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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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This is not a feature update. It is a shift in how visibility, influence, and culture itself are being organised. Instagram is redefining “friendship” through its new “friends” model, and it is not quietly tinkering at the edges with minor feature or UI changes. This is a structural shift that will change how visibility, influence, and…
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New data from the European Audiovisual Observatory offers a fairly unvarnished view of where cinema sits across Europe right now, and it does not support the idea of a clean post-pandemic recovery. Cinema admissions fell by 5.5% in 2025, declining from 843 million to 796 million. That drop tells its own story, but what sits…
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The Ivors have announced the nominations for 2026, with 61 songwriters and composers recognised across seven categories, celebrating music released in the UK in 2025. The awards take place on 21 May at Grosvenor House in London. The Ivors 2026 nominations are in. Peer-judged by songwriters and composers, this is still one of the only…
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A new UK Music report titled “Black Music Means Business” quantifies what has long been understood but rarely measured: Black music is not a category within the UK industry; it is the foundation of it. The data now makes that impossible to ignore. This report proves that Black music isn’t just a category—it accounts for…
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