The hack of that bread! The whole load comes with a big aul side valley

Why not pay real actors and filmmakers? Shameful.

https://www.tomforth.co.uk/circlepopulations/

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness and all that…

I'm surprised this isn't much bigger news. No notification was given by my kids school that the hot lunch provider was closed down due to the inspector finding rodent droppings in a number of places.

https://www.fsai.ie/news-and-alerts/latest-news/twelve-closure-orders-served-on-food-businesses-in

Sunrise over Dublin this morning from the Phoenix Park. It was a slow burn because of the cloud but the sun eventually made it's way through

Since 2006, the Nialler9 blog has published an annual list of the best Irish albums. From 2006 to 2015, these were reader polls; from 2016 onwards, the selections have been Niall’s own choices, although some years featured both.

Genre-wise, the lists are fairly eclectic, ranging from indie and electronica to rock and hip hop, while generally steering clear of the mainstream choices of the year.

2006

https://nialler9.com/top-irish-albums-of-2006-the-results/ (Readers poll)

1. Si Schroeder - Coping Mechanisms
2. The Redneck Manifesto - Seven Stabs
3. The Immediate - In Towers and Clouds
4. Messiah J and the Expert - Now This I have to Hear
5. David Kitt - Not Fade Away
6. Crayon Smith - Stay Loose
7. Deep Burial - Black Music
8. Fionn Regan - The End of History
9. Director - We Thrive on Big Cities
10. Herv - Customer
11. Groom - All this Happened more or less
12. Ten Past Seven - Shut up your Face
13. Simple Kid - SK2
14. Warlords of Pez - Warlords of Pez
15. Miriam Ingram - Trampoline
16. Patrick Freyne & His Bad Intentions - Nobody Ever Dies
17. Kidd Blunt - Grey Black Grey
18. Electric Penguins - Goodbye from the Electric Penguins
19. Butterfly Explosion - Turn the Sky EP
20. Dublin Guitar Quartet - Deleted Pieces

2007

https://nialler9.com/top-30-albums-of-2007/ (Readers poll)

1. Super Extra Bonus Party - Super Extra Bonus Party LP
2. Cathy Davey - Tales of Silversleeve
3. Mumblin’ Deaf Ro - The Herring and the Brine
4. Delorentos - In Love with Detail
5. Kill City Defectors - Mutiny Sounds
6. Dry County - Unexpected Falls
7. Large Mound - My whole life is have to
8. So Cow - These Truly are End Times
9. Hooray for Humans - Safekeeping
10. Adrian Crowley - Long Distance Swimmer
11. Sarsparilla - Karahee
12. My Brother Woody - It’s a long way from that sort of thing you were reared
13. Thinguma*jigsaw - Awake in Whitechapel
14. God is an Astronaut - Far from Refuge
15. Somadrone - Of Pattern and Purpose
16. 3epkano - At Land
17. Roísín Murphy - Overpowered
18. The Urges - Psych Ward
19. Nina Hynes - Really Really Do

2008

https://nialler9.com/results-irish-albums-of-2008-poll/ (Readers poll)

1. Jape - Ritual
2. R.S.A.G - Organic Sampler
3. Fight Like Apes - Fight Like Apes and the Mystery of the Golden Medallion
4. Adebisi Shank - This is an album…
5. Messiah J and the Expert - From the Word Go
6. Lisa Hannigan - Sea Sew
7. The Jimmy Cake - Spectre And Crown
8. The Vinny Club - Rocky IV Reckyrd
9. Chequerboard - Penny Black
10. Heathers - Here Not There
11. David Holmes - Holy Pictures
12. Crayonsmith - White Wonder
13. Halfset - Another Way of Being There
14. The Spook Of The Thirteenth Lock - S/T
15. So Cow - I’m Siding With My Captors
16. Ham Sandwich - Carry the Meek
17. Sunken Foal - Fallen Arches
18. Queen Kong and You´re Only Massive - Dot Dash
19. Land Lovers - Romance Romance
20. Katie Kim - Twelve

2009

https://nialler9.com/nialler9-irish-albums-2009-poll-results/3/ (Readers poll)

