Lisa O’Neill

Soundtrack of My Life: From Tom Waits to Van Morrison; I’m allergic to hope at the moment

My Lovely Horse animal rescue is facing a deficit this year of €70,000

The singer-songwriter on her new single, living along borders and growing up in Madden

It’s a particularly thrilling time for Irish music – here’s our countdown of the finest

Virtual Grand National to be broadcast by ITV on Saturday

Meanwhile, Envoi Allen faces toughest task of his young career in the Ballymore

Literature events, art exhibitions and charity fundraisers planned for Little Christmas

Rufus and sister Martha discuss grieving for their mother, performing Christmas songs with family

Held across three towns, Púca aims to be a darker counterpoint to the St Patrick’s Festival

Beacon of enlightened new music programming at NCH in fog of nostalgia culture

Singer on discovering Michael O’Shea and why she’d support Tommy Tiernan for president

Joyce DiDonato, Damon Albarn, Philip Glass and Laurie Anderson in wide-ranging line-up

A tally of 10 Punchestown winners sealed the deal for Mullins who has had a historic year

A new compilation is a compelling journey through musical moments of 1970s Britain

Events across Dublin city from feature Blindboy and play ‘My Father’s Kind’

From Dublin's St Patrick’s Festival to Kilkenny Tradfest and a Co Wicklow slime lab

There is simply no week in sport that offers richer soil in which to dig for gripping yarns

This year’s event mixes the old and the new as it explores and revitalises Irish traditions

Heartwarming documentary a remarkable insight into women in horse racing

Plus: Lisa O’Neill brings her Cavan folk to Whelan’s and Gusgus make rare Irish trip

Year in Culture Review: Talented acts keep emerging, and a new grass-roots industry infrastructure is also taking shape

The singer-songwriter's unusual twist on the Christmas duets album features Sinéad O’Connor, Kate Tempest and John Grant

U2 singer records Simon & Garfunkel track with Saint Sister and others for McVerry Trust

Singer Lisa O'Neill's album of traditional Irish songs is haunted by stories and real lives from the past but she is just as concerned with the present

The writer on why Twin Peaks: The Return is ‘the greatest artwork of the 21st century’

Public Image Ltd, Thunderpussy, Five Grand Stereo, Shannon & the Clams, Other Voices

An Irishman’s Diary on the music of trains

In Conversation: Musicians Radie Peat and Ian Lynch

Dublin festival features concerts, workshops, masterclasses and creative partnerships

MusicTown mixes it up; Nathaniel Rateliff works up a Night Sweat; Pale Rivers run wild

Two artists bring their unique sounds together for a one-off musical evening

If a bomb went off at the National Concert Hall gig that would have been it for the Irish music scene

Bono, Johnny Depp among those feting Pogues singer, who turned 60 on Christmas Day

Apple’s Jade finds more to pip Supasundae, as Nichols Canyon has to be put down

Tickets for the January National Concert Hall gig, which features a stellar line-up, go on sale this Friday

Gigginstown team deny any ‘falling out’ with champion amateur Jamie Codd

Potters Point obliges at 8-1 as trainer Gordon Elliott claims Listowel feature

Talent and courage blind to gender but Aintree win would resonate far beyond racing