All Together Now festival takes place in Curraghmore Estate this August Bank Holiday weekend.

From reformed pop icons to vintage rockers and singing showmen, there’s a lot to look forward to in live music in 2019. Here, in chronological order, Ed Power looks at some of the highlights.

A new music festival has been announced in Waterford.

Having toured the length and breadth of Ireland, Barry Coughlan finds much more to discover in Ireland’s Ancient East.

Michael Kerr samples the sights, sounds and tastes of Ireland’s first luxury rail tour on the Belmond Grand Hibernian - formerly known as the Orient Express - in Dublin.

What we think of as the quintessential English cottage garden style — mixed herbaceous borders and some pomp and circumstance, and yes, by that we can infer a bit of Elgar and Victoria sponge) — the type of garden praised and replicated across Britain, and adhered to here by a certain type of Irish mindset and the open-garden brigade — is not so English at all.

PORTLAW WITH CURRAGHMORE ESTATE, COUNTY WATERFORD

PORTLAW-CURRAGHMORE LOOP

PORTLAW AND KILBUNNY CHURCH LOOP

RECESSIONS hit most professions pretty hard and Ireland’s population of butlers are no different.