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Niall Byrne

Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, where he has been writing about music since 2005 . He is the co-host of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Cara Magazine, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, founder of Lumo Club, club promoter, event curator and producer of gigs, listening parties & events in Dublin.

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Claire Beck’s top tracks of 2020

Claire Beck’s Saturday SoundSystem is on the radio every Saturday 9pm – Midnight on Today…

CMAT & Junior Brother duet on ‘Uncomfortable Christmas’

As performed on last night’s CMAT’s Very Nice Christmas show broadcast live from Whelan’s, ‘Uncomfortable…

Listen to a new version of Denise Chaila’s ‘Anseo’ featuring Jafaris

After slaying pretty much every appearance and release this year, including Other Voices just this…

Listen to Fontaines D.C., Gemma Dunleavy, Glen Hansard, Lisa O’Neill, Liam Ó’Maonlaí, Shane MacGowan & more sing Old Town with Phil Lynott’s original vocal for Simon Community

With the annual Dublin charity Christmas Eve busk, where musicians get together and sing to…

Una Mullally’s top tracks of 2020

Una Mullally is one of the nation’s most revered journalistic voices. She is a columnist…

The Nialler9 Music Awards 2020

For the closing of the trilogy of the best of 2020 podcasts, Niall and Andrea…

Shiv’s top tracks of 2020

Shiv is a Zimbabwe-born, Kildare-raised R&B artist who we picked as one of our favourite…

Kelly-Anne Byrne’s top tracks of 2020

Kelly-Anne Byrne left Today FM earlier this year, and is still a DJ disco queen…

Nialler9’s Top 40 albums of 2020

See all best of 2020 coverage. If you want to get access to the best…

The best live stream gigs happening this Christmas

We will add suitable events to this as more live streams are announced so check…

Ruth Medjber’s top tracks of 2020

Ruth Medjber is a music photographer whose eyes have been hired by Arcade Fire, Hozier,…

Louise Bruton’s top tracks of 2020

Freelancer journalist, pop culture enthusiast and Pure Shores DJ Louise Bruton shares her very favourite tracks of the year with Nialler9.

Fehdah drops EP on her birthday featuring Denise Chaila & Celaviedmai

Dublin producer Emma Garnett aka Fehdah dropped a new four-track EP yesterday on her birthday.…

Watch the video for Gemma Dunleavy’s ‘Setting Son’, a song about a mother trying to save her son from drug addiction

Gemma Dunleavy dropped a stylish video for the Up De Flats EP track ‘Setting Son’…

SoFFT Nights announce Jape, Columbia Mills & Dani Larkin for Dunderry Park shows

After last week’s announcement of Soda Blonde, Cormac Begley, Maija Sofia and more from the…

Nialler9 Podcast: Our favourite albums of 2020

For the second of three parts of our end of year coverage, Niall and Andrea…

Cian Ó Cíobháin’s top Irish tracks of 2020

Cian Ó Cíobháin is a west Kerry DJ and radio presenter with An Taobh Tuathail five nights a week on Radio na Gaeltachta.

Nialler9’s Top 25 Irish albums of 2020

In a year where artists could not perform, could not make a living, could not…

Underworld announced for All Together Now 2021

It’s not clear how much of this 2020 lineup will eventually make its way to…

There’s a music merch Christmas market at The Grand Social this weekend

Merchy Christmas is a one-stop-shop Christmas market selling band merch happening at The Grand Social…