Ultan O’Brien is from Ennis, Co Clare, and plays fiddle with Slow Moving Clouds. The group play in Coughlan’s of Cork tomorrow night, and at St John the Baptist Church in Dublin on Friday, writes Des O’Driscoll

As the year turns, as the prospect of longer days moves from hope to inevitability, many of us remember loved-ones who died in the last while.

The Bowerbird gigs at Triskel Christchurch feature both veterans and hot new talents of the genre, writes Nicki ffrench Davis