The veteran music impresario who promoted The Miami Showband’s ill-fated dance at the Castle Ballroom in Banbridge before the massacre has revealed its date was changed at the request of the ...

Dozens of bands are planning to attend a memorial parade for a notorious loyalist linked to the Glenanne gang. Wesley Somerville died when his own bomb exploded as he attempted to murder members of ...

The daughter of a man murdered by the Glenanne Gang has told of feeling sick after learning that dozens of loyalist bands are ...

The Monaghan music man, who was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2022, was one of the leaders of Irish showbusiness for the last 70 years. He was receiving hospice care at the time of his death.

Two former members of the Miami Showband have slammed a proposed loyalist parade commemorating a UVF man who tried to kill them, the Sunday World has learned. Bass player Stephen Travers and sax ...

That was a great band with great musicians. We did most of our work in the North and we did most of our work up there until, unfortunately, The Miami Showband massacre happened. All dancing stopped in ...

Ms O'Carroll, (née Keane (O'Toole), who was originally from Bray in County Wicklow, was a sister of murdered Miami Showband star Fran O'Toole. A friend of the family said that Ms O'Carroll was "very ...

The Hoedowners and The Miami. In the Tower Ballroom in Tipperary on the Bank Holiday Monday ‘The Magnificent Seven’ from Derry no less were playing and the following Thursday night Earl Jordan and the ...

The Adelphi [was] a household name because Dee and Jimmy were able to attract not just the best show bands in Ireland such as the The Royal Showband and The Dixies ... Joe Dolan, Dickie Rock and Miami ...

Lionel Messi scored a header to help Inter Miami respond to an early deficit, then he had a message for opposing fans in the stands in Las Vegas. Messi appeared to signal three fingers ...