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Des O’Driscoll shares the latest news from the world of entertainment.

A couple may have part of their 1,600 acre farm sold to pay a €352,000 debt to a grain merchant by order of the High Court.

"I was ready to ram her face into her own spaghetti."

Blondie have come up with a novel solution to the creative lethargy that often bedevils a band deep into their career. 

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All the latest news from the world of showbiz

First-time novelist Morrissey has won the most unwanted prize in writing, a bad-sex-in-fiction award.

We bring you a round up of all the latest news and reviews from the world of entertainment. 

From movies to music, food to fashion, our critics pick the best on offer this autumn.

We bring you a round up of all the latest news and reviews from the world of entertainment.

Johnny Marr and Paul Weller want to record a song together.

CATE BLANCHETT was not impressed when an interviewer suggested she looked like the kind of Aussie girl who would like to crack open a beer with him.

The Stone Roses, Led Zeppelin and Blur have all reformed in recent times and the rock nostalgia market is way more lucrative for bands than actually releasing music.

What is immediately apparent on Johnny Marr’s new record is that there are elements of all the stages of his career dictating proceedings.

MUSIC NEWS:

The original line-up of The Smiths could take to the stage again after they were listed as one of 15 possible new members of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Morrissey is being treated for cancer — but insists he’s not afraid of death.

Morrissey is being treated for cancer.

Chart star Morrissey claims he has been dropped by his record label less than a month after releasing his first new album for five years, which charted highly around the world.

Chart star Morrissey claims he has been snubbed by TV stations around the world, despite having a new album which has charted highly in numerous countries.

Pop veteran Cliff Richard is playing a free solo gig in New York after a planned appearance in the city supporting Morrissey was cancelled when the former Smiths frontman fell ill.

Morrissey has cancelled the remainder of his US tour after collapsing and being taken to hospital.

Morrissey has been forced to cancel the remaining dates of his US tour.

GIG WISE: The countdown has begun for Live at the Marquee in Cork, with young whippersnapper Cliff Richard kicking it all off on Monday, June 9, followed by the equally youthful Dolly Parton (June 12).

Chart star Morrissey has revealed he has been approached to appear on Radio 4’s rural soap The Archers.

For almost 50 years BBC’s Grandstand show defined Saturday afternoons in the UK and it came to do something similar here in Ireland for many of us once the signal for the British channels began to be picked up beyond the east coast.

Cliff Richard won't stop eating meat when he supports Morrissey on his US tour.

Controversial chart star Morrissey has branded the Duke of Cambridge a “thickwit” for taking part in a hunting trip the day before launching a campaign to save endangered animals.

Most gardaí would probably run a mile from a courthouse while off-duty.

The Smiths' former drummer Mike Joyce insists he will never read Morrissey's autobiography.

Former Smiths frontman Morrissey is “mid-way” through writing a novel after the success of his memoirs, which topped the best-seller charts last year.

JANUARY

Letters sent by the fugitive leader of a mysterious property trust to a bank in relation to a €51m development loan have been dismissed as “nonsense” in the High Court.

Morrissey

Famously private singer Morrissey has disclosed details of how his first relationship with a man came in his 30s and told how he later discussed becoming a father with a close female companion.

The Would Be’s are a cautionary tale for young musicians everywhere.

MUSIC NEWS: In recent years, Morrissey has been battered by ill-health and dogged by lack of record company support, but his forthcoming autobiography is still the most eagerly anticipated rock book in years.

Thirty-five thousand music and arts lovers packed the Stradbally estate in Co Laois for last weekend’s Electric Picnic.

JOHNNY MARR has stopped running from the past. Ten years ago, the ex-Smiths guitarist refused to play his old songs on tour. When he visited Dublin’s Academy, last March, he led his band through half a dozen Smiths standards; for his encore rendering of ‘How Soon Is Now?’, grown men were hugging.

MUSIC NEWS: Back in April, Frank ‘Poncho’ Sampedro told Rolling Stone magazine that his band Crazy Horse were too old to tour with Neil Young.

THE CURSE of MasterChef? It’s the opposite, says John Torode, as the eighth series of Celebrity MasterChef returns to television last Wednesday night.