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Spotlight: Historically informed performances - Kieran Beville

LOCAL musicians have created a new organisation to support historically informed performance in Limerick and its environs. March 21 is the confluence of a number of notable events – it is the spring equinox, and for classical music fans it is JS ...

11 Mar 2021 at 15:00

National News

Judge rules material from Troubles documentaries be handed to PSNI for terror probe

The BBC is to hand over broadcasted and unbroadcasted material from a documentary series about Northern Ireland’s Troubles to the police as part of investigations into terrorist activity, a judge has said. An order was made at Belfast Crown ...

07 Apr 2022 at 17:45

Spotlight - Kieran Beville

Spotlight: A writer’s love affair with Limerick

Frances Browner’s poetry has been featured on Limerick’s Poetry Trail, Poetry Walls and ‘Bring your Limericks to Limerick’. Although she grew up in Dublin, lived in New York for twenty years and now resides in Greystones, Co. Wicklow, her ...

15 Apr 2021 at 14:00

Northern Ireland

BBC will not appeal against Adams’ defamation case victory

The BBC will not appeal over Gerry Adams’ defamation victory against the organisation. Mr Adams, a former president of Sinn Fein, said there needed to be “substantial reform” of the broadcaster. Mr Adams took the BBC to court over a 2016 ...

13 Jun 2025 at 20:23

Northern Ireland

Jury begins deliberating in Gerry Adams’ libel action against BBC

A jury has begun deliberating on Gerry Adams’ libel action against the BBC. Former Sinn Fein leader Mr Adams alleges a BBC Spotlight programme, and an accompanying online story, defamed him by alleging he sanctioned the killing of ...

29 May 2025 at 10:35

Northern Ireland

BBC reporter denies excluding ‘unhelpful comments’ about Adams claim

A BBC reporter has denied excluding “unhelpful comments” and contradictions to the claim that Gerry Adams sanctioned the killing of a spy. Speaking in a Dublin court, Jennifer O’Leary said she took the “utmost care and ...

14 May 2025 at 19:11

Northern Ireland

Awarding damages to Gerry Adams would be ‘a cruel joke’, BBC lawyer says

Gerry Adams is engaging in “a cynical attempt to launder his reputation” by suing the BBC, a jury has been told. Mr Adams is suing the BBC over what he claims was a “grievous smear” against him. He says a BBC ...

22 May 2025 at 14:25

Spotlight - Kieran Beville

Spotlight: Making art in the digital age - Kieran Beville

A generation ago in Limerick and elsewhere throughout Ireland children used to read and swap comics. I remember ‘progressing’ from the gateway visuals and childish stories of The Beano and The Dandy to the ...

04 Mar 2021 at 16:10

Northern Ireland

BBC granted time to consider appeal in Gerry Adams case before paying all costs

The BBC has been granted time to consider taking an appeal of a jury decision which found it had defamed Gerry Adams, before paying all costs and damages to the former Sinn Fein leader. Mr Adams took the ...

03 Jun 2025 at 15:38

Northern Ireland

Adams had reputation of being in IRA Army Council, ex-attorney general says

Gerry Adams was “reputed to have become a member of the Army Council of the IRA”, a former attorney general has told his libel trial against the BBC. Mr Adams is suing the BBC over what he has deemed to ...

21 May 2025 at 15:46

Northern Ireland

Gerry Adams awarded 100,000 euro in damages after suing BBC for libel

Former Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams has been awarded 100,000 euro (£84,000) in damages after winning his libel action against the BBC. Mr Adams said that a BBC Spotlight programme, and an accompanying ...

30 May 2025 at 12:23

Music

Spotlight! New maestro directs song writing at UL - Kieran Beville

Carl Corcoran (b. 1952, Dublin) is Course Director on the MA in Song Writing at University Limerick. He has had an interesting and varied career path to this position. He went to University College ...

25 Mar 2021 at 15:00

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