Here are this summer's fact and fiction top reads chosen by Richard Fitzpatrick and Marjorie Brennan.

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There is excitement throughout the bird world because of a large concert in Ireland for our feathered friends.

Manchán Magan presents a weekly Tuesday travel slot on Newstalk’s The Right Hook, and will be teaching a six-week course in travel writing in the Dublin Writers’ Centre, from February 3.

Your daily spoiler-free guide to what to look out for on the box.

PETE Seeger was born in Patterson, New York, on May 3, 1919, and was 94 when he passed away last week in a hospital in New York City.

The music world is mourning Phil Everly, the youngest of The Everly Brothers, who has died in California from lung disease complications.

HERE they come, walking down the street ... veteran pop stars the Monkees are reuniting for a 10-date tour 45 years after they first got together.

TERRY MELCHER, a producer, composer and songwriter who worked with the Beach Boys and helped shape the 1960s-era California surf music sound, has died aged 62.

Musician David Crosby has been arrested on marijuana and gun possession charges at a Times Square hotel, New York police said.