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The Late Late Show airs this Friday from 9.35pm on RTÉ 1.

Clannad have always been a big band for me.

Handball champion Mikey Kelly has added more silverware to his collection after winning the overall award at the annual Traveller Pride Awards.

I ran out of songs I enjoyed singing so I began writing my own.

Written and composed by Irish songwriter, Brian Flanagan, ‘The Rising’ is performed by Michael Flatley who narrates a hauntingly beautiful depiction of the heroes of the 1916 Easter Rising.

Michael Herbert shows us around his 1974 VW type 2 camper van.

LIAM CLANCY first decided on Ring, Co Waterford, in 1963. It was over the Comeragh Mountains from Carrick-on-Suir, where he had grown up.

Colm Herron owner of the Hillgrove Hotel with Norah Casey on the new series of ‘The Takeover’, beginning on RTÉ Two on Thursday.

JANUARY

Is Timberlake a bowsie, or brilliant? Popular opinion was split yesterday on the merits of his version of the classic song ‘The Auld Triangle’, but the musicians’ union gave the former N Sync man their backing.

Folk legend Finbar Furey has revealed he is in the running to star opposite Ben Affleck in a big budget Irish-American gangster movie.

IRISH folk music legend Finbar Furey is at the National Concert Hall on Thurs, Jan 17. “It’s the first Irish tour I’ve done in nearly four years,” says the former front-man of The Fureys.

Singer Finbar Furey has paid tribute to his family and medical team after suffering a health scare.

MUSIC NEWS: Thom Yorke of Radiohead has unveiled some tracks from his Atoms For Peace project during a DJ set in the US.

SATURDAY

A state funeral was held for Australian Rules legend and former Dublin minor footballer Jim Stynes in Melbourne earlier today.

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

Despite some dodgy Dublin accents and jaded pundits, it’s been a good year on the box. Des O’Driscoll picks out some of the most memorable moments

THE first open-air performances of Michael Flatley’s Lord of the Dance show, planned for Co Clare next month, have been postponed with less than a fortnight to go.

AN open-air dancing extravaganza featuring Michael Flatley’s Lord of the Dance is to take place at the Cliffs of Moher in September.

THE late singer-songwriter Gerry Rafferty has been described as “oozing with groove” by his close friend, Finbar Furey.

Folk legend Liam Clancy was now reunited with his brothers and bandmates after a passionate life that was lived to the full, his funeral service heard today.

POLITICAL and business leaders joined members of Charles Haughey’s family yesterday in a requiem Mass for the former Taoiseach at Our Lady of Consolation Church in Donnycarney.

Top Irish artists including The Corrs, The Chieftans and Finbar Furey are to feature on a new album recorded by John Hughes.

STARS from Coronation Street and a host of well-known Irish personalities came together at the weekend to help ex-Boyzone singer Keith Duffy raise €80,000 for autistic charities.

FANS waited for hours in the cold to catch a glimpse of Daniel Day-Lewis and Leonardo DiCaprio, who were in London last night for the premiere screening of Gangs Of New York, the epic tale of how the Irish put their indelible stamp on 19th-century New York and consequently many heads also.