Dublin Fringe Festival 2026: Dereliction and greed are viewed through a surreal lens in this new show. But can anything top the ‘bizarre stuff’ that’s really happening?

Films cost just €4 at most participating cinemas on Saturday and Sunday, marking a temporary break from ticket inflation

As the country star said before she died, it’s ‘just crazy’ what technology can do

It’s safe to say the rapper’s special rehabilitation operation is on hold

Meg Mason, the author of bestseller Sorrow and Bliss, returns with Sophie, Standing There, a meta novel about a lonely literary-festival worker’s parasocial relationship with a famous writer

Actor was scheduled to star in The Goat Exchange production of Radio Bette in September

Shona McCarthy will need to retain support of an Arts Minister not reluctant to speak his mind

From Athenry to the BBC, sports broadcaster Mulkerrins talks ambition, freelance life and capturing the emotion of sport’s biggest moments

Politicians love them, but the 19th century solution to the problem of monotonous, draining work is surely not the answer today

In Think Ahead, the comic talks about being sexually abused as a child. ‘People laugh their heads off, then they go totally silent and listen’

New and overlooked authors are competing against several past winners and previously shortlisted writers. They can’t all make it

Broadcaster releases details about the much-awaited comeback of the hit Dublin gangster show as part of its upcoming drama slate

Music extravaganza curated by the Coldplay frontman will feature support from Spanish and Argentinian footballers

From the French Riviera to Sag Harbor via faded English seaside resorts, fiction shows how long, hot days can be glorious but complicated

The broadcaster on the push and pull factors behind her move, her new podcast and turning 50