1. Patrick Kelleher - You Look Cold
2. And So I Watch You From Afar - And So I Watch You From Afar
3. Super Extra Bonus Party - Night Horses
4. Hunter-Gatherer - I Dreamed I Was A Footstep In The Trail Of A Murderer
5. Adrian Crowley - Season of the Sparks
6. David Kitt - The Night Saver
7. 202s - 202s
8. Legion of Two - Riffs
9. Twinkranes - Spektrumtheatresnakes
10. BATS - Red In Tooth And Claw
11. Julie Feeney - Pages
12. The Holy Roman Army - How The Light Gets In
13. Pearse McGloughlin - Busy Whisper
14. David Turpin - Haunted!
15. Channel One - Sound To Light
16. CODES - Trees Dream in Algebra
17. Delorentos - You Can Make Sound
18. BellX1 - Blue Lights on the Runway
19. Valerie Francis - Slow Dynamo
20. Dark Room Notes - We Love You Dark Matter
21. Subplots - Nightcycles
22. Duckworth Lewis Method - Duckworth Lewis Method
23. Groom - At The Natural History Museum
24. Band On An Island - The Sound Sweep
25. Martin Finke - Make Daylight
26. Paul O’Reilly / At Last An Atlas - Ships Leaving
27. Boxcutter - Arecibo Message
28. The Swell Season - Strict Joy
29. Jimmy Behan - The Echo Garden
30. Director - I’ll Wait for Sound

2010

https://nialler9.com/nialler9-irish-albums-2010-poll-results/3/ (Readers poll)

1. Villagers - Becoming A Jackal
2. Adebisi Shank - This is the second album of a band called Adebisi Shank
3. The Redneck Manifesto - Friendship
4. The Cast of Cheers - Chariot
5. Cathy Davey - The Nameless
6. Solar Bears - She Was Coloured In
7. Not Squares - Yeah Okay
8. Halves - It Goes, It Goes (Forever & Ever)
9. Jogging - Minutes
10. O Emperor - Hither Thither
11. Two Door Cinema Club - Tourist History
12. Nouveaunoise - Paraphrase Accolade
13. Enemies - We’ve Been Talking
14. Shit Robot - From The Cradle To The Rave
15. Thread Pulls - New Thoughts
16. Grand Pocket Orchestra - The Ice Cream
17. Meljoann - Squik
18. Strands - Strands
19. James Vincent McMorrow - Early In The Morning
20. Somadrone - Depth of Field
21. Fight Like Apes - The Body of Christ & The Legs of Tina Turner
22. So Cow - Meaningless Friendly
23. Butterfly Explosion - Lost Trails
24. Sounds of System Breakdown - Sounds of System Breakdown
25. Kill Krinkle Club - Abandon
26. Windings - It’s Never Night
27. Hipster Youth - Teenage Elders
28. The Dinah Brand - I Can Walk Through
29. Imelda May - Mayhem
30. Cap Pas Cap - Haunted Light

2011

https://nialler9.com/nialler9-readers-poll-results-top-25-irish-albums-of-2011/3/ (Readers poll)

1. Jape - Ocean of Frequency
2. Tieranniesaur - Tieranniesaur LP
3. We Cut Corners - Today I Realised I Could Go Home Backwards
4. And So I Watch You From Afar - Gangs
5. Squarehead - Yeah Nothing
6. Lisa Hannigan - Passenger
7. Patrick Kelleher and his Cold Dead Hands - Golden Syrup
8. Owensie - Aliens
9. Le Galaxie - LaserDisc Nights 2
10. Goodtime - Colours of Darkness
11. Altar of Plagues - Mammal
12. Land Lovers - Confidants
13. Cashier No. 9 - To The Death of Fun
14. Cian Nugent - Doubles
15. Bell X1 - Bloodless Coup
16. Girls Names - Dead to Me
17. Ginnels - Ginnels
18. Hands Up Who Wants to Die - Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo
19. Little xs for eyes - S.A.D.
20. Retarded Cop - You Have The Right To Remain Retarded
21. Rubberbandits - Serious About Men
22. The Minutes - Marcata
23. Yeh Deadlies - First Book of Lessons
24. LaFaro - Easy Meat
25. The Ambience Affair - Burials

