Author: Michael Kehoe

Irish folk legend Christy Moore has spoken about suffering a heart attack in a candid interview about drug use. The singer, who has had a long battle with cocaine, called for a fairer approach...

Irish star Michael Londra is heading out on an extensive tour starting this Spring, telling fans that it’s time to ‘get back to doing what I do best’. The Emmy nominated singer-songwriter has had...

It takes a brave man to do a cover version of a classic like Fairytale of New York, especially as it’s a duet and you have to do it on your own. But Ed...

The Pogues’ and Kirsty MacColl’s ‘Fairytale of New York’ has been voted as the best Christmas song of all-time by listeners of Magic Radio. They finished ahead of classics such as Mariah Carey’s All...

A father and his sons got up onstage at an Irish pub to perform a wonderful version of the classic song ‘The Parting Glass’. Seamus Geaney visited Fitzy’s Pub, Crosshaven to support his son...

A school choir have recorded a haunting version of the song ‘Orphan Girl’. The song was written by Irish composer Brendan Graham and tells the story of a young Irish girl who left Ireland...

Former Cranberries star Dolores O’Riordan has been named as the number one female alternative artist of the last 30 years. The US Billboard’s Alternative Songs chart has been going for three decades.

A new documentary about Shane MacGowan reveals that the star had a crush on his ‘Fairytale of New York’ co-lead singer Kirsty MacColl. The Pogues’ frontman wrote the classic Christmas song with bandmate Jem...

If the Pied Piper of Hamelin ever needed any help gathering cows, he should give Sharon Shannon a call. The traditional Irish music star has released a very moo-ving video onto her social media...

A lesser known style of singing takes place at a Cork convention every year and sees groups of singers perform songs a cappella in the ‘Sacred Harp’ style that developed in the southern states...