Donal Dineen returns to the airwaves with a new eight- part series that rounds up the best music of 2012. The second instalment of Radio Activity goes out live today on digital channel RTE 2XM from 10am to 1pm, and is repeated on Sunday night at 10pm . There’ll be an emphasis on indie Irish music throughout the series. 2fm.rte.ie/dineen
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Donal Dineen returns to the airwaves with a new eight- part series that rounds up the best music of 2012
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A Bolshoi Ballet star brings Swan Lake to Ireland: ‘Ballet is an art and it should not be political’
Irish postpunk band Gurriers: ‘Everyone asks about the Dublin music scene. It’s not just Dublin any more, it’s everywhere’
Bird director Andrea Arnold on Barry Keoghan: ‘Wow! What a face. What a man’
Jonathan Coe: ‘The morning after the election felt like waking up in a safe room, having been in an abusive relationship for 14 years’
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