Live music: James, The Olympia, Dublin

At 88, the iconic theatre’s barmaid tells Margaret Carragher about the many stars she met, and how she bizarrely hid eight kids from the boss

The organisers of the Owners’ Pony and Young Riders Show are aiming to celebrate raising €250,000 for charity at Millstreet this weekend.

Ireland's Cian O'Connor won today's opening competition at London Olympia's five-star show, just as he had won the closing competition of 2009 at the same venue.

Steve Bruce has admitted Birmingham have to become more knowledgeable about the European transfer market.

A limited number of concert tickets for REM’s packed five-night Dublin showcase will be sold to combat ticket touts, organisers announced today.

FANS of rock giants REM were last night warned they could be refused entry to the band’s Dublin sold-out shows if they buy one of 122 stolen tickets.

A charity concert to help 148,000 Irish poverty-hit children is a sell-out, it emerged today.

Chelsea chief executive Peter Kenyon has warned the Football Association to forget making an approach for Jose Mourinho as they begin the hunt for the next England manager.

IT had been standing for over a century but yesterday the famous cast iron and glass canopy at the front of Dublin’s oldest surviving theatre came crashing down.

Mundy is to perform a gig at The Olympia Theatre on Friday, December 3, it was revealed today.

A number of Dublin theatres and nightclubs are reportedly planning to appeal last week’s court ruling forcing them to stop selling alcohol at 3am.