Taoiseach Enda Kenny has said that Gerry Adams is "flogging a very dead horse" on the matter of a one-to-one televised debate - and also leapt to the defence of Jedward following comments by the Sinn Féin president.

THE record company behind U2 and Jedward has blamed piracy and illegal downloading for a fall in profits at its Irish operations.

JEDWARD just laugh when critics take a pop at them now but bullies almost brought them down when they were in school.

O-M-G - it's the day 'tweens' across the country have been waiting for! The Jedward boys are launching their new album - called 'Victory' - today.

X-FACTOR judge and boyband manager Louis Walsh has strongly denied allegations that he indecently assaulted a young man at a popular Dublin nightclub.

THERE were shocked faces and screams of delight at St Colmcille’s National School, Knocklyon and Presentation Convent, Drogheda yesterday as X Factor double-act, Jedward, paid students a visit.

MUSIC promoter Peter Aiken has defied the recession and is set to rock the banks of the Lee for the next five weeks.

Pop duo Jedward are two very young men, twins, whose infectious enthusiasm has helped to make them fabulously successful. They have not only qualified for the final of tonight’s Eurovision Song Contest, but have established themselves among the favourites to win the competition.

IT goes without saying that those Tipperary players named in Declan Ryan’s first league team also attending All-Ireland winning captain Eoin Kelly’s wedding tomorrow will be minding themselves.

Jedward is among five acts competing to represent Ireland in this year's Eurovision Song Contest.

Jedward have added two extra dates to their summer tour schedule, due to demand.

LIMBOING under the raising shutters of newly opened Champion Sports, pop duo Jedward and their famous hair raced out to meet hundreds of screaming fans in Cork yesterday.

INTERNET sensation Crystal Swing have turned down a tour with spiky-haired duo Jedward and have saddled up for Derby Day.

X FACTOR stars Jedward faced around 1,500 screaming teenagers when they turned up to kick off Arnotts’ post-Christmas sale.

THE Tories jumped on the Jedward bandwagon yesterday, branding Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling “Deadwood”.