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Cream of festivals with Neneh Cherry on top: The week’s best rock and pop gigs
Indiependence, Beatyard, All Together Now. Plus: Daithí, kd lang, Billy Bragg, Jenny Lewis
All Together Now: Pussy Riot and Bombay Bicycle Club join line-up
Sold-out music festival also announces John Grant, The Wailers and Anna Calvi
Picture This to John Grant: This week’s rock and pop gigs
Sharon Van Etten, Maverick Sabre, Keuning, The Internet and more
John Grant: On My Culture Radar
Singer on rediscovering The Catcher in the Rye, the appeal of industrial landscapes and Ennio Morricone’s ‘horror jazz’
Blood stains found in home of murdered DJ’s girlfriend, court told
Results of tests carried out by forensic laboratories have not yet been given in evidence
Damien Dempsey: Union review – Darkness on the edge of Damo Town
The singer-songwriter's unusual twist on the Christmas duets album features Sinéad O’Connor, Kate Tempest and John Grant
Exploring the Border: the first challenge in Derry is to find it
In Donegal and Derry lives are lived and businesses thrive with cross-Border access
Eight of the best songs from July you have to hear
Tracks from John Grant, Teyana Taylor, Phoebe Bridgers, Daithí and more
New artist of the week: Sequence
Plus songs you have to hear from John Grant and Marquis Hawkes featuring Jamie Lidell
Lauren Murphy on the acts to see – and why – at the Iveagh Gardens
Alanis Morissette, The The, Aslan and Damien Dempsey some of the must sees
The National’s love-in with Ireland grows deeper
If the American band aren’t enough for you, how about support John Grant, Lisa Hannigan and Villagers?
The best music festivals and outdoor gigs in Ireland in 2018
From It Takes a Village in April, to Electric Picnic in September, via The Rolling Stones
Tributes paid as ‘Vicar Of Dibley’ actor Emma Chambers dies aged 53
Actor best known for role as Alice in the long-running BBC comedy died of natural causes
Elbow, Imagine Dragons, Seal, Ricki Lee Jones – the best rock and pop this week
Marlon Williams, Dappy, Shakey Graves and Middle East fundraiser among the highlights
Damien Dempsey: ‘I see myself as a druid on the edge’
He has a busy year ahead, with a just-announced summer show at the Iveagh Gardens
Alan Hawe had depressive symptoms for almost a decade, inquest told
Jury finds Clodagh Hawe and her three sons were ‘unlawfully killed’
Hawe inquest: ‘I think Alan has done something terrible’
Cavan inquest hears how family of five were found dead in August 2016
Robbie Williams: 'At least two times I went out in Ireland and woke up in London'
The singer has just announced a live date in Dublin's Aviva Stadium next year. Here, he recalls his hedonistic years and why he changed his mind and finally gave family life a go
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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