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Outside Bill Whelan, responsible for "Riverdance's" theme, how many Irish composers do you know of? Here Irish composer and conductor Dave Flynn introduces some of the greatest Irish composers.

After 32 years of wonderful service poet Mark Roper has retired as lecturer of the Kilkenny Liberal Studies Group. The group recently hosted a lunch to mark the...

Members to vote on deal Monday

THE centenary of legendary Waterford composer/ musician/ teacher was recently celebrated with Sunday’s noon mass to mark the centenary of his birth in 1922.

A true hymn to heaven and earth, Beyond Stillness is a moving, sensitive exploration of our relationship with the damaged natural world, seen up close and often...

KIND masons have helped a Port Glasgow foodbank with a four-figure donation.

According to building trades workers, BP replaced as many as three-quarters of its unionized workforce with lesser skilled, nonunion contractors to do critical maintenance and repair work just weeks before the catastrophe.

A pipefitter who worked at the BP Huskey refinery spoke about unsafe practices by management that could have contributed to the September 20 fire that killed Max and Ben Morrissey.

The memorial service Thursday morning was an outpouring of sympathy and solidarity for Max and Ben Morrissey, two young workers tragically killed at the BP Husky refinery in Oregon, Ohio.

After workers voted for strike action, union officials intervened on the grounds that the “company didn’t have any more to give” and tried to scare workers with a possible closure of the plant.