Lir emerged in the late eighties from Dublin’s thriving rock scene and were renowned for their shamelessly proggy sound and a ...

Michele McGrath tells Joanna Kiernan about life, love and starting all over again in the music industry Michele McGrath and Joanna Kiernan in House Michele in former band Industry Cathal Pendred with ...

MEMBERS of the rock band Lir said a High Court action against them for an alleged breach of contract during their ill-fated 1995 US tour should be dismissed because of delay in getting on with ...

This well-made film about Lir, the Dublin band who struggled with bad management and media hostility, provides great insights into the music industy and the power of music itself For Lir it started in ...

SMALL-TOWN Ireland in the early 1970s was an unlikely wellspring of musical innovation. Yet it was on a dull day in Fermoy, north Cork that, in the summer of 1972, Brian O’Reilly, a local songwriter ...

Som ew here, surely, there exists a support group for the many, many Irish acts, who, in the post-U2 glow of the late 1980s, were snapped up by major labels only to get unceremoniously dumped one ...