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Crowded House, accompanied by very special guests The Waterboys, are set to hit Cork's Musgrave Park on the 23rd of June next year...

When William Butler Yeats took the phone call in November 1923 that informed him he had been awarded the Nobel Prize For Literature (the first Irish man to be so honoured), his initial response strayed perilously close to the greasy till by inquiring “how much is it worth?” He then celebrated by sharing a plate of sausages with his wife George as there was no wine to be had in the house.

The '60s rock icons played some classics, along with their new material to a star-studded packed house in New York City.

While there have been many biographies of TE Lawrence, Ranulph Fiennes is perhaps better qualified than most to add to the pile. There’s his remarkable adventures as an explorer who crossed both polar ice caps and climbed Everest at the age of 65, and his parallel career as a writer of both fiction and biography, including the controversial Captain Scott in 2003 and 2021’s gripping Shackleton. But what really marks Fiennes out is shared experience.

<p>By Cian O’Connell SETU Carlow will host the GAA M. Donnelly Wheelchair Hurling / Camogie All Ireland Finals for the next four years. This Saturday, October 21, will be the first instalment in the new arrangement with SETU Carlow Director of Sport, Donal McNally, acknowledging the importance of the competition.</p>

Rolling Stones guitarist says arthritis changed his guitar playing: 'the guitar will show me there's another way of doing it. Some finger will go one space ...

Let Me In The Sound! As U2 hit Vegas, we ask: could this indeed be The Greatest Show On Earth?