The Raving Beauties don't really exist - only, they do. Having just released their debut album and a single ready to soundtrack summer, Jon Wilde spoke to Irish writer/musician Brian Bell to clear up any confusion.
On the face of it they are entirely different, but in their refusal to accept second best and will to change things they are cut from the same cloth and the FAI need to listen to Roy...
We drank our tins of Satzenbrau shivering on the school roof looking across the streetlit mid-Ulster valley that was my hometown of Banbridge. Another Friday night without a care.
As classic novel The Commitments prepares to hit the stage for the first time, its author Roddy Doyle talks us through 50 songs he loves and the ones that make him proud to be Irish.
St Paddy's day is more than Guiness and...well, not gonna lie, it's mostly Guiness, but it still dicks all over St George's Day. Dust off your ginger wig and get going...
Irish Times Journalist Keith Duggan introduces us to the world of big wave surfing off the west coast of Ireland in his new book. Powerful and descriptive, it's well worth picking up.
After an explosive opening weekend, the winner of this Sunday's Ireland v England clash could very well win this year's championship. If this year's Millennium Trophy game is anything like these epic clashes then we're in for a treat.
You wouldn't believe it, but tries win games. Ireland and Wales have a great opportunity to win the Six Nations, but it'll be France or England lifting the title come March.
With the current trouble in Belfast and a growing new paramilitary group called "The Real IRA", we look at the possible new threats to the 1994 ceasefire...
It wasn't all bad mind, Howth was a beautiful experience, I saw kids racing horses on an estate and took great pleasure in the anti-U2 graffiti sprayed across the city...
Italy should be preparing for a routine victory against Ireland tonight, yet instead paranoia, injury and memories of the events at Euro 2004 are haunt the Azzuri..
"I'm that bloke with one hand down the front of his grey tracksuit bottoms, slurring my words." The best romantic message in a paper we've ever seen...
They've been dubbed Ireland's answer to The Beatles, their first single was a cover of The Fab Four's "You Can't Do That", but this tune shows that they're no tribute act.
It's halfway point in the Whyte and Mackay Premier League and things don't look good for Adrian Lewis. And then there is that man Taylor, even he can't solve the problem oh himself judging by the kip on him...
Are you bored of bolognese? Tired of tikka masala? Is the only thing worse than your grumbling belly the crippling thought of another Pot Noodle? Well worry not, as these cookery classes will banish your nightmares of dinner-time mediocrity forever.
The big man bowed out of rugby on St. Stephen's Day, to head back to life on the farm. His contribution to the glorious rise of the professional game in this country will only ever be truly recognised by those in this country, but then that's how he'd probably prefer it.