So, this lovely image of Bob Marley adorning Bohemians’ new away strip: Does it mean that, next season, when it’s nil-nil late on and the opposition score, we will be entitled to refer to the goal as “breaking the dreadlock”?

Forget VAR. Forget writing off Germans. Forget In-ger-land. Forget Fifa conspiracies and dodgy Bob Marley cover versions. The World Cup takes a back seat tonight as the League of Ireland springs back to life with a top-of-the-table clash at Oriel Park.

Last week, with Australia having scored 138 runs for the loss of two wickets on the first day of the second Ashes test at the Adelaide Oval, four of the game’s most respected minds and former practitioners stood on the pitch and debated what hope, if any, there was for the future of Test cricket.

River Matthews is a singer/ songwriter from Surrey, and tours Ireland next week with dates at Fred Zepplins in Cork (Wed); Roisin Dubh, Galway (Thurs); and Whelan’s in Dublin (Fri).

Des O’Driscoll shares his top top entertainment news

Darcus Beese worked his way up at Island Records from teaboy to president. Along the way, he discovered everyone from Amy Winehouse to Hozier. Now he’s coming to Ireland for the inaugural Music Cork record industry seminar, writes Ed Power.

Explore, the adventure travel specialists, has launched eight brand new ‘Explore Beyond’ trips, which offer cruising through the tropical waters of West Papua, exploring the remote villages of the Ivory Coast or experiencing the Adivasi Tribal Fair in east India. 

The fight to control narcotics in Central America has cost more than 40,000 lives. Des Breen reads two books which expose the vicious reality behind the war on drugs.

Dirk Powell is from Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, and has family roots in the mountains of Kentucky.

God Knows is one third of Rusangano Family, alongside MuRli and Mynameisj0hn. The group play the Sudden Club Weekender tonight at the Kino Cork. Other acts over the weekend include Rozi Plain and The Altered Hours.

As the hype grows for Oasis: Supersonic, Declan Burke offers a personal selection of its predecessors in the genre

Good morning. Here’s everything you need to know before you start your day.

It’s a paradise island where they speak English and offer a variety of vacation ideas like no other. And it doesn’t warrant its reputation as being dangerous, writes Isabel Conway.

Rock is preoccupied with sex. Chuck Berry was a sex addict whose only American No. 1 was about playing with his penis. Rock music is lawless and Berry went to prison twice, writes Chuck Klosterman

Right at the height of his global fame, Billy Ocean walked away from the music business, preferring to spend time with his family. He tells Ed Power why he did it

It may have changed name from the Impac, but the International Dublin Literary Award is still one of the most lucrative in the world. Alan O’Riordan reveals the shortlist for the €100,000 prize

Damien Dempsey is from Donaghmede in Dublin, and his musical influences include traditional sean-nós, as well as his heroes, Bob Marley and Elvis Presley. Upcoming gigs include Cork Opera House, next Friday, April 1; and the National Opera House, Wexford, on April 2.

Forget X-factor or The Voice: 11-year-old busker extraordinaire Milo McCarthy only has helping other people on his mind as he topped the €7,000 mark to aid refugees.

Sick of making the same old stuff on the barbecue? Here’s Roz Crowley’s ‘cut out and keep’ guide to sexing up your barbie

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Republic of Ireland striker Shane Long has been filmed performing a Bob Marley classic recently.

CORK-BASED artist Suzy O’Mullane has a performance/video/sound event at The Guesthouse, Cork, with Harry Moore on Saturday at 3pm. She will also have a solo exhibition entitled ‘There Was Nothing Good About Good Friday’ at the Origin Gallery in Dublin from March 12.

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REGGAE music has been an important force in the life of the poet and troubadour Gearóid Mac Lochlainn. In next week’s episode of TG4’s Ceolchuairt series, he travels to Jamaica to explore the music’s roots, which played as a soundtrack to his youth.

A US private equity firm has joined the family of late reggae star Bob Marley in hopes of building what it calls the “world’s first global cannabis brand”.

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Five years after his death, singer Michael Jackson is generating a fortune and is the top-earning dead celebrity, raking in an estimated $140m (€109m) in the past year for his estate, Forbes said.

LIAM Ó Maonlaí fretted it wouldn’t work. He loves Irish but, when asked to be involved in a project translating the work of Bob Marley into the language, was immediately wary. Could Marley’s distinctive marriage of the spiritual and the earthy survive conversion to an alien tongue? Ó Maonlaí was concerned the answer might be in the negative.

Our suggestions for five things to do this week.

Alex Gibney tells Don O’Mahony about his documentaries on an Irish massacre and the most interesting man in music

Music-lovers across the world mourned when Bob Marley died in 1981 aged just 36. Now – 33 years later – scientists have unlocked some of the secrets to the rare form of skin cancer that killed him.

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Blues, soul, R&B, pop, gentle acoustics, raucous rip-roaring rock numbers, reggae — and whatever you’re having yourself.

A music company has lost a High Court fight with a rival over the rights to 13 Bob Marley songs.

Two music companies are waiting to hear who has won a High Court row over the rights to 13 Bob Marley songs.

We thought we'd seen enough BOD tributes, and the best of them. We were wrong.

LIKE a continuous loop, Damien Dempsey can’t separate his song-writing from singing. “Both come quite naturally. I can’t image one without the other,” he says in his hallmark Dublin accent.

U2 are to go back to their spiritual home by returning to the record label that discovered them in the 1970s.