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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

In the News podcast

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