After a property 'Operation Transformation,' fitness and yoga family the Henrys sell extended cliff-top West Cork hideaway for close to €1m.

The directors of the five-star Castlemartyr Resort Hotel in Cork believe the hotel will become profitable in the coming years after sustaining losses of €178,283 last year.

Fr Brian D’Arcy was born nearEnniskillen, Co Fermanagh in 1945.

Ray O’Brien owns the Music Zone record shop, located at Douglas Village shopping centre, which was forced to close after a fire in the car park last August. Music Zone has now relocated temporarily to a premises in Deanrock Business Park in Togher. Here he meets Marjorie Brennan.

He has battled cancer and is about to turn 75, but Rod Stewart’s two gigs in Ireland next week are a sign he has no plans to retire any time soon, writes Richard Purden

I worked in sales as a rep for 33 years with Beamish and Crawford in Cork. I fell into hospitality by accident when offered a part-time job as a caddy on the golf course here in Mount Juliet.

Monday is the day for the screening of Bruce Springsteen’s Western Stars, part-concert film, part music documentary.

Belinda Carlisle may have cancelled her Cork show on Wednesday due to a throat infection, but there are plenty more opportunities on the way for fans of 20th-century popular music.

Trevor Sheehan is guest relations manager at Castlemartyr Resort in Cork. Castlemartyrresort.ie

Taylor Swift releases her new album Lover tomorrow.

Last week, we brought you the management life and times of Brian Cody and Kilkenny in the words of Bruce Springsteen.

Catch up on the headlines.

Inspired by his 18th All-Ireland final as senior manager of Kilkenny and the recently-released movie Blinded By The Light which features Springsteen’s music prominently, John Fogarty relates 18 lyrics by The Boss about the real boss:

A British-Indian director’s own love of Springsteen fed into a film that the singer gave his blessing to after a chance encounter, writes Esther McCarthy.

July, as the high point of the summer, marks one of the busiest periods in the fitness industry calendar.

It's not all research, deadlines and live broadcasts for RTÉ’s Maggie Doyle. For downtime, there’s nothing more she loves to do than to put on her pinny, whip out the food mixer and bake.

The annual showcase event for Irish cinema again offered some real gems, writes

Singer/songwriter Mick Flannery talks childhood, young adulthood and playing music festivals around the country.

Each has shown courage, resolve, and great timing in pushing forward their very different agendas, writes Terry Prone

It’s March 10 last, a wind- assisted Wexford have outscored his team by 12 points in the second half to make the league knockout stages, and to make matters worse, Conor Delaney has been red carded in the closing stages.

Ed Power reviews Western Stars, an album expected to split opinon among fans of the Boss.

Doulas are women who provide emotional and domestic support to expectant and new mums, like a hired friend, says Helen O’Callaghan.

Bruce Springsteen has released the first track from his first studio album in five years entitled 'Western Stars'.

The Cannes Film Festival (May 14 to 25) unveiled its roster earlier in the week

Bruce Springsteen’s Glory Days blared out over the tannoy prior to the start of this Allianz League Division 2 tie at breezy Páirc Tailteann yesterday and while that may have been a bit premature for the Royals there were some positive signs in this hard-fought victory.

Wild Youth have been widely tipped as the country’s next big thing. They tell Ed Power about their unashamed pop leanings and what they learnt from touring with Niall Horan.

The directors of the five-star Castlemartyr Hotel believe it will become profitable in the coming years after posting a loss of over €564,700 last year.

The enormous success of Hamilton has underlined the enduring appeal of musical theatre. Marjorie Brennan selects the best shows of the year ahead.

Colin Sheridan's A to Z of 2019

Here's your morning bulletin.

"Standing before you is a man who has become wildly and absurdly successful writing about something of which he has had absolutely no personal experience"

Des O'Driscoll shares the latest from the entertainment world

Badly Drawn Boy may never escape from his Bewilderbeast album, but he’ll also be playing new music on his Irish tour, writes Ed Power.

The worst-kept secret in Irish music has been confirmed with the announcement that Metallica are to headline Slane Castle on June 8 next year.

Eoghan O’Sullivan shares the latest from the entertainment world

“It’s no longer just down with Trump, it’s f**k”.

If you've been living under a rock, you may not know that last night Ed Sheeran opened his Irish tour in Cork's Pairc Uí Chaomh, in front of 44,000 people.

As Ed Sheeran gets ready to play Páirc Uí Chaoimh, Ed Power and Des O’Driscoll recall some of the other big gigs at the Cork venue.

Accumulated profits at one of the country’s best-known booksellers, Dubray Books increased to over €1.38m last year.

It might only be a 3½-hour drive from Mullingar to Killarney, but Niall Horan’s journey from his hometown to the stage of the INEC has been epic.

PROUDLY decked out in green, and set in the tiers of stacked housing rising up above the River Lee in Cork’s Tivoli, is Villa Franca.

Fame is thought to be a way of becoming more valuable, a way of finding a voice, writes Richard Hogan.

Peter Jackson recaps the weekend’s Six Nations action. 

Ed Power looks at the state of popular music which is increasingly dominated by performers working their back catalogues to death.