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With Boy on Fire: The Young Nick Cave, author and journalist Mark Mordue explores Nick Cave’s early years in Australia, before he became the iconic musician, songwriter, and leader of The Bad Seeds. The book ends just as Cave is leaving…

This may sound audacious, but Australian seven-piece King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard are the most productive band on the planet. Though not a household name, they were set to play this year's All Together Now festival in Portlaw,…

Katherine Mary Knight is the first Australian woman to be sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. She was convicted for the murder of her partner, John  Price, in October 2001 in what is still considered one of the most gruesome, …

Few arthouse films this year are as likely to appeal to an Irish audience than The Nightingale, writer-director Jennifer Kent's follow up to her breakout debut The Babadook from 2014. After all the Aussie filmmaker's latest is essentially…

Australian native Ivan Beecroft harks back to the rock n’ roll that dominated his youth growing up in the '80s and '90s on Liars, Freaks & Fools . He isn’t shy about his influences either. There’s clear channelling of AC/DC, Nirvana and…

According to the National Museum of Australia, the first rebellion in Australia took place in 1804 and it was a Kerryman who started it. Up to 300 convicts were led by Kerry born Philip Cunningham in a revolt on a New South Wales prison…

Darach is on leave, so Gearóidín takes the hot seat as the gang are joined by a special guest. Brianna Parkins was the Sydney Rose in 2016 and when she took the stage in Tralee she used her platform to call for legal access to abortion. Two…

Though it’s true that Australia was largely settled by convicts it was far from a lawless place in the early 19th century during the heyday of “transportation”. The sentence of transportation was a compromise by a British government moving…

If you had to combine two animals together which would you choose? Wolf and a shark? Boring. Snake and an eagle? Yawn! Ant and an elephant? Think bigger! Rabbit and an antelope? BINGO! Now that I’ve got your attention, what if I…

Hey, don’t be so Les Miserable as we prance down to the Moulin Rouge and get an Eiffel Tower in our pantaloons. In case you haven’t guessed it we are in France this week discussing a horrid creature that terrorised the countryside in the…