Reviews

This week, it's incest, war, torture and patricide. Colin Murphy reviews the Irish premiere of a play about a family exiled from Pinochet's Chile, Blood

Serve local farmhouse cheeses as a simple dessert over the festive season or use them as ingredients in delicious soufflés.
Darina Allen tells you how

The collection of Latin American art at IMMA is a cohesive and unified exhibtion with a strong identity, writes Billy Leahy

Three monologues about suicide. Not the kind of thing to get you to the theatre on a cold night. But this play is travelling to schools, where it should find an engaged and passionate audience for its sensitive storytelling, writes Colin Murphy

1. Make a delicious watercress pesto

t's delicious, really good for you, 'purifies the blood and keeps away the rheumatics for a year'. Darina Allen can't recommend watercress highly enough

Billy Leahy looks through the huge collection of news photography at Irish Independent Century (1905-2005) at the National Photographic Archive

Not being a mother himself, many of the gags in Fiona Looney's Dandelions go over Colin Murphy's head, but he can still see why it will be a huge hit

Homemade, easy-to-cook soups are the prefect antidote to the cold, dark winter days and nights upon us. Made with cheap and convenient ingredients, Darina Allen tells even the most basic of cooks how to throw together their own homemade soup

Billy Leahy on Guggi's new exhibition at the Solomon Gallery, which will do little to reconcile the many admirers and cynics of 'Bono's Best Friend™'