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Country music star 'Big Tom' McBride will be remembered during this week's Late Late Show Country Music Special.

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There is one thing we, as Irish people, love more than the phrase ‘there's one for everyone in the audience’ and that’s a good jive.

Tommy Barker reports on a superb west Cork family home near Enniskeane with ‘rooms’ for horses

The show with Ireland's biggest Country Stars including Nathan Carter, Daniel O'Donnell, Philomena Begley, Declan Nerney & His Band and Big Tom.

We look at five big events going on around the country.

Showbands veteran Joe Mac joins fellow classic acts for one night of good-old fashioned variety entertainment, writes Jo Kerrigan

SATURDAY - Referendum 2015 RTÉ One, 10am

NEVER mind the showbands — here’s Tommy Tiernan.

With a school, a pub, a shop, and a GAA club, it is a typical Irish village.

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.

THE music will sound again this month in a remote village dance hall made famous as the Ballroom of Romance by author William Trevor.

GOLDEN folk memories came flooding back yesterday as the National Museum of Ireland Country Life began to celebrate a generation that danced its way into history.

Well-known Irish singer “Big Tom” McBride is recovering in hospital in Monaghan after suffering a sudden heart attack.