2012

https://nialler9.com/nialler9s-readers-poll-2012-results-irish-albums-year/3/ (Readers poll)

1. The Cast of Cheers - Family
2. Windings - I Am Not The Crow
3. Katie Kim - Cover & Flood
4. Owensie - Citizens
5. Two Door Cinema Club - Beacon
6. Bats - The Sleep of Reason
7. Funeral Suits - Lily Of The Valley
8. The Spook of the Thirteenth Lock - The Brutal Here and Now
9. Jogging - Take Courage
10. Delorentos - Little Sparks
11. Last Days of 1984 - Wake up to the Waves
12. Simon Bird - Sport
13. No Monster Club - Dublin
14. Adrian Crowley - I See Three Birds Flying
15. Heathers - Kingdom
16. Mumblin’ Deaf Ro - Dictionary Crimes
17. Croupier - Croupier
18. Sunken Foal - Friday Syndrome Vol. 1
19. Logikparty - Oh Cult!
20. Bantum - Legion
21. Seamus Fogarty - God Damn You Mountain
22. Lethal Dialect - LD50 Part II
23. Ginnels - Crowns
24. Ghost Estates - Ghost Estates
25. Sea Pinks - Freak Waves

2013

https://nialler9.com/vote-readers-poll/

1. I Am The Cosmos - Monochrome
2. Mano Le Tough - Changing Days
3. Girls Names - The New Life
4. Villagers - {awayland}
5. Come On Live Long - Everything Fall
6. Lasertom - Drift
7. Lisa O’Neill - Same Cloth Or Not
8. Solar Bears - Supermigration
9. Space Dimension Controller - Welcome to Mikrosector-50
10. Dancing Suns - Goldmine
11. And So I Watch You From Afar - All Hail Bright Futures
12. Little Green Cars - Absolute Zero
13. Tieranniesaur - DIYSCO
14. Ensemble Eriu - Ensemble Eriu
15. Somadrone - The First Wave
16. Cian Nugent & The Cosmos - Born With the Caul
17. Squarehead - Respect
18. Pearse McGloughlin and Justin Grounds - Idiot Songs
19. Enemies - Embark, Embrace
20. Biggles Flys Again - Remember Saturday
21. Chequerboard - The Unfolding
22. Sounds Of System Breakdown - Nomad
23. Halves - Boa Howl
24. Cat Dowling - The Believer
25. Sunken Foal - Friday Syndrone Vol 2
26. Bouts - Nothing Good Gets Away
27. Kill Krinkle Club - Oxen Of The Sun
28. Ghost Maps - The Ocean From The River
29. Emakousma - Island
30. The Late David Turpin - We Belong Dead

Readers poll

1. Villagers - {Awayland}
2. Little Green Cars - Absolute Zero
3. I Am The Cosmos - Monochrome
4. And So I Watch You From Afar - All Hail Bright Futures
5. My Bloody Valentine - m b v
6. Solar Bears - Supermigration
7. Lisa O’Neill - Same Cloth Or Not
8. Enemies - Embark, Embrace
9. Mano Le Tough - Changing Days
10. Squarehead - Respect
11. Pearse McGloughlin and Justin Grounds - Idiot Songs
12. Girls Names - The New Life
13. Cat Dowling - The Believer
14. Halves - Boa Howl
15. Ghost Maps - The Ocean & The River
16. Lasertom - Drift
17. Chequerboard - The Unfolding
18. Hidden Highways - Old Hearts Reborn
19. Come On Live Long - Everything Fall
20. Bell X1 - Chop Chop
21. Bouts - Nothing Good Gets Away
22. Biggles Flys Again - Remember Saturday
23. Kodaline - In A Perfect World
24. Tieranniesaur - DIYSCO
25. Nanu Nanu - Unit 1

2014

https://nialler9.com/readers-poll-top-irish-albums-of-2014/ (Readers poll)

