Today:Early fog in the far southwest clears quickly. Most areas stay dry with sunshine and variable cloud, though northern and northeastern regions may see isolated showers. Light winds overall, ...

New Education Minister Helen McEntee says she’s worried about the stark rise in primary and post primary children not attending school regularly. Twenty-five percent of primary school kids are now ...

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Hit or miss seems like the best way to describe Robert Rodriguez’s films. The indie darling-turned-hot shot action director famously raised a few thousand dollars to shoot his game-changing debut, El ...

My pandemic soundtracks came to revolve around what I call “sad bangers.” More plainly put, songs whose lyrics of grief, anxiety, yearning or some other mild or great darkness are washed over with an ...

2021 would seem like the strangest year for moviegoing in all of our respective lifetimes were it not for 2020. Things didn’t exactly return to normal over the last 12 months; we’re still very much in ...

Check out our list here -- with a Spotify playlist of all 100 songs at the bottom -- and get your damn hands up for some of the best anthems of a formative year for 21st century pop music. By ...

In a year saddled with the stressors of several, songs are one of the few means of escape on which we’ve remained able to rely. Whether it’s the distinct high point of an all-around outstanding album, ...

The year 2020 was unforgettable for many reasons, including its pop music. Here are the 100 songs we most hope to remember it by. By Billboard Staff Well, it certainly was an unusual year for pop ...

Jane has written a heart-breaking poem about how coronavirus has affected her and her mother, who has dementia. She shares her worries about her mum's quality of life when there were visitor ...

In 2019, with one killer track, an artist could become a household name, sparking infinite conversations and even more memes. In addition to all the new names, established artists like Lana Del Rey ...

In the 2010s, as playlists swelled with unrelated tracks and algorithms shot listeners off in all directions, the full-length release started to feel on the verge of becoming an antique. But great ...