To some it is the great white hope in the battle against illegal file-sharing, and the idea that music on the internet comes for free. But to others, it is another nail in the coffin for artists who earn a paltry sum for the streaming of their music.

Enda Kenny created headlines with his vow to close the second house of the Oireachtas. But what is the Seanad for? And is it worth lavishing ¤30 million on each year?

Is it curtains for Ireland’s World Cup chances now that we’ve been drawn against the, on paper at least, far superior French? Also, fair dinkum to Cork hurling keeper Dónal Óg Cusack for doing the unthinkable and actually penning an interesting sports autobiography

The seeming indifference of the Department of Education has prompted the band TUPELO to release a song to highlight the plight of children attending Cabra’s neglected Gaelscoil Bharra

The major label system is finished. Or so said OSSIE KILKENNY, in a riveting polemic at The Music Show in Dublin. The question is: who’s to blame?

After a lengthy Facebook campaign by fans of leading man Rupert Grint, gritty Belfast-based drama Cherrybomb has finally secured a cinema release for 2010. We catch up with co-director GLENN LEYBURN to find out about the movie that the world nearly didn’t see.

An Bord Snip has been threatening wholesale cuts in the allocation of money to the arts. It would be a grave error, missing the importance of culture as a source of good citizenship and innovation in our quest for a new, more resilient economy, argues the former Minister for Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht and President of the Labour Party, Michael D Higgins, TD.

The man who represents over 1,400 record companies in 17 countries worldwide has called on the Irish government to clamp down on music piracy.

It isn’t what it used to be – which makes it all the more important that Workers Rights should be properly protected. Some say that the Lisbon Treaty will help in that respect. Others profoundly disagree. We asked a representative of both sides to make the case for voting Yes and No...

Ireland’s energy policy seems remarkably generous to the exploration companies. Especially if, according to riggers, they have been playing a waiting game before they bring Ireland’s oil and gas to shore.

Ireland may still be in with a shout for World Cup qualification. But the turgid standard of recent performances leaves a great deal to be desired

We’re not accustomed to major corporations in Ireland taking a political stand. But US multi-national Intel, lead by its Irish general manager Jim O’Hara, is campaigning for a Yes vote on the Lisbon Treaty Take 2.