1. James Vincent McMorrow - Post Tropical
2. Hozier - Hozier
3. The Gloaming - The Gloaming
4. We Cut Corners - Think Nothing
5. Adebisi Shank - This Is The Third Album of A Band Called Adebisi Shank
6. Godknows + Mynameisjohn - Rusangano/Family
7. Aphex Twin - Syro
8. Daithi - In Flight
9. Delorentos - Night Becomes Light
10. Shit Robot - We Got A Love
11. Damien Rice - My Favourite Faded Fantasy
12. Paddy Hanna - Leafy Stiletto
13. Kormac - Doorsteps
14. Sleep Thieves - You Want The Night
15. Rhob Cunningham - The Window and Day
16. The Minutes - Live Well, Change Often
17. Adrian Crowley - Some Blue Morning
18. SlowPlaceLikeHome - Romola
19. Women’s Christmas - Too Rich For Our Blood
20. Sinead O’ Connor - I’m Not Bossy, I’m The Boss
21. Landlovers/Windings - Split LP
22. Lethal Dialect x Jacknife J - 1988
23. The Hot Sprockets - Brother Nature
24. Mick Flannery - By The Rule
25. The Riptide Movement - Getting Through
26. Groom - Bread & Jam
27. U2 - Songs of Innocence
28. Sea Pinks - Dreaming Tracks
29. So Cow - The Long Con
30. Ginnels - A Country Life
31. Raglans - Raglans
32. A Lazarus Soul - Last of the Analogue Age
33. Gemma Hayes - Bones + Longing
34. The Lost Brothers - New Songs of Dawn and Dust
35. Fox Jaw - Ghost’s Parade
36. I Heart The Monster Hero - Rhythm & Pals
37. Lynched - Cold Old Fire
38. September Girls - Cursing The Sea
39. Oh Boland/Me And My Dog - Delphi
40. Jennifer Evans - Works From The Dip & Foul
41. Wallis Bird - Architect
42. The #1s - The Number Ones
43. Hands Up Who Wants to Die - Vega in the Lyre
44. Printer Clips - Printer Clips
45. WIFE - What’s Between
46. Sean Mac Erlaine - A Slender Song
47. New Secret Weapon - New Secret Weapon
48. Rackhouse Pilfer - Love and Havoc
49. Deaf Joe - From The Heights Of A Dream
50. The Script - No Sound Without Silence

2015

https://nialler9.com/the-10th-annual-nialler9-readers-poll-2015/

1. Jape - This Chemical Sea
2. Girl Band - Holding Hands With Jamie
3. Anderson - Patterns
4. Le Galaxie - Le Club
5. Roisin Murphy - Hairless Toys
6. Villagers - Darling Arithmetic
7. little xs for eyes - Everywhere Else
8. Ryan Vail & Ciaran Lavery - Sea Legs EP
9. Augustus & John - Above Water Hull
10. Somadrone - Oracle
11. The Mighty Stef - Year Of The Horse
12. Leo Drezden - Multi-Moment
13. Not Squares - Bolts
14. The Jimmy Cake - Master
15. Lakker - Tundra
16. Evvol - Eternalism
17. Fight Like Apes - Fight Like Apes
18. Donnacha Costello - Love From Dust
19. SOAK - Before We Forgot How To Dream
20. Young Wonder - Birth
21. Girls Names - Arms Around A Vision
22. Elephant - HyperGiant
23. Brian Deady - Non-Fiction
24. Owensie - Dramamine
25. No Monster Club - People Are Weird

(The 2015 readers list is now taken down. The list above link is Niall's own choice for 2015 and differs from the readers poll below.)

Readers poll

1. Girl Band - Holding Hands With Jamie
2. Jape - This Chemical Sea
3. Villagers - Darling Arithmetic
4. Le Galaxie - Le Club
5. SOAK - Before We Forgot How To Dream
6. The Strypes - Little Victories
7. Young Wonder - Birth
8. Girls Names - Arms Around A Vision
9. Owensie - Dramamine
10. The Jimmy Cake - Master
11. Roisin Murphy - Hairless Toys
12. No Monster Club - People Are Weird
13. New Pope - Youth
14. Fight Like Apes - Fight Like Apes
15. Tucan - Towers
16. Not Squares - Bolts
17. Ciaran Lavery & Ryan Vail - Sea Legs
18. Leo Drezden - Multi-Moment
19. Ham Sandwich - Stories From The Surface
20. Anderson - Patterns
21. Somadrone - Oracle
22. Little xs For Eyes - Everywhere Else
23. Lakker - Tundra
24. Glen Hansard - Didn’t He Ramble
25. Evvol - Eternalism

