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Luke Kelly remembered with two statues unveiled on the same day
The Dubliners’ singer who died 35 years ago on Wednesday is commemorated in Dublin
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Happy 60th birthday, Shane MacGowan
An appetite for excess has often distracted from the rare talent and songwriting brilliance of The Pogues frontman
Miriam Lord: Dublin and Mayo leave us all in bits
All-Ireland final proved an incredible sporting occasion – one it’ll take a while to get over
The millionaire Temple Bar publican with a Keane edge
Publican Martin Keane on the stalled Iveagh Market project
Irish musicians call for the return of stolen guitar
Jazz guitarist Hugh Buckley’s instrument was taken from his car in Dublin on Tuesday
Finbar Furey: ‘I’m winding down the clock’
Furey is back on the road after a period of grieving for his brother, and an injury that could have put him out of business as a piper. Catch him while you can
Limerick antiques dealer with a major US client list
Ann Sullivan: August 12th, 1938 - September 30th, 2014
How will we burst this bubble in Irish economists?
The fact the State has its own Woodstock for economists shows just how obsessed Middle Ireland has become with fiscal matters
Billy Connolly: he's not your average 71-year-old
The comedian was diagnosed with prostate cancer on the same day he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s, but it seems nothing can stop the Big Yin laughing
Pride in Dublin? We’re bursting with it
Editor of Le Cool Dublin responds to Trevor White’s article questioning Irish pride in the capital
Luke Kelly: 30 years after his death, his voice lives on
The man from Sheriff Street, known for his expressive singing voice and generosity, left an indelible mark on Irish music and on the Irish singers who came in his wake
Future Proof: Tom Monaghan, Monaghans Cashmere
Hard work and quality product never goes out of fashion
An A-Z of music in Ireland
In 2,000 or so entries by more than 200 contributors, a new encyclopedia sets out to chart Irish musical experience across recorded history. Here are 26 of them, from Air to Zozimus
Ivor Browne: ‘When you give as much love as you can, you get it back 100-fold’
Nature will fight back by killing two-thirds of the world’s population, the education system creates conformists and giving love brings love, says ‘one of Ireland’s great liberators’, psychiatrist Ivor Browne, who at 84 finds himself surrounded by women
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