Musician and broadcaster Philip King is originally from Cork, but has been living on the Dingle peninsula for many years.

After huge hits with the likes of Amy Winehouse and Bruno Mars, for his new album, Mark Ronson has mined his recent painful breakup, writes Lucy Mapstone

The highs and lows of Diego Maradona’s life in Naples provided fertile ground for a major new documentary, writes Ed Power

Noel Burke was born in London to Sligo parents.

Music Cork is back – and this time the keynote speaker is Cork-born, Universal Vice President Sarah Desmond, writes Marjorie Brennan.

The Cannes Film Festival (May 14 to 25) unveiled its roster earlier in the week

Kurt Cobain’s progressive politics were striking for the time but have been eclipsed by the tragedy of his suicide, writes Ed Power

To celebrate International Women's Day on March 8, the Official Irish Charts and IRMA has unveiled the biggest female artist albums of all-time.

The news that a documentary on Back to Black, Amy Winehouse’s seminal album, is due out next month was so exciting that I immediately started listening to her music on repeat.

Since reading Hillary Clinton’s memoir I’ve been giving a lot of thought to ‘difficult women’, writes Louise O’Neill.

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The president of Amy Winehouse’s record label still feels “pangs of guilt” about the singer’s death and is more sensitive to his artists’ wellbeing ever since.

Darcus Beese worked his way up at Island Records from teaboy to president. Along the way, he discovered everyone from Amy Winehouse to Hozier. Now he’s coming to Ireland for the inaugural Music Cork record industry seminar, writes Ed Power.

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As the UK band get ready to headline Indiependence, they tell Ed Power about adjusting to an era where many people won’t buy music.

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Alexa Chung and Marks & Spencer launch a vintage-inspired fashion line next week. Rachel Marie Walsh takes a look at the style icon’s rise and rise

Jess Glynne says she won't turn out like Amy Winehouse.

“Are you going to let me speak? You keep talking across me,”

The past was en vogue in various forms at the Baftas last night as Brooklyn, set in the 1950s, was named best British film, Kate Winslet won Best Supporting Actress for her role in Steve Jobs, the biopic about the Apple founder, and Star Wars: The Force Awakens actor John Boyega won the Rising Star award on the back of his turn in a film set “a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away”.

Eleanor Shanley is from Leitrim but now lives in Ballinasloe, Co Galway. She sings with De Danann and also has a solo career that includes the recent release of an album, Forever Young. 

The Menu couldn’t be happier than to hymn the praises of the Cork Coffee Weekend.

Justin Bieber has compared himself to Amy Winehouse.

Thailand: Social workers in Thailand think the sad story of the late musician Amy Winehouse can be a lesson to wayward youth, so they are treating about 100 of them to a movie about her.

Jess Glynne is revelling in her role as one of the most exciting new voices in pop, writes Ed Power.

I Cry When I Laugh

British soul singer Amy Winehouse thought she was pregnant before she died, her father has said.

MUSIC NEWS: Apple Music, the new streaming music service gets a boost today with the release of Dr Dre’s Compton: A Soundtrack exclusively on that facility and the almost traditional format, iTunes. 

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Live Athletics: Anniversary Games (BBC2, 8pm)

When Amy Winehouse died in July, 2011, at the age of at 27, from problems related to alcohol and bulimia, she was as famous for addiction as for her breathtaking voice.