Pulp: a long read from our blog about the band's first live show in Dublin in 1993. And its most recent, last week. theblackpoolsentinel.com/2025/06/16/p...

Remember the buzz of a good disco? Dave Heffernan captures it beautifully in our latest guest post - “Yes Disco.” A lovely read for anyone who was ever there — or wishes they had been: theblackpoolsentinel.com/2025/04/24/y...

Hooked: How Addiction Hijacks Your Brain | Series Finale Tonight | 9.35pm | @rteone.rte.ie and RTÉ Player

Imagine a drummer.

@irishexaminer.bsky.social Music and Mayhem by Keith Donald @lilliputpress.bsky.social review by @colmocallaghan.bsky.social #books www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...

Historic city centre clothes shop closing after almost a century in the heart of Cork Mannix & Culhane has been in the city centre since 1928 www.corkbeo.ie/news/local-n...

No sign of this lot running out of puff anytime soon.

Episode two of AKA The Monk tonight, 9.35pm on RTÉ 1.

Boyzone’s story gets the documentary treatment in No Matter What—a sharp, stylish look at fame, media, and music @colmocallaghan.bsky.social gives his take in our latest post. #Boyzone #NoMatterWhat theblackpoolsentinel.com/2025/02/12/b...

Dolores O'Riordan. On her anniversary. theblackpoolsentinel.com/2018/01/16/d...

Bowie and Cork via The Blackpool Sentinel. theblackpoolsentinel.com/2016/01/19/d...

No harm reminding ourselves ... www.rte.ie/player/movie...

Christmas Cipher: Kabin Crew are back with a new Christmas song! www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfZr... Find out more here: www.rte.ie/kids/2024/12... Watch Kabin Crew's Christmas Special Christmas Eve at 5.15pm on @rteone.rte.ie and RTÉ Player. And again on Christmas Day at 8am on @rte2.rte.ie.

Henry Mount Charles: A Lord in Slane RTÉ One December 27th at 6.30

In the words of Noddy Holder & the gang… Merry Xmas Everybody… Here is the recording of the Shush Christmas Special 2024 (selected by UCC Library staff) Expect some of the usual suspects and some unusual ones. on.soundcloud.com/tkychybrzp47... #christmas #merrychristmas #xmas

Remembering Mick Lynch - gone 9 years today. @colmocallaghan.bsky.social wrote a lovely tribute to Mick at the time theblackpoolsentinel.com/2015/12/18/m...

An emotional chat with Brian Fenton explaining his decision to retire, the joys and demands of an all-time great career, hanging with Clifford and the Kerry boys and finding the edge that turned Dublin from era-defining team into footballing immortals. www.thetimes.com/article/daca...

Rest in hairpiece, Dickie.

VHS.

New post alert. Just back from the Kane Gang’s recent gig in Sunderland, we dive deep into the Kane Gang and reflect along the on the iconic Kitchenware Records scene, touching on Prefab Sprout, Paddy McAloon, and Martin Stephenson. theblackpoolsentinel.com/2024/12/04/h...

Gardaí are seeking the public's assistance in tracing the whereabouts of 44-year-old Aidan O’Shea, who is reported missing from his home in Macroom, Co. Cork, since Monday 2nd December 2024. Aidan was last seen in Macroom, Co. Cork on the morning of Saturday 30th November 2024, at 9.30am.

We’ve started a starter pack for those who post about Irish rock music. If you want to be added, or know somebody who should be on this list please let us know! Let’s connect this scene up

End. Of. An. Era. A really long era. Barely a muso on Tyneside who hasn’t wandered the floors of Windows at some point. I bought my first guitar there decades past, and my son’s first a few years ago. Walking out through the arcade with it on his back…wish others could have that memory.

'And in Cork, there'll be a stop-go system in operation on Redemption Road all week'.

Bland Election News Bingo: Someone says "Brisk" Photo of a nun voting A dog outside a polling station Bride going to vote in her wedding gown

"whoiwasandwhatiam" is a beautiful, emotional, enthralling single piece of music, 37 minutes long, with the only lyrics having been written by Dennis Potter. Lots to talk about, which we did a week or two ago." ~ Niall Crumlish psychiatryandsongs.com/2024/10/01/d...

Have to admire this LRB headline. No pussyfooting www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...

Oh ...

Nick Drake - 50 yrs gone today - had a complex relationship with John Martyn. I wrote this piece for the Guardian a few years ago, adapted from my JM biography, Small Hours. Insights from Joe Boyd, Beverley Martyn, Linda Thompson, Danny Thompson, Paul Wheeler &tc www.theguardian.com/music/2020/j...

Adam. Showbands.

Consett, County Durham.

On this date in 1983 #U2 released their first live album. What are your favourite tracks from 'Under a Blood Red Sky'?

In his fascinating new RTÉ One documentary The Land of Slaves and Scholars, writer and podcaster Blindboy Boatclub explores the origins, evolution and cultural legacy of early Irish Christianity. www.rte.ie/culture/2024..., via RTÉ Culture. Watch tonight on RTÉ One | 10.15pm

Buzzards everywhere in Blackpool at the moment it seems. This one was perched in a willow on the banks of the River Bride yesterday. #cork

Six and a half years…that is some whack www.rte.ie/news/2024/11...

Twitter was founded in 2006 but didn’t hit 20 million monthly active users until the end of 2009. And beyond the headline number is the higher proportion of people posting here than on other platforms and higher level of engagement with links from the open web. All this by design. Amazing!

'Do you have a vacancy ... For a back scrubber ?

We had the mad idea to make the new @corkcityfc.ie away jersey a tribute to The Frank & Walters and their orange shirts. They loved the idea, even helped us to launch it and all… What a bunch of legends 🧡