They have the outfits, they have the signature moves, they have even mastered the Daniel ‘wink’.

He isn’t the only performer struggling with the fast pace of technology and the effects that streaming have had on the recording industry.

Introducing the Pelfie.

"I feel Daniel O'Donnell's Yes stance in the Gay Marriage Referendum was directly opposed to the Catholic Church here,”

Some people see Pope Francis as a “global religious star”, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin said when discussing the pontiff’s pastoral visit to Ireland next month.

It is said that more than 80 thousand people will attend the event.

Here are all the latest headlines this lunchtime...

A 12-year jail sentence was imposed on the main man behind a cocaine factory in Kinsale, while a local woman who was his girlfriend was jailed for seven years.

Any suggestion that the election of Donald Trump or that the 52/48 Brexit, vote could not have been achieved without the support of a cohort of ignorant, poorly educated voters would be dismissed as the kind of patronising arrogance that means Hilary Clinton can spend more time with her granddaughter Charlotte than she had anticipated and that David Cameron, at just 51, is free to write his autobiography, to give a “frank” account of his premiership.

The special also proved popular with younger audiences achieving a 30% share of adults between 15-and-34-years-old.

We're not sure country music fan will be happy about this.

Packie Bonner’s penalty save at Italia ‘90 was voted as our favourite Irish moment in a survey on Ireland’s Irishness.

Awkward.

The underworld has always held a fascination for mankind. From the fabulous Cave of Swallows in Mexico featured on David Attenborough’s Planet Earth to the Lascaux Caves in France which has elaborate paintings of animals from 17,000 years ago.

A national treasure, the Donegal crooner has won the hