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12 Days of “A Christmas Carol” featuring Lisa Hannigan, Sene Naoupu and more

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The Lord Mayor of Dublin, Hazel Chu, invites you to join her for ‘12 days of a Christmas Carol’. Featuring a number of well-known faces reading a different chapter of the Charles Dickens tale ‘A Christmas Carol’ every evening at 7pm, starting on December 13th and continuing right up until Christmas Eve. Tonight is musician, singer and composer, Lisa Hannigan. Please consider donating to The Mansion House Fuel Fund, which distributes cash grants through charitable societies including St. Vincent de Paul and Dublin Simon: https://dublin.ie/mhff

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“Catch yerself on!” The Derry Girls zoom with Saorise Ronan for Comic Relief

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Saoirse Ronan joined the cast of Derry Girls in a hilarious sketch for RTE’s Comic Relief which aired in Ireland on Friday night.

For the sketch that aired on RTE in Ireland on Friday, the stars of Derry Girls – Saoirse-Monica Jackson, Jamie-Lee O’Donnell, Nicola Coughlan, Dylan Llewellyn, and Louisa Harland – join together on Zoom in anticipation of a meeting with Oscar-nominated Saoirse Ronan.

Naturally, there’s great excitement amongst the gang, especially since, according to Saoirse-Monica Jackson, this could be a great opportunity to break away from their Derry Girls characters.

“It’s just everybody thinks we’re exactly like our characters in Derry Girls,” she says, sounding an awful lot like her character Erin on the hit show. “We need to prove that we’re serious, intelligent young women.”

Lankum win RTÉ award

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The group Lankum received the €10,000 award for their third album The Livelong Day, and were announced as the winners at a ceremony in Dublin’s Vicar Street last night.

They beat off competition from Fontaines DC, Girl Band, SOAK, Junior Brother, Daithí, Mick Flannery, Sorcha Richardson, Jafaris and Maija Sofia.

The award was accepted by the group’s manager Cian Lawless, who said the group had produced the album despite “financial hardship” and “personal hardship”.

Lankum win RTÉ Choice Music Prize Album of the Year

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Folk act Lankum have won the RTÉ Choice Music Prize Irish Album of the Year for The Livelong Day.

The winning album was announced at a ceremony in Dublin’s Vicar Street on Thursday.

Lankum are on tour in the US, so the award was accepted on their behalf by their manager, Cian Lawless.

“They have put so much effort into this, despite the financial hardship, despite the personal hardship,” he told the crowd.

Lankum receive a cheque for €10,000 – a prize which has been provided by the Irish Music Rights Organisation (IMRO) and the Irish Recorded Music Association (IRMA) – and a specially-commissioned award.


Previous Album of the Year winners, as chosen by a judging panel of journalists, broadcasters and other experts in the field, include Julie Feeney, The Divine Comedy, Jape, Delorentos, Villagers and SOAK.

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Lankum’s Ian Lynch boards the Mystery Train

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On a highly entertaining edition of the Mystery Train Sunday Service on RTÉ lyric fm, John Kelly was joined by Ian Lynch of Lankum for a chat and some of his favourite tunes – listen above…

The musician, folk song collector and folklore lecturer explains the epenthetic vowel and a mondegreen, and picks music by Shannon and the Clams, Portishead and Iron Maiden.

Listen to this GREAT show at: Lankum’s Ian Lynch boards the Mystery Train