ContactMusic — American Pie singer Don Mclean and The Dubliners are to be honoured with Lifetime Achievement Awards at the Bbc Folk Awards next month Feb12 Singing sisters The Unthanks lead the nominations for the 13th annual prizegiving which will be held in Salfo... more info

Big Apple Music Scene — "Gym, pale, laundry" is probably not a catchphrase on the Irish version of Jersey Shore, but I like the sound of it anyway. That's right, there's an Irish version of Jersey Shore! It's called (confusingly) Tallafornia, and it's about a group of hard-... more info

Guardian Music — Placido Domingo Gala | Christy Moore Live | True Blood | Comic Relief 2011 | Planning Outlaws | African RailwayPlacido Domingo Gala7.30pm, BBC4The great Spanish tenor turned 70 in January, and his home town of Madrid decided that a cake wouldn't be s... more info

Altsounds — Preachers Son are Dubliners Brian Hogan (Kíla) and Emmaline Duffy-Fallon (previously of Engine Alley). Together since 2009, they've created a unique, hard-rock sound that positively drips with drama and raw musicality. Grit / glam, swamp ro... more info

Guardian Music — Grand Opera House, York"By day we have flat hair, at night we stick our hair up and become superstars," shrieks the John Grimes half of Jedward, explaining the "Jedward paradox" that has seen the ridiculously quiffed twins go from X Factor flops to ... more info

Perez Hilton — Looks like we're getting another installment of Jackass in a matter of no time! Johnny Knoxville was spotted celebrating Halloween with a pint of Guiness and with his reality-show turned franchise's camera crew yesterday at the Temple Bar in Dublin, ... more info

Guardian Music — Book containing older and bawdier version of famous Dublin song is presented to Dublin Writers museumThe oldest known written version of the ballad of Molly Malone has found a new home in Dublin's fair city – as the song's lyrics describe it – de... more info

Altsounds — The Frontier Touring Company is pleased to confirm **The Script** will be returning to Australia this October for performances in Melbourne and Sydney in support of their upcoming album Science & Faith. The Script, comprised of Dubliners Danny O... more info

Guardian Music — Last week, it was music set in ale houses. This time we want your favourite songs about people performing songs. Merchandise will be available afterwardsThe statistics are clear, the pub is in decline. Faced with fierce competition from supermarkets ... more info

Guardian Music — In the songs chosen this week, the pub is a place in which one finds both freedom and captivity, solidarity and loneliness, oblivion and remembranceThe bar, as it features in song, must contain a specific set of components: one bar (for leaning again... more info