Irish traditional music is alive, well and living in Manchester
Michael McDonagh talks to acclaimed uilleann piper Mike McGoldrick - currently touring with Dire Straits’ Mark Knopfler - about Manchester as a huge crucible...
The Drogheda accent at the centre of Radio 4’s topical Westminster satire, Lobby Land
‘If this show was made a few years back, Sam would probably be played by a guy, maybe a white guy from England,...now she’s...
Kathy Durkin: ‘Sport was always my first love’
By Michael McDonagh
Kathy Durkin, from Butlersbridge, in County Cavan, has been a household name in Irish country music for over 30 years. ...
The Coronas’ modern Rock ‘n’ Roll life
By Michael McDonagh
Dubliners Danny O'Reilly, Graham Knox and Conor Egan met at Terenure College, formed a band called Kiros with a friend that, when...
Ireland’s Greg O’Shea wins Love Island
Limerick rugby footballer Greg O’Shea and his TV partner Amber Gill crowned the winners of the TV contest Love Island.
Greg and Amber were joined...
Martina Evans: ‘Writing saved my life’
By Michael McDonagh
Martina Evans first started working here as a radiographer at the Whittington Hospital and somehow ended up as a novelist and critically...
Drogheda ready for Fleadh Cheoil
Louth County Council has invested heavily in Drogheda’s local infrastructure to ensure the town is ready ahead of next month’s Fleadh Cheoil Na hÉireann....
President and Taoiseach lead tributes to Brendan Grace
President Michael D Higgins and Taoiseach Leo Varadkar have led tributes to the late Brendan Grace, who died earlier today of lung cancer. He...
Win a copy of the most critically acclaimed TV drama of the year, Chernobyl
On 26 April 1986 in Pripyat, Ukraine, in the then USSR, one of the worst nuclear accidents in history happened.
The Soviet authorities, led at...
The story behind EPIC – Ireland’s award-winning emigration museum
Having lived and worked abroad for the majority of his adult life — Africa, the UK, America and now Dublin — Mervyn Greene felt...