People cheered and clapped as members of various Northern Ireland flute bands passed the GPO during the St Patrick’s Day parade in Dublin on Sunday. The Flute Band Association of Northern Ireland, an ...

A NASA astronaut with Irish heritage gave a musical ode to the Emerald Isle from the International Space Station, in celebration of St Patrick’s Day. St Patrick’s Day is celebrated all around the ...

GERMAN RESEARCHERS have discovered what is believed to be the world’s oldest musical instrument – a 35,000-year-old primitive flute fashioned from a vulture’s wing-bone. Some 20cm long with five ...

Musical astronaut Catherine Coleman has plenty of flutes to pick from aboard the International Space Station. One is her own. Two belong to members of the Irish group, The Chieftains. And one belongs ...

A loyalist flute band has hit out after it was the victim of "a hate-filled verbal assault" in Newcastle. The Pride of the Hill Flute Band issued a statement after former Down GAA All-Star Greg ...

A black Seat Leon drove through the parade in Newry Street, Rathfriland, hitting several band members. Video from the scene, obtained by the Belfast Telegraph, shows it then continued driving while ...

All the years James Galway has spent telling people he is a flute player and not a flautist have been wasted. After this morning's announcement that he is to be knighted, Ireland's most famous ...