MCD-promoted music gigs attracted more than 1.2m fans in Ireland last year with a similar number of revellers expected in 2016, according to company chief Denis Desmond.

Kyle Cadden from Enniskillen saw a risky £150 wager pay off last weekend while watching a reserve game in the North.

There is no sign of a jobs recovery in Kerry with increases in the number of people signing on the Live Register over three consecutive months, according to local Sinn Féin TD Martin Ferris.

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

There were 2,900 fewer people signing on last month, on a seasonally adjusted basis.

Friends of the investment banker's wife suspected of murdering her three young disabled children have told of her struggle to care for her family.

A Siptu economist has said it is unclear how much the fall in the unemployment rate announced today is due to new jobs, training or emigration.

There was a 31% increase in new jobs announced over the past six months compared with 2012, in what is a much better than expected recovery in the labour market, according to the employers’ group Ibec.

A lawyer for the producer of Michael Jackson’s “This Is It” concerts has told a Los Angeles jury Jackson died because of his own bad choices, not because of anything AEG Live did.

Michael Jackson's stylist told jurors that she tried to warn the singer's manager that concert promoter AEG Live would look responsible if the superstar died because of numerous signs his health was declining.

A corporate lawyer for concert giant AEG Live today revised his testimony and said the tour director of Michael Jackson’s ill-fated This Is It concerts had a signed contract.

Michael Jackson’s long-time make-up artist told a court she overhead an executive for concert promoter AEG Live insist that the singer rehearse, despite signs of his declining health.

Michael Jackson’s struggle against drug addiction was put on display during opening statements at his mother’s wrongful death case against concert promoter AEG Live.

Sharon Osbourne will testify in the Michael Jackson wrongful death trial, it has emerged.

Bon Jovi are to headline a newly announced festival which will be staged in London’s Hyde Park this summer.

Seasonally-adjusted figures have shown a small decrease in the number of people signing on the Live Register in December.

The runnin’ and hoppin’ and leppin’ — and, if you’re Irish, the punchin’ too — will doubtless hog the headlines in London for the next couple of weeks (with the old dopin’ likely to get a bit of a showing too) but, with 26 sports on offer at the Olympic Games, the unfamiliar, the esoteric and the borderline weird will also get their place in the sun and rain.

Part-time workers could see an easing of rules allowing them to supplement their income with welfare payments under proposals from an Oireachtas committee.

The Taoiseach has said dole queues are still too long, despite a reduction in the number signing on last month.

Terry Richardson’s book of photographs says little new about the megastar performer, Ian Forde reports

WITH news one week of potentially catastrophic job losses and the next of the latest tranche of inward investment creating new employment, getting an accurate picture of the jobs market is confusing, at best. So, what is going on?

ECONOMISTS have warned that more job losses are “inevitable” as Live Register figures for May show the highest monthly increase since July last year.

The number of people signing on is continuing to climb, with 457,948 people on the Live Register in June.

FEARS that jobless figures are on the rise again have intensified after the latest Live Register figures show an extra 1,100 people signed on in March.

The number of people signing on increased in December for the first time in four months.

TWENTY-EIGHT people joined the Live Register in Limerick every single day last month, according to a concerned local TD who is trying to highlight the growing number of jobless in the city.

Latest exchequer figures from the Department of Finance show tax receipts largely in line with what Finance Minister Brian Lenihan predicted on Budget day.

New Live Register figures are expected to show almost no change on the dole queues last month.

The dole queues have shortened for the first time since the recession began, according to Live Register figures released this morning.

A concert promoter’s insurance on Michael Jackson’s London shows has provisions that may deny a multi-million dollar payout if the pop star was found to have illegally possessed drugs or was involved in the “illicit taking of drugs”.

NEIGHBOURS say they will fight any move to turn Michael Jackson’s former home, Neverland, into a tourist destination.

MICHAEL JACKSON’S long-time lawyer and a family friend were given permission to take over running the singer’s estate by a judge last night.

BOB GELDOF last night said the upcoming Lisbon treaty referendum was “an amazing democratic responsibility” for Ireland as no other EU country was being allowed to vote on it.

The CSO has reported a sharp jump in the number of people claiming unemployment benefits last month.

The promoter of superstar Barbara Streisand's "sell-out" European tour in July is suing three agencies over thousands of seats that went unsold.

THIS is a little beauty — plain and simple.

The G8 leaders pledged today to lift Africa out of poverty and proposed a $60bn plan to fight Aids, tuberculosis and malaria.

The genius behind some of the best loved British comedy of the past four decades, will be guest speaker at this year’s annual Thomas Crosbie Holdings Ltd (TCH) dinner.

Rocker Jack Bruce has re-confirmed supergroup Cream are set to reunite for one more show, but insists it will not be at Live Earth.

The Central Statistics Office has reported a decrease of 2,400 in the number of people on the Live Register last month.

The Central Statistics Office has reported a slight increase in the number of people signing on the Live Register.

Model-turned-movie star Djimon Hounsou has joined forces with rocker Bono to kick start a new campaign to prompt African scholars to give back to their home continent.

AN online auction site was last night forced to take down sales of Live 8 tickets from its website.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern today welcomed positive news on the Irish economy which showed a fall in the numbers on the Live Register.