Dermot Kennedy

Programme will feature Irish acts Villagers, Fontaines DC and Dermot Kennedy

Don your jingliest, jangliest elf hat. It’s going to be a jungly Late Late Toy Show 2021

Foy Vance/album review

With U2 on hiatus, and Hozier working on his man bun, it’s an ideal time for Kennedy’s new single

Irish consumers still in ‘wait and see’ mode as sector suffers lack of overseas custom

Plus Marian Keyes, Frank McGuinness, Mick Fleetwood and the National Symphony Orchestra

Like a dog with a bone, Roy Keane never lets a grudge go - this time it was Matt Doherty

Denise Chaila, Fontaines DC, Pillow Queens, Dermot Kennedy and Gavin James among the nominees

Rising initiative will see artists promoted extensively on air and given a €1,000 bursary

Buskers not permitted to perform on Dublin’s streets due to public health guidelines

‘Plans are made to be broken’ may well prove the motto of 2020

Other Voices, Together in Electric Streams, Hibernacle and more aim to end the year on a high

Michael Maloney (14) didn’t know he would be singing with Dermot Kennedy on the show

New report highlights gender disparity in the Irish charts

It’s a particularly thrilling time for Irish music – here’s our countdown of the finest

The Tipperary man dealing with a ‘devastated’ music industry in London

Growth in subscribers to legal streaming services led to 20.8% rise in revenue

The Dublin singer-songwriter’s first gig in months is a night at a London museum

Four stations did not feature one female voice in top 20 played songs over past year

Brian Carroll has added his in-depth sports podcast to the mix as others get creative

A record attendance of 70,000 expected for the sold-out event at Stradbally in September

The signature singer-songwriter has mastered the art of touching a few nerves, if not gripping them and not letting go

Discovering ‘hidden gems’ at heart of push to increase staycation business by €100m

London rapper, who won album of the year for Psychodrama, also castigates media over Meghan Markle coverage

Fr Ray Kelly’s protective halo means frontrunner Sinéad O’Carroll is put through the wringer

Working Abroad Q&A: ‘The kids that come to us are like cars that have gone off the road. We help get them back on track’

Only one British woman, Mabel, is nominated in best album, song and new artist categories

Dermot Kennedy, Damien Dempsey and Hudson Taylor head a big Irish line-up

The singer, often compared to Adele and Ed Sheeran, is to play the Olympia Theatre

Reviews: Florence, Billie, Charli and Christine, plus Hozier and Richard Ashcroft

Review: Welcome to the evening the festival finally achieves peak Irish troubadour

Local music seems be an all-male affair, but some female musicians are pushing back

Michael D Higgins and Frank-Walter Steinmeier attend Other Voices concert in Berlin

Olly Murs plays the 3arena, Mike Pyro comes to Galway and club night Pure Shores hits Wigwam

PlayIrish, a new digital radio station, aims to get small Irish acts the recognition they deserve

Norwegian popstar’s striking wilfulness is on show in highly anticipated album

Series to screen performances and interviews from the maiden Ballina event

Year in Culture Review: Talented acts keep emerging, and a new grass-roots industry infrastructure is also taking shape

Young Catalan merges flamenco and R&B to become one of the planet’s most vital pop stars

Set times for the Main, Body & Soul, Other Voices and Rankin’s Wood stages