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For the umpteenth time this morning, Susan O’Neill trails off mid-sentence. “Sorry, the wind caught my eye,” she explains. “It was whirling across the river.” We’re sitting down to 11 o’clock tea at the Falls Hotel in Ennistymon, Co Clare.

For the umpteenth time this morning, Susan O’Neill trails off mid-sentence. “Sorry, the wind caught my eye,” she explains. “It was whirling across the river.” We’re sitting down to 11 o’clock tea at the Falls Hotel in Ennistymon, Co Clare.

Former Walking On Cars piano-player and vocalist, Sorcha Durham, tells Will Russell about growing up in Dingle, the impact of Other Voices and her fantasti...

There's plenty of room for improvement when it comes to representation and diversity within the art form of production, but Irish talent is bearing fruit in ...

SHANNON'S David Hope will launch his new album '…And The Sea' at the Swive stage in Shannon Town Centre on Friday at 6pm.

IT has been coming in single-track instalments, but now, Laura Duff’s sophomore EP, Heavy Summer, is set to be released this Friday. And on December 10, t...

Light at the end of the tunnel for East Cork songwriter  Written at the outset of the first lockdown, East Cork singer-songwriter Julia-Maria’s new single Morning Light points to the change of pace that many of us experienced over the Covid crisis’ quieter moments. Mike McGrath-Bryan finds out more. Julianne Quirke, who performs as Julia-Maria. Picture: Niamh Barry As things start to shift toward something resembling normal, or functioning at least, post-Covid, its easy to look back at t...