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Premium Content Subscriber only Multi-award winning band Blues Arcadia is set to perform at the main stage at Agnes Blues, Roots and Rock Festival. The three-time Australian blues Music Award winners and Australian Roots Music Award nominees combine a unique sound with Chicago, Memphis, Stax and Motown blues. Blues Arcadia is made up of vocalist Alan Boyle, guitarist Chris Harvey, bass player Jeremy Klysz, keys Paula Girvan and drums Casper Hall. The blues band has received critical acclaim, receiving praise from The Australian Weekend Review and Sunday Mail. 4ZZZ's Mark Doherty also had...

‘It’s just a little family’: the perfect cover for ASIO spies By Sandra Hogan Save Normal text size Advertisement In late-1950, Joan and Dudley Doherty started to spend a little more time with each other when they began taking part in Operation Smile, ASIO’s first bugging operation. ASIO’s work on the case began with collecting information on Australians who were passing information to Russia, but agents soon began looking at Russians based in Australia as well. One such person was Fedor Nosov, who represented Soviet news agency TASS in Australia, but who was thought ...

News by Leisa Scott Premium Content Subscriber only Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to believe that tucked away in the perfectly ordinary Brisbane suburb of The Gap, lived a family of spies. Mum, Dad and the three kids. They went on holidays to the Gold Coast with Soviet defectors, the Petrovs. Dad did the books for Abe Saffron, one of Australia's most notorious underworld figures. They'd pop into the city looking like an everyday family posing for happy snaps but that was a ruse; they were busy collecting intelligence on could-be Commun...

Lorraine O’Dwyer To Ireland’s €6bn tourism industry, however, they are the glue that binds itineraries together, the meeters-and-greeters, storytellers, fixers and friendly faces of a country so many visit for its céad míle fáilte. They work mostly with overseas visitors (members of ATGI, the Approved Tourist Guides of Ireland, speak 21 languages from Arabic to Slovak). But in spring of this year, the whole sector went up in smoke. “I was like a barometer in a way,” says Suzanne Burns of Kinsale Food Tours ( kinsalefoodtours.ie). “I link into so many businesses in the town; if...

Business Matters Presenter Ciaran O'Donnell In this week's podcast, Ciaran O'Donnell speaks to Eleanor Hanna, general manager of Hanna Hats in Donegal Town, about her 25-year association with the famous family business which is producing around 2,000 caps per week. Ciaran also talks to Mark Doherty, managing director of Century Cinemas, Backstage Bar & Grill and Century Play in Letterkenny about getting his complex up and running again after a second lockdown.