Allyson MacIvor’s tolerance of intolerance at a Jack White gig is a social-media lesson for all

Barcelona may play Girona in Miami while jerseys are becoming a lot more common

Catherine Nevin challenged ruling that conviction could prevent her getting inheritance

The inaugural Vinyl festival, which takes place over the May bank holiday weekend, is a boutique event celebrating the golden age of stylus and disc

Beerista: Ballast Point is the 13th-largest brewing company in the US – and its beers have just landed here

Siblings of the late Tom Nevin claimed his wife should be disinherited from his estate

Nevin maintained her husband Tom was killed by raiders in Jack White’s pub in 1996

Nevin was convicted of 1996 killing of her husband Tom

Alex Kapranos talks about a new album, scoffing fish n’ chips in Galway, and why he wrote a song about the NHS

Arctic Monkeys and Vampire Weekend come out of hiatus with new albums, while Liam Payne gets off the pot and Sigrid and Saint Sister show why they’re tomorrow’s women

A home for the holdidays with an easy commute to Dublin

Growing up in Alabama gave Jason Isbell a deeper insight into race relations in the US

Adele produces music for cruise ships and her Grammys 2017 speech reeked of attention seeking

The US country singer’s story reads like a tragic country song, but a deal with Jack White’s Third Man Records and an acclaimed debut album has opened up a new chapter

Beyoncé’s nine dominating nods, along with strong showings for Rihanna, Kanye West, Drake and Chance the Rapper, reflect a stellar year for black artists

New book features images and interviews with world’s most famous drummers

Television review: ‘Red Rock’, ‘Hooten and the Lady’ and ‘Later . . . with Jools Holland’

Photographer Alec Soth, who was a painfully shy teenager, has gone on to produce one of the most socially engaged bodies of work in existence

Musical connectors are bringing together musicians and producers to blend methods and styles, and radically changing the way pop music is being made

The intensely private singer says more on her new album than she has in her entire career

RTÉ’s flagship Easter Rising series is being reshown for the first time in 50 years

England investigated for alleged breach of ‘communications protocol’

Hometown heroes Le Galaxie impress while Alt-J are a bit too chilled out for a headliner

Bray singer up against Beck, Jack White, John Legend and Pharrell Williams

John O’Donoghue: October 6th, 1931 – September 11th, 2014

Mr Justice Adrian Hardiman says application had ‘absolutely no points of any merit’

All too often White’s showboating tips into self-indulgence

Alan Bestic: July 11th, 1921 - May 12th, 2014

No need to wait until your favourite acts do the festival circuit in Ireland. Get our continental drift? Lauren Murphy’s top 10 European festivals

Vincent Poole not Jack White is identified as man in An Post stamp

Doubt over true identity of man named as ICA volunteer Captain Jack White

The actor is well acquainted with the fiddle, and will join Cajun and bluegrass musician Powell, with whom he worked on the film ‘Cold Mountain’, for a nationwide tour

He’s been a Rascal and a Shadow Puppet, but Miles Kane is settling into a comfortable solo groove. The dapper Liverpudlian gives the lowdown on making his glam-tinged second solo album with a little help from some friends

The sixth year of the celebration bucked the downward trend for record sales

Heidi Talbot’s voice has taken her from Kildare to the upper echelons of folk – and gained some big fans along the way