Event guide: Lily Allen, Ethel Cain and the other best things to see in Ireland in the week ahead
June 27th-July 3rd, 2026: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way in the next seven days
The Music Quiz: Paramore singer Hayley Williams was born in which US location?
Plus: In 2021, singer/songwriter Ethel Cain released a song named after which US actress?
‘I regret buying a spin bike during the pandemic... It is now used as a clothes horse’
Sheena Dignam, founder of Galway Food Tours, galwayfoodtours.com
Olivia Dean, Alanis Morissette and the other best things to see in Ireland in the week ahead
June 20th-26th, 2026: The best music, theatre, art and more coming your way this week
The Music Quiz: Olivia Rodrigo includes which song’s lyrics by The Cure in Drop Dead?
Plus: What is Nick Cave’s middle name?
New Irish albums reviewed and rated: SJ McArdle, Loah, Chuck Squires, Roger Doyle and Big Sun
June 2026 releases include All My Dream Companions Gone, Materia Medica, The Late Great Chuck Squires, Idir and 001
‘I use my phone for absolutely everything and could not run my business without it’
Me & My Money: Sarah Slattery, founder, thetravelexpert.ie
Event guide: Metallica, Dalkey Book Festival and the other best things to see in Ireland in the week ahead
June 13th-19th, 2026: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
The Music Quiz: Lady Gaga’s Bad Romance references three films by which director?
Plus: Former Beastie Boys member Mike D is performing at this weekend’s Beyond the Pale festival. What does the D stand for?
‘I was a single mum when my first son was small, and it made me ultra careful with money’
Me & My Money: Sarah Webb, children’s author
Fiachna Ó Braonáin’s Leaving Cert: ‘I stayed up very late at night, drinking coffee and cramming’
The musician and broadcaster sat the exams in the summer of 1984
Event guide: Nick Cave, Beyond the Pale and the other best things to see in Ireland in the week ahead
June 6th-12th, 2026: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way
My Leaving Cert: ‘Remembering the fun, very silly, happy-go-lucky people we were is like a warm hug’
Erin McGreehan, TD for Louth
The Music Quiz: Which Taylor Swift song won best female video at the 2009 MTV VMAs?
Plus: Which two former Beatles have children that share the same birthday?
My Leaving Cert: The school secretary took me to lost property and kitted me out with a new uniform
Author Liz Nugent sat her Leaving Certificate in 1985 and still has nightmares about it