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Rob Doyle on k-punk, an unmissable, 800-page collection of the late thinker’s work
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Experimental music launch features animation by Cartoon Saloon and music by Imelda May, Mundy and Mary Coughlan
Slaughtneil retain Ulster club hurling title
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The great art critic John Berger died this week - he may have been the last of his kind
10 things we learned from this year’s Edinburgh extravaganza
As always, the shows being staged encompass the weird, the wonderful and the wacky
Baz Halpin: the Irishman who made the biggest show on US television
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