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Listowel honours President, McKeon and Meehan

'Martin Parr bought my first major photographic work when I was still a student' – Anthony Haughey

No longer only a gilt-framed painting, art now includes photography, film, installation, collaborative work, performance and more.

Guggi on growing up: 'We would be lined up on a Sunday morning. We would have to stand to attention and he would walk along like an army inspection'

Beneath a gibbous moon, on a crisp, cold January night, the stars came out for Guggi’s Kerlin Gallery opening. Them, new paintings and sculptures, is now showing, and among the crowd that evening were Gavin Friday, Caroline and Andrea Corr, Richard Gorman, Leah Hewson, Eoin Colfer, Jim Jarmusch, James Hanley and Orla de Brí. And every artist’s favourite colour – red-dot red – was everywhere.

'Who is this cool dude from 126 years ago, with his tousled hair and red woolly socks?'

In galleries and museums we now spend, on average, 29 seconds in front of a masterpiece and that includes the time it takes to click a selfie. But sometimes a work is so unusual, so interesting, so accomplished that it will hold the viewer for much longer – and one such work is this large, almost life-size oil-on-canvas painting of a young man in an artist’s attic studio.

Shortlist announced for Kate O'Brien Award at Limerick Literary Festival

THE SHORTLIST for the annual Kate O'Brien Award has been announced, with the overall winner to be crowned at the Limerick Literary Festival.