Album Review – Lisa Hannigan & s t a r g a z e, Live in Dublin

or many artists, the live album has become something of a conciliatory gesture to fans, labels and critics; a consolidation … More

Memories of the Hyde

When I think of Mayo versus Roscommon, I think of 1989 and I think of this: I think of being … More

Longing — wrote Don DeLilo in his opus Underworld — on a large scale, makes history. The football championship returns … More

Hot Press Magazine, 01 May, 2019 oing your own thing can be a dangerous idea in the music business, but … More

Mayo News, 30 April, 2019. The text came, and was immediately confusing; “are you going to garlic park?” Christ, I … More

Welsh quartet Catfish And The Bottlemen return with their third record The Balance. Curiously, there is very little to separate this … More

Sophomore syndrome – or ‘the difficult second album’ in music-speak – is a cliché that exists for a reason: bands … More

Long before the ethos of the GAA club became a marketing stick to gently beat us over the head with, … More

Somewhere between Maynooth and Lucan, hanging from a nondescript overpass along the N4 hangs a flag so flithered by wind, … More

When the time comes for the movie to be made about Mayo football, the first words you will see with … More