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Saturation point: Shane Hegarty on attending gigs during an Irish summer
3+ hour, 59+ min ago (682+ words) There is nothing like an Irish summer concert under filthy skies while fat raindrops explode in your pint in such a volume as to keep it topped up. Last Sunday's show by David Byrne in St Anne's Park, Raheny was…...
Olivia Rodrigo's new album, You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love, is brilliantly catchy and beautifully bittersweet
8+ hour, 10+ min ago (535+ words) These were unusual departures for an artist whose chronicling of teenage heartache on Drivers License had made her one of the biggest pop stars on the planet. But Rodrigo's passion for the janglingly vulnerable outsider music of the 1980s and 1990s has…...
David Harbour on Lily Allen's West End Girl album: "It wasn't my experience'
1+ day, 13+ hour ago (473+ words) David Harbour has spoken about his ex Lily Allen's tell-all album West End Girl for the first time in a new interview. The Stranger Things actor, who is on the Emmys trail for the HBO crime drama DTF St Louis,…...
Finn Mc Redmond: I'm with Andrew Scott and Phoebe Bridgers. If you're at a gig, put your phone away
1+ day, 14+ hour ago (786+ words) The Irish Times I'm with Andrew Scott and Phoebe Bridgers. If you're at a gig, put your phone away It is rude to go to a concert only to record the entire moment on your phone " it is isolating for…...
Event guide: Metallica, Dalkey Book Festival and the other best things to see in Ireland in the week ahead
1+ day, 17+ hour ago (63+ words) The Irish Times Kurt Vile and the Violators, Vicar Street, Dublin, September 14th, foggynotions. ie Duran Duran, SSE Arena, Belfast, October 18th, ticketmaster. ie Eliades Ochoa, NCH, Dublin, October 19th, nch. ie John Colleary, Town Hall Theatre, Westport, Co Mayo, November 28th, westporttheatre. com...
Nick Cave at Malahide Castle review: Electrifying drift between intimate confession and apocalyptic revelation
1+ day, 22+ hour ago (406+ words) We are all so sick and tired of seeing things as they are," Nick Cave sings on Bright Horses. Horses are just horses and their manes aren't full of fire." The line is a manifesto, a rallying cry against the…...
Guns N" Roses blasted through the old tunes brilliantly, but where are the new songs?
1+ day, 22+ hour ago (688+ words) For nearly a quarter of a century Guns N" Roses fans waited and pondered if the original line-up would ever stage a reunion. Such was the enmity between singer Axl Rose and guitarist Slash that many presumed it would not…...
Win two tickets to see The Whiteheaded Boy at the Abbey Theatre.
2+ day, 11+ hour ago (184+ words) The table is set for Denis, arriving home from Dublin where he's studying medicine " a source of enormous pride for his besotted mother and of great resentment to his five other siblings. But when word comes that he may have…...
Beyond the Pale 2026: Line-up, site access, ticket information, weather and more
2+ day, 16+ hour ago (692+ words) It is June, which means that the Irish festival season is well and truly under way, with Wicklow's Beyond the Pale, the first big music event, taking place this weekend. The boutique festival will welcome 12, 000-plus fans to Glendalough Estate…...
In the World Cup of ideas, Jonathan Swift should play for Ireland
2+ day, 16+ hour ago (307+ words) The Irish Times In the World Cup of ideas, Jonathan Swift should play for Ireland Author's inclusion in the Irish team could be a gamechanger Sir, " Joe Humphreys (Ireland vs England in philosophy: Who would win a World Cup of…...