In a triumphant return to Dublin’s 3Arena, Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker took fans on a nostalgic journey through the band’s early Irish gigs—culminating in a sharp, hilarious callback to their very …

In this evocative and sharply tailored piece, David Heffernan takes us back to the dancefloors of 1970s Ireland — a world of mohair suits, platform shoes, and Dubonnet-fuelled dreams. From the revo…

Keith Donald kept diaries throughout a hectic working life that began when he joined his first showband, The Federals, in the mid-1960s

Mannix & Culhane has been in the city centre since 1928

Former senior forensic scientist Dr James Donovan, who survived a car bomb attack carried out by The General, has died.

There’s much to admire and plenty to recommend about Sophie Oliver’s documentary series ‘No Matter What’ which, over three episodes, looks at a careful selection of the colourful life and times of …

During the first series of the RTÉ music show, ‘No Disco’, the presenter, Donal Dineen and myself travelled west to Limerick on a couple of occasions to pick up long interviews that we’d use to pop…

‘Him ? Sure, he doesn’t know if he wants to be a man or a woman’. It was the end of the summer, 1980, and David Bowie at his most theatric, glamorous, playful and compelling, wasn’t convincing my m…

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Shush Christmas Special 2024, an hour of some usuals and some not so usual Christmas tunes... Enjoy

Mick Lynch, the Cork-born musician, singer, actor and performer who passed away yesterday after a long illness, will be familiar to those of us who served our time around the margins of left-field …

The Dublin footballer talks about his decision to retire at 31 and the emotional toll of saying goodbye to the game he loves

The actor, Kevin Kennedy, takes the lead role in ‘Cinderella’, this year’s pantomime at The Empire Theatre in Consett, a small town in the Northeast of England. Best known for playing Curly Watts, …

JG Windows closes after over a hundred years

David Long and Shane O’Neill have been friends since they were six years old and were neighbours in Churchtown a half century ago.  They have been close ever since – there’s a lovely description of…

Thomas and John were last seen on the morning of Tuesday, November 26 1974 when they left their homes to walk to the bus stop to catch a bus to school

The Daily Mail is like the drunken lout at a party who can’t get anyone to like him. Suddenly all the girls are sluts...

A new book explores a musical friendship entailing joy, anger, ‘mountains of drugs’ … and tragedy. In this extract, the pair’s friends examine a complex rivalry

Nikita Hand, however, has lost her lawsuit against Conor McGregor’s friend, James Lawrence

Rock star Adam Clayton will explore Irish showbands in 'Ballroom Blitz'