Simon Cullen

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St Patrick’s Day: spectators at last year’s Dublin parade. Photograph: Paul Faith/AFP/Getty
St Patrick’s Day: 21 events across Ireland for the bank holiday weekend

The forecast may not be great for this year’s St Patrick’s Day, but there are lots of events and other attractions, many indoors, to keep you entertai(...)

Ships with the Choice Music Prize for Irish Album of the Year. Photograph: Graham Keogh
Choice Music Prize awards should aim to be more than an industry backslapping session
  • Music
  • March 9, 2018, 07:43

Much like the recent Oscars, this year’s Choice Music Prize ceremony was a curious mix of surprising and predictable. It was brave of the judges to gi(...)

Berth celebration: Sorca McGrath and Simon Cullen aka Ships are at Number 10 Wicklow Street on Monday.
Christmas crackers and electro bangers from Homebeat
  • Music
  • December 9, 2017, 05:00

Twenty-seventeen has been a very good year for Irish music, and part of the reason we are hearing about so many of these acts is down to the support t(...)

Check out Ider, the English duo of Megan Markwick and Lily Somerville, on Sunday
Nine new acts to see at Electric Picnic

1. Lowly Body & Soul main stage, Friday Textured a music from a Danish five-piece who mix guitars, electronics and skirling percussion under the(...)

Since 2012 McGrath and Cullen have been busy gigging and writing music to fill their extending live slots, and this organically developed into enough material where the pair could consider putting out an album
No plans, embrace change and champion chords: Ships’ chart for success
  • Music
  • May 8, 2017, 05:00

“None of it is planned,” says Sorca McGrath, days before the release of Ships’ debut album Precession. Together with Simon Cullen, McGrath has been wo(...)

Portmarnock’s Conor Purcell, winner of the South of Ireland Championship, will gain his first Irish cap in the Home Internationals at Nairn in Scotland next week.
Shay’s Short Game: Ireland include four new caps for men’s Home Internationals
  • Golf
  • August 1, 2016, 18:43

Ireland’s team for the men’s Home Internationals at Nairn on August 10th-12th will include four new caps as Seán Flanagan, Tiarnan McLarnon, Conor O’R(...)

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Ireland's music showcase: Hard Working Class Heroes

It’s nearly time to rumble with the Hard Working Class Heroes again. What began as a low-key, very underground showcase event with an unwieldy name in(...)