It’s that time of year again for Jig Gig dancers. Over the past two years thousands of Irish dancers have applied to TG4 in their quest to be crowned TG4’s Best Traditional Irish Dance Act.
The dance acts have come in all shapes and sizes, from solo dancers to large dance troupes, and it is the [...]

A death threat to the High Kings ballad group is under investigation by the Gardai and the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI).
The threat, purporting to be from the hardline Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF) against the group, whose members include Finbarr Clancy, Brian Dunphy, Martin Furey and Darren Holden, was received by post at the [...]

Frank McNally, who writes the Irishman’s Diary in The Irish Times, has joined to chorus calling for an end to Irish dancing bling.
“As the father of a female Irish dancer, I have for several years now tried to turn a blind eye to  the use of artificial performance- enhancing substances by other competitors,” [...]

Mick Moloney talked to Peter Browne about his days in the 1960s folk group The Johnstons on Radio Eireann’s The Rolling Wave programme on June 19, 2011. He started by talking about what it was like to be part of a group like The Johnstons.
“In the Sixties it was almost impossible for any of us [...]