Owner Harry Crosbie says venue has full year of gigs lined up for when it reopens

The Dubliner talks about her searing new memoir on the Irish Times Women’s Podcast

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

Montebello faces the promenade and is on the market seeking €950,000

One third of unbuilt units already sold, including four to one buyer

The singer on mental health, hyperfemininity and using humour as a shield

Soundtrack of My Life: Shane MacGowan’s partner on the songs getting her through Covid-19

St Brigid, whose feast day it is, was a friend to the poor and sick. I felt duty bound to my name

Belgian DJs Soulwax have released a glittering remix of Fontaines DC’s A Hero’s Death

Pop’s mums have told of guilt, loneliness and prejudice. Do men face the same problems?

The singer says the Pogues and Kirsty MacColl Christmas duet is ‘under attack’

Sinead O’Connor among artists receiving State help to cope with impact of pandemic

X-Ray Spex, The Slits, Au Pairs, Tracey Thorn – the hit list goes on over four fab CDs

Irish music in the 1980s wasn’t all U2, as this collection of improvised electronica proves

The 2017 car crash that devastated the actor-musician’s family came back into focus recently

Four stations did not feature one female voice in top 20 played songs over past year

A changing country fixated by exploits in Italy and grappling with political turmoil at home

Donald Clarke and Tara Brady's definitive list has more than a few surprises

With her band Selk, the daughter of Neil Jordan is definitely not chasing after fame

The Boomtown Rats singer on childhood, grief, rebellion, Brexit and Ireland’s progress

Review: Billy McGrath’s Boomtown Rats rockumentary rattles along furiously and with a dangerous gleam in its eyes

The hollowing out of the youth-oriented music industry is a harbinger of things to come

37 new acts announced for the festival in Co Waterford over the August bank holiday weekend

Sixty lots from home of late Garech Browne under the hammer at Sotheby’s

Albums and gigs to check out from January to June: Green Day, Slipknot, Diana Ross, Damon Albarn, Tenacious D and more

The designer talks bees, waste and growing up in Lourdes ahead of project at the RHA

There were certainly notable missteps, but he gave Irish women a much-needed voice

Peter Hamilton on working with Gay Byrne on For One Night Only

We are a better, more mature, kinder country now because of Gay Byrne

Outside, a frantic trade for tickets in the cold air. Inside, a bottomless love for the artist

The ‘anthem’ writer and hitmaker on his Derry childhood, two marriages and life in music

Also: Squeeze, Two Door Cinema Club, Join Me in the Pines, Daithí, Hot Chip, Le Boom

Horslips, Sinéad O’Connor, and hot tubs await punters making the Trip to Tipp

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

Review: The show doesn’t segue but jackknifes from one thing to another

Small, artisan food vendors to showcase Irish produce at Semple Stadium

Keep Ireland Open makes complaint to Wicklow Co Council over erection of new fencing at estate

Home of late Guinness heir Garech Browne fetches less than €28m price tag

Local music seems be an all-male affair, but some female musicians are pushing back