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U2: The Virtual Road, a series of four concerts broadcast for 48 hours only. U2: The Virtual Road also marks the first time that three of these concerts – Slane, Red Rocks and Mexico – have been made available digitally. The first concert will broadcast on St. Patrick's Day, March th 2021. U2 Go Home: Live From Slane Castle celebrates the band's return to the legendary Irish concert site on September 1 st 2001 for their first performance on the banks of the River Boyne in over twenty years. And in an exclusive YouTube performance, Dermot Kennedy will open the show with a solo p...

The best time to go to Bangkok Lonely Planet Editors Hello Bangkok! The Thai capital is brilliant all year round. ©kiszon pascal/Getty Images It doesn’t matter when you visit the Thai capital, this time-bending, neon-blazed mega-tropolis scoops up even the most seasoned traveler, shakes them into delirium and spits them back out in rapturous, tell-all ecstasy. But with distinct hot, rainy and (relatively) cool seasons – plus a plethora of eye-popping festivals to experience – these are the best times to go to Bangkok. Editor's note: during COVID-19 there are restrictions on ...

Bono wants a major rethink on U.S. foreign policy regarding Africa. The Dubliner and frontman for U2 feels that aid can work but only if the burden of debt is removed, and he took his argument to U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill. ℘℘℘ When Bob Geldof roused the Western world out of indifference about starvation in Ethiopia, much was made of the fact that he was Irish. The general wisdom suggested he understood the Ethiopian plight because he shared a folk memory of famine. The Dubliner insisted his response was purely humanitarian, but no one could deny that the Boomtown Rat was so...

Duncan Smith is having what the Americans call 'a moment'. On Wednesday, the hitherto low-key Labour TD gained national prominence after an impassioned attack on the Healy-Rae brothers and their wealth.

January 10, 2021 Muckloon, County Mayo, the ruined house and estate of aristocrat and wine merchant George Henry Moore. Credit: Alamy Stock Photo Between 1919 and 1923, in the War of Independence and the subsequent civil war, nearly 300 country houses were burned in Ireland. To mark the centenary of the events, Terence Dooley re-appraises the motives behind this destruction. Late on the night of February 4, 1921, a local company of the Irish Republican Army came to Summerhill House, Co Meath, home of the 5th Baron Langford, and knocked very loudly on the back door. The men came on th...