The 29-year-old played the lead role Rose-Lynn Harlan in the movie, a Scottish single mother who attempts to make it as a country singer in Nashville.

Former US president Jimmy Carter is out of the hospital where he was treated after fracturing his pelvis in a recent fall.

Dublin is the sixth friendliest city in the world, according to a new survey.

Teckro, a pharmaceutical and biotech company, is creating the roles in the Silicon Docks.

Daniel O'Donnell has been inducted into the Irish Country Music Hall of Fame.

She’s a prickly one, is Wild Rose (15A).

Wild Rose looks like being a breakthrough role for Jessie Buckley, and the Kerry actress has a string of other big projects in the pipeline, writes Esther McCarthy.

From movies to music, food to fashion, our critics reveal their cultural picks for the year ahead

With no sign of embracing the pop trappings of modern country, the Texas three-piece return to Ireland with their outsider status still intact, writes Ed Power.

An American multi-national tolling technology company has failed in a High Court challenge to the awarding of the €200m-€400m contract to operate tolls on the M50 and on other roads in Ireland.

BP Fallon is holding the first ever exhibition of pictures he’s taken of some of the music legends he’s hung out with, writes Ellie O’Byrne.

At 76, Paul Simon may have just retired from touring, but he still burns with anger at the way the Trump camp is treating the environment, writes Andrew Arthur.

John Allen remains the last Cork hurling manager to win the All-Ireland — and the last Limerick manager to win the Munster Championship, yet his achievements and methods have tended to be underestimated.

A ‘tech corridor’ is emerging on Cork City’s venerable South Mall — the historic commercial boulevard is now to be bookended at the iconic 97 South Mall by fast-growing company Eventbrite, who may employ up to 100 employees there over the next few years.

Justin Timberlake’s enthusiastic portrayal of an East Village folkie in the 2013 Coen brothers movie Inside Llewyn Davis was confirmation that there was more to the pop star than McDonalds-boosting funk-pop and Janet Jackson-attendant Superbowl controversies.

Joe Carey owns The White Horse venue which will host the Ballincollig Winter Music Festival in the Cork suburb from January 25-28. A keen musician himself, he is also a member of the White Horse Guitar Club and Jodavino.

A sudden power outage brought the world's busiest airport to a standstill on Sunday, grounding more than 1,000 flights in Atlanta just days before the start of the Christmas travel rush.

US president Donald Trump's criticism of American football players who kneel during the national anthem has sparked a mass increase in such protests around the NFL, as about 200 players sat, knelt or raised their fists in defiance.

Latest: One person has died and eight others, including the shooter, have been injured in a church shooting in Tennessee, USA.

If you didn’t realise summer had ended, you’ll soon notice this weekend.

Americans gazed in wonder through telescopes, cameras and protective glasses as the moon blotted out the midday sun in the first full-blown solar eclipse to sweep the US from coast to coast in nearly a century.

‘An Inconvenient Truth’ might have made for depressing viewing, but Al Gore’s sequel sounds a note of optimism in the fight against climate change and those who are trying to scupper recovery, writes Helen Barlow

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As Valerie June gets ready for gigs in Leap and Cork City, she tells Ed Power about the influences that have fed into her music

He went on to tell the singer the story behind is famous hit 40 Shades of Green and how it led to a moment cherished moment with president John F Kennedy.

Kings of Leon’s shaggy, old- school rock has turned out to be surprisingly durable.

Legions of fans are expected to line the streets of Macon, Georgia, as music legend Gregg Allman is carried to his final resting place in the same cemetery where he and his band members used to hang out and write songs amid the tombstones.

From U2 to The Waterboys, the ace fiddler has played on some iconic tracks. Now settled in Sligo, he’s named his new album after his beekeeping hobby, writes Ed Power.

“I have a very vivid recollection of one particular night when the brutes seized a man from the railway station and brought him close to my camp to devour. I could plainly hear them crunching the bones, and the sound of their dreadful purring filled the air and rang in my ears for days afterwards.”

Elizabeth Thomas disappeared from her home near Columbia on March 13.

Former US special envoy to Northern Ireland George Mitchell has issued a hard-hitting put down to the US administration, insisting America is about diversity and not “who we want to keep out and throw out”.

Judges in Hawaii and Maryland have blocked Donald Trump's revised travel ban from taking effect as scheduled, using the US president's own words as evidence that the order discriminates against Muslims.

Margo Price is one of the rising stars of the American country scene, and her music is all the stronger for being informed by her experiences with addiction, prison and tragedy, writes Ed Power

Ray Lynam isn’t worried about what’s new or trendy in country and western, but he is happy to experience a resurgence in the popularity of his music, writes Ed Power

The boy then uttered his final words while Santa hugged him, and they were, “Santa, can you help me?”

As you can imagine it’s a busy time of year for Santa and his Elves in the North Pole.

The driver of a school bus in the US that was filled with elementary students when it crashed in Chattanooga, killing at least five children, has been arrested and faces charges including vehicular homicide.

Bloodied pupils lay on stretchers, while other children walked away dazed with their parents after a school bus crash that killed six on Monday in Tennessee.

A powerful man’s boastful description of manhandling women’s bodies has spurred thousands of survivors to share their experiences, writes Beth J Harpaz

In terms of sound and sentiment, Mick Flannery has one foot in America for his excellent new album, writes Ed Power