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Look east A season of Japanese film is available to rent from the IFI from March 5, including classics of the genre as well as newer movies. Japanese Story includes The Legend of the Stardust Brothers (1985), the cult musical about two wannabe popstars, and 2009’s Fish Story, a science-fiction tale of an obscure rock band’s single making a strange journey through time. See ifihome.ie Focal suas International Irish language festival Seachtain na Gaeilge le Energia is on from March 1-17, and this year’s ambassadors are musician Imelda May, Limerick hurling captain Declan Hannon and...

Full programme for 15th Ennis Book Club Festival launched THE full programme for the 15th Ennis Book Club Festival was announced this week. This year’s festival will be a hybrid of online events in March with live events taking place in April and September. As always Ennis Book Club Festival 2021 will offer opportunities to engage with favourite authors and features an additional programme of events for younger readers. While the festival cannot welcome book lovers to Ennis this March as ever, it will provide plenty of events to stimulate discussion and inspire reading, from the comfort of ...

Crisis in our mental health services Tue, Jan 26, 2021, 00:12   Sir, – Sincere thanks to Patrick Freyne for his article on the ongoing crisis in our mental health services, a crisis which has been tragically exacerbated by the pandemic (“Ireland’s mental health pandemic: From crisis to emergency”, Weekend, January 23rd). Mental health in Ireland is a Cinderella speciality. As your reporter points out, the allocation of funds as a percentage of the total health budget to psychiatry in Germany is twice that of this country. There are many excellent health professionals working tirele...

With days to go until the end of Donald Trump’s presidency, the shift in power in the US has finally prompted Big Tech into action.

In 2020, over 155 million people listened to a podcast every week. And whatever your niche interest, whether it's food history or wild swimming, there's a show to match it, most likely hosted by an expert enthusiast in that area. The book world is no exception. Authors Elizabeth Day, Gillian McAllister and Daisy Buchanan all host very popular and much downloaded podcasts. So, what's in it for them? Caroline O'Donoghue, author of two novels for adults and a YA novel, All Our Hidden Gifts (out with Walker Books in February), gets approximately 30,000 downloads per month on her podcast, Sentime...