“This will put a smile on your face, well done to everyone involved!” A school in Northern Ireland has gone viral for its “brilliant” cover of the Pogues’ classic Christmas single ‘Fairytale of New York’. Holy Trinity College in Cookstown released its students’ rendition of the song last Wednesday (6 December), the same week as […]

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A gorgeous moment. After thousands lined the streets of Dublin city to honour legendary Irish singer-songwriter Shane MacGowan, his funeral took place in Nenagh in Tipperary on Friday afternoon (8 December). The Pogues frontman spent his early childhood in the town where his wife Victoria, others members of his family and several artist friends of […]

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“RIP to the Irish Rover. Grá.” The funeral for Irish singer-songwriter Shane MacGowan is taking place today (Friday, 8 December), with thousands flooding the streets of Dublin to honour the Pogues’ frontman. Earlier in the week, MacGowan’s wife Victoria and his family thanked the public for the “enormous outpouring of affection and messages of condolence […]

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Shane MacGowan’s family have revealed what route his funeral cortège will take so that people will have ‘a chance to wish him godspeed’. The family of Shane MacGowan have thanked the public for their “enormous outpouring of affection” for the legendary singer-songwriter following his death last week as they confirmed the details of his funeral […]

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“If I should fall from grace with God, where no doctor can relieve me.”

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One of the best Christmas songs ever made has been given a new twist with these lyrics as Gaeilge

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