‘Making music keeps me alive, being in the music industry almost killed me’
After overnight fame led Kate Nash to a breakdown and bankruptcy, the singer has found a new lane
Who are the newly invited Irish members of Hollywood’s Academy?
The Oscars body has invited 842 new members: 50% female, 29% people of colour
Meghan Markle says she hopes for feminist royal baby
‘We hope that that’s the case with our little bump,’ Markle tells Women’s Day panel
Aretha Franklin: When she sang, nothing else mattered
Mick Heaney: Her impact went far beyond music – she changed the world around her
'We’d snorted our way across America, it was ironic I was sacked over drugs'
Aslan singer Christy Dignam on rehearsing in a pigsty, writing ‘This Is’, drug problems, collaborating with Finbar Furey, and staying positive through gruelling bouts of chemotherapy
How big screen blockbusters may cost Irish footballers dearly
Hundreds of celebrities, including Robbie Keane, Jeremy Paxman, former Spice Girls and Annie Lennox, caught up in £1.6bn tax dispute
Bridget Christie: ‘I’m glad there’s misogyny – it turned my career around’
She is joking when she says this, but the comedian has risen to prominence on the crest of a new feminist wave
Born on December 25th, and upstaged by ‘that twerp in the crib’
When your birthday falls on Christmas Day, you may be shortchanged on presents or denied a party, and you definitely won’t be the centre of attention
From the Archives: October 17th, 1986
Kathryn Holmquist talked to Sinéad O’Connor and some of the other woman garage banders of the 1980s
President Higgins to mark International Women’s Day
Over 100 Irish sportswomen to join President and wife at Áras an Uachtaráin
Grammys 2015: Hozier misses out on award to Sam Smith
Sam Smith wins four awards while Bray singer performs live with Annie Lennox
Funeral of Peaches Geldof takes place in Kent
Figures from television and music industries among mourners for 25-year-old mother
US academics back Israel boycott
American Studies Association says move is ‘in solidarity with scholars and students deprived of academic freedom’
It’s a dirty job, but do Thames authorities have to do it?
London Letter: Plans to build a London super-sewer are proving unpopular
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