Bridget Hourican on trying to get under the skin of a long-dead Irish poet

Dexys deliver another outstanding performance, and everyone loves The Human League’s action

At Montrose he worked on The Live Mike and guided The Late Late Show through its difficult transition out of the Gay Byrne era

Róisín Waters was joined by several artists honouring O’Connor and Shane MacGowan at Carnegie Hall

Jack Antonoff is a top-flight producer of the likes of Lorde, Lana Del Rey and St Vincent. He’s also very keen to talk about the recently departed Pogues singer

March 3rd-8th: From royal drama Mary & George to Imelda May on WB Yeats’s forgotten sisters

The midwest hospital, serving a population of about 400,000, is considered one of the worst blackspots in the Irish health service. That’s despite large increases in spending and staffing

Proceeds of auction will go to Médecins Sans Frontières

The Irish in England loved him. And many English in England loved him also

Both ‘lived on capital, not interest’, says the former Communard and recently retired vicar, who is bringing his Borderline National Trinket ‘stand-up memoir’ to Ireland

The Irish Times’s obituary writers have marked the deaths of more than 150 people this year. Here are 50 of the best known

Even as very young children growing up in Tunbridge Wells, we were sure of our roots. Identity is not a postcode, and Shane understood this more than most

From the inside story behind Shane MacGowan’s masterpiece Fairytale of New York to Christmas cooking with Mark Moriarty and Rory O’Connell

Deadlines, from filing copy to car park closures, leave this journalist late to the party

The Mass, the words and the music

‘It’s nearly Christmas and we’re 20 nautical miles off the east coast of Australia.’ Kate Ashe Leonard hopes to make it to Sydney in time

Town turns out to welcome singer home for the last time as wife Victoria Mary Clarke delivers eulogy

As Pogues singer's cortege passed Westland Row only the slow beat of a drum and the lament of an uilleann piper could be heard before the applause began

Funeral featuring some of The Pogues’ greatest hits concludes with The Parting Glass as thousands line streets for singer who died aged 65

Procession to be led by Artane Band and lone piper as horse-drawn carriage bears coffin ahead of Co Tipperary burial