More than one million fans flocked to concerts at Dublin’s former Point Depot last year

On Play, Ed Sheeran returns to his day job of churning out annoyingly catchy bangers

The real star of the show is a sanity-troubled canine companion to the owner of the longest legs in Belgravia

Kilfenora Corner: A group wishes to purchase and reopen Linnane’s Pub as a community space with a focus on safeguarding musical tradition

Singer sets up for crowd pleaser at Wexford’s Sky & The Ground pub

Behold, the TikTok star who needs to learn how to play to the gallery

Trolleys have returned to add drama and excitement to the fanciest of restaurants, this time carrying Martinis as well as meringues

We should be flattered that, like the ginger guitar-basher Ed Sheeran, so many people yearn to be ‘culturally’ Irish

Television: What could be more Irish than a singer with a guitar emoting from the bottom of their boots?

Galway Girl singer (34) raised in Suffolk and has large Irish family

U2 singer calls for Hamas to release hostages and Israel to be released from Netanyahu

Summer music falls into two broad categories: songs that make you feel better about the life you have and songs that offer a fantasy of a more glamorous, more exotic existence that is somehow as magically affordable as the drinks at Club Tropicana

For Rebecca Lucy Taylor, performing as Self Esteem has been a way of unpicking years of anger at the way the industry operates

Wicklow musician described as being ‘as kind as they come’ in tribute from Noah Kahan

The nu-folk figureheads, now a three-piece, remain cheerfully bombastic on this spirited if uneven album

Gripping gig is thoughtfully paced with blitz of singles followed by a pivot into slower, more introspective numbers

The Dublin band are well aware of their gilded backgrounds. But, they say, as they prepare to release their glossy third album, ‘We’re, like, kind of dorks’

Never mind that he’s British. David Gray might be the most consequential Irish songwriter of his generation

A year in which the Italian tenor celebrates his luminous 30-year career will be rounded off by a well-earned Christmas at home

There’s little in comedy writing that Richard Curtis hasn’t done. So adapting his That Christmas children’s tales for the screen has been a welcome change