Bob Geldof uses his celebrity as a battering ram, but he usually gets results, writes Michael Clifford.

The co-founder of one of Ireland's largest charities, Concern, has died.

Musician and campaigner Bob Geldof is waiting to hear the result of the latest stage of a legal fight related to a firm he chairs.

Irish fans hardly need a map for the English and Welsh capitals but taste buds will be tickled by the prospect of first visits to Wembley and the Olympic Stadium

If this stellar weekend for Irish sport was Live Aid, then Gibraltar versus Ireland would be Status Quo — bottom of the bill, and everyone knows what to expect.

The fear is that if we are to vote a majority yes today ... we could end up with a mere child in the Áras, writes Alison O’ Connor

Lionel Richie and Status Quo set to rock Marquee, Cork

Olly Murs wants to organise a Live Aid concert with Bob Geldof for 2015.

The body of Peaches Geldof has been released to her family to allow funeral arrangements to be made.

An autopsy into the death of Peaches Geldof has proved inconclusive pending the results of toxicology tests.

From Dracula to Fr Ted and Boyzone, we have devised some of the most brilliant, but often annoying, things on the planet, says John Daly.

Actor George Clooney has branded celebrities who use Twitter as “morons” and branded the social networking site as “just stupid”.

DIANA and I go back a long way, to the day in 1981 when I watched her walk down the aisle of St Paul’s Cathedral, to marry her Prince.

Bob Geldof will cement his position as Britain’s most treasured Irish export when he is awarded the ‘Freedom of the City of London’ next week.

Wary of the news that Tina Turner had married a younger man, further investigation convinced Barbara Scully her hero is still simply the best

Domhnall Gleeson, the flame-haired son of veteran Irish actor Brendan Gleeson, has been named as one of Variety magazine’s “10 Actors To Watch”.

Domhnall Gleeson, the flame-haired son of veteran Irish actor Brendan Gleeson, has been named as one of Variety magazine’s “10 Actors To Watch”.

Irish musician and human rights activist Bob Geldof has said bankers and traders should be jailed if they have broken the law.

Peaches Geldof believes having a child has brought her closer to her late mother.

Peaches Geldof's baby is due on her late mother's birthday.

She may only be 22 - but Peaches Geldof is to marry for the second time.

Peaches Geldof has been caught shoplifting make-up from British high-street chain, Boots.

Human rights activist and musician Bob Geldof has revealed the only thing that kept him from the brink of suicide was his children.

Saturday

THE BBC “unreservedly” apologised for broadcasting reports claiming money raised by Live Aid to fight famine in Ethiopia was spent on weapons.

RTÉ chiefs have unveiled a new season of programmes which they claim will entertain, inform and involve audiences.

Bob Geldof was terrified he wouldn’t be able to pull off Live Aid.

Bob Geldof’s battle to stage Live Aid after being inspired by the Ethiopian famine is to be turned into a TV film, it was announced today.

A SHOE-shine girl on the muddy, crowded streets of Addis Ababa cannot hide her pride when she shows off her two little polishing brushes, held in a wooden box and carried around in a blue tin bucket.

CLAIMS that aid money sent to Ethiopia was spent on weapons are “palpable nonsense”, Band Aid founder Bob Geldof said yesterday.

Claims that aid money sent to Ethiopia was spent on weapons are “palpable nonsense”, Band Aid founder Bob Geldof said today.

A Live Aid-style single in aid of Haiti earthquake victims is launched today.

A COVER of REM’s haunting ballad Everybody Hurts will be the Live Aid-style Haiti charity single and feature Leona Lewis, boy band JLS and veteran rocker Rod Stewart, it was revealed yesterday.

LIVE Aid was named the most important music event of the last 30 years by a study released today, 25 years after the release of Band Aid’s groundbreaking single Do They Know It’s Christmas?

ANTI-POVERTY campaigner Bob Geldof has warned that the Government is not spending enough on developing new technologies.

Anti-poverty campaigner Bob Geldof tonight warned the Government was not spending enough on developing new technologies.

IT was a tale of two recessions: In the 1980’s a gruff Irishman gave the world Live Aid, 20 years later a bluff one saddled the nation with Spiv Aid.

Welsh rockers Manic Street Preachers are planning to perform a show-stopping duet with Kylie Minogue at next year's NME Awards.

THE newest member of Led Zeppelin was given the honour of kicking off the band’s reunion last night, pounding out the beat before the surviving founders joined in on a near-perfect “Good Times Bad Times”.