Composer Stephen McNeff was born in Belfast, then grew up in south Wales. His Irishness has become increasingly important to ...

Equally, people later famous were then unknown: “In 1914, Patrick Pearse is a nobody. He’s a schoolteacher who appears occasionally in a newspaper because there’s been a nice Irish language ...

When he returned to Dublin in 1899, he founded the weekly United Irishmen newspaper, a nationalist newspaper whose contributors include Patrick Pearse, Maude Gonne, and Roger Casement. Rather than ...

When showband legend Paddy Cole’s funeral takes place tomorrow in his native Co. Monaghan it will be “a proud ‘Blaney man ...

The music industry is in mourning after much loved entertainer Paddy Cole passed away aged 85 earlier this week and it has ...

SHOWBAND legend Paddy Cole is being remembered as a “beloved entertainer who brought joy to thousands” ahead of his funeral ...

Throwing in at 2.30pm, it’s the very first competitive game under the new rules. He may have time to fit in another game that ...

Kilkenny boss Derek Lyng has handed former Kerry hurler Fionán Mackessy a starting berth for the Cats' league opener against ...

European leaders are bracing themselves as Trump’s return to the White House has plunged the Continent into a precarious era.

The Allianz Football and Hurling Leagues begin this weekend with a host of games already played on a busy Saturday.