Des O’Driscoll rounds up some of the latest news from the entertainment world.

Festival season approaches, legends come to the Opera House, and a young Irish phenomenon continues to impact on UK telly, writes Arts Editor Des O'Driscoll.

She’s the Cork singer dubbed the next Kate Bush, shortlisted by Universal, the world’s biggest record label, as their artist to watch in 2020. This will be the year of Lyra, writes Ed Power

Last year, Cork pop singer Lyra experienced a brand new emotion: overwhelming heartbreak. “It was the first time I sat down and wrote a ballad. I suddenly understood how Adele could do it.”

Live performance has always been the beating heart of the music industry. But today it is the big earner too.

Des O'Driscoll talks us through his highlights for 2019.

Electric Picnic, Brexit, Gay Byrne and Munster Rugby were just some of the most talked about moments on Facebook in Ireland this year.

Tickets for next year's Electric Picnic will go on sale next Monday, December 12.

The Mount Oval native earlier this month released her new single ‘Mother’, an ode to her Mum’s powerful words of encouragement to forget your insecurities

Ahead of the Cork Podcast Festival, Marjorie Brennan meets three women taking on the gender imbalance on the airwaves.

An online fraudster who duped 26 music fans out of almost €8,000 worth of non-existent concert tickets for Electric Picnic, Arianna Grande and Hugh Jackman has walked free from court.

Deaths arising from taking ecstasy has caused a judge in Cork to take a different view on the sentencing of people caught with the drug.

A household name now, just two years ago most of us had never even heard of Billie Eilish.

The festival returns to Stradbally, Co. Laois from Friday, September 4 to Sunday, September 6 2020.

So that’s nearly Monday wrapped up. Here’s some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

“The feelings of love was incredible"

It has also been announced that the festival will run for another decade.

Looking back over the weekend, here are six things we learned from this year's Picnic.

So that’s nearly Sunday wrapped up. Here’s some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

As Electric Picnic 2019 drew to a close, festival organisers hailed the event as one of their most successful years to date and said there was room for Ireland’s largest music festival to grow further.

Despite quality offerings in an array of genres to cater to every taste, from hip-hop to electronica, musically, rock seemed to be having a moment on Saturday at Electric Picnic.

The main stage battled it out against the draw of a new dance-heavy area on the Saturday of Electric Picnic.

The precocious 17-year-old LA songstress, whose March debut album, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? made her the first ever artist born in the new millennium to have a number one album in the US album charts, has been catapulted to stardom and hailed as the voice of a new generation.

It's a mixed bag for Electric Picnic attendees but GAA fans should be happy with the forecast for Sunday's All-Ireland final.

In a statement, the Garda Laois-Offaly Division said they had confiscated cocaine, ketamine, LSD and MDMA (ecstasy).

A 20-year-old man who was left on life-support after taking MDMA at Electric Picnic last year has urged people to avoid drugs at this weekend’s festival.

A number of drug seizures were made by gardaí yesterday, with people found in possession of cocaine, ketamine, LSD and MDMA when attempting to enter the gates.

So that’s nearly Thursday wrapped up. Here’s some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

People thinking of taking ecstasy at this weekend's Electric Picnic are misguided if they think snorting supposedly “purer” ecstasy powder is safer than tablets, one of the country's leading experts on drugs has said.

Stradbally has avoided a weather warning.

Young people attending this weekend’s Electric Picnic Festival in Co Laois have been warned of high strength drugs in circulation, particularly as a number of people have died already this year to drugs.

Music and rugby fans are being warned to be wary of online ticket touts who are advertising tickets above their original cost for sold-out events.

Organisers of Electric Picnic are cracking down on single-use plastic at this weekend's festival.

The wait is finally over!

It will be tricky trying to see everybody at the huge Stradbally event next weekend, so Ed Power selects the ones you definitely shouldn’t miss.