Liam O'Maonlai

Business owners will welcome Dublin City Council’s ban on buskers using backing tracks

Working Abroad: Gary Dunne, director of arts and culture at the London Irish Centre

GAA fields its most colourful and musical team in the ‘Laochra’ performance at HQ

Kevin Burke, Liam Ó Maonlaí and Tim Edey are embarking on an Irish tour

Aisling Law, a great-granddaughter of the rebel, feminist and social activist, is opening her doors to the public for the Muse of Yeats weekend festival

Final installment of Music Month as Róisín talks to a member of Hothouse Flowers

Damien Rice, Mundy among musicians bringing shopping street to standstill

Bob Marley agus Bob Dylan as Gaeilge? Liam Carson, director of the IMRAM Irish Language Literature Festival, which starts this Thursday, explains how it seeks to place the Irish language and its literature at the heart of public life within a modern, energetic and multicultural framework

In the visual arts strand, there is evidence of joined-up thinking in the inclusion of abstract painter Marilyn Lerner, sonic glass work by Róisín de Buitléar and Karen Donnellan, and Max Streicher’s celestial cloud installation

Teddy bears and children’s shoes attached to Dáil railings to remember those who died in mother and baby homes