Richard Fitzpatrick
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- Sep 30, 2026
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Irish comedian David Nihill: 'Palestine is a room-turning issue'Â (opens the original)
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David Nihill is riding high. The Dublin comedian is the biggest-selling Irish comedy act in the United States, having emigrated there over 20 years ago. He packs them out at Irish American festivals. A weekender like, for example, the Dublin Irish Festival in Dublin, Ohio can draw up to 100,000 people. Many of them deluded about their ancestorsâ homeland. Nihill loves adding pepper to the fun, a comic who never shirks from telling his hosts how it is. âSo many of them are third or fourth gen
Culture That Made Me: Broadcaster Cormac à hEadhra picks his touchstones (opens the original)
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Born in 1980, Cormac à hEadhra grew up in the Connemara Gaeltacht, Co Galway. He joined RTà in 2003, beginning on Raidió na Gaeltachta. He co-hosted RTà Radio 1âs drivetime show from 2020 until last year. His documentaries include Réabhlóid Mheiriceá: Na Laochra Gael. He is presenting a new current affairs panel series, Mo ThÃr Mo Thuairim, Mondays at 10pm on TG4. You have reached your article limit. Already a subscriber? Sign in Six months of digital access for â¬18.50
'I had to face Roryâs death': Dónal Gallagher on his book about his guitar legend brother (opens the original)
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Rory Gallagher was always riding the rails. As a child, he moved between Donegal, Cork, Derry and Coventry, before eventually settling in Cork. As a musician, he ate up the miles, touring North America more than 25 times. Like his contemporary Bob Dylan â the two had huge mutual respect â he couldnât get off the road, no matter how rich or famous he became, a conundrum captured in his song Bourbon. You have reached your article limit. Already a subscriber? Sign in Six months of digital ac
Culture That Made Me: Cork playwright Gina Moxley on the Angler's Rest, and great theatre (opens the original)
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Gina Moxley, 69, grew up in Carrigrohane, Co Cork. In 1995, her debut play Danti-Dan she won a Stewart Parker Trust Award, one of many prizes during her career in theatre, including a prestigious Fringe First at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival for her play The Patient Gloria in 2019. She was elected to Aosdána in 2020. Her show I Fall Down will run for four performances at Corkâs Firkin Crane (September 18-20) with additional dates in Galway and Limerick. See: dancecorkfirkincrane.ie. You hav
Jimmy MacCarthy: Cork music legend rides on for upcoming concerts and re-release of debut album (opens the original)
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Jimmy MacCarthy is back in the saddle. The Cork singer-songwriter has been doing live gigs again, his first since 2015. Recent outings have included a rousing four-night residency at the White Horse in Ballincollig, performing alongside his long-time collaborator Declan Sinnott and a band of other local music stalwarts. Several more theatre shows – where he’ll be joined by Steve Cooney and the fiddler Nollaig Casey – are scheduled in Cork, Dublin and Limerick before the turn of the year. You hav
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