Coilin O'Connor

In many ways, the 007 music club is a unique piece of Prague's cultural heritage. Situated in block seven of a row of concrete panelled buildings, which comprised the…

Recently the papers here have been full of alarming reports concerning listeria infection in the Czech Republic. So far this year, there have been a number of highly…

The disruption of oil supplies to Poland and Germany due to Russia's closure of a pipeline after of a price dispute with Belarus has sent shockwaves through Europe…

In this week's sports news: young Czech skier Sarka Zahrobska has the best week of her career; a good weekend for Tomas Rosicky in England's FA Cup; Liberec march on in…

In business news this week, high-ranking government officials face jail for accepting illegal perks from energy giant CEZ. The Czech Republic's budget deficit for 2006 is…

Although the Czech economy is booming, the government has surprisingly posted a large budget deficit of 93.7 billion crowns or roughly four and a half billion US dollars…

The nineteenth-century Czech physician and natural scientist Jan Evangelista Purkyne is perhaps best known to people today for identifying the unique nature of individual…

Although the Orthodox Church has a relatively small congregation in this country, it has a long and colourful history in the Czech lands. It was the Orthodox Saints Cyril…

Simon Broughton is a leading British television director whose work includes a number of documentaries on music from around the world, shot in locations ranging from…

In the Arts this week we look at Prague's annual Music on Film - Film on Music festival or MOFFOM as it's known, which was held for the third time last week. This year's…