Every now and then I come across a really special place, a gem so special that I have mixed feelings about revealing its whereabouts. Should I write about it, or will I keep this discovery all to myself? What if gets unbearably busy, expands, loses its magic?
Pink-washed Finca Buenvino emerges from the oak and chestnut woods at the end of a winding country avenue, in the middle of the Sierra de Aracena Nature Reserve in Andalucia in Spain.
Two travelled, politically-minded artists were left alone with four blank gallery walls for a month. Billy Leahy looks at the results
Billy Leahy looks at Philip Allen's collection of new works at the Kerlin Gallery
Billy Leahy looks at the new Desmond Shortt exhibition at the RHA: a collection of dreamlike landscapes which, upon further examination, reveal a more sinister and dangerous air
Colin Murphy is seduced by the music, words, bawdiness and fun of The Midnight Court in Feakle, Co Clare
Billy Leahy travels to Palestine with an aid worker, to China with a face reader, to Vienna with a disillusioned student and back to contemporary Ireland, all without leaving the borders of the Temple Bar Gallery and Studios
The Brazilian beef industry have failed to comply with European Union (EU) regulations regarding traceability and farm origin of beef exported to the EU. The traceability directive was brought in in 2000, as a result of the BSE crisis, to resume customer confidence. The directive also means that beef can be traced to the farm and region it came from for Foot and Mouth disease.
Billy Leahy has a religious experience at Alice Maher's latest show at her home of many years, the Green on Red Galllery
Making a movie of the multi-million selling The Da Vinci Code is causing controversy and a sprinkling of holy water on the movie business. Sharon Waxman reports
Self-absorbed Jack is on the look-out for an anonymous actress who will make him look good on screen; Isabel, who can twitch her nose like the actress in the original sit-com, seems perfect for the part. And so the real-life witch finds herself playing a pretend witch who was pretending to be a witch pretending not to be a witch.