Colm O'Callaghan

PULP: FROM THE FIRST TIME TO THE LAST In a triumphant return to Dublin’s 3Arena, Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker took fans on a nostalgic journey through the band’s early Irish gigs—culminating in a sharp, hilarious callback to their very …

Pulp: a long read from our blog about the band's first live show in Dublin in 1993. And its most recent, last week.
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Stop it there ...

YES, DISCO In this evocative and sharply tailored piece, David Heffernan takes us back to the dancefloors of 1970s Ireland — a world of mohair suits, platform shoes, and Dubonnet-fuelled dreams. From the revo…

Remember the buzz of a good disco?
Dave Heffernan captures it beautifully in our latest guest post - “Yes Disco.”
A lovely read for anyone who was ever there — or wishes they had been: theblackpoolsentinel.com/2025/04/24/y...

Hooked: How Addiction Hijacks Your Brain | Series Finale

Tonight | 9.35pm | @rteone.rte.ie and RTÉ Player

All the more so knowing you're still in the music, Pat.

Just beautiful.

Imagine a drummer.

Book review: A musical life less ordinary Keith Donald kept diaries throughout a hectic working life that began when he joined his first showband, The Federals, in the mid-1960s

@irishexaminer.bsky.social Music and Mayhem by Keith Donald @lilliputpress.bsky.social review by @colmocallaghan.bsky.social #books

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Niall was a gorgeous, gentle and modest soul. He had many, many talents and he'll be much missed and very fondly remembered. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam dílis.

Historic clothes shop closing after almost a century in the heart of Cork Mannix & Culhane has been in the city centre since 1928

Historic city centre clothes shop closing after almost a century in the heart of Cork

Mannix & Culhane has been in the city centre since 1928

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'The Vision of Peregrine Worsthorne' by the excellent McCarthy.

No sign of this lot running out of puff anytime soon.

Yes to this.

Groundbreaking former forensic scientist dies aged 80 Former senior forensic scientist Dr James Donovan, who survived a car bomb attack carried out by The General, has died.

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Episode two of AKA The Monk tonight, 9.35pm on RTÉ 1.

BOYZ, OH BOYZ There’s much to admire and plenty to recommend about Sophie Oliver’s documentary series ‘No Matter What’ which, over three episodes, looks at a careful selection of the colourful life and times of …

Boyzone’s story gets the documentary treatment in No Matter What—a sharp, stylish look at fame, media, and music

@colmocallaghan.bsky.social gives his take in our latest post.

#Boyzone #NoMatterWhat

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Game's gone.

DOLORES O’RIORDAN: 1971 – 2018. During the first series of the RTÉ music show, ‘No Disco’, the presenter, Donal Dineen and myself travelled west to Limerick on a couple of occasions to pick up long interviews that we’d use to pop…

Dolores O'Riordan.
On her anniversary.
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Its the sound of crying. Its number one, across the earth ...

DAVID BOWIE: THE CORK YEARS ‘Him ? Sure, he doesn’t know if he wants to be a man or a woman’. It was the end of the summer, 1980, and David Bowie at his most theatric, glamorous, playful and compelling, wasn’t convincing my m…

Bowie and Cork via The Blackpool Sentinel.
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Is it Dave Griffiths ?

Happy Christmas, Peter. This too shall pass ..

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Good man, Pat. Superb. ❤️

YouTube video by RTÉ Kids ⭐NEW⭐ Kabin Crew | 🎶 Christmas Cipher Music Video 🎶 | Kabin Crew's Christmas Special | @RTÉKids ​

Christmas Cipher: Kabin Crew are back with a new Christmas song!

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Watch Kabin Crew's Christmas Special Christmas Eve at 5.15pm on @rteone.rte.ie and RTÉ Player. And again on Christmas Day at 8am on @rte2.rte.ie.

Henry Mount Charles: A Lord in Slane
RTÉ One
December 27th at 6.30

Shush 279 - Christmas Show 2024 Shush Christmas Special 2024, an hour of some usuals and some not so usual Christmas tunes... Enjoy

In the words of Noddy Holder & the gang… Merry Xmas Everybody…
Here is the recording of the Shush Christmas Special 2024 (selected by UCC Library staff)
Expect some of the usual suspects and some unusual ones.

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#christmas #merrychristmas #xmas

MICK LYNCH Mick Lynch, the Cork-born musician, singer, actor and performer who passed away yesterday after a long illness, will be familiar to those of us who served our time around the margins of left-field …

Remembering Mick Lynch - gone 9 years today. @colmocallaghan.bsky.social wrote a lovely tribute to Mick at the time theblackpoolsentinel.com/2015/12/18/m...

Brian Fenton: The highs and lows of a decade in blue The Dublin footballer talks about his decision to retire at 31 and the emotional toll of saying goodbye to the game he loves

An emotional chat with Brian Fenton explaining his decision to retire, the joys and demands of an all-time great career, hanging with Clifford and the Kerry boys and finding the edge that turned Dublin from era-defining team into footballing immortals.

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Rest in hairpiece, Dickie.