When I revealed in the Irish Independent last Saturday that my photo was being used on a fake profile on Bumble, I wondered if the same thing was happening on the biggest dating app of them all, Tinde...

The mercurial Cheltenham talent is on a mission to make pop weird again

David Gray and Ireland: a mutual love affair. Not only is the Wales-raised Mancunian’s White Ladder the bestselling album in Irish chart history, but his last one, Skellig, was named after our most ha...

John Meagher, Irish Independent Journalist, breaks down what makes a Christmas No 1 hit.

From monster shows courtesy of Taylor Swift and Coldplay to the inexplicable popularity of the Wolfe Tones, from Kneecap’s unstoppable ascent to Fontaines DC’s remarkable reinvention, 2024 had it all.

It has been seven years since U2 last released an album of new material — by far their longest hiatus. To put it another way, they released five studio albums — from Boy to The Joshua Tree — in the sa...

Today is International Men’s Day. Too often, there’s an emphasis on the negative, on men being lost and disaffected, on the corrosive impact of the ‘manosphere’, on the destructive nature of toxic mas...