Waterford defender Tadhg de Búrca believes playing in Division 1A of the Allianz Hurling League this year helped to ensure the Déise didn’t lack motivation during the spring.

Last year’s young hurler of the year. Tadhg de Búrca, is one of 10 stellar talents honoured in the annual sports awards, to be presented tonight by University College, Cork.

US investors are buying European commercial property at a record pace as the dollar’s eight-month rally and struggling economies on the continent make offices, shops and warehouses cheap. 

Lil' Chris has died aged 24.

Pop stars including One Direction and Adele have had their emails hacked.

Pharrell Williams’ hit Happy has brought further joy to his music bosses by pulling off a rare sales feat.

Clodagh Shorten’s Samui boutique in Cork has pulled off quite the coup by becoming the first Irish stockist of Danielle Romeril.

Country singer Slim Whitman, the high-pitched yodeller who sold millions of records through TV ads in the 1980s and 1990s and whose song saved the world in the film comedy “Mars Attacks!”, has died in Florida aged 90.

Three days after her shock exit from the XFactor, Simon Cowell has offered Ella Henderson a record deal.

Will the real David Bowie please stand up?

AFTER 14 years and 26 top-10 hits, Westlife are to bow out following a farewell tour next year.

DIANA VICKERS is not your typical X Factor graduate.

Justin Timberlake was drafted in to ensure Jamie Foxx’s upcoming album has hits.

Whitney Houston has postponed a further three concerts in her European tour after being hospitalised in France.

Kings of Leon were so determined to keep the band in the family, they "kidnapped" their cousin and forced their younger brother to learn guitar.

David Thorpe, the chairman of the Racecourse Association in the UK, believes sponsorship for this year could be down 40% as the recession filters through and impacts on the racing industry.

Tonight’s race meeting at Kempton is set to go ahead despite the return of foot-and-mouth disease just miles from the Surrey course.

Kelly Clarkson refused to scrap material for her latest album My December on the orders of label boss Clive Davis, because she didn't want to be a "pushover".

American Idol judge Simon Cowell has jumped to the defence of Kelly Clarkson, insisting she deserves the opportunity to try some of her own ideas for her forthcoming album 'My December'.

Simon Clarke has resigned as vice chairman and director of the Racecourse Association following the announcement of the sale of Northern Racing.

The drawn-out sale of British state-owned horseracing bookmaker the Tote looked to have suffered a further delay today after a crucial Government meeting on the £400m (€588.75m) deal was cancelled.

Exeter International Airport has been sold in a £60m (€89m) deal, it was announced today.

Christina Aguilera laughed when she heard record label executives who refused to offer her music deals as an unknown singer later lost their jobs.

A BRITISH singer has signed for one of the world’s biggest record labels after webcasting gigs from her living room.

A multi-million-pound British High Court dispute between broadcaster At The Races and British racecourse owners has been settled.

Attheraces and the Racecourse Association have come to an agreement to end proceedings that had been heard in the High Court since the beginning of last week.

The studio where Elvis Presley recorded Heartbreak Hotel is being torn down.

Pop singer Dannii Minogue has signed her fourth record deal in 14 years - just months after Warner Records axed her.

The British Office of Fair Trading has concluded that the collective sale of the media rights for 49 racecourses to attheraces was against competition rules.

The media consortium attheraces has terminated its £307m (€447m) TV rights deal with the Racecourse Association.

SAM PHILLIPS, who discovered Elvis Presley and helped usher in the rock’n’roll revolution, died yesterday at St Francis’ Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee aged 80.

Sam Phillips, who discovered Elvis Presley and helped usher in the rock 'n' roll revolution, has died.

THE funeral took place in Clonakilty, Co Cork, yesterday of Noel Redding, the man who played bass with one of rock’s most famous outfits, the Jimi Hendrix Experience.

Waylon Jennings has died after battling diabetes-related health problems.

Spice Girl Emma Bunton is celebrating her first solo number one single after knocking Hear'Say off the top of the charts.

Racing's immediate future in the face of the outbreak of foot and mouth disease remains in the balance following a meeting of racing's rulers.

The media rights deal between Go Racing and the Racecourse Association is a step closer tonight.