Lucy O'Toole

Lucy O'Toole

Articles by Lucy O'Toole

Kae Tempest: "It’s not really the wins that define you. It’s how you recover from the losses. That’s what I’ve learned"
  • Opinion
  • 28 Mar 22

Kae Tempest: "It’s not really the wins that define you. It’s how you recover from the losses. That’s what I’ve learned"

Lea Heart: "I never expected to start posting online, and end up here. Obviously it’s what you hope for! But you never really think it’s going to happen..."
  • Music
  • 23 Mar 22

Lea Heart: "I never expected to start posting online, and end up here. Obviously it’s what you hope for! But you never really think it’s going to happen..."

Amy Michelle: "It’s really important to me, to be transparent in my lyrics"
  • Opinion
  • 22 Mar 22

Amy Michelle: "It’s really important to me, to be transparent in my lyrics"

Belters Only: "It’s an unstoppable force now. The whole Irish scene is absolutely flying"
  • Culture
  • 21 Mar 22

Belters Only: "It’s an unstoppable force now. The whole Irish scene is absolutely flying"

Pillow Queens: "The culture of Dublin is slipping through its own fingers – but the people are holding onto it for dear life"
  • Opinion
  • 11 Mar 22

Pillow Queens: "The culture of Dublin is slipping through its own fingers – but the people are holding onto it for dear life"

Album Review: CMAT, <i>If My Wife New I’d Be Dead</i>
  • Opinion
  • 04 Mar 22

Album Review: CMAT, If My Wife New I’d Be Dead

Hurray For The Riff Raff: "I have a long road ahead of me – but I’m an adventurer"
  • Opinion
  • 28 Feb 22

Hurray For The Riff Raff: "I have a long road ahead of me – but I’m an adventurer"

Big Thief: "Everyone is trying to be this certain kind of cool, and it’s so flat now"
  • Music
  • 24 Feb 22

Big Thief: "Everyone is trying to be this certain kind of cool, and it’s so flat now"

Album Review: Kate Nicholson, <i>Fallen From Grace</i>
  • Music
  • 18 Feb 22

Album Review: Kate Nicholson, Fallen From Grace

Orla O’Connor of the National Women’s Council: "Violence against women goes to the heart of women’s rights, and the heart of women’s equality"
  • Opinion
  • 11 Feb 22

Orla O’Connor of the National Women’s Council: "Violence against women goes to the heart of women’s rights, and the heart of women’s equality"

Maverick Sabre: "Growing up, the music I connected with most was always the rebel music – in whatever form that came in"
  • Opinion
  • 31 Jan 22

Maverick Sabre: "Growing up, the music I connected with most was always the rebel music – in whatever form that came in"

Album Review: Thyla, <i>Thyla</i>
  • Music
  • 28 Jan 22

Album Review: Thyla, Thyla

Glen Hansard: "It’s a powerful thing, to lose your mother... That’s the place you came from, literally. That’s your first home, and it’s gone"
  • Opinion
  • 26 Jan 22

Glen Hansard: "It’s a powerful thing, to lose your mother... That’s the place you came from, literally. That’s your first home, and it’s gone"

Education Special – Simon Harris: “I know, in many ways, my career has been a bit odd... Life came at me a lot faster than I expected it to"
  • Opinion
  • 25 Jan 22

Education Special – Simon Harris: “I know, in many ways, my career has been a bit odd... Life came at me a lot faster than I expected it to"

Joanne McNally: "I think comedy should be kept as open and as controversial as it possibly can be..."
  • Film And TV
  • 18 Jan 22

Joanne McNally: "I think comedy should be kept as open and as controversial as it possibly can be..."

Villagers: "We've got a taste of what could be lost"
  • Music
  • 14 Jan 22

Villagers: "We've got a taste of what could be lost"

Album Review: Grace Cummings, <i>Storm Queen</i>
  • Music
  • 14 Jan 22

Album Review: Grace Cummings, Storm Queen

12 INTERVIEWS OF XMAS: Joy Crookes – On Irishness, Gentrification & <i>Skin</i>
  • Opinion
  • 21 Dec 21

12 INTERVIEWS OF XMAS: Joy Crookes – On Irishness, Gentrification & Skin

12 INTERVIEWS OF XMAS: Dermot Kennedy – On L.A., Album No.2 & Winning Big In The Hot Press Readers' Poll
  • Opinion
  • 20 Dec 21

12 INTERVIEWS OF XMAS: Dermot Kennedy – On L.A., Album No.2 & Winning Big In The Hot Press Readers' Poll

Joy Crookes: "When you say ‘Irish’ you don’t think of Black Irish people or brown Irish people – when that’s just as much a part of the history as anything else"
  • Opinion
  • 15 Dec 21

Joy Crookes: "When you say ‘Irish’ you don’t think of Black Irish people or brown Irish people – when that’s just as much a part of the history as anything else"

Self Esteem: "This is where it starts – the fact that this space isn’t even slightly for women"
  • Opinion
  • 06 Dec 21

Self Esteem: "This is where it starts – the fact that this space isn’t even slightly for women"

Erica Cody: "Last year, I didn’t feel like I was ever going to be in a place to even make new music"
  • Opinion
  • 17 Nov 21

Erica Cody: "Last year, I didn’t feel like I was ever going to be in a place to even make new music"

Martin Hayes: "I knew I was going to have to sort my life out – push the restart button and start all over"
  • Opinion
  • 11 Nov 21

Martin Hayes: "I knew I was going to have to sort my life out – push the restart button and start all over"

Rosie Day: "Girls are masters at being icebergs – you only see what’s on the surface, when there’s a whole other thing going on underneath"
  • Film And TV
  • 10 Nov 21

Rosie Day: "Girls are masters at being icebergs – you only see what’s on the surface, when there’s a whole other thing going on underneath"

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