Irish musicians are now earning more from digital revenue than physical sales of CDs and records.

Artists including U2, Hozier, and Christy Moore along with thousands of other Irish artists last year shared a €26.32m bonanza from the public performance and broadcast of their songs.

Eleanor McEvoy suffered the tragic loss of her collaborator while making her new album, writes Ed Power.

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

’Where We Last Spoke’ is a short film directed by Liam Lynch for a video production project at Institute of Technology Tallaght.

It’s a question that mankind has pondered since the beginning of time and the answer is never the same  - no matter who you ask.

Irish ‘hang-ups’ about drink, sex, and unrequited love are explored in a TV series starting this week.

The ninth Temple Bar Trad Fest opens today and features over 200 free events, including a musical trail and a family programme.

Musicians including U2, Paul Brady and Christy Moore, along with thousands of other Irish musicians, last year shared €32.4m from the public performance and broadcast of their songs.

I urge readers to go to the Robert Ballagh Exhibition at the Crawford Art Gallery, Cork.

SEVEN decades are celebrated in Robert Ballagh’s exhibition ‘Seven’, which opens next weekend at the Crawford Art Gallery in Cork. UCD recently presented Ballagh with an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Literature to celebrate his lifetime’s achievements in the arts, and the exhibition of 14 portraits coincides with his 70th birthday later this month.

Ahead of her visit to the Cork Opera House, singer/songwriter Eleanor McEvoy is enthusing about the city’s “exquisite” 19th century landmark cathedral, St Fin Barre’s, one of the most complete examples of French Neo-Gothic architecture in Western Europe. McEvoy’s concert is in aid of the continuance of St Fin Barre’s restoration.

SINGER/songwriter Eleanor McEvoy will contribute to an international symposium at UCC next weekend on how the arts can offer us an understanding of what it feels like to be ill.

It’s 20 years since A Woman’s Heart captured the nation’s feelings, becoming one of the country’s best-selling albums. David Young recalls 1992.

As she languished under house arrest for almost 15 of the last 21 years, Burmese political leader, Aung San Suu Kyi could scarcely have dreamed of days and foreign lands where her cause would be championed.

Glasgow’s Celtic Connections draws performers from all over the world for 18 days of 24-hour music, says Nicki ffrench Davis

TOMORROW, the Green Party celebrates. At a gathering in the Central Hotel in Dublin, members will raise a glass to 30-years-a-growing.

ROYALTY payments to music artists by the Irish Music Rights Organisation Ltd (IMRO) last year increased by 5% to €35.8 million.

A puppet will represent Ireland in this year's Eurovision song contest, TV viewers decided last night.

Dustin The Turkey has tonight been chosen by a public vote to represent Ireland in the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest in Serbia in May.

Ireland’s six Eurosong finalists are to be unveiled tonight on RTE’s Late Late Show.

A PUPPET could represent Ireland in this year’s Eurosong, it emerged yesterday.

A puppet could represent Ireland in this year’s Eurosong, it emerged today.

Northern band Snow Patrol swept the boards at the star studded Meteor Ireland Music Awards tonight as they strutted away from the Point Theatre with four gongs.

The stars of Ireland’s music industry are expected to turn out in Dublin’s Point Theatre tonight for the Meteor Music Awards.

Speakers including Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny, former Taoiseach Albert Reynolds and event promoter Jim Aiken will address students in Cork next week.