Imelda May

Current favourite book? I recently read a book called Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire by Kurt Andersen. It’s a very stimulating, thought-provok(...)

Who said learning Irish wasn’t fun! Prominent Irish band Kíla have published an experimental DVD aimed at inspiring children to learn songs in Irish t(...)

The words of an Irish teenager who was killed in the first World War have been put to music and turned into a song sung by Sinéad O’Connor. Michael W(...)

Ryan Tubridy promised viewers of the Late Late London Special “a different day in the office,” yet despite the ornate and echoey surrounds of Central (...)

There are surely people in the higher reaches of promoters MCD who are hoping Ireland’s long-standing heatwave and drought continues until their Summe(...)

McCaughey’s Entekra builds in California Entekra, the house builder set up by Century Homes Gerry McCaughey, will create 500 jobs in the US after sign(...)

King Lear Monday, BBC Two, 9.30pm A mad king rules over a totalitarian military dictatorship in England, and pretty soon everything descends into chao(...)

Concern has been expressed for the future of the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival following the revelation that the long-time programmer and festival direc(...)

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(...)

Two short years ago this Wednesday, David Bowie’s death stunned the world. Producer Tony Visconti began a creative relationship with Bowie in 1969, pr(...)