CLARA Rose Monahan is a woman of many parts. However, the golden thread uniting her many different roles is music.

Back in 1990, when I’d just started out on the full-time football-writing beat, I happened to find myself in the old FAI headquarters on Merrion Square one evening in the company of various officials, guests and media folk.

It took decades for ace collaborator Declan Sinnott to finally go it alone for an album, but just three years to produce another one, writes Richard Fitzpatrick

At heart I’m still an old hippy. I veer between cynicism and idealism.

THE first night Declan Sinnott stood in front of an audience in 2012 to perform from his solo album I Love The Noise It Makes he all but died on stage.

At home his kids called him head-the-ball, their fondness for Seamus Heaney the father more than a match for their awe of him as artist.

There’s far too much music everywhere, all the time.

I wasn’t that sure about these Saturday evening games.

U2 frontman Bono will lend his voice to the fundraising campaign for the medical bills of Aslan singer Christy Dignam — even though he will be in New York.

It has been described as a “Book of Kells of the second millennium”.

It has been described as a “Book of Kells of the second millennium”.

Music fans are heading to Mayo in their thousands this evening for the first ever Westport Festival of Music and Performing Arts.

A new book recalls the musical institution on Cork’s Union Quay. Don O’Mahony finds out what made the venue special

Other Voices’ simple, church concert format in a wintry location was an unlikely hit, but it’s ten years old, says Carl Dixon

THE success of Cork’s Live at the Marquee music festival over the last five years proves the need for a permanent events centre in the city, a leading promoter said last night.

Singer Chris Brown has cancelled his Irish tour dates, it was confirmed today.

Veteran Celtic rockers Horslips have been forced to cancel their June 26 concert at the Marquee in Cork due to the sudden illness of flautist and keyboard player Jim Lockhart.

POP sensations Westlife and Irish trad rock legends Horslips were added to the Live at the Marquee summer music festival last night.

One of the most shocking events in the North’s Troubles was today remembered at a special prayer service in Dublin.

Former U2 stylist Lola Cashman told Dublin Circuit Civil Court today she had been incredibly frightened when she was accused of taking items worn by Bono while on tour.