Farmers, jewellers and performers weigh in on what the beloved Christmas carol would cost today. Exclusive articles from Ryan ...

MY PRIEST THE OTHER SUNDAY preached about Advent—no surprises there—and the tension between Advent’s waiting-period approach to Christmas, and America’s no-holds-barred commercialized celebration.

For more than 70 years, the greatest musicians in the world have been recording Christmas songs. Here are our picks for the ...

Hundreds of new Christmas songs are released every year, but each time December rolls around, the same small handful of classics races to the top of the charts. Will anything new ever break through?

Making a song list and checking it twice? Some well-known names from the music world on their perfect festive tunes ...

Several notable talents in music, television, film and pop culture died in 2025. On the first day of the year, Wayne Osmond, one-fourth of the original Osmond Brothers, died at age 73.

Naeema, a 30-year-old Palestinian mother, carries her malnourished two-year-old son Yazan in their damaged home in the ...

In April, pop star Katy Perry was a part of the six-woman crew on Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin rocket who embarked on a trip to space.

On May 27, the minister for justice Jim O’Callaghan issued a public apology to the family of Shane O’Farrell. The Carrigmacross man was out for a cycle near his home in August 2011 when he was knocked ...

Christmas is many things, not least an opportunity to remember past years, celebrations and people. With this offering, we’re ...