Beating the bullies with country music
By Mags McGagh
Seventeen-year-old Megan-Louise has had her musical talents compared to Taylor Swift.
Taylor Swift said of the people who bullied her “If they don’t...
Manning up
Alan Mahon told David Hennessy how the rugby rape trial inspired him to co-write LAD which explores toxic masculinity, how Pauline McLynn makes everything...
VIDEO: Tell it Slant opens at Hope Theatre
Press-ing ahead
4 stars
By David Hennessy
Tell it Slant launched at The Hope Theatre in Islington last week. The play shows what happens when a catastrophic...
The Knitting Ring to premiere at ICC in Hammersmith
A new drama documentary premieres at Hammersmith Irish Cultural Centre at 8pm on Friday 28 February.
The Knitting Ring shows a group of older Irish...
Musician strikes chord with Birmingham-Irish documentary
Annie Driver chatted to Angela Moran who presented BBC’s recent Birmingham Irish I Am about the overwhelming reaction to the show as well as...
Brain injury does not stop Clare actor from taking Flights
By David Hennessy
Clare actor Conor Madden’s performance in John O’Donovan’s Flights is made even more impressive by the fact that he has overcome a...
‘Bless me for I have sinned..’
Former X Factor star Janet Devlin’s forthcoming album took four years and is such a personal concept album she has named it Confessional. David...
Fears of a ‘clown’
Blindboy of The Rubberbandits tells David Hennessy why he was happy to see the Irish electorate vote for change, why he doesn’t care if...
One Direction’s Niall Horan to headline Camden fundraiser
One Direction’s Niall Horan to headline £2,750-a-table charity fundraiser for London Irish Centre
Former boyband star Niall Horan, of the hugely successful, now semi-retired, One...
Back in the family business
Majella Yorston told David Hennessy about her new EP, recording an album in Big Tom’s studio and returning to the music business after a...