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Cork father’s grief for his son brings new life to old songs Michael Fitzgerald with musicians Brian Hassett and Hugh Dillon as they listen back to a recording for the album No Simple Highway Sarah Horgan A CORK man is reimagining songs about love and loss to bring comfort to people who are grieving. Devoted father Michael Fitzgerald was with his son, Aodhrua, when Aodhrua succumbed to cancer at just 21 years of age, during Christmas 2013. The years that followed were intensely painful for Michael. Nonetheless, he was determined to channel that pain in a way that helped others. The result w...

Online gigs to ring in the new year and get you through early January The Academic, Mick Flannery and Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh among those offering streamed shows Wed, Dec 30, 2020, 05:00   This time last year we were looking forward to so many gigs, concerts, shows, performances and events that we could hardly arrange a suitable schedule to attend even half of them. But then, from March, the ground under the Irish music industry went from concrete to clay, and the remainder of the year swayed between hopeful and hopeless to resignation and defiance. Usually at this point in the year, music v...