Cathal Coughlan

With Microdisney dead and buried (following a final gasp of breath last year) you could sense that one of that band’s co-founders wouldn’t take too lo(...)

Current favourite book The best thing I’ve read in the last few months is Sinéad Gleeson’s Constellations. It’s profoundly moving and relates to a lo(...)

Born in Bavaria in 1898, playwright Bertolt Brecht worked principally in what is known as epic theatre, which favours provocative narratives intersper(...)

Saturday, August 10 AE Mak Workman’s Club, Dublin theworkmansclub.com/events/ae-mak/ When it comes to visual representation, too many music acts eith(...)

Two new collaborations with Rough Magic Theatre Company and a promenade production of Thomas Kilroy’s novel The Big Chapel staged in the town of Calla(...)

“I came from England in 1978 as I thought there was a great opportunity in Dublin for punk to flourish, but instead I was confronted with a narrow-min(...)

SATURDAY 16 JUST MUSTARD The Workman’s Club, Dublin 8pm €10 theworkmansclub.com Dundalk shoegaze/drone/trip-hop band Just Mustard are one of the mos(...)

Where there is an end, there might also be a cautious beginning. Cathal Coughlan, the Cork man perhaps best known for being the vocalist and lyricist (...)

Microdisney National Concert Hall, Dublin ★★★★ There was a subtle difference between Microdisney’s Saturday night’s “official” return show at the Nati(...)

Cathal Coughlan and Sean O’Hagan met in Cork at a New Year’s Eve party in 1979 and formed Microdisney. In July 1983 the determined duo upped sticks an(...)