Ariana Grande lands sixth Irish number one with Petal
Ariana Grande dominates as Glen Hansard climbs Ariana Grande has gone straight to the top of the Irish albums chart with her eighth studio album, Petal. According to the Irish Recorded Music Association, the record is the US singer’s sixth number-one album in Ireland, as RTÉ reported. Petal, released on 31 July, is Grande’s first […]
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Glen Hansard celebrated at public wake in Dublin today
The wake is being held at the Baroque Chapel at the Irish Museum of Modern Art. A public wake for the late Glen Hansard is taking place in Dublin today. The Oscar-winning singer-songwriter died after a road crash at the Strawberry Beds near Lucan in the early hours of Wednesday morning, July 29. The 56-year-old […]
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Oscar-winning Irish musician Glen Hansard dies aged 56
Shocking news. The Oscar-winning Irish musician Glen Hansard has died at the age of 56, after a motorcycle crash in Dublin this morning (Wednesday, 29 July). Mr Hansard was best known as the frontman of the Irish rock band The Frames and for his roles in the Irish music-comedy-drama movies The Commitments and Once. Alongside […]
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WATCH: Incredible footage of Gavin James, Hozier and more singing ‘Fairytale Of New York’ on Grafton St
Several of Ireland’s most high-profile musicians set up shop on one of Ireland’s most busy high streets this Christmas Eve to have a sing-song in aid of Ireland’s homelessness crisis. Up-close footage has emerged of Gavin James, Hozier and Danny O’Reilly performing a rousing rendition of The Pogues’ Christmas classic Fairytale of New York. The […]
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PICS: Roddy Doyle and Glen Hansard meet door-to-door musician Anderson
They got together at Hansard’s tenement gig on Wednesday night
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Glen Hansard announces an acoustic gig in Dublin this Wednesday
The Frames’ frontman recently released ‘Didn’t He Ramble’
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