Billy Scanlan takes a long day’s journey into night at the celebrated new york hotel, which has been a home from home for Bob Dylan, Brendan Behan, Sid Vicious and Mark Twain.
Patrick may have stolen the thunder of Ireland’s true patron saint – a radical socialist who really did want to run the snakes out of the country. Billy Scanlan introduces Palladius.
Massage parlours? Escort agencies? The sex industry is nothing new in Dublin – once upon a time, in one small part of the city, there were over 1,500 “poor, unfortunate girls” servicing clients (including King Edward and James Joyce) and being terrorised by madams. Until, that is, the Legion Of Mary came along. Billy Scanlan investigates the history of the battle for the soul of the city’s once infamous red-light district
We love ’em and we hate ’em but ads have a bigger impact on our lives than we might ever care to admit. Billy Scanlan hears a defence of the mart sell from award-winning ad creator Des Creedon.
Galway company Hemp Ireland is pioneering the cultivation of alternative crop resources in Ireland. Director Terry Barman explains why there's more to hemp than tabloid headlines
Inaudible. Cheap. Pap. These are the three words I would use to describe the Christina Aguilera watch worn by Steve Fanagan at the launch of his second album There Is Hope.
Two years after the release of the debut Four Tet album Dialogue, Kieran Hebden is back with Pause, an album so fresh that it could make sour milk drinkable again.
Country and folk music have become a lot more sophisticated over the last ten years or so. Gone are the wailing laments, tales of drinkin’, divorce and beatings.
The Heineken Green Energy Festival takes place in The Munster Showgrounds in Cork and the Castlegar Sportsgrounds in Galway over the June Bank Holiday Weekend
