Band in Ireland in the 1980s

Jimmy Rabbitte, just a thick-ya out of school, gets a brilliant idea: to put a soul band together in Barrytown, his slum home in north Dublin. First he needs musicians and singers: things slowly start to click when he finds three fine-voiced females virtually in his back yard, a lead singer (Deco) at a wedding, and, responding to his ad, an aging trumpet player, Joey "The Lips" Fagan.

Documentary about the 1991 film

A boy growing up in Dublin during the 1980s escapes his strained family life by starting a band to impress the mysterious girl he likes.

Marcus Williams is a city detective who is unwillingly thrust into a partnership with Minister Samuel Gray to solve a gang-related shooting. As the mismatched duo begin their journey, they soon discover the incident is part of something bigger, and catching the killer means stopping an all-out gang war. Through the investigation, Marcus and Samuel both learn that saving lives means learning to work together in this buddy cop dramedy.

Still more violent, shocking, Mario Salieri takes you to the heart of horror. Of deadly shootings Machiavellian conflict, terror was at its height.

The series tells the story of a final-year student in the Turkish Language Department who enters the world of the mafia and changes everything, and whose paths intersect with journalist Sahar at university.

Ardal O'Hanlon looks at what started the showband era in Ireland, the people involved, and how it came to an end in the 1980s.

A look at the big live outdoor music shows held in Ireland during the 1980s, including Siamsa Cois Laoí, Self Aid, U2 and Féile 1990. The contributors include Bob Geldof.

In 1970, Richmond Park in Inchicore, Dublin, hosted Ireland's first ever outdoor rock music festival. An audience of 1,500 paid to see a one-night bill headlined by Mungo Jerry and also featuring a handful of emerging Irish “beat groups”, a nascent Thin Lizzy among them.

It's Ireland in the 1960s and showbands and ballrooms are big business. However, Tony is struggling to repay his bank loan and is in danger of losing his ballroom. In order to save it, he sets out to turn unknown female performer Denise into a superstar practically overnight.