What's The Craic

In the run up to Christmas, Dwayne Woods, the man behind an Irish music radio show on Dublin Digital Radio has compiled an album of Christmas songs performed by some of Ireland's best acts in aid of Pieta House.

The 15 song album "A Co Present Christmas" is made up of covers of classic Christmas songs as well as two original festive tunes and features the likes of Villagers, Maria Doyle Kennedy and Jack O'Rourke as well as some of the freshest new Irish talent...

The Irish border has emerged as a huge sticking point in the Brexit negotiations with the Taoiseach leo Vardaker asking the UK for a formal written guarantee that there will be no hard border with Northern Ireland.

This comes ahead of a crunch summit in December when European leaders will decide whether withdrawal talks can move into Phase 2 and onto the matter of post Brexit trade...

One is from Westlife, the other from Boyzone and both are coming to Brighton. Brian McFadden and Keith Duffy have joined forces to create Boyzlife and on 8th December they bring their stage show to The Old Market looking back at the life of the two of the biggest Irish bands of all time and signing some of the hits...

Every great World Cup campaign has a memorable song but as hopes run high ahead of the Republic of Ireland's World Cup Qualifier games against Denmark - an Irish band has put together a play off song designed to rouse the spirits.

"Lets Beat The Danes" is a playful song from the newly formed band The Tipperarys which has already caught the attention of the Danish media...

Ahead of their third gig in Brighton in 18 months, we catch up with Luke from Irish band Otherkin whose debut album OK went straight to Number 2 in the Irish Album Chart last week - beating new entries from Shania Twain, Miley Cyrus and Demi Lovato!

We talk about the album itself; tattoos; gigging in a variety of venues from sweaty ones to Slane Castle in front of 80,000 people as support to Guns N' Roses and we find out lots of Brighton connections!

Otherkin play The Hope in...

Ahead of his upcoming European tour - which includes a stop off in Brighton on 20th November at The Haunt, we catch up with Irish singer songwriter Bry...

A new Irish language support group is being set up in Brighton and Hove to help people who are looking to learn [or brush up on] Gaeilge. Ahead of their first meet up on Wednesday 27th September - we're joined in studio by its founder David John Hulatt. We find out what lead to him setting up the group - HINT : it includes Brexit and the Duolingo app, and learn what he hopes the group will acheive.

To find out more about the group see: https://www.facebook...

If you’re a fan of Riverdance or Lord of the Dance or Irish dancing in general - how does the idea of learning how to dance like that sound? You may be in luck because an Irish dancing class is starting soon in Portslade.

Ahead of the 10 week course, we're joined in studio by Marian Brown who will be guiding students through the jigs and reels! She also tries her luck at teaching Anthony to do a basic dance!

To find out more about the course visit : https://www.portslade...

Celtic Shore are an Irish folk music band based in Sussex playing instruments such as the fiddle and the bodhran. We catch up with singer and guitarist Alan who is second generation Irish ahead of their next gig at The Stoneham Pub in Hove on Saturday 23rd September.

What's the Craic is a weekly Irish radio show that broadcasts on Brighton's Radio Reverb on 97.2FM, DAB and online at radioreverb.com...

Ahead of the August Bank Holiday weekend we speak to John Nolan - the man behind the annual Crawley Irish Festival and Paddy Ryan - one of the performers taking part.

We find out whats in store for the free one day Irish festival in Crawley and learn how the globetrotting singer songwriter got invited to take part.

To find out even more about the Festival visit http://www.celtic-irish.co...