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Editor RTÉ Brainstorm

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Jim Carroll is the editor of RTÉ Brainstorm.

RTÉ's Sean Rocks remembered - 'A wise lovely Monaghan man'

Sean Rocks RIP. What a shocking bit of news.
In Memoriam • 31 Jul

The inside story of how we created the Choice Music Prize

It's May 2005 and two lads are sitting in the upstairs room of the Odessa, a Dublin city-centre establishment still open at that time. Neither are drinking, but both are talking and gesturing.
Music • 25 Feb

The 24 best albums of 2024 - Jim Carroll's year in music

The older I get, the more I appreciate a good list. There's something quite clarifying and definitive about listing stuff from one to whatever. Here are my decisions, now show me yours...
Best Of 2024 • 14 Dec 24

Jim Carroll on André 3000's pivot from rapper to flautist

The last time I saw André 3000, we were shooting the breeze about greyhounds.
Music • 16 Jul 24

The Rattler: Jim Carroll on the return of Anohni and The Johnsons

We're in Aviva Studios, out by Castlefield and the canals in old Manchester...
Music • 06 Jul 24

'It was the wildness': Patti Smith's triumphant Vicar Street show

This was... truly something else altogether.
Music • 02 Jul 24

Jim Carroll's top 23 albums of 2023

'These are records with vim and vigour, power and passion, stirring songs and sounds.'
Music • 21 Dec 23

Jim Carroll's 22 best albums of 2022

What's below is what 2022 sounded like around here, the 22 albums which gave me the most sport these last 12 months.
Music • 14 Dec 22

48 hours in Dublin, as explored anew by a local

I live and work in Dublin. I walk and cycle and occasionally drive down these streets. I've done so for years. I'd like think I know the place like the back of my hand.
Travel • 10 Oct 22

The Rattler: Jim Carroll on why Patti Smith still matters

The Rattler • 30 May 22
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