Cars have been packed up with pop-up tents, toilet roll and plenty of food and drink as thousands prepare to descend on festivals around the country over the Bank holiday weekend.

The best Ireland's country music scene has to offer will be lining up for this Friday's Late Late Show Country Special in what has been dubbed a 'family affair'.

We're not sure country music fan will be happy about this.

Every year the programme attracts thousands of viewers and stands as their most popular special, next to the Toy Show of course.

Shane Cunningham, 20, has made quite the impression on the public with his ability to impersonate well known characters such as Daniel O’Donnell and Michael D Higgins.

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A north Cork man who emigrated to Australia as a teenager never forgot his roots and is going to spend in the region of €500,000 providing his clan’s ancestral home with a state-of-the-art community centre.

DURING the Celtic Tiger, Ireland had a veneer of urban sophistication, but rural Ireland rumbled on as usual. Mainstays of rural life, such as sport and farming, didn’t change, nor did country music, Irish-style.

RTÉ is set to alter its upcoming dramatisation of the 1981 Stardust disco fire following feedback from relatives of the victims who attended a special screening of the two-part series over the weekend.