2016

https://nialler9.com/best-irish-albums-2016/

1. Rusangano Family - Let The Dead Bury The Dead
2. James Vincent McMorrow - We Move
3. All Tvvins - llVV
4. The Gloaming - 2
5. Katie Kim - Salt
6. Cynema - A Night Train to Budapest
7. Lisa Hannigan - At Swim
8. Mmoths - Luneworks
9. Ryan Vail - For Every Silence
10. Solar Bears - Advancement
11. Lisa O’Neill - Pothole In The Sky
12. Bantum - Move
13. We Cut Corners - The Cadence of Others
14. Ciaran Lavery - Let Bad In
15. Cian Nugent - Night Fiction
16. Magic Pockets - Volcano of the Bleeding Skies
17. Enemies - Valuables
18. Ensemble Éiru - Imbas
19. February & Mars - February & Mars
20. Tomorrows - Another Life
21. Roisin Murphy - Take Her Up To Monto
22. Windings - Be Honest And Fear Not
23. Rollers / Sparkers - Interior Ministry
24. Brigid Mae Power - Brigid Mae Power
25. The Altered Hours - In Heat Not Sorry
26. J Cowhie - Veil
27. Skinner - Skinner
28. Funeral Suits - Islands Apart
29. The Smoke Clears (John Daly) - The Smoke Clears
30. I Have A Tribe - Beneath a Yellow Moon

2017

https://nialler9.com/nialler9s-top-25-irish-albums-of-2017/

https://nialler9.com/nialler9s-top-25-irish-albums-of-2017/2/

https://nialler9.com/nialler9s-top-25-irish-albums-of-2017/3/

1. Ships - Precession
2. Bicep - Bicep
3. New Jackson - From Night To Night
4. VA (Wah Wah Wino) - Absolutely Wino compilation
5. Talos - Wild Alee
6. Lankum - Beneath The Earth And Sky
7. Come On Live Long - In The Still
8. James Vincent McMorrow - True Care
9. Planet Parade - Mercury
10. The Cyclist - Sapa Inca Delirium
11. And So I Watch You From Afar - The Endless Shimmering
12. Davy Kehoe - Short Passing Game
13. Joshua Burnside - Ephrata
14. Ye Vagabonds - Ye Vagabonds
15. Marlene Enright - Placemats & Second Cuts
16. Party Fears - Party Fears
17. Arvo Party - Arvo Party
18. Contour - Appropriation
19. Seamus Fogarty - The Curious Hand
20. The Jimmy Cake - Tough Love
21. Slow Place Like Home - ‘When I See You… Ice Cream!’
22. Martin Hayes Quartet - Blue Room
23. Adrian Crowley - Dark-Eyed Messenger
24. Fionn Regan - The Meetings Of The Waters
25. Otherkin - OK

2018

https://nialler9.com/top-20-irish-albums-2018/

https://nialler9.com/top-20-irish-albums-2018/2/

https://nialler9.com/top-20-irish-albums-2018/3/

1. Kojaque - Deli Daydreams
2. Saint Sister - Shape of Silence
3. O Emperor - Jason
4. Villagers - The Art of Pretending To Swim
5. Wyvern Lingo - Wyvern Lingo
6. The Redneck Manifesto - The How
7. Paddy Hanna - Frankly, I Mutate
8. J Colleran - Gardenia
9. Rejjie Snow - Dear Annie
10. David Kitt - Yous
11. Just Mustard - Wednesday
12. Spies - Constancy
13. We Cut Corners - Imposters
14. Le Galaxie - Pleasure
15. Proper Micro NV - Dormant Boy
16. Elephant - 88
17. Lisa O’Neill - Heard a Long Gone Song
18. Arvo Party - II
19. John Daly - We Will Live Again
20. Laurie Shaw - Year Zero

