One Monday evening in September 2017, playwright Jim Nolan stood with 15,000 people on the Quay in Waterford.

Ailís Ní Rian hasn’t let a hearing impairment stop her from composing music and writing plays, one of which will be performed at Dublin Fringe Fest, writes Colette Sheridan.

With the death of playwright Tom Murphy, Ireland has lost one of the nation’s finest exponents of theatre. His career spanned more than six decades.

The characters in ‘Whistle’ and ‘Conversations’ strike home to my era of emigration and every era since, writes Victoria White.