Music fans have been put on ‘Red Alert’ as Indiependence adds more acts to its stellar 10th anniversary line-up.

GIG WISE: The countdown has begun for Live at the Marquee in Cork, with young whippersnapper Cliff Richard kicking it all off on Monday, June 9, followed by the equally youthful Dolly Parton (June 12).

Jinx Lennon expressed his anger at Irish society on his last album, National Cancer Strategy, but realised the material was too oppressive for his fans.

Irish indie favourites Bell X1 join De La Soul and Bastille as headliners at the Indiependence festival in Mitchelstown, Co Cork next August Bank Holiday Weekend.

A mass protest calling on Europe to ease Ireland’s debt burden will be family-friendly, organisers have insisted.

Iggy Pop , Cuchulainn and a suicide cluster have influenced Peter Murphy’s second novel, he explains how and why they got there to Declan Burke

SMALL but perfectly formed was the verdict on the Liss Ard arts and music festival in West Cork over the weekend.

The new-look Liss Ard Festival was launched yesterday outside Skibbereen in West Cork.

An extra date has been added for Christy Moore’s run of appearances at The Tripod in Dublin.