Margaret O’Connor and Jess Murphy combine millinery and patisserie in new project

Musician and film-maker Don Letts on Shane MacGowan, The Clash and being black in Britain

Big names hit by sharp slide in earnings as shuttered businesses fall silent this Christmas

Through addiction, infidelity and other life struggles, music was her constant escape

Corncrakes get major EU funding despite being of ‘least concern’ on Red List criteria

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Jennifer O’Connell: Our line was ‘it’s only a day, after all’, to be repeated over and over

This trio have parked their egos outside the door, and let the music tell its own tales

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The singer has described her experience of ‘reverting’ to Islam

A recent statement from MacGowan addressed the annual controversy concerning that gay slur in that Christmas song with great reasonableness

Singer addresses controversy over reference in Pogues Christmas song

‘The Pogues’ Fairytale is now 30 years old. And on Christmas Day, the son of Tipperary who wrote it will be twice that age’

‘I can’t grasp how someone so full of love and such massive zest for life can be gone’

Frank Murray managed The Pogues, Thin Lizzy, The Frames, Elton John and The Specials