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Apple Music’s best albums list is a fair reflection of where music is at nowadays. But many fans should prepare to be vexed - it turns out to be a bonfire of the musos
Television: Adaptation of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel focuses on the Vietnamese caught in the Cold War clash between the United States and Soviet Union
Television: O’Connell Street, let’s be honest, has long had a rough reputation. But wallowing in grittiness isn’t the Nationwide way
When the sky does eventually clear – a bit – the singer, remarkably sprightly for someone knocking on 80, hits his stride
It’s summer festival time again. As we retrieve our wellies and thermal sleeping bags, what better moment to rank great Irish highlights of the past?
The singer’s new album is his most political since The Jam eviscerated England’s class system with Eton Rifles in 1979
Television: Following a well-established formula where a successful middle-class woman’s life is ripped apart, Insomnia is silly but gets under the skin
Television: Police say Scotland resident is a man who faked his own death in the US before flitting across the Atlantic to start again
Television: Comedian and broadcaster could have done with a lot more time to air his articulate views on this important subject
Bruce Springsteen turns the famous stadium into a field of dreams with an outpouring of love and devotion from 80,000 fans
Television: Galway actor Coughlan shines as she finally gets her moment in the spotlight in season three
Television: Series two is a huge improvement on the first iteration of this Dublin-set show starring Ciarán Hinds
Television: Three-part film’s strength comes in never falling into ghoulishness or sensationalism
The star’s dark, brooding songs subvert the idea of pop as shiny and upbeat. Her new album is set to carry on that creepy sensibility
Television: Latest instalment of Cork-based series is showing on BBC a full year before its scheduled date on RTÉ