Beirut

Roll up, roll up - NO ENCORE returns with the two-man power trip that is David William Hanratty and Craig Fitzpatrick for yet more music-related chatter. There's an interview with Talos man Eoin French as he releases excellent new album …

LNZNDRF LNZNDRF LNZNDRF (pronounced “Lan-zen-dorf”) relish their side project status. The vowel-phobic trio, made up of The National’s Devendorf brothers and Ben Lanz of Beirut, giddily absorb sounds and genres that would not be so…

Fionola Meredith writes an opinion column in the Belfast Telegraph, one of Northern Ireland's leading daily newspapers. In Friday's edition, she is angry. She is forceful, polemical and vehement. Writing trenchantly, under the headline…

In the wake of the terror that shook Paris last Friday night, Facebook activated its 'Safety Check' service, allowing people in the area to let their social networks know that they were okay. Welcome to the relatively new world of…

Let's not make people feel bad about feeling bad. The Paris Attacks were dreadful. One hundred and twenty nine innocent people were gunned down violently and thoughtlessly. People in Ireland are understandably upset, distraught, shocked…