Live performance has always been the beating heart of the music industry. But today it is the big earner too.

Participants and organisers at dance classes in Cork Migrant Centre tell Ellie O’Byrne how it’s a win-win set-up for all concerned

It was glitter, knee socks and glam all the way as the Pride parade took over Cork city, bringing this year’s Pride Festival to a close with a splash of colour.

The Catholic Bishop-elect of Cork and Ross busted some serious dance moves as he promised to take on the mandate of renewal across the vast diocese.

Music Cork is back – and this time the keynote speaker is Cork-born, Universal Vice President Sarah Desmond, writes Marjorie Brennan.

In the run up to yesterday’s game, there was a lot of talk of the game five years ago — the famous Stevie G slip-up game. The media pondered whether history could repeat itself.

Steve Gerrard, Gerard, he slips on his… well, you know the rest of the lyrics.

What is that alien sensation you are experiencing? Could it be calm? Spring brings the one international break we almost look forward to.

Cork-based dance teacher Andrea Williams is on a mission to get Irish women moving to multi-cultural rhythms, writes Ellie O’Byrne.

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference — since Malcolm Gladwell’s seminal book was published in 2000, we have watched for and puzzled over those pivotal moments. Mysterious thresholds when products or messages or behaviours ‘go viral’. When ideas catch on.

Andrea Williams is a Cork-based dancer and choreographer originally hailing from Cape Verde.

“And does it mean anything more than that we have a very good team and an even better manager? Probably not, although I’d like to make the point – not for the first time – that there’s nothing wrong with Britain. It’s just the politicians who keep letting us down.”

The festival, now in its sixth year, takes place in Marlay Park from July 13 -16.

The landmark Kino building in Cork City has roared back to life with a stunning dragon mural.

George Patterson fronts The Roaring Forties, a band formed in 2003 for the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival. 

As the Cork Jazz Festival turns 40, Richard Fitzpatrick asked a few familiar faces to share their fondest memories of the famous festival. 

Former Liverpool striker El-Hadji Diouf has reopened his long-running feud with former captain Steven Gerrard after claiming the midfielder "did nothing for his country".

Football autobiographies tend to set their stall out early doors.

Fiona Collins is chairperson of the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival, which takes place this weekend. She’s originally from Bandon but has been living in Cork city for a number of years.

Live at the Marquee kicked off last night in Cork, so Ellie O’Byrne canvassed some of the regular festival goers to pick a stand-out memory

The search for answers in the wake of last Saturday’s high drama has been exhaustive. Yet one likely cause has been overlooked.

The Irish Examiner are delighted to be media partners of the Cork Summer Show which takes place this June.

After last year’s feast, the famine…

Pooping Man Utd’s last home game of the season party was always likely to prove a stiff test, especially after ramping up the pressure upon ourselves, following Swansea’s infuriating “smash and grab” last Monday night.

The hip thing to do in recent times at any mention of the romance of the FA Cup is to scoff, but is anyone else uplifted that for all the talk about a fitting Wembley send-off for Stevie G, the termination of that possibility has simultaneously opened up the prospect of a fairytale story for a Shay G?

MUSIC NEWS: Don McLean is on his way to Ireland in June, and don’t be surprised if he’s in rather good form, considering he’s just sold the transcipt for his ‘American Pie’ song for $1.2m.

Should Steven Gerrard play or not?

STEVIE ‘G’ Grainger is a DJ on Red FM in Cork, and releases music on his Soul Jamz label. He’s bringing his Vinyl Love night to the Odessa in Dublin on March 22 in aid of marriage equality.

Football fans of all stripes and none will need no telling that, of late, the quality of Mersey has been strained, writes Liam Mackey.

Although we think they may be over-estimating the friendship between the Liverpool captain and our own Robbie Keane.

Tributes have been flying in for Liverpool’s Steven Gerrard after he announced the end of his association with hometown club Liverpool when the current season ends.

Social media has been alight overnight with the news that Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard is set to announce today that he is to leave his boyhood club at the end of the season.

HELLO, good evening and welcome.

The lads at Project Babb have reviewed the year in football and presented it to us as a catchy four minute song.

If it can ever be possible to feel something approaching pity for a mega-rich Premier League footballer who has won the Champions League, captained his country and been justly feted as one of the best players of his generation, then look no further than Steven Gerrard.

Cork’s programme for Culture Night is bigger and better than ever, writes Colette Sheridan

David Howell helped deny his good friend Stephen Gallacher an automatic Ryder Cup place, but believes it would be a "travesty" if the Scot is not handed a wild card from European captain Paul McGinley.