Croke Park stadium manager Peter McKenna has claimed that Jim Gavin and other managers who’ve criticised the venue’s pitch have their facts wrong and are engaging in “deflection”.

Questions over how to fund the proposed events centre in Cork has left the project in limbo and the city still waiting for its first curtain call, writes Eoin English.

Dublin-born Fiachna Ó Braonáin, 53, is a guitarist with Hothouse Flowers.

Paul Rouse is an accidental academic, but a fascination with history deepened into a passion when it merged with his love of sport. His new book, ‘The Hurlers’, charts the birth of the modern game in that first All-Ireland final 131 years ago. He marvels at what a few visionary hurling men gave the country, but can’t help think that hurling has since failed at least half that country

Simone Collins is an actress from Dublin. She is playing Dorothy in Cork Opera House’s summer production of The Wizard of Oz (July 19 to August 26.

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The foursome arrived in Dublin earlier in the week and judging by their social media accounts they’ve been loving every minute.

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Umbrellas will not be allowed inside the venue and as this is an outdoor event please keep watch on the weather forecast and dress accordingly.

She calls it the beauty of ageing (or not caring what anyone else thinks) – midway through her 40s, Annmarie O’Connor finally feels at ease with herself and her style, so much so she’s just signed a modelling contract. Welcome to the new ‘middle age’.

A limited number of premium tickets from the venue and a limited number of pit tickets are also being released for sale.

A vanity case belonging to the fiancee of Michael Collins is to go under the auction hammer next month.

The Rolling Stones might have to wait a while to see if they get any satisfaction over their proposed May 17 concert at Croke Park, with residents of nearby residential areas signalling they will likely lodge an objection.

The Rolling Stones are being linked with plans to hold a fourth concert at Croke Park in Dublin this year.

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Carol O’Callaghan looks at the work of fashion designer turned interior designer Barbara Hulanicki. 

Sister Sledge lost one of their members earlier in the year, but the beat goes on for the disco-era heroines who play in Ireland this week, writes Ed Power

I’ve just finished reading a book that has made me realise there’s still a pile of stuff I don’t know about, writes Fergus Finlay

Warning: Cringe level will be high.

Ronnie O'Sullivan insisted he was "really not that bothered" about winning the Betfred World Championship for a sixth time after he reached the quarter-finals on Saturday with a 13-7 victory over Shaun Murphy.

While regarded as historic and celebratory occasions, not all US presidential inaugurations have passed off as the solemn state event desired, as Robert Hume describes.

The solo path being pursued by former Saturdays singer Una Foden is already paying dividends, with the cash at her entertainment firm increasing more than fourfold to €410,980.

Irish Olympic boxer Michael Conlan shows us around his Renault Kadjar

It’s not easy to eat your way through a baseball match.

From some of the world’s greatest galleries and museums, to the treasure-filled bookshops of Charing Cross Road, London is a city packed with choice for a city break says Suzanne Harrington.

As Bruce Springsteen brings his River tour to Ireland, Ed Power looks back on the 1980 album that suddenly feels so relevant again

Enya has not had a number one single in the UK in more than two decades, but that has not stopped the Irish star from landing a spot in The Sunday Times Rich List of music millionaires.

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As we mark the fiftieth anniversary of 1966, Jon Savage’s book pinpoints the year as the turning point of the sixties, a decade that divided the twentieth century into old world and new, says Alannah Hopkin.

The developers of the site where U2 recorded some of their albums have failed in their battle with Dublin City Council over a disputed Luas Red Line payment of almost €500,000.

In a crass attempt to reinforce a Boycott, Diversify and Sanction (BDS) campaign against Israel, Yousef Munayyer, executive director of the US campaign to end Israeli occupation made an outrageous anology with apartheid South Africa in order to dissuade actors attending the Oscars not to accept a gift bag containing trips to Israel (Irish Examiner, February 26).

Ed Power, talks soul, segregation and sense of family to Vintage Trouble’s front man

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

Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement, collectively known as Flight of the Conchords, are writing their very own movie.

LOVE him or loathe him, there is little doubt that the big band maestro James Last, who died yesterday, was a phenomenal worldwide success, both commercially and artistically.