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New Music Dublin: Donnacha Dennehy's Grammy winner Land Of Winter

Composer Donnacha Dennehy introduces Land of Winter, his 2026 Grammy Award-winning work inspired by cycles of time, light and renewal

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Something for the Weekend: Mary Halvorson's cultural picks

Something For The Weekend

Chappell Roan on stage at Electric Picnic 2025

The Chappell Roan debacle proves how dangerous fame has become

Opinion and Analysis

Chicago Police Chief Francis O'Neill is the subject of the latest Lyric Feature

Lyric Feature: The Chicago Police Chief who collected trad tunes

The Lyric Feature

Mass Booklet- Sochraid Dolores

Dolores Keane remembered - songs about where we come from

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Is Foy Vance the best-kept secret in Irish music? Marty thinks so

Great Irish debut albums to (re)discover - Dan Hegarty starts up

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The next green wave: 10 exciting Irish names to watch in culture

Watch: RTÉ Choice Music Prize 2025 Highlights

Watch: RTÉ Choice Music Prize 2025 Highlights

The RTÉ Choice Music Prize

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The Franks and Damo, a tale of two gigs (and the magic of music)

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CMAT and Amble win big at RTÉ Choice Music Awards

RTÉ Choice Music Awards

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Something For The Weekend - Edwina Guckian's cultural picks

Something For The Weekend

Paul McCartney

Does the new Paul McCartney doc have Wings?

Morrissey performing onstage

Feast of Stephen - which Morrissey are we getting this time?

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Does the new Paul McCartney doc have Wings?

Is U2's new Days Of Ash EP the best thing they've done in years?

How Fred Again.. brought the gig of the year to Dublin

Reviewed: Taylor Swift's The Life Of A Showgirl is utterly... meh

Three young women, two of whom are wearing Taylor Swift tshirts

Watch: University of Galway Swifties review new album

Taylor Swift's The Life Of A Showgirl is utterly joyful

image shows the main stage of the All Together Now festival

Why do all good things come to an end? All Together Now reviewed

This is a Bonologue that obeys all the conventions of a stage production, but this being Bono, it is also a folk mass and a sermon

Bono: Stories of Surrender

Masked and majestic, Sleep Token juxtapose crushing riffage with moments of what-just-happened? beauty Photo: Andy Ford

Wide awake in Arcadia as Sleep Token rouse jaded ears

Nihilistic but romantic, poetic and tender: Fontaines D.C. Photo credit: SImon Wheatley

Review: Fontaines D.C.: weirder, darker, poppier

Kneecap: Not since the heady early nineties days of wayward Dublin crew Scary Eire has an Irish hip-hop act sounded so vital and energetic. Photo credit: Sarah Ellis

Kneecap make an exhibition of themselves on Fine Art

Hackney diamond geezers. Photo credit: Mark Seliger

Review: The Rolling Stones - Hackney Diamonds