The music of 2023: Our critics’ verdicts on the best albums and acts of the year
Who made the best Irish album? Which act recorded the best Irish song? Can anybody beat Lankum and CMAT? Our critics have made their choices
Paul Simon
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Paul Simon says he is ‘beginning to’ accept his hearing loss
Singer-songwriter speaking at premiere of In Restless Dreams: the Music of Paul Simon at Toronto film festival
Joseph O’Connor: Paul Simon knows the nearer your destination, the more you’re slip sliding away
Rite & Reason: All the emotional tones of the original psalms are in his music
Keaton Henson: ‘I just hate being looked at by lots of people’
Songwriter’s new album, House Party, investigates notion of musicians projecting alter-ego versions of themselves
Paul Simon: Seven Psalms – One of the great songwriters embarks on a solitary, deeply personal journey
A short but richly layered collection that intrigues even the sceptical
Sting sells songwriting catalogue for estimated $300m
Deal covers copyrights for more than 600 songs and future music earnings
Bruce Springsteen sells catalogue to Sony in $500m deal – report
US star becomes latest singer to monetise career’s work
Warner Music in talks to purchase David Bowie’s songwriting catalogue
Songbook being sold by star’s family is among the biggest on the market
Ed Sheeran = review: If you loved what came before, you will love this
Whatever you already think about the pop star, this album isn’t going to alter it
Facebook files’ saga, Lubov Chernukhin and Bond’s triumphant return
Planet Business: For sale, thousands of songs, much-streamed
Paul Simon sells song catalogue to Sony for undisclosed sum
Singer-songwriter joins Bob Dylan, Neil Young and more by cashing in on their intellectual property
The making of Home School Hub: ‘Probably one of the best things I’ve ever done’
Makers and múinteoirí of RTÉ’s homeschool programme on teaching through the pandemic
Fifty days to rediscover the 2020 Championship – with apologies to Paul Simon
It’s a small bridge over troubled water, but at least it’s preferable to the sound of silence
Q magazine closes – and with it demise of the old music press is complete
Q, the magazine that was once a cornerstone of the British music press, was a victim of its own success
Fintan O’Toole: Coronavirus has ended the era of political risk
Who needs a politics of disruption when Covid-19 is disrupting the world?
Craft and graft of a Dublin guitar maker
Frank Tate has made instruments for Paul Simon, Ed Sheeran and Donal Lunny
Chef, barber, dog groomer make up unlikely mix for sell out Vicar Street show
‘You hear ads on the radio for all these big names playing in Vicar Street and I can’t believe we will be there’
The best of Eileen Battersby, from Tolstoy to Paul Simon
Our late literary correspondent on Darina Allen, Martin Amis, Nigel Kennedy and more
Despite its appalling policy towards Palestinians, boycotting Israeli culture is not the answer
As the son of a Holocaust survivor I came to see cultural boycotts as wrongheaded
Paul Simon at the RDS: 'Maybe I’ll just keep coming to Dublin'
Songs sung a thousand times lose none of their mystique at Paul Simon's farewell concert in Dublin
Paul Simon: Farewell and thank you to a near mythic troubadour
Paul Simon’s last Irish concert the RDS Dublin will be an intense, emotional evening
Paul Simon: what to expect at farewell concert in Dublin
The legendary singer brings his vast back catalogue to vivid life in an emotional performance in Manchester
Paul Simon at RDS, Dublin: everything you need to know
US singer’s concert next Friday may be the last time he plays in Ireland
The 15 best rock and pop gigs to catch in Ireland this week
Paul Simon bids farewell, Michael Bublé in Croker, Bruno Mars and Longitude
‘We both will be received in Graceland’: Dad rock and fatherhood
Paul Simon makes sense to me now and so does my father’s nostalgia. It is something we share
Radio Nova invites listeners to ‘Shazam’ way to summer gigs
Audio recognition app teams up with music station for mobile-led campaign
Animated version of McCourt’s Angela and Shane MacGowan on RTÉ’s Christmas menu
An animated Frank McCourt story, a Fairytale of New York doc and Mrs Brown
Tracker mortgage scandal, Lottery on winning streak,PTSB’s mortgage-to-rent scheme
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3Arena hits the right note as Adele and Bieber boost profits
The Live Nation subsidiary behind the venue sees pre-tax profits rise to €8.09m in 2016
Jake Bugg channels Glen Campbell and Lorde is rhymin’ Simon
Songs of the week: a Paul Simon hit version, and a Hozier pick from Wyvern Lingo
Our lingo for love: how the Irish talk about sex
From ‘shift’ to doing a ‘line’, we have always found colourful ways to describe love and sex
Independence day: 10 great things to celebrate about America
On its birthday, a very personal list of the best gifts the US has given the world
Lorde’s second coming: ‘Pop music is my number one inspiration’
Four years after she conquered the world with her song ‘Royals’, Lorde returns with ‘Melodrama’ – and it packs a serious lyrical punch
‘The end of Black Sabbath is the end of an era. And the end of our youth’
The Birmingham band have called it a day and the best days of heavy metal are gone
You really need to hear Marian Finucane recite pop lyrics
The broadcaster's weekend competition provides a surreal moment that proves most lyrics are not exactly poetry
Donald Clarke: Touch of Hollywood macabre to death of Carrie Fisher
‘Star Wars’ franchise turned actor into reluctant star who struggled with success
Carrie Fisher in ‘intensive care’ following heart attack on flight to LA
Actor who played Princess Leia in Star Wars films transferred to hospital
Paul Simon at 75: ‘The mind improves as you get older’
As he releases a new album, the acclaimed songwriter has little interest in his legacy – ‘Time takes care of that’
Bob Dylan’s Nobel: Better to have gone to a ‘complete unknown’?
If the academy wanted to honour a music icon, Paul Simon would be a better choice
Marie Heaney: ‘I had a very public grief’
Three years after her husband’s death, the writer is ‘beginning to feel like myself again’
Rod Stewart confirmed for Kilkenny’s Nowlan Park
Date set for next June, 5 Seconds of Summer also announce April show at Dublin’s 3Arena
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600 artists are boycotting Israel; Sean Scully is showing in China - is art ever apolitical?
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