The plainspoken west Belfast actor on their love of Ballymurphy, ongoing intergenerational trauma in the North, and why they refuse to just ‘shut up, smile, wave and wear pretty clothes’
The Mary Wallopers also played a four-night run at the venue in December as part of their Seven Drunken Nights Christmas tour
Fiddle player, sean nós singer and presenter Doireann Ní Ghlacáin on growing up speaking Irish in Dublin, her hit podcast How to Gael, and her new show about Irish womanhood
The chart-toppers have released their second album, From the Pyre, which channels the uneasy spirit of the classic 1973 folk-horror movie
Aida refugee camp has close links with Ireland thanks to ACLAÍ Palestine gym founder Ainle Ó Cairealláin
Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh (27) accused of displaying Hizbullah flag and saying ‘up Hamas’ at 2024 London gig
It’s striking how many friends in Ireland say privately what they don’t dare say in public, on everything from Kneecap to Michael D Higgins to Hamas
Kneecap, Liam Ó Maonlaí, Kathy Scott and Seán Ronayne among the artists, musicians, writers and film-makers paying tribute to the late journalist, author and TV presenter
More than one million fans flocked to concerts at Dublin’s former Point Depot last year
Jubilation at Woolwich Crown Court after prosecution against Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh is thrown out
Kneecap rapper known as Mo Chara was accused of showing support for a proscribed organisation with Hizbullah flag
Belfast rapper Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates Court in London on Friday
The 78-year-old poet, artist and musician on the 50th anniversary of Horses, rock’n’roll as revolution and the first time she heard U2
Irish rap trio will have to cancel October tour dates in Toronto and Vancouver after government decision
Julie Dawson’s dolorous voice is the magic ingredient, as it was on Madra, the Galway band’s debut long-player
Sally Rooney, Graham Linehan, Kneecap and John Boyne have all been caught up in controversy
Sarah Cracknell and co are going out on a high with their 13th album. They talk about Britpop, their labelmates Kneecap and Gen Z’s strange yearning for the 1990s
From Chappell Roan on the Main Stage to expensive food, festivalgoers share their highs and lows
From Kneecap on the Main Stage to lots of laughs at Trailer Park, thousands enjoyed three days of music, culture and craic at Electric Picnic 2025
It would be a bit much to suggest there is a coordinated anti-Irish conspiracy at play, especially when many British people also support these artists’ stance
It was festival’s biggest year so far, with 80,000 people in Stradbally for the weekend. Here’s what we loved and hated
‘Nothing is going to top this,’ says a fan wearing an Irish flag as a dress. She’s right
Canny, who put the 11-strong ‘girlband’ together, on the soaring popularity of Irish trad, hitting it off with Ed Sheeran, and how her lilting side project became a hit with neurodivergent people
When and where to watch Kneecap, Fatboy Slim, Inhaler and more
Everything you need to know about Ireland’s largest music festival, August 29th to September 1st
If you’re having a forgettable experience at the Stradbally festival, then you just aren’t doing it properly
A record crowd of 80,000 is expected to attend the event in Stradbally, Co Laois, this weekend
The 15-date tour had been due to begin at the start of October
Electric Picnic 2025: Whether you want to see Chappell Roan, Sam Fender or Kneecap, here's when and where they’re playing
Mo Chara has been back in court over a terror-related charge that Kneecap dismiss as political policing. It’s a pivotal week in the run-up to Electric Picnic
Something has gone badly wrong when, according to UK law, the author is deemed a ‘supporter of terror’
August 23rd-29th, 2025: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
Clearly, the police need to get up much earlier in the morning to keep ahead of Kneecap
Northern Irish rap trio member Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh is due to appear before a London court on Wednesday
Plus: a Leeds MP’s chatbot struggles with our Irish-themed questions; Pope Leo’s Duolingo streak; and a US TikTok star discovers Kerry GAA
Belfast rap trio say decision is ‘out of our hands’
Noel and Mike Hogan of The Cranberries to reunite for first time since Dolores O’Riordan's death in 2018
The iconoclastic punks put in a fantastically furious set that breathtakingly meshes punk and politics
Plus: Fungus inspired by octopus; and what hens behind bars tell us about Mountjoy Prison
The singer and campaigner on how music is no longer a pillar of social protest and why it’s no surprise Live Aid sprang from the Irish community
Authorities accuse Irish group of using anti-Semitic hate speech and praising Hamas, and claim entry to country would ‘seriously threaten national security’
More adult Irish language students from Ireland and overseas are signing up for courses in Gaeltacht areas
The trio led festival crowds in chants of ‘f**k Keir Starmer’ during late June appearance
The Belfast rap trio are scheduled to play on the final day of the Rock-en-Seine festival
There is something rotten about leveraging an expression of long-standing culture and tradition to deliver a contemporary declaration of racist hate
Rap trio due to play alongside Fontaines DC next month at Wythenshawe Park
NI firefighters deal with ‘challenging night’ ahead of Orange Order parades
Ruth Clinton and Cormac MacDiarmada talk about how the themes of the 18th- and 19th-century songs on their new album All Smiles Tonight still resonate
Transport for London rejects poster featuring likeness of a balaclava, deeming advert as ‘likely to cause offence’
Politics will age you faster than even the most rock’n’roll lifestyle
Belfast rap trio’s show at Glasgow O2 on Tuesday sold out in 80 seconds after their TRNSMT festival appearance was cut
Broadcaster on his famous friends, future of media, ‘pathetic’ Kneecap and why his Offaly roots don’t make him a Biffo
For the Icelandic musician A Dawning is not a project about death so much as an outpouring of joy and an acknowledgment of the preciousness of life
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices
