• Old hands deliver the best of Irish verse

  The wonder of this year's Poetry Now Festival was in the familiar revisited, thanks in part to an elegy for Louis MacNeice and an award for Seamus Heaney, writes Eileen Battersby. p
  

• Who gives a ** about a Michelin?

  Despite the recent controversy over a plate of chips, Kevin Thornton is enjoying himself more than ever, and losing a Michelin star has resulted in better food at his restaurant, he tells Shane Hegarty. p
  

• Insulating images from the digital-age onslaught

  Visual Arts/Aidan Dunne: It is a paradox of contemporary culture that, just as we are witnessing what appears to be the triumph of the image, images themselves are becoming a debased currency. p
  

• Sharing growing pains with parents

  It's a Dad's Life/Adam Brophy: My kids have more friends than I have. I know I've burned bridges with a lot of people but it still seems rather unjust that the elder's social whirl puts mine to shame. p
  

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