Weekend 1 of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio packed even more of a punch than we expected, and now thousands of more people are headed to the California desert for Weekend 2.

Bríd Uí Fhatharta—known fondly in the Ráth Chairn Gaeltacht as Bríd “Johnny”—stood quietly by the commemorative flame marking ...

Having gone through the education system at both primary and secondary levels in the local CBS School, I knew little or ...

Sinners” filmmaker Ryan Coogler tells IndieWire about his reverence for Irish music and its narrative importance in his ...

but songs that don’t even sound like Queen themselves. Here are four perfect examples. Every devotee will be aware of them, of course, but for anyone whose knowledge of the band extends no ...

Fiona Plunkett, the sister of Joseph Mary Plunkett, shared never-before-heard details about her brother's marriage to Grace ...

Here are four Iron Maiden songs that sound nothing like Iron Maiden. But much weirder is the utterly un-Maiden-like Strange World. Five-and-a-half minutes of languid, lava lamp guitars and stoned ...

The Cranberries comparison seems to obvious, but it’s unavoidable. Florence Road are an Irish band who make tender, sensitive, string-laden acoustic ballads. Virtually everything they do exists in the ...

The Cure have enlisted Four Tet, Paul Oakenfold, Orbital, and many more for a new remix album based on their celebrated 2024 record, Songs of a Lost World. The aptly-titled Mixes of a Lost World ...

Gardaí have arrested four men suspected of attempting to smuggle drugs and phones into a Dublin prison. The operation began on Sunday when gardaí from Ronanstown station were alerted to an ...

In Northern Ireland this week, golf dominated everything and the talk has not been of orange or green but of Rory McIlroy and the drama of the extra hole play-off on that famous green at Augusta.