When times are hard food can be the ultimate source of comfort, can’t it?

A group of Dingle locals have come together to figure out how to save the Phoenix Cinema. They want to purchase the cinema and give it back to the community, as a multifunctional arts space

The programme opens for applications on April 12

Arts and Culture Recovery Task Force to launch an application portal for a wide range of workers from the performing and visual arts

After a sustained period ‘in the dark’, the pantomime also brings a significant revenue as well as fun and laughter

After widespread confusion within the industry, the Government has come up with revised reopening measures for late-night venues.

Increased spending on health and welfare are among the measures set to be announced in today's budget.

In a successful career spanning 20 years directing theatre and opera, the Corkman suddenly found himself relying on welfare payments for rent. Although the arts sector is now recovering, he says we must learn lessons in how we regard and pay artists.

Stand-up is immediate in the way few other crafts manage to be — so we can't just ignore Covid, writes Maeve Higgins.

Director of 'Philadelphia, Here I Come', Cork's first major dramatic presentation since Covid, says Irish theatre is in a good place but a new generation of playwrights need funding and support

Rembrandt exhibition being hosted in Cork

Live return of music, dance, literature, film, poetry, theatre, photography, and art

16th Culture Night should be celebrated as a 'national moment'

Concerns had been raised that the basic income plan had been scrapped in favour of a 'working age payment', but Catherine Martin insists that is not the case

As gigs and live events return, disabled people hope accessibility gains made during the pandemic will remain 

The A City & A Garden project is a treat for the senses

We need a glimpse to the end in sight to give us all hope

A group of professionals who teach in the arts is to hold a socially distant silent protest calling on the Government to provide clarity on why the sector is being forced to remain closed.

'Why can you go to match with a full team, but not a piano lesson on your own?'

When the clocks went back last weekend many of us, metaphorically at least, looked over a shoulder fretting that the bright days of summer and then autumn had passed for another year.

A pre-Budget submission says PUP should be reinstated and 5% of Arts Council funding should go into a new hardship fund

Culture Night celebrations

As Culture Night gets going, mostly online, Patricia Quinn says Covid-19 has dealt a hard blow to the entertainment and arts sectors — and we need to ensure they are not wiped out, writes Patricia Quinn

In part three of our Save the Arts campaign, musicians describe how they innovated in lockdown, venue officials tell of new opportunities, and festival operators describe plans for the next big night out.

Last October, when Budget 2020 was published, the National Campaign for the Arts (NCA) said it was “devastated”, declaring the sector was being left behind.

In the second part of our Save the Arts series, musicians, designers, curators, and others in the sector recount the emotional and financial toll of not being able to earn, not being able to express themselves, and not being able to engage with an audience

The Covid-19 crisis has brought the arts sector to its knees, despite keeping us entertained throughout lockdown. Now, with the launch of the National Campaign to Save the Arts, writers, dancers, designers, musicians, and other creatives tell how they were impacted by the shutdown and what needs to happen next