Brian Downey
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Thin Lizzy members on the band’s rise and fall: ‘Heroin was the worst mistake we made’
- Music
- November 2, 2020, 08:00
Former members recall the magic and tragic descent of Thin Lizzy – even if they disagree on it If you want to see the platonic ideal of a rock b(...)

Gig of the Week: Féile ’19 at Semple Stadium
- Music
- September 14, 2019, 05:00
There was a nostalgia tsunami last year when the return of Féile was announced. Ah, yes, the Trip to Tipp, recalled many people of a certain age, the (...)

Can a major new plan revive the coastal town of Balbriggan?
- Social Affairs
- August 30, 2019, 01:00
Fred Hammond points up at a grubby apartment block from his makeshift seat on a pile of fishing nets and wonders how it was allowed to be built. It r(...)

Baby found on Balbriggan beach was stillborn, postmortem finds
- Irish News
- December 17, 2018
The baby girl whose body was found on a beach in Balbriggan in north Co Dublin at the weekend was stillborn, a postmortem has found. Gardaí are due (...)

‘Dublin’s first rock star’ Phil Lynott died 30 years ago today
- Music
- January 4, 2016
Phil Lynott, singer and bassist of Irish rock band Thin Lizzy, died 30 years ago on Monday. Lynott was born in England in 1949 and moved to Dublin t(...)

From the archives: Don’t believe a word – The life and death of Phil Lynott
- Music
- January 2, 2016, 00:17
Leighlin, Clonmacnoise, Ferns, Kells, Bangor, Lismore, Clogher. The centre of the corporation estate of Crumlin was started in the year of the Euchari(...)

It’s Thin Lizzy but not as you know it: the boys are back in town – again!
- Music
- December 12, 2013, 16:30
What’s in a name? When the current members of Thin Lizzy got together to record an album, they decided not to record as Thin Lizzy. Instead, they form(...)

An A-Z of music in Ireland
- Books
- October 19, 2013, 01:00
Air The air, or slow air, is a piece of traditional music that is generally not set in a given time signature and is without a regular sense of metre.(...)