Byrning up in Kilkenny

Two cultural icons come together tomorrow when Colm Tóibín curates a day of films featuring Gabriel Byrne at the Kilkenny Arts Festival.

The author will be up bright and early at 10am to introduce Stories from Home, Into the West, Miller's Crossingand In Treatmentat the Set Theatre at Langton hotel on John Street. kilkennyarts.ie.

If you want to monitor the hysteria among the Byrne community, then check out the Byrneholics site, byrneholics.com. They are, it seems, addicted to Byrnehol.