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As the temperature drops and dew kisses the windowpanes, a familiar warmth, blooms within. The winter solstice marks the advent of the holiday season, a time of crackling bonfires, twinkling lights, and the delicious aroma of Christmas treats ...

Neil Hannon is busy. He’s just off a press campaign for the recent Wonka film, which he has scored, and now is preparing for a series of gigs starting this coming Friday.

From revenge fantasy epics to romantic comedies, we're tired of trauma as a personality trait. It's time for therapy besties!

The Columbia Classics 4K UHD Collection Volume 4 brings films from Paul Thomas Anderson, John Carpenter, and Howard Hawks.

Your mind seems to play tricks on you at a Hozier concert. Especially last night at the 3Arena in Dublin in front of 12,000 people.

“I’ve a bit of a Ronnie Drew on me,” Damien Dempsey told the crowd last night at Vicar Street in Dublin. He knew who to blame for his flu (Ronnie Drew, geddit?) too. He went for a swim in Dublin Port last week. The water was “a teeny weeny bit manky”.

‘We fit in as one of the few sketch comedy groups to last the test of time in Ireland,” says Conor McKenna, otherwise known as Arms, because he is all arms onstage.

It’s bizarre to talk to a man you grew up listening to. Like half the country, as a schoolkid I would tune in to his rock show on RTÉ Radio at midnight. His voice is unmistakeable.

In an RTÉ News broadcast on May 1, 1965, young Irish driver Rosemary Smith was asked about the dicey moments during bad weather when she won the Dutch Tulip Rally.

Shane MacGowan’s legacy will not be stories of his drinking. It will be the songs he left behind. Misfit or not, he was the greatest songwriter Ireland has produced.