TWO raiders who robbed a bookies and then ran to a nearby pub and ordered pints with the stolen cash have been branded Dublin dumbest criminals by witnesses.Owen Comerford (26, pictured), of Sean O'Casey Avenue, Summerhill, was sentenced to two years in

Two men who robbed a bookmakers were arrested shortly afterwards as they sat in a nearby pub drinking pints, a court has heard.Owen Comerford (26), of Sean O'Casey Avenue, Summerhill, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to robbery of Boyle Sp

Selected from his studio by his daughter and fellow jeweller Duibhne Gough, the collection of works that make up the tribute exhibition to the late Breon O'Casey bear testament to what a consummate and extraordinary artist he was. An all-rounder, being p

Allen Saddler, novelist, playwright, critic and lifelong campaigner, died in Totnes, Devon, on 2 December aged 88. Born in London as Ronald Richards, on 15 April 1923, he left school at 14 and educated himself at the public library and by watching plays

And having seen members of Ireland's Abbey Theatre perform, both at DublinSwell2011 and The Music of Ghostlight: An evening with Joseph O'Connor and Friends — at the Abbey Theatre itself — I was really keen to see a fully fledged Abbey Theatre production

Much of the power of Sean O'Casey's gut-wrenching Dublin play, in which the losers keep on losing until they have only the ragged clothes they stand in and the bare boards they stand on, lies in not knowing whether to laugh or cry. It is set in a decrep