Christmas and New Year gigs: Which ones are cancelled, postponed and still on?
Changing public-health rules have played havoc with live-event plans. Here’s the latest
‘Sad music makes me happy for some strange reason’
The film-maker, musician and producer Myles O’Reilly shares his Spotify playlist
Lisa O’Neill: On My Culture Radar
Singer on discovering Michael O’Shea and why she’d support Tommy Tiernan for president
Parkruns – where you can meet someone from any walk of life
The criteria for a parkrun include a safe 5km course, a team to run it and a start-up fund. The events are free to all participants
Other Voices: Line-up revealed of every show in 17th series
Series to screen performances and interviews from the maiden Ballina event
Other Voices Ballina: Dingle shindig decamps to Mayo
Gig of the Week: A merry gang of Irish and international artists go west for a weekend of music, food and discussion – and Ballina’s Food Fleadh will be in full swing too
Take us back to church: Hozier and St Vincent make it a divine rock week
Lots to see at Electric Picnic, plus Passenger, Peking Duk, Ugly Kid Joe and Iceage
Electric Picnic stage times: the exclusive first look
Set times for the Main, Body & Soul, Other Voices and Rankin’s Wood stages
‘I can be very narrow-minded. I’m constantly fighting with myself to be a decent person’
In Conversation: actors Peter Coonan and Marie Mullen
It Takes A Village festival: everything you need to know
Tickets, how to get there, and the full line-up and stage times for the first festival of the season
The best music festivals and outdoor gigs in Ireland in 2018
From It Takes a Village in April, to Electric Picnic in September, via The Rolling Stones
This album changed my life: Johnny Cash – American Recordings (1994)
Musician Seamus Fogarty on the album he first ignored and later owed a debt to
Fogarty channels the spirit of Shane MacGowan
Shuffle: The week’s best clips, singles, downloads and audiostreams
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