Sharon Shannon

DUBLIN Bloom Phoenix Park, Dublin 8; until Monday, June 3; bloominthepark.com Ireland’s answer to the Chelsea Flower Show, Bord Bia’s annual extravag(...)

Many of them have day jobs such as being a chef, barber or boutique manager but Sligo musician Kieran Quinn has no qualms about bringing the(...)

World premieres of Paul Muldoon’s Incantata, two new plays, by Sonya Kelly and Cristin Kehoe, from Druid, and a new theatre installation from Enda Wal(...)

Nick Cave, Bono, Sinéad O’Connor, a Sex Pistol and the President of Ireland are at the National Concert Hall for Shane MacGowan’s 60th birthday. I lov(...)

This is the meaty middle of the season. After tomorrow’s daunting assignment in Sandy Park against the reigning English champions and high-flying Prem(...)

Animals may be preparing to hibernate, but that doesn’t mean the rest of us have to – or that we should. Belfast native Prof Geoffrey Beattie, a form(...)

Musician Sharon Shannon and her manager, John Dunford, have agreed before the High Court to withdraw from the sale of a house and studio property in C(...)

Audiences are not a fixed entity, and neither are cultural institutions nor venues. Adapt or die, and all that. As a teenager, I sang in choirs at the(...)

There’s no doubting Sharon Shannon’s desire for wide open musical vistas. Her penchant for tango, reggae and blues is evident on her past recordings, (...)

If life’s best secrets are the “open” ones, no more so than those with love at their heart. So it was with Gerry Hanberry’s research into the muses wh(...)