626.

Ex-army commando Neil Sinclair’s books on parenting hark back to a simpler time of climbing trees, skimming stones, and building forts, writes Áilín Quinlan.

At Ireland’s first academy of creative play children are given the freedom to explore their subject of choice, says Margaret Jennings.

A Mayo man is €500,000 richer thanks to the National Lottery after winning the Daily Million Plus Jackpot on Thursday 16 June.

A Terence MacSwiney play was watched over the weekend by his grandson — almost 80 years after his own mother played a lead role in the last Cork production.

Colin Murphy has been back raking over the coals of the banking crisis, with his latest play, Bailed Out, in effect, the sequel to Guaranteed, the story of how Ireland toppled into insolvency.

Yeah, that socket's not real.

As a new play and V&A exhibition celebrating Alexander McQueen open in London, Rachel Marie Walsh looks at the life and style of the iconic designer.

WRITER and director, Carmel Winters, does not shy away from difficult subjects. 

Franck Ribery could face a suspension if he refuses to represent his country again, according to Uefa president Michel Platini.

Summer camps can be a productive and fun way to help fill the long school holidays. Clodagh O’Donoghue of Consumer Choice looks at the options, costs, and what you need to consider.

Camille O’Sullivan tells Jo Kerrigan about the intense experience of ’The Rape of Lucrece’.

For the first time in its 30-year history, Graffiti Theatre Company is collaborating with the Cork Opera House. The company, which produces drama for young people, is staging Where in the World is Frank Sparrow? at the venue’s Half Moon theatre from February 25-March 8.

“A horror play” is how Samuel Beckett publisher and director, John Calder, describes Happy Days which opens at Cork’s Everyman Theatre on February 10 as part of an Irish tour.

Everyman, Cork