Major growth in vinyl sales is behind a solid performance for Golden Discs last year.

Golden Discs are opening three new stores this month.

The album – or at least, the 33rpm vinyl record that spawned the format – turns 70 years old this year. But it isn’t ageing gracefully, says Adam Behr.

Christmas is just around the corner and with it comes the continuous replaying of Christmas classics and re-watching of Christmas movies, old and new, writes  Breda Graham.

Both religious orders and the State are failing to make any serious attempt to centralise, digitise and open up access to records of institutions, writes Conall Ó Fátharta. 

The first four months of this year saw the worst over-crowding in our hospitals since records began.

Weather and climate extremes have continued into 2017 after last year saw record breaking temperatures, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) said.

The vast majority of people think healthcare workers should be able to access their records electronically.

Tom Prendergast headed for the States 30 years ago without much of a plan. Before long he’d opened a music store and started his own label, he tells Michael Moynihan

It has emerged that Gardaí make about 8,000 requests a year for surveillance on public telephone and internet records.

The baptismal records of Irish historical figures, including 1916 leader Padraig Pearse and writer Peig Sayers, are contained in Catholic Church parish records released online yesterday by the National Library of Ireland.

Blosom was quite an imposing lady.

A campaign aimed at shaming the Irish State into opening an estimated 60,000 adoption files is gathering pace on the back of Oscar-nominated film Philomena.