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My 15-year-old nephew Barry predicted, on the basis of one hearing of their songs, that the heavy-metal band Lordi would win the Eurovision with “Hard Rock Hallelujah”.

A Belfast high court judge has dismissed arts magazine The Vacuum's lawsuit accusing the Belfast City Council of infringing upon the organisation's human rights. Publishers Stephen Hackett and Richard West claimed the city council was restricting the magazine's freedom of expression when it withheld funding from The Vacuum, after it published material that some of its members deemed “blasphemous”. Instead, on Thursday 4 May, the High Court ruled in favour of the city council.

From German cowboys on horseback to Finnish Orcs stealing the show, Dermot Bolger wonders at the bizarre circus that was this year's Eurovision song contest

Twenty-one Sundays into 2006, the Sunday Independent has published eight front page lead stories that were bogus. By Vincent Browne

The granting of a national radio license to NewsTalk 106 is the most interesting development in Irish radio since the in...

In the Sunday Independent of 21 May, Gene Kerrigan pointed out that the leaks of the Tribal Secta reports into the health service, which were reported as front page news by the Sunday Independent on several occasions, were misrepresentations of the whole truth.

Ah see, you knew the time would come. And it's happened already, right? You miss Kevin Myers in the Irish Times? Harry Browne on Myres and The Irish Times.

Six years ago in Twickenham the Red Army hadn't quite been mobilised. Playing an English team in England meant no ...

You think of the Lower East Side of New York and maybe you think of salsa music erupting from the open windows of a tenement. Or drag queens in high heels parading down Avenue A in the early morning. Or hustlers and whores and eccentrics and junkies. Or police lights spinning, blue and red, outside the early morning bodega.

Two months after ETA's historic ceasefire announcement, the emerging conflict resolution process in the Basque Cou...