With a portfolio of careers in his pocket, blogger and promoter Nialler9 has quietly become one of the most influential figures in Irish music
RTÉ’s latest look at our national property nightmare laid bare the truth: when it comes to buying a home, the most important thing is to be lucky
Early in his career, John Boyne left himself out of his novels - but in his latest, The Heart’s Invisible Furies, he goes ‘full on’ about what it was like to grow up gay
The Daily Mail’s ‘Legs-it’ front page was bad enough, but the article that accompanied it was yet another example of how some women can be other women’s worst enemies
Melanie C shot to stardom and made millions as one-fifth of the most successful girl band of all time - but she’s in no rush to sign up for any Spice Girls reunion
Singer-songwriter Chester may be one of Ireland’s best kept musical secrets, but he’s happy for it to stay that way
Ed Sheeran’s mind-boggling success is a sign that something, somewhere, has gone badly wrong in modern culture
Things are a lot calmer today for Steve Wall than they were in his 1990s heyday with The Stunning, but that suits the frontman just fine as he and his bandmates gear up for a reformation
Going Up The return of Girl on a Train author Paula Hawkins The British novelist’s new book Int...
A mortgage ad featuring an older couple for whom everything worked out just fine has struck a nerve with the young
Memoir: The Rules Do Not Apply, By Ariel Levy, Fleet, €19.55
Lay off the stay-at-home workers. They suffer more than you might think, as ‘BBC Dad’ has shown us
With the release of her tenth album, which takes inspiration from African music, and a vegan venture to promote, musician Sharon Shannon’s world is in harmony, writes Nadine O’Regan
Reluctant Catholics who continue to subscribe to the rituals of the Church are engaging in a damaging marriage of convenience
Nadine O’Regan spends one morning in the company of the RTÉ presenter – and tries to keep up with the pace
