‘Thinkers, changemakers, inventors, advocates and artists’ at west Kerry event

Dylan, Patti Smith, Gil Scott-Heron and Lou Reed wrote song-poems that transcended pop, and bands such as Fontaines DC are keeping rock and poetry in perfect rhyme

From Dublin's St Patrick’s Festival to Kilkenny Tradfest and a Co Wicklow slime lab

Dingle-based festival moves beyond music-based origins to explore wider discourse

Caveat: As the only man on the panel, I quickly realised there was nothing to worry about

German shepherd Sombra has helped detect more than 2,000 kilos of cocaine

Molly King is head of development for the Other Voices festival in Dingle and has been involved with it since her childhood

A tiny capacity, a big heart, a Shift Shack – is this Ireland’s most intimate festival?

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