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The Patrick O’Keeffe Festival, in Co Kerry this October bank holiday weekend, continues to mine the riches of a regional music style that’s now thriving

Volunteers helped out with the clean up for their beloved club

Members of Knocknagree Community Development Group can take a collective bow after successfully creating three new amenities in the Village which were unveiled last weekend.

A special nature event that will bring the Dawn Chorus to life for the public will take place this Saturday, May 6.

Winnipeg's Seven Oaks School Division may drop some of its school social worker positions and fold some of their responsibilities into other roles, citing provincial funding that hasn't kept up with rising costs and enrolment.

The year 2023 has been a real challenge for traditional music thus far. Only two weeks into this new year we’ve seen several noteworthy deaths that...

Newmarket was well represented on Sunday evenings TV schedule last weekend. After the 6pm news, many of you may have tuned into John Creedons excellent show, Atlas of Ireland, to see our own Timmy OConnor and Eoin Stan OSullivan appear on our screens. The show, in its second series, takes a tour around Ireland exploring towns and places and looking into the meaning of their names. Sliabh Luachra was under analysis in the most recent episode, and Eoin took on the task of explaining the bound...

Eoin "Stan" OSullivan launched the second of his Sliabh Luachra Music Series during the week. The local musician and Sliabh Luachra musician-in-residence has not stood still during the lockdown producing lots of high quality online content featuring the best of our local flavour of music. "The biggest part of me doing the Musician in Residence for Sliabh Luachra job was meeting people, schoolchildren, musicians, festival organisers, all the Sliabh Luachra clans and factions in the hills her...

Traditional musicians are beginning to discuss what the post-COVID world will sound like once pandemic restrictions are lifted and life begins to return to normality. But, according to Eoin Stan OSullivan, the Newmarket-based Musician In Residence for Sliabh Luachra, musicians are considering whether they will be playing more gigs in community halls and other large venue settings rather than pubs when restrictions begin to be relaxed. "There are questions whether many pubs will survive the pand...

To say that Mikie OShea leads an interesting life would be somewhat of an understatement! Born and raised in Nadd on the sunny slopes of the Boggeragh Mountains, Mikie now resides in the land of the Rising Sun where he works in international education and as a gifted musician also promotes and highlights Irish traditional music in Japan and globally through his website. "I emigrated from Ireland to pursue a career in international education in 2011, having spent three years teaching (and learni...