Foinse, which closed last June with the loss of 10 jobs, has returned, as an insert in the Irish Independent daily newspaper, every Wednesday, starting November 18. A disagreement over grants from its main funder, Foras na Gaeilge, and falling advertising revenue led to the closure.
The newly revitalised Irish language newspaper will bring a fresh [...]

THE walls were steaming, a Russian band Slua Si was blazing out The Bucks of Oranmore to a crowd of around 200 doing a massive Walls of Limerick dance. Perhaps it should have been the Walls of the Lubyanka, for I was in a large Moscow pub in the shadows of the old KGB headquarters [...]

An Irish rap duo are to debut their cúpla focal at this year’s Electric Picnic festival.
‘Conas atá tú’, the newest track from Cork rapper GMC, featuring Bubba Shakespeare, will feature in the line-up for this year’s  music festival.
The track, a mixture of up-tempo hip-hop beats and traditional Irish music, is set to be a hit [...]

More praised than rewarded in his native country, Seosamh O hEanaigh (Joe Einniu) was a great sean-nós singer from Conamara.
He was born in An Aird Thoir near Carna, in the Co Galway Gaeltacht, in 1919. Carna still has a rich tradition of storytelling and singing. Among Seosamh’s neighbours was his lifelong friend*, another accomplished singer, [...]

Foinse, the Irish language newspaper, closes with the loss of ten jobs.