Here's your summer events guide for the month of June, including all things music, arts and ents.

Concert promoter Peter Aiken admits that he will find it difficult to find a replacement site for Cork’s Live at the Marquee series once the land is developed for accommodation.

A dog found with a knife lodged in his neck has had to be put down after becoming "increasingly out of control" and aggressive towards rescuers.

From reformed pop icons to vintage rockers and singing showmen, there’s a lot to look forward to in live music in 2019. Here, in chronological order, Ed Power looks at some of the highlights.

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The song holds a special place in Shauna’s heart as her father used to sing it to her when she was little.

Aslan were the only artists to appear twice in the top 10 with 'Crazy World' and 'This Is'.

The man who brought huge international singers like Jon Bon Jovi and Paul Heaton to his tiny pub in Co Meath over the last 10 years will pull his last pint on New Year's Eve.

Viewers and fans praised the star for his bravery, honesty and overall inspiration.

Gibert O’Sullivan, Tommy Tiernan, and a wealth of opera, musicals, and theatre are just some of the highlights at Cork Opera House this year.

The Late Late Show airs this Friday from 9.35pm on RTÉ 1.

The seaside village of Ardmore in Co Waterford will be the place to be this week as the annual summer Pattern Festival gets under way.

With last years line-up including such names as The Stunning, Aslan, Paddy Casey and Delorentos, this year’s 8th anniversary is one not to be missed.

Chemotherapy has allowed the Aslan singer to get back gigging, and he intends to make the most of every moment, writes Ed Power

A man who had watched beheadings by Muslim extremists on television painted the slogan “murderers out” on a takeaway run by a Pakistani family.

An eclectic mix of music at this year’s Guinness Jazz Festival is drawing in the crowds and making the festival a hit with fans of all genres of music.

Irish broadcasting was plunged into mourning yesterday with the passing of DJ Tony Fenton, after a battle with prostate cancer.

ABOUT 25 children turned up with their teddy bears in Dublin’s Smock Alley Theatre recently. They wanted to see if their teddy had the X-factor — was he a team player and willing to muck in and tour Ireland with a play supporting Barnardos?

For the first time in a long time I’ve actually been genuinely entertained by the Late Late Show.

Award-winning TV chef Neven Maguire will rustle up some delicious delights in Cork this week to help launch a fundraising cookbook featuring the favourite recipes of an array of Irish celebrities.

U2 frontman Bono will lend his voice to the fundraising campaign for the medical bills of Aslan singer Christy Dignam — even though he will be in New York.

JANUARY

Two days to the final of the Ladbrokes Irish Derby final and a total absence of any negative stories concerning the finalists.

Essex police called off a high-profile search for what witnesses had said was a mysterious lion that appeared, apparently out of nowhere, in a field near the seaside resort of Clacton.

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LET’S get this straight from the off, the National league matters.

Lucy (Georgie Henley) and Edmund (Skandar Keynes) suffer a miserable stay with stuffy cousin, Eustace Scrubb (Will Poulter).

Liam Neeson is in talks to star in survival drama 'The Grey'.

Liam Neeson is being lined up to star in ‘Flying Tigers’.

ROCK band front man, Christy Dignam, has spoken of how his sexual abuse as a child contributed to his heroin addiction as an adult.

Prince Caspian (Ben Barnes), heir to the Telmarine throne, escapes an assassination attempt orchestrated by his despicable uncle Miraz (Sergio Castellitto) and sidekick General Glozelle (Pierfrancesco Favino).

IT’S all hands on deck to ensure everything is shipshape for Ireland’s largest sailing regatta next week.

Stand by for the summer’s major blockbuster, the second Narnia film from the books by NI-born C.S. Lewis.

Ulster actor Liam Neeson is certainly being heard just about everywhere.

Westlife walked away with the Best Irish Pop Act for the eighth year in a row at tonight’s Meteor Irish Music Awards in Dublin.

FAMED by a certain generation of Dubliners as one of the city’s great live music venues, a new version of the Baggot Inn opened to a different fanfare last night.

More adventures - and action-packed troubles - for the Pevensie children will get under way in February when the much-awaited The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian starts shooting.

SCHOOLS, bars and sports clubs are among hundreds of venues being used to promote our native language when Seachtain na Gaeilge kicks off this weekend.

Tourism chiefs hope the big screen success of The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe will attract visitors to Northern Ireland to savour the scenery which inspired CS Lewis, it emerged today.

The big screen movie of The Chronicles of Narnia left cinema audiences spellbound this weekend taking in over €1m in three days.

WITH yesterday’s release of the film version of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the marketing push to promote the sale of Narnia books and other related merchandise is reaching a crescendo in the US — and nowhere more so than in Christian retail stores.

Liverpool start Peter Crouch tonight, as Damien Duff returns from injury to start on the bench for Chelsea. Here are tonight's Champions League teams.