A dance group from Sligo have created a video incorporating their skills and the stunning scenery of Strandhill.

LIKE any sport that is characterised by endurance this year’s Indiependence Music & Arts Festival in Mitchelstown, Co Cork, seemed to communicate the value of peaking at the right moment.

Chance has been significant in the careers of singers Owen and Moley Ó Súilleabháin, but the sons of composer and musicologist, Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, and Dr Nóirín Ní Riain, have had the musical schooling to take advantage of these moments.

Award-winning alternative rock band Royseven will take to the floor this Friday in Tipperary to pass on some of their expertise to some enthusiastic teenagers.

THE enigmatic Dublin-born fiddle player Caomhín Ó Raghallaigh has stirred the traditional scene, releasing five albums in 10 years, four of them collaborations with leading lights in Irish music.

Heritage is as much about where we’re going as where we’ve come from. So why not spend Heritage Week getting in touch with our past – and having fun in the process?

THOUSANDS ofmusicians are expected to descend on a Cork town next month for one of the largest traditional Irish music festivals of its kind.

Traditional Irish set dancing group Cosa Beoga, representing the West, are the 11/4 favourites with Paddy Power to win this year’s 'All Ireland Talent Show'.

IT SEEMS we’ve swapped the tyranny of the crozier for the far more subversive tyranny of political correctness.

FRIDAY, Saturday and Sunday, July 14 to 18, was the best weekend for horse-racing on the sandbanks or lazing on the beach for this or many a year.

Damien Dempsey has walked away with two awards at the 2004 Meteor Ireland Music Awards, hosted by Dara O’Briain at The Point.

GALWAY is bracing itself for a shindig to beat all shindigs should Woodstock capture the Bulmers Pierce Purcell Shield over the next couple of days.

Sinead O'Connor is planning to release an album of traditional Irish songs given a modern slant.