Pool (No Water) review: Five stars for this Mark Ravenhill play featuring Evanna Lynch
Cork Midsummer Festival 2026: The Everyman’s production puts the Metropole Hotel’s empty swimming pool to extremely effective use
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Evanna Lynch: ‘With another set of parents, in another time, I would have been dismissed as mad’
The actor saw in herself a poignant parallel with Lucia Joyce. Despondent after her film project about the dancer came to a halt, she has been lured back to performance for Cork Midsummer Festival
Scorched Earth review: An individual tragedy and a national malaise
Dublin Dance Festival 2025: Luke Murphy tackles Ireland’s obsession with land and the exclusion it leads to
Ireland’s land obsession: ‘There’s something about having and owning. I see a fixation on that, and I feel it in myself’
Dublin Dance Festival 2025: Luke Murphy on his new show, Scorched Earth, inspired by John B Keane’s play The Field
Behind the scenes at Luail as Ireland’s national dance company prepares to open Dublin Dance Festival
Artistic director Liz Roche has programmed Chora, a triple bill. ‘The dancers are constantly shifting focus and vocabularies, which really requires agility’
Festivals in Ireland 2025: From Longitude to All Together Now – a guide to 80 of the best
From Brigit and Dublin Lunar New Year to Culture Night, Space Week and Cork Jazz Festival, here’s our round-up of cultural showcases to catch this year
Volcano review: Edge-of-your-seat entertainment – you won’t have seen anything like this before
Galway International Arts Festival 2023: Luke Murphy’s dance-theatre piece about two men going slowly crazy in deep space is tense, troubling and touching
New innovator: Training Reels rolls out DIY video production facilities
Making content marketing videos affordable for SMEs
Dublin Dance Festival 2021: The unbearable lightness of being apart
Watching this year’s programme online was frustrating but also brought new intimacies
Ciarán Sweeney to cook up a storm in Donegal
Food File: The former Forest & Marcy head chef is now in the kitchen at Olde Glen, trailer treasure in Goatstown, and a Kilkenny cafe with artful style
My budget: ‘Disappointed PUP wasn’t restored’
Luke Murphy qualified last year with a diploma and was earning €1,000 a week before Covid-19 struck
Case study: How will student life look at UCD?
How will students engage socially as Covid-19 continues to impact on campus?
Kilkenny festival to present mixture of virtual and live events
‘Bringing people back together is really important,’ says director Olga Barry
Cork Midsummer Festival 2019: Daring work and delicious food
Plays for an audience of one and a Mick Flannery musical are among this year’s ambitious programme
Man sentenced to 5 years for threatening to kill ex-partner
Luke Murphy pleaded guilty to sending the mother of his children a photo of a knife and her front door
Minister reaffirms ‘arm’s-length’ approach to arts funding
Arts Council chairwoman Sheila Pratschke says it must seek out and support artists of the future
Gutter snipes, a testy time and Tilda Swinton in a cheesecloth
The latest new shows from this year’s Dublin Fringe Festival
Dublin Fringe: 15 shows you need to see at this year’s festival
This year’s fringe is packed with potential: here’s the ones we think will make the cut
St Kieran’s and Templemore set up Croke Cup showdown
Champions St Kieran’s will take on Harty Cup holders in decider
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