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Music producer and convicted murderer Phil Spector dies of Covid aged 81
- Music
- January 17, 2021, 16:27
Phil Spector, the music producer behind some of pop music’s biggest hits, has died aged 81 while serving a prison sentence for murder. Media reports (...)

David Clarke’s retirement leaves Mayo with a hole to fill
- Gaelic Football
- January 4, 2021, 19:04
For almost half a decade the slow trickle of Mayo’s golden generation into retirement has emitted a collective sigh from the football-mad county that (...)

Kevin McStay: Dublin may be a bridge too far but Mayo’s spirit will never be broken
- Gaelic Football
- December 15, 2020, 06:00
One of the unexpected joys of lockdown was that I found music again. Like most teenagers, I was nuts about music. But then I lost it. So during the fi(...)

What You Could Have Won: plenty to applaud but easy to get lost
- Books
- November 11, 2020, 06:00
Anyone interested in writing good sentences proper should get The Reader Over Your Shoulder by the poet Robert Graves and his collaborator Alan Hodge.(...)

If soul-searching was a sport, today’s GAA teams would all be champions
- Gaelic Games
- September 26, 2020, 06:00
Say what you want about the GAA, but they’ll never be found wanting when it comes to the tricky business of soul-searching. We have seen and heard th(...)

Michael Harding: ‘Do I know anything? Very f**king little’
- Books
- September 26, 2020, 06:00
We’re in Arigna in Co Roscommon but “everything you can see”, Michael Harding tells me, is Co Leitrim. We’re in Harding’s garden looking down from a h(...)

New BBC boss wants more right-leaning comics. Is he having a laugh?
- Culture
- September 5, 2020, 05:00
Why does contemporary comedy so often skew to the left? Why do the arts as a whole lean in that direction? Do these questions only make sense if you a(...)

Jarv Is ... : Beyond the Pale review – Too much art, not enough commerce
- Music
- July 17, 2020, 06:30
Much like his performance at last year’s Electric Picnic, anyone expecting Jarvis Cocker to flick through the back pages of Pulp on his first album of(...)

What you can buy for €325k in France, Greece, Spain, Guernsey and Dublin 18
- Homes & Property
- June 25, 2020, 06:00
Hunters Estates is seeking €325,000 for 26 The Cedar, Cruagh Wood, a two-bedroom apartment of 70sq m in Stepaside, Dublin 18. The two-bedro(...)

Jacknife Lee: ‘If I’m not making noise, I get very grumpy’
- Music
- June 18, 2020, 06:00
Lockdown has affected people in myriad ways. Some go stir-crazy, some get bored to death, and some develop an unhealthy obsession with the contents of(...)