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Q&A: The Drum's Jacob Graham

Friday January 22 2010

I'm confused. You live in the indie motherlode of Brooklyn but your music is incredibly poppy and accessible. Aren't you supposed to be conjuring a wall of avant-noise akin to Animal Collective and Dirty Projectors?

Andy shows how it is done but 'Trap' door is still closed

Monday November 09 2009

LOOK at what you're missing, Trap! Andy Reid yesterday delighted the children of Fatima Mansions, the newly regenerated inner-city Dublin estate where he grew up, with a virtuoso display of his silky football skills. With just five days to go until Saturday's crunch first-leg World Cup qualifier match against France at Croke Park, the star was in the mood for showing boss Giovanni Trapattoni just what he is missing.

Andy Reid with his father Billy at the opening

Reid returns to witness the miracle of Fatima Mansions

Monday November 09 2009

ANDY Reid returned home yesterday to officially launch a new business, to open a new sporting facility, to shake hands with some of his biggest supporters, and to kiss a few babies along the way.

The new miracle of Fatima

Wednesday November 04 2009

BILL Reid, the father of Ireland football star Andy Reid, has nothing but fond memories of his childhood growing up in Fatima Mansions in Dublin's south inner city.

Millie and Gavin's wounded faces shocked the nation . . .

Saturday October 03 2009

Just over three years ago, two young children were turned into screaming human fireballs when a petrol bomb was thrown into their mother's car. The nation was stunned by the sickening act in the crime-infested Limerick suburb of Moyross, which left Millie (6) and Gavin (4) Murray fighting for their lives.

Splendid isolation: the rebel yell of Cork rock

Saturday September 26 2009

If rock music's appeal is global, its roots are always local. Different towns and cities often develop their own distinctive styles and genres.

A damned great work of art

Sunday March 22 2009

J ohn Giles is probably entirely correct, by his own lights, when he describes David Peace's novel The Damned Utd as "arty farty nonsense." According to Giles, Peace's portrayal of events at Leeds United during the 44-day reign of Brian Clough in 1974 is factually incorrect. We've no reason to doubt Giles on this so that means that, on one level, the book is nonsense.

Idiots beware: Jinx is back

Saturday March 21 2009

This country has produced its fair share of singer/songwriters who can't see further than their own plectrum and sing about little else but their own reflection. But with Ireland in the midst of a collective nervous breakdown, it seems like it's high time someone tried to reflect in song what's really happening right here, right now.

Peacemaker plan to end city's gang feuds

Sunday August 31 2008

HOPES of ending Ireland's most notorious feud were raised this weekend after a State agency, overseeing the multi-million euro regeneration of Limerick's deprived suburbs, said it would be willing to find a mediator to sit down with the city's crime bosses.

Partners must pull together

Thursday May 29 2008

THE viability of Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) as a means of delivering social housing was thrown into doubt last week when it emerged that developer Bernard McNamara had decided to pull out of the massive regeneration development slated for the St Michael's Estate in Dublin's Inchicore.