Shane MacGowan

The audience asks the questions in this raw, intimate and revealing show

Alex Kapranos talks about a new album, scoffing fish n’ chips in Galway, and why he wrote a song about the NHS

DVD of Bob Geldof’s documentary on poet has been released

He has a busy year ahead, with a just-announced summer show at the Iveagh Gardens

If a bomb went off at the National Concert Hall gig that would have been it for the Irish music scene

Bono, Johnny Depp among those feting Pogues singer, who turned 60 on Christmas Day

Rusangano Family headline First Fortnight Big Gig, The Kooks are back in town and two celebrations: Shane McGowan’s 60th birthday and the life and music of David Bowie

Almost 700,000 watched the special on RTÉ One, adding to its 6.8m audience on BBC One

An appetite for excess has often distracted from the rare talent and songwriting brilliance of The Pogues frontman

His reticence is revealing in O’Callaghan’s most entertaining interview in a long time

And you have to hear Mango and Mathman, and Sufjan Stevens

An animated Frank McCourt story, a Fairytale of New York doc and Mrs Brown

Tickets for the January National Concert Hall gig, which features a stellar line-up, go on sale this Friday

Shuffle: The week’s best clips, singles, downloads and audiostreams

‘Cardboard Gangsters’ is a ’hood film, not a gangster film, says director Mark O’Connor

Singer’s partner takes to Twitter to acknowledge ‘kind words’ after mother’s death

From The Beatles to The Pogues, Oasis and The Smiths, musicians of Irish descent played a key role in UK scene, writes Johnny Rogan

RTÉ to broadcast documentary of singer performing his first gig outside the US

Keith Duggan reports from Rio - defending champion and coaches felt she had done enough

A round-up of the best nights out across the country, inicluding gigs by Little Green Cars, Colm Mac Con Iomaire, Mmoths and more

When your birthday falls on Christmas Day, you may be shortchanged on presents or denied a party, and you definitely won’t be the centre of attention

Can just anyone write a Christmas hit and essentially ‘win the lottery’ by coining it on royalties every December? Patrick Freyne and Anna Carey certainly hope so. Here's the story of their entry in the Christmas FM song contest

Pogues singer (57) injured after he reportedly fell ‘doing a complicated dance move’

‘Faithful Departed’ and ‘Thousands are Sailing’ mark soundtrack to his final depature

He had many of the qualities of an ‘identikit portrait of the ideal Christian’

Fashion designer Simone Rocha creates a collage of her Irish childhood with local characters, long-gone shops and the sea