All profits from the event will be used to provide Christmas dinner for homeless people in Clare on December 25.

As Louis Walsh prepares for the final of Ireland’s Got Talent and another Westlife tour, he talks to Pat Fitzpatrick about plastic surgery, celebrity spats – and why he won’t be having children, ever.

Dublin-born Fiachna Ó Braonáin, 53, is a guitarist with Hothouse Flowers.

There are fears that a Cork city music venue which announced its opening in late July has closed after just three months.

The concert line-up features several of the bands who took to the stage nearly three decades ago, The Stunning, Something Happens and Hothouse Flowers.

Tickets for the festival’s comeback went on sale this morning at 9 am and sold out in mere minutes.

The festival, officially known as the Féile, was Ireland’s first ever multi-day music festival and took place at Semple Stadium from 1990 to 1994.

There's also one more exciting announcement coming soon!

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.

Liam Ó Maonlaí plays in aid of the Headwat Group but it was after the gig the real session happened.

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One of the country’s top musicians will bring music into healthcare settings as part of a major music festival in Cork next week.

LIAM Ó Maonlaí fretted it wouldn’t work. He loves Irish but, when asked to be involved in a project translating the work of Bob Marley into the language, was immediately wary. Could Marley’s distinctive marriage of the spiritual and the earthy survive conversion to an alien tongue? Ó Maonlaí was concerned the answer might be in the negative.

Cork Opera House’s spring line-up of events kicks off on Sunday with a concert in honour of Luke Kelly.

Liam Ó Maonlaí is bruised.

An Irish music app has been chosen by America's South by Southwest festival organisers as an 'Accelerator Award' finalist.

Looking for something creatively creepy to do this Halloween? Pól Ó Conghaile scours the country for a round-up of mid-term’s most macabre events...

The Government regularly comes under fire from opposition parties and politicians, but one of Ireland’s favourite heartthrobs has launched an unlikely scathing attack.

U2 are looking forward to seeing Elbow perform at Glastonbury.

“MOVING” was how legendary singer Kris Kristofferson described it and the thousands who gathered at the Midlands Music Festival this weekend probably agreed with him.

Hothouse Flowers frontman Liam O Maonlai today released a song to rally campaigners opposed to the controversial M3 motorway route around the Hill of Tara.

The Hothouse Flowers will join Canadian rocker Bryan Adams for a major open air concert in Galway on the June Bank Holiday weekend.

AID campaigners last night renewed their call to the Government to honour promises made to the world’s poorest as Ireland’s version of Live 8 drew crowds on to the streets of Dublin.

Thousands of people will take to the streets of Dublin tonight as part of the Make Poverty History campaign.

The line-up of bands for Dublin’s massive Make Poverty History rally was confirmed today.

SO much for sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll.

Damien Dempsey has walked away with two awards at the 2004 Meteor Ireland Music Awards, hosted by Dara O’Briain at The Point.

One of the most glamourous nights on the irish music calendar has concluded, with awards going to a variety of irish and international stars.

Time is running out to vote for next Monday’s Meteor Ireland Music Awards.