Chernobyl crusaders Adi Roche and Ali Hewson are taking several core donors who helped sustain their charity during the recession on a fact-finding mission to the nuclear disaster-affected region today.

Accumulated losses at the ethical clothing company controlled by Bono and Ali Hewson soared to $74.3m (€67.2m) last year.

Noel Baker samples the laid-back atmosphere in Skibbereen’s luxury haunt for visiting celebrities. Even Luke Skywalker has been a guest...

Ali Hewson has revealed she uses any spare opportunity with husband Bono to try and persuade him to listen to certain matters of concern before he meets world leaders: “We have the odd bit of pillow talk. We have a board meeting occasionally over breakfast.”

Fairly-traded clothing can be a bit muesli, but Paula Burns finds some great sustainable threads that abide by the fundamentals of fashion — beautiful things you’ll want to wear

The four-star boutique hotel in Dublin co-owned by U2 recorded profits of €400,000 last year.

Adi Roche and Ali Hewson have been presented with a global humanitarian award.

Adi Roche and Ali Hewson will receive the Princess Grace Humanitarian Award from Prince Albert in Monaco tonight in recognition of their work in helping thousands of children affected by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.

Bono's chances of playing guitar again are "not looking good".

Losses continued to mount last year at the ethical clothing company founded by Bono and his wife, Ali Hewson.

Older women who wear make-up look younger and are considered to be more competent and more trustworthy, but it must be applied properly, says Margaret Jennings.

Two directors at Adi Roche’s Chernobyl Children’s charity have dipped into their own pockets to shore up the charity’s finances by giving it €319,000.

U2’s four-star boutique hotel, the Clarence, has had “a great year” in 2014 after recording the fourth successive year of profits last year.

Simone Rocha has been named as one of the hottest young design stars in the world by fashion bible, Vogue.

George Clooney's stag night involved two bottles of tequila and a €320 bottle of red wine.

Women of the world — it’s over. George Clooney is off the market.

Bono and Rihanna had front-row seats as his wife’s ethical fashion range Edun unveiled its spring collection at New York Fashion Week.

Losses continued to mount last year at the ethical clothing company founded by Bono and his wife, Ali Hewson.

And not just because she pranks Justin Timberlake.

Eve Hewson has followed Oscar winners Jennifer Lawrence and Lupita Nyong’o into the exclusive Hollywood club of actors tipped for stardom by the acting bible Variety.

Actress Eve Hewson has revealed how she told her famous father, Bono, to stick with his day job as a rockstar when he suggested following in her acting footsteps.

It’s quite a few miles from Saint Tropez and the Côte d’Azur but the tiny village of Quin in Co Clare is fast gaining a reputation as the celebrity holiday destination of 2014.

JANUARY

The owners of the four-star Clarence Hotel, which include Bono and the Edge, are not proceeding with a High Court action against a refusal by Dublin City Council to extend planning permission for a €150m proposal to transform the premises.

Profits at the four-star Clarence Hotel — co-owned by U2’s Bono and The Edge — last year decreased by 35% to €73,442.

The finances of Adi Roche’s Chernobyl Children’s charity last year continued to worsen forcing two of its own directors to dip into their own pockets to give the charity €150,000.

Family and friends of Nobel Laureate poet Seamus Heaney have gathered with his contemporaries and dignitaries to pay last respects to one Ireland’s literary greats.

IN A POLL carried out on over 1,300 women by mycelebrityfashion.co.uk, Charlie’s Angels actress Demi Moore came out on top as the celebrity ageing most gracefully.

Losses continued to mount last year at the ethical clothing company founded by Bono and his wife Ali Hewson.

US first lady Michelle Obama and her daughters have enjoyed a private guided tour of the Wicklow Mountains National Park as their whistlestop tour of Ireland draws to a close.

Ali Hewson believes EDUN's collaboration with Diesel is "thoughtful and sexy".

Bono’s wife Ali Hewson has sustained broken ribs in a quad bike accident on a beach in Costa Rica, where the celebrity couple and some of their children are holidaying.

With the director Stephen Spielberg ending up in a bidding war with his wife for one of the items at the charity auction, it was no wonder the event raised more than €250,000 towards the building of a hospice in Wicklow — and they are still counting.

From fashion designers to actors and businesswomen to models, the next generation of young Irish people has thrown up some significant talent across a range of professions. These young people are among a pool of highly-accomplished achievers whose remarkable successes to date are bucking recessionary trends and putting their country back on the map.

Glenda Gilson and Paul McGrath.

It seems the 'tall, dark and handsome' cliche really is what women prefer.

Bono and Ali Hewson’s youngest daughter Eve was shocked when her parents gave her an unusual 21st birthday present at her coming of age party in a glitzy Las Vegas club.

Bono has recorded a duet of Lady Gaga's 'Telephone' with his wife Ali Hewson.

Leading names from the world of art and culture gathered in Dublin over the weekend to celebrate the life and works of the late artist, Louis le Brocquy.