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WITH two of their best players, Adam Screeney and Brecon Kavanagh looking on from the sideline, Offaly produced another fairly sensational performance, a huge w...

Josh Ritter is unfailingly polite. When I ring him last week at the arranged time before one of his shows in Texas, my two children suddenly enter the room and ask daddy to play hide-and-seek. Ritter hears this dialogue and suggests I ring back at a time that suits me.

Ahead of the royal coronation, Barry Egan talks to various well-known Irish figures about King Charles’s big day, Meghan Markle and the British monarchy in general.

Ahead of the royal coronation, Barry Egan talks to various well-known Irish figures about King Charles’s big day, Meghan Markle and the British monarchy in general.

Micheál Martin

As The Boss prepares for three gigs in Dublin, Barry Egan takes an alphabetical tour through the career and influences of one of America’s most enduring rock stars:

‘Tell her she’s not barred anymore,” jokes the barman at Bray’s Harbour Bar when I tell him who I’m here to meet.

Jean Corr died at the age of 57 in 1999. Her husband, Gerry, was 82 when he died in 2015. Some days Sharon Corr looks in the mirror and sees her father. Other days, it is her mother. She feels them both with her, in her.

‘Tell her she’s not barred anymore,” jokes the barman at Bray’s Harbour Bar when I tell him who I’m here to meet.

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