Woodstock 50 has been called off. It’s for the best, says Suzanne Harrington — no one can ever match the original

Championship conversations with Michael Moynihan.

When the GAA redrew and reshaped the fixtures calendar last year, I was raging with the plan because I felt it would strangle hurling’s profile. The early part of the season was a boom but it still felt like an early season tournament to clear the runway for a football take-off.

Once a Woodstock-era mainstay, then reimagined as an acid house staple, tie-dye is enjoying a resurgence this summer.

Mary Greene is originally from Waterford, but has been resident in Cork for many years and is a member of family trio Greenshine, along with husband Noel Shine and daughter Ellie Shine.

Cliona Maher recently moved home from France in recent years, and is the new artistic director of Clonmel Junction Arts Festival, which runs in the Co Tipperary town from July 1-7.

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.

Des O’Driscoll sits down with musical director Anth Kaley.

Greg Dowling is one half of Irish house music duo Fish Go Deep, as well as being a label owner and club promoter. 

Festival fashion has come a long way since Kate’s iconic Hunter wellies and hot pants at Glastonbury in 2005. Now there’s a new look for the festival field, says Annmarie O’Connor.

A cousin of mine is fond of telling a story from a day in school long ago, when her class was tasked with a question to take home to their parents: what was the most memorable event in their lives?

Dominic Moore is an actor and puppeteer from Cork. His one-man show Mr Punch is playing the White Horse in Ballincollig, Co Cork, tonight, and he also has a role in Jack, a new play by Declan Hasset about Jack Lynch, which plays at Ballymaloe Grainstore and the Everyman in March.

THOUGH it’s nearly 40 years since Ireland’s anti-nuclear movement held a festival at Carnsore Point in Wexford — Ireland’s Woodstock, social historians assure us — to protest at plans to build a nuclear power plant there, we still import around 90% of our energy needs. 

As the hype grows for Oasis: Supersonic, Declan Burke offers a personal selection of its predecessors in the genre

If you've ever been to Cork, you'll have heard his voice.

Roz Crowley takes a walk down memory lane and looks back at the Mountain Dew, Ireland’s first ever rock festival.

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The legend that is Warren Buffett spread in an even wider arc around the globe at the weekend, as the iconic Berkshire-Hathaway annual general meeting streamed live on the internet for the first time.

With Electric Picnic just around the corner, there’s still time to kit the smallies out for some field-friendly music. 

Singer Joni Mitchell is alert and is expected to make a full recovery, according to her website, despite a friend’s court filing that the Grammy-winner is unconscious and unable to care for herself.

Seventies-style is big news in beauty right now. Katie Wright puts you on the guest list for sultry eyes and Woodstock waves.

Joni Mitchell is in intensive care but in ‘good spirits’ in a Los Angeles-area hospital.

As both the director and star of Patrick’s Day confirm, the Irish film world isn’t a fast track to riches, writes Ed Power.

Sir Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr have been invited to perform at 'Alien Woodstock' in a bid to make extra-terrestrials reveal themselves to the planet.

It takes a long time to recover from a banking crisis. If we’re unsure of that, we need but look around and notice that we are still talking and fretting about ours.

PETE Seeger was born in Patterson, New York, on May 3, 1919, and was 94 when he passed away last week in a hospital in New York City.

If exasperated headmaster Enda Kenny thought expelling Blueshirt bad girl Lucinda Creighton to reform school was going to make her change her ways, he was very much mistaken.

JANUARY

Legendary rock guitarist Carlos Santana has been reunited with a former bandmate he had not seen in decades and who now lives on the streets.

LAST time I was in New York a friend told me about a Smorgasburg.

Tomorrow marks the 10th anniversary of the death of Noel Redding, the Jimi Hendrix Experience bassist who came to call West Cork his home, writes Noel Baker

It is Pope Francis and his papacy that will define history, not his election, writes Frederick Kempe

Henry McCullough is one of Ireland’s great musicians. He was the only Irishman to play Woodstock, as a member of Joe Cocker’s Grease Band.

Levi Strauss’s arrival in the US, 160 years ago this week, was to change fashion forever. And it all began with a tent, says John Daly

Indian sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar has died at the age of 92.

Seminal rock band The Stone Roses are expected to announce a comeback tour today.

One of the most eagerly anticipated reunions in rock music looks to be on the cards after rumours grew that The Stone Roses are getting back together.

ONCE, at a football match in Thurles, I saw the future of rock ‘n’ roll, and it shook me to my core.

WITH Oxegen next weekend and Castle Palooza at the end of the month, hot on the heels come Indiependance in August and Cois Fharraige and Electric Picnic in September, to name but a few.

LIFE is a lottery, they say, and you certainly don’t get to pick your parents.

Steve Tyler's memoir includes story after story from the “most decadent, lecherous, sexiest, nastiest band in the land”.

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