As Bruce Springsteen brings his River tour to Ireland, Ed Power looks back on the 1980 album that suddenly feels so relevant again

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Lucky ducks.

If your weekend includes heading to see Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band in Croke Park you can be sure it's going to be a good one.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today

Canadian rocker Bryan Adams has cancelled a performance in Mississippi, citing the state's new law that allows religious groups and some private businesses to refuse service to gay couples.

We can imagine plenty of letters like this could have been exchanged around the nation today.

It’s a scenes that every household in Ireland could relate to this morning - trying to juggle school, job and family life while refreshing your four/five devices for those all important Bruce Springsteen tickets.

Bruce Springsteen isn’t going to be a popular man in Dublin club football circles this summer.

Jon Stewart wrapped up his long-running The Daily Show with effusive tributes to his show’s staff, many on hand to see him off while political and media luminaries who served as some of the satirist’s favourite targets, from Bill O’Reilly to Hillary Clinton, appeared on tape.

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Kasabian want to play this year's Glastonbury Festival.

He may have been born in the USA but we’ve claimed him as an Irishman.

Drunk on the run of sunny days, anticipation hovered above the strollers’ greased-back hair-do’s as they ambled past static lines of cars on their way to Páirc Uí Chaoimh last night.

The sporting temple of Thomond Park last night fell under the spell of The Boss in a near-religious celebration of the music icon.

Sting played the Marquee on Leeside last night, but on Sunday, he was an ‘Englishman in West Cork’ and then back up in Cork City for some ‘Murphy’s in a Bottle’.

Bruce Springsteen kicked off his Australian tour with a tongue-in-cheek warning about his political influence over national economics.

Bruce Springsteen is to return as a headliner to London’s Hard Rock Calling festival – 12 months after his bill-topping show ended abruptly when he fell foul of a curfew.

Bruce Springsteen is to round off his latest European tour in Kilkenny, it has been confirmed.

Rock legend Bruce Springsteen is set to restore Cork’s status as a top stadium gig venue next summer.

Irish fans of Bruce Springsteen are in for another treat next summer, with confirmation that The Boss's Wrecking Ball tour has been extended to include three dates on these shores next summer.

Bruce Springsteen wowed crowds at the RDS in Dublin last night as he played the first of two gigs in Ireland.

Rock legend Bruce Springsteen had 35,000 fans in raptures at the RDS last night — including one very special guest.

Rock stars Bruce Springsteen and Paul McCartney were silenced after defying the sound curfew at Hard Rock Calling.

Rock’n’roll star Bruce Springsteen is back in Ireland next week. Ian Forde takes a peek at a new biography on the US rock legend

The promoter of the Isle of Wight Festival has apologised for the chaos caused by heavy rains at the start of the event and promised that lessons would be learned for future years.

Extra police are to be deployed to help revellers leave at the end of the Isle of Wight Festival after heavy rains turned the site into a mudbath causing traffic chaos.

Extra police are to be deployed to help revellers leave at the end of the Isle of Wight Festival after heavy rains turned the site into a mudbath causing traffic chaos.

Bruce Springsteen fees there is "something missing" in his music following the death of his saxophonist.

Bruce Springsteen's new album, 'Wrecking Ball', will be released on March 6, it was announced today.

Bruce Springsteen has announced a new album and tour for 2012.

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band are set to go on the road in 2012.

Bruce Springsteen paid tribute to his friend of more than four decades and E Street Band saxophonist Clarence Clemons at a private funeral in a Florida church.

Clarence Clemons, the larger-than-life saxophone player for the E Street Band who was one of the key influences in Bruce Springsteen's life and music through four decades, has died. He was 69.

Bruce Springsteen said band mate Clarence Clemons’ stroke was serious and he is going to need a lot of help to get back to his former self.

Bruce Springsteen’s saxophonist and long-time friend Clarence Clemons has suffered a stroke.

U2 enjoyed the most successful tour of 2009 in the lucrative north American market, according to the music trade publication Pollstar.

Post-mortem tests have found that a cousin of rock star Bruce Springsteen died from an accidental drug overdose.

Ticket agency Ticketmaster apologised to rocker Bruce Springsteen today for redirecting his fans to a website charging hugely inflated prices.

Bruce Springsteen announced a second Irish show today immediately after selling out a gig in 15 minutes.

MADONNA and Celine Dion were the biggest worldwide concert draws in 2008, each selling more than $200 million (€143m) worth of tickets to their slickly produced shows, trade publication Pollstar said yesterday.

Bruce Springsteen ended his world tour over the weekend, toned down but revved up.