Within days of Michael Flatley saying he is finally quitting the stage, comes news that his two spectacular performances of Lord of the Dance at the Cliffs of Moher at the start of September had been called off.
The Irish dancer, who last performed for an audience in February, had just turned down a mutli-million euro [...]

WRITING in New Spotlight magazine in early 1967, Joe Dolan recalled the setting up of Sweeney’s Men and the . . .
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In May 1966 Johnny Moynihan and Andy Irvine met Joe Dolan in Galway. They had played together before around the country, but never as a group. Moynihan suggested they form a [...]

Two of the biggest names in Irish music in the USA, Cherish the Ladies and Pride of New York Céilí Band, will feature at a concert during this year’s Fleadh Cheoil na hEireann in Cavan town.
The 60th Birthday Comhaltas Tea Party, at 9.30pm on Friday, August 19, in the Fleadh Big Top (on the Cathedral [...]

Musician and artist Eamonn O’Doherty, best known for his large-scale public sculptures in Ireland, the US and Britain, was once manager of influential 60s folk group Sweeney’s Men.
He had been playing in clubs in Denmark in 1966 with Andy Irvine when the latter got a call from Joe Dolan to join him in Galway for [...]