PETER COLLINS is from Westport, Co Mayo, and presents soccer, athletics, MotoGP, etc, for RTÉ.

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Contented and writing the best songs of his career, Lloyd Cole really is a merry old soul, says Joe Dermody

Blondie and Sinead O'Connor are among the 21 new acts which have been added to the Electric Picnic line-up today.

The line-up for one of the country’s leading music festivals has finally been announced with headline acts appealing, not only to the young, but also the young at heart.

Electric Picnic have announced their line-up for this year's festival in Stradbally, Co. Laois.

Kieran O’Mahony’s first vinyl album, in 1983, was the debut of music’s most enduring compilation.

HE WAS one of the great statesman of the latter half of the 20th century. But Nelson Mandela was also a hugely significant cultural figure.

Theatre - Pride and Prejudice

From the glittering new year’s ball dropping in New York’s Times Square to joyous fireworks in London and cheers in a once-isolated Asian country, the world did its best to ring in 2013 with hope for renewal after a year of economic uncertainty, searing violence and natural disasters.

Manic Street Preachers are preparing for the "final phase" of their career.

The last time The Horrors played Dublin, they terrified fans of Florence and the Machine, who had turned up early for her show at the O2.

Patsy Kensit is competing in 'Strictly Come Dancing' in the hope it will improve her confidence.

IT has outlived many of its most famous characters like the Red Cow roundabout and the Westlink toll bridge, so AA Roadwatch had plenty of reason to celebrate yesterday when it marked 21 years of broadcasting traffic updates to a congested nation.

MULTI-million album selling rock band Blondie have left thousands of Irish fans hanging by the telephone after scrapping plans for a live gig in Cork just hours before tickets went on sale.

One of the biggest and most glamorous birthday parties ever will take place in London as stars join Nelson Mandela for his 90th birthday concert.

Nelson Mandela is to make a rare public appearance in London next month for a Live Aid-style concert to mark his 90th birthday, it was announced today.

Patsy Kensit is set to marry for the fourth time.

Football fans will again be enlisted in the search for Madeleine McCann today, when a film of the missing girl is played at the FA Cup Final.

ONE of the country’s best loved arts shindigs, The Galway Arts Festival, was launched last night but the gloss was taken from the event with news that an alternative programme was to be announced by a fringe group unhappy with the official proceedings.

The Mexican government promised justice for British pop singer Kirsty MacColl today the night after U2 dedicated a song to her in a concert in the Mexican city of Monterrey.

Simple Minds have announced plans to play an extra date in Ireland next year.

British rock star Jim Kerr has slammed Bono for "shamefully sucking up" to leading politicians.

IT was a weekend for the purist and pop idol alike — a feast of music for everyone from groupies to grannies, rock babes to folkies.

Organisers of a leading British music festival are being inundated with requests from budding pop groups to appear on an “unsung heroes” stage in front of thousands of fans, it was revealed today.

Actress Patsy Kensit today launched a campaign to help new mothers get back into shape.

Recordings of stars such as U2 and Rod Stewart unearthed from radio archives are to be released for the first time in a multi-million pound record deal announced today.