‘The biggest measure is how they treat others’: a Dubliner in New Zealand on photographing the world’s top acts
From Leonard Cohen to Lady Gaga, Dún Laoghaire native Garry Brandon was house photographer in Auckland’s biggest indoor arena
Bob Marley
Jimmy Cliff, reggae music pioneer, dies aged 81
Jamaican singer Jimmy Cliff popularised reggae, ska and rocksteady music over a six decade career
Bagatelle to be honoured in Bray, where band formed in 1978
‘Summer in Dublin’ group had several number one hits and supported Bob Marley
In 1975, Dylan, Patti Smith, Bowie and Marley woke up a cosseted music culture. It’s a 50th anniversary worth celebrating
2025 marks the golden jubilee of some fine records, to be sure, but also of a time when punk came to sack rock’s citadel and popular music began to go in new directions
Bob Marley: One Love – Cringe, cliche and drippy flashbacks
Kingsley Ben-Adir almost wrestles his role into respectability, but the whiff of authorisation is overpowering
‘The Irish were always playing Bob Marley’: One Love star Kingsley Ben-Adir on growing up with the reggae icon
Bob Marley’s music is ‘a spiritual thing’, says the actor, who took the lead role in Reinaldo Marcus Green’s biopic at the request of the Jamaican star’s family
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Cop26: A crowded blue zone, ‘big mistake’ no-shows and more net-zero pledges
Planet Business: Stay only as long as necessary
The Specials: Protest Songs 1924-2012 – still railing against injustice
Coventry’s ska heroes are back and taking a stand for Black Lives Matter
Jimmy Cliff: ‘I don’t reach my peak yet’
Ska and reggae legend on filming The Harder They Come and Jamaica’s rebel spirit
‘I love Shane MacGowan. He’s the ultimate ... one of the last punks’
Musician and film-maker Don Letts on Shane MacGowan, The Clash and being black in Britain
Reggae icon Bunny Wailer, last Wailers member, dies aged 73
‘This is a great loss for Jamaica and for Reggae’ – Jamaican prime minister
Johnny Nash, singer best known for I Can See Clearly Now, dies aged 80
Nash, who had been in declining health, helped launch the career of Bob Marley
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Stardust
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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