2019

https://nialler9.com/top-30-irish-albums-of-2019/

https://nialler9.com/top-30-irish-albums-of-2019/2/

https://nialler9.com/top-30-irish-albums-of-2019/3/

1. Girl Band - The Talkies
2. Mango x Mathman - Casual Work
3. Fontaines D.C. - Dogrel
4. Lankum - The Livelong Day
5. Sorcha Richardson - First Prize Bravery
6. Majia Sofia - Bath Time
7. SOAK - Grim Town
8. Maria Somerville - All My People
9. Talos - Far Out Dust
10. Jafaris - Stride
11. Tandem Felix - Rom-Com
12. The Murder Capital - When I Have Fears
13. Junior Brother - Pull The Right Rope
14. Squarehead - High Times
15. Cbakl - Wisdom Is Misery
16. Kojaque & Luka Palm - The Green Diesel Mixtape
17. Jape - Sentinel
18. Kitt Phillipa - Human
19. Lighght - Gore-Tex In The Club, Balenciaga Amongst The Shrubs
20. Ryan Vail & Elma Orkestra - Borders
21. Dermot Kennedy - Without Fear
22. Daithí - L.O.S.S.
23. Conor Walsh - The Lucid
24. Maverick Sabre - When I Wake Up
25. Bonniesongs - Energetic Mind
26. Anna Mieke - Idle Mind
27. GavinDaVinci - superscumbagmode
28. All Tvvins - Just To Exist
29. Beauty Sleep - Be Kind
30. Deaf Joe - Love Stories

2020

https://nialler9.com/nialler9s-top-25-irish-albums-of-2020/

https://nialler9.com/nialler9s-top-25-irish-albums-of-2020/2/

1. Pillow Queens - In Waiting
2. Niamh Regan - Hemet
3. Fontaines D.C - A Hero’s Death
4. Silverbacks - Fad
5. Lethal Dialect - LD50 Part 3
6. Róisín Murphy - Róisín Machine
7. Aoife Nessa Frances - Land Of No Junction
8. Denise Chaila - Go Bravely
9. Nealo - All the Leaves Are Falling
10. Kean Kavanagh - Dog Person
11. For Those I Love - Into A World That Doesn’t Understand It, Unless You’re From It
12. Ailbhe Reddy - Personal History
13. The Scratch - Couldn’t Give A Rats
14. Gaptoof - Looks Like Rain
15. Bitch Falcon - Staring At Clocks
16. R.S.A.G. - Chroma
17. Arvo Party - Love Above All
18. JYellowL - 2020 | Division
19. Bleeding Heart Pigeons - Stir
20. Hazey Haze - Is Mise
21. Brigid Mae Power - Head Above The Water
22. Marcus Woods - Self-Portrait
23. Paddy Hanna - The Hill
24. Solkatt - Nocturne
25. Autre Monde - The Imaginary Museum

2021

https://nialler9.com/top-irish-albums-of-2021/

1. For Those I Love - For Those I Love
2. John Francis Flynn - I Would Not Live Always
3. Saint Sister - Where I Should End
4. Kojaque - Town’s Dead
5. Bicep - Isles
6. Strange Boy - Holy/Unholy
7. Villagers - Fever Dreams
8. Fears - Oíche
9. Soda Blonde - Small Talk
10. Wyvern Lingo - Awake You Lie
11. Jimbo Jones - The Heat Death of My Hometown
12. Houseplants - Dry Goods
13. J Smith - (…) And you chose not to laugh
14. Lethal Dialect - Songs Of A Dead Dreamer
15. Ra Gerra - New Vessels
16. Elaine Mai - Home
17. Maria Kelly - The Sum Of The In-Between
18. Luthorist, sivv - Time On Earth
19. James Vincent McMorrow - Grapefruit Season
20. The Ecliptic Newsletter - Lidl Museum of Ancient and Contemporary Art Audio Tour
21. SENU - Jetlag
22. Sal Dulu - Xompulse
23. Eomac - Cracks
24. Gareth Quinn Redmond - Oscailte
25. Jehnova, Lod - Avenoir

2022

https://nialler9.com/irish-albums-of-2022/

1. CMAT - If My Wife New I’d Be Dead
2. The Mary Wallopers - The Mary Wallopers
3. Gilla Band - Most Normal
4. Cormac Begley - B
5. Sorcha Richardson - Smiling Like an Idiot
6. Elaine Howley - The Distance Between Heart And Mouth
7. Fontaines D.C. - Skinty Fia
8. Oliveyolive - Life in Colour
9. Aoife Nessa Frances - Protector
10. Robocobra Quartet - Living Isn’t Easy
11. Silverbacks - Archive Material
12. Junior Brother - The Great Irish Famine
13. Just Mustard - Heart Under
14. Meryl Streek - 796
15. Daithí - I’m Here Now
16. Pillow Queens - Leave the Light On
17. Yenkee - Yen
18. Anna Mieke - Theatre
19. Selló - Sellótape
20. Ye Vagabonds - Nine Waves
21. Katie Kim - Hour of the Ox
22. Melts - Maelstrom
23. SOAK - If I Never Know You Like This Again
24. Thumper - Delusions Of Grandeur
25. Paddy Hanna - Imagine I’m Hoping
26. Telefís - a Dó
27. Talos - Dear Chaos
28. Whozyerman? - Blink
29. Laurie Shaw - Bat Sanctuary
30. Martian Subculture - Bank Prologue

2023

https://nialler9.com/the-best-irish-albums-of-2023/

1. Lankum - False Lankum
2. Rachael Lavelle - Big Dreams
3. John Francis Flynn - Look Over The Wall, See The Sky
4. Natalia Beylis - Mermaids
5. Kojaque - Phantom Of The Afters
6. CMAT - Crazymad, For Me
7. Citrus Fresh - Good Grief
8. Soda Blonde - Dream Big
9. ØXN - CYRM
10. The Mary Wallopers - Irish Rock n Roll
11. M(h)aol - Attachment Styles
12. Bricknasty - INA CRUELER
13. David Kitt - Idiot Check
14. Lisa O’Neill - All Of This Is Chance
15. Super Extra Bonus party - Late Nite 99
16. Tandem Felix - There’s A New Sheriff In Town
17. Nealo - November Medicine
18. Chósta - Twilight Transmission
19. The Scratch - Mind Yourself
20. Travis & Elzzz - Full Circle
21. The Murder Capital - Gigi’s Recovery
22. Kayleigh Noble - Just a Girl
23. Autre Monde - Sensitive Assignments
24. Offica - Hokage
25. Maija Sofia - True Love
26. Walshy - Few Beers
27. Jape - Endless Thread
28. Trá Pháidín - An 424
29. Naoise Roo - Emotionally Magnificent
30. girlfriend - To Be Quiet
31. Gareth Quinn Redmond - Ar Ais Arís
32. Elaine Malone - Pyrrhic
33. Robert John Ardiff - Once I Was
34. Ailbhe Reddy - Endless Affair
35. Bell X1 - Merciful Hour
36. The Bonk - Greater than Equal to the Bonk
37. Grian Chatten - Chaos For The Fly
38. Meltybrains? - You
39. Fish Go Deep - What I Mean By Beautiful
40. The Line - Red Blood Cells and Righteousness
41. Rebel Phoenix - Museum
42. Search Results - Information Blip
43. I Have A Tribe - Changing of the Guard
44. David Holmes - Blind On A Galloping Horse
45. Micheál Dear., Maverick Sabre - Beat Tape Vol. 1
46. The Cope - Dancer
47. Brigid Mae Power - Dream from the Deep Well
48. Everything Shook - Blacking Out
49. Whenyoung - Paragon Songs
50. Stik Figa, The Expert - Ritual

2024

https://nialler9.com/best-irish-albums-of-2024/

1. Curtisy - What Was The Question
2. RÓIS - MO LÉAN
3. NewDad - Madra
4. Silverbacks - Easy Being A Winner
5. Fontaines D.C. - Romance
6. New Jackson - Oops Pop!
7. Sloucho - NPC
8. Olive Hatake - Boys Need Love
9. Fynch - Youngfella
10. Bricknasty - XONGZ አስቀያሚ ጡብ.
11. A Lazarus Soul - No Flowers Grow in Cement Gardens
12. shiv - the defiance of a sadgirl
13. Niamh Regan - Come As You Are
14. Kneecap - Fine Art
15. Gurriers - Come And See
16. Sprints - Letter To Self
17. Houseplants - Half Known Things
18. Ahmed, With Love. - COMMA, FULL STOP.
19. Carlos Danger Presents - Irish Hash Mafia
20. Pillow Queens - Name Your Sorrow
21. Mohammad Syfkhan - I Am Kurdish
22. Villagers - That Golden Time
23. Niamh Bury - Yellow Roses
24. Thee U.F.O - Beaming A Moments Reflection
25. Deathbed Convert - Inverse Field Vol.1 – Inishowen
26. Travy, Elzzz - Doghouse
27. Yenkee - Night Golf
28. Christy Moore - A Terrible Beauty
29. Or - Trusting Theta
30. Henry Earnest - Big Blue
31. Papa Romeo - Late Night Load Out
32. Oisín Leech - Cold Sea
33. Orla Gartland - Everybody Needs A Hero
34. Julie Dawson - Bottom Of The Pool
35. Lemoncello - Lemoncello
36. Fears - Affinity
37. His Father’s Voice - Black Poison Morning
38. Melts - Field Theory
39. Jar Jar Jr - Catch The Dusk
40. Ciaran Lavery - Light Entertainment
41. FOZSA - fabric
42. And So I Watch You From Afar - Megafauna
43. Bantum - Bantum
44. The Personal Vanity Project - The Personal Vanity Project
45. Virgins - nothing hurt and everything was beautiful
46. Overhead The Albatross - I Leave You This
47. Seamus Hyland - Maidin Domhnaigh
48. Rejjie Snow - Peace 2 Da World
49. Oh Boland - Western Leisure
50. Long Island Sound - Hydra

2025

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1. CMAT - Euro-Country
2. For Those I Love - Carving The Stone
3. Maria Somerville - Luster
4. Rory Sweeney - Old Earth
5. God Knows - A Future Of The Past
6. Lullahush - ithaca
7. Bricknasty - Black’s Law
8. Junior Brother - The End
9. Gareth Quinn Redmond, Méabh McKenna, RF Chaney - Throwing Shapes
10. Skinner - New Wave Vaudeville
11. pôt-pot - Warsaw 480km
12. The Redneck Manifesto - Grushy
13. Jordan Kelly - Diaspora Green Mixtape
14. Poor Creature - All Smiles Tonight
15. Olan Monk - Songs for Nothing
16. Just Mustard - WE WERE JUST HERE
17. M(h)aol - Something Soft
18. Ian Nyquist - Gilded
19. Maria Kelly - Waiting Room
20. Laura Duff - Sea Legs
21. Kean Kavanagh - The County Star
22. Ólafur Arnalds, Talos - A Dawning
23. NewDad - Altar
24. Junk Drawer - Days Of Heaven
25. Paddy Hanna - Oylegate
26. Sprints - All That Is Over
27. Joshua Burnside - Teeth of Time
28. Maykay - Maykay
29. Curtisy, hikii - Beauty In The Beast
30. Varo - The World That I Knew
31. Travy - Spooky
32. T-Woc - Scenes, Journeys & Color
33. Unique Freaks (THEE U.F.O) - Enjoyment Planted
34. Elaine Mai - For Us
35. Jehnova, Luthorist, Visionali - Dangerous Currents
36. Cormac Begley & Liam O Connor - Into the Loam
37. Search Results - Go Mutant
38. Jinx Lennon - The Hate Agents Leer At The Last Isle Of Hope
39. DUG - Have At It!
40. J Smith - I Stood there Naked
41. The Altered Hours - The Altered Hours
42. Tebi Rex - Fin
43. Dove Ellis - Blizzard
44. Inni-K - Still A Day
45. bog band - Mocashno Days
46. The Expert - Vivid Visions
47. Amanda Feery - NEST
48. Caimin Gilmore - BlackGate
49. Biig Piig - 11:11
50. Slightly Dishevelled - Dirty Dishes And The West Wing

Does anyone remember a drink awareness advert from 20ish years ago, the slogan was something like “why would you end your night like this” or something. It involved a man ripping his ear ring out, pouring curry down his top and giving himself a black eye (I think) before going on a night out. Was nightmare fuel at the time to me, haven’t been able to find a clip of it