Miriam Lord: Micheál and Mary Lou see eye to eye – never a good omen

Leinster House is united in condemnation of ‘bully and thug’ Vladimir Putin

Jazz musician Brian Dunning dies aged 70

Dublin-born flautist was among the first to fuse jazz and Irish traditional music

Irish opera singer Veronica Dunne dies aged 93

Operatic community loses highly respected figure and ever-present artist for over 60 years

Me and my cookbooks: the culinary collectors who are running out of space

These cookbook lovers just keep adding to their culinary collections

The Atrix: Legends back from the wasteland

Cult new wave national treasures The Atrix return with a gig, a CD and new material

Some Man for a Row? Not Really – Frank McNally on a hero of the uilleann pipes, Leo Rowsome

Sure Look It, Fuck It: A day in the life of a returning emigrant

‘What am I doing with my life? Is there a way I can be zany and mad in a positive way?’

Walton family is ‘heartbroken’ to close Dublin music shop

Waltons music shop in the city centre is to shut its doors amid soaring rental prices

‘In five seconds my life changed. I was worse than the worst jazz snob’

For the acclaimed jazz innovator Pat Metheny, guitars were tools for creating music. Then one he first saw as a child came up for sale, and he had to have it

‘I thought music college would be like Fame, with people hanging from chandeliers’

From his earliest days in a rock band to his years in music college, David Fennessy realised he would be composing music rather than performing the works of others

Jazz degree strikes a chord with students

Newpark Music Centre' s respected jazz programme, which offers a rich and broad musical education, will transfer to DCU in September

Music can boost the immune system, study finds

British Science Festival hears that singing for an hour can help the body fight infection

My Leaving Cert results don’t make the grade – but I don’t want to repeat

Don’t panic if you didn’t get the points – there are other routes to third-level

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