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Amanda Stanhope and Jenn Green on coercive control, recovery, consent and the realities of rebuilding after abuse. Words: Kieran O’Brien Amanda Stanhope thought she might have Alzheimer’s. Jenn Green (also known as Jenn Wilenta) thought she was losing time. Neither woman initially suspected the men closest to them. That was one of the many striking moments…
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From boardrooms to grassroots activism, these are the women helping redefine power across the modern music business. When Billboard unveiled its 2026 U.K. Power Players list, much of the conversation naturally centred on superstar artists, billion-stream campaigns and record-breaking tours. But underneath the headlines sits a different story. One that is arguably far more important.…
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There is an old rule in the music business. Whenever somebody starts talking about innovation, we must follow the money… Last month, Spotify and Universal Music Group announced a new licensing agreement that will allow Spotify Premium subscribers to create AI-generated covers and remixes using songs from participating Universal artists and songwriters. The announcement was…
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The Vatican officially entered the AI debate as Pope Leo compares AI threat to Biblical ‘Tower of Babel’. By now, most people have become accustomed to hearing artificial intelligence discussed through the language of markets, productivity, disruption and innovation. Billionaires speak of acceleration, governments don’t know what to do, and the titan tech company CEO’s…
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There are people who write about inequality from a distance, and then there are people like Dr Katriona O’Sullivan who have lived inside it, survived it, and refused to sanitise what it actually does to a human being. Over the past number of years, O’Sullivan has become one of Ireland’s most important public voices on…
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Words by Linda Coogan Byrne Over the past few years, Aoife Dunne has become one of the most exciting and emotionally intelligent new voices to emerge from Irish comedy. Blending stand-up, theatrical storytelling and painfully accurate observations on modern Irish life, Dunne has built a fiercely loyal audience through her ability to make people howl…
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Yet most people haven’t noticed yet. For all the headlines and sensationalism surrounding artificial intelligence and music over the last two years, the real story has not been happening publicly at all.” It has been happening inside boardrooms, policy discussions, licensing negotiations and closed-door meetings between music companies, technology firms and rights holders attempting to…
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I have read over the World Happiness Report 2026 a few times now. Full disclosure, I am neurodivergent, and sometimes I need to read, re-read, and then put something down and come back to it so my brain can properly take in what the data is actually telling us. What is the story and the…
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Linda Coogan Byrne is a leading publicist, DEI strategist, and author. She also is the founder of Why Not Her?, a gender equity campaign aiming to challenge systemic bias in media and the music industry. In a new Frontiers in Communication article that presents an analysis of gender-based exclusion in the Irish and UK music industries between 2018 and…
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