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The 2021 Cork St. Patricks Festival Is Underway Over 40 buildings Leeside are to turn green in the coming days A host of online workshops and virtual exhibitions are taking place from today right up to St. Patricks Day on Wednesday. Tom Douglas has this report for RedFM News: Organised by Cork City Council, this years Cork St. Patricks Festival will celebrate our national festival through word, film, music, projections, video, and workshops. The festival has co-ordinated a huge rang...

New Figures Show A Further Rise In The Number Of Patients Waiting To Get Operations In Ireland A record of almost 627 thousand people are waiting for their first hospital outpatient consultation. The National Treatment Purchase Fund stats show thats a jump of nearly 4,000 in a single month. Irish Patients Association spokesperson, Stephen McMahon says the rise in waiting lists is causing upset for patients:

The 27-year-old was shot dead by an armed Garda in December

Philip Bailey Philip Irvin Bailey (born May 8, 1951) is an American R&B, soul, gospel and funk singer, songwriter, percussionist and actor, best known as an early member, and one of the two lead singers (along with group founder Maurice White) of the band Earth, Wind & Fire. Noted for his four-octave vocal range and distinctive falsetto register, Bailey has won seven Grammy Awards. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Vocal Group Hall of Fame as a member of Earth, Wind & ...

Sounds of Blackness Sounds of Blackness is a vocal and instrumental ensemble from Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota who perform music from several genres music including gospel, R&B, soul, and jazz. The group scored several hits on the Billboard R&B and Hot Dance Music/Club Play charts in the 1990s. Cynthia Johnson of Lipps Inc. and Ann Nesby are the groups most prominent alumni.

The Cardigans The Cardigans are a Swedish rock band formed in Jönköping, Sweden, in 1992, by guitarist Peter Svensson, bassist Magnus Sveningsson, drummer Bengt Lagerberg, keyboardist Lars-Olof Johansson and lead singer Nina Persson, with the line-up remaining unchanged to this day. Their debut album Emmerdale (1994) gave them a solid base in their home country and enjoyed some success abroad, especially in Japan. It was not until their second album Life (1995) that an international reputat...

Online shopping fraud costs Irish consumers €22m Irish consumers lost €22m in online shopping fraud last year.  This is when the buyer doesn’t receive the goods after making payments, receives fake or counterfeit goods, or items not as described. Gardaí say up to 10 million online transactions were carried out over the Christmas shopping period. Detective Inspector Mel Smyth says people should never purchase items that they have found through social media. "The most importa...

Demand for home births rises 354 women opted for a home birth last year, compared to 272 in 2019. Aisling Dixon, vice-chair of the Community Midwives Association, says women are opting to stay at home due to Covid. "It has brought home birth up on peoples radar. I think there is uncertainty when women get pregnant about where the hospitals may be around the issue of Covid, and by their birth happens 8 or 9 months later. "So they have opted for home birth to provide certainty." Share

Gavin James Gavin James, is an Irish singer-songwriter. In March 2013 and March 2016, he won the Choice Music Prize Irish Song of the Year award.

The discovery was made as part of the investigation into the murder of a teenage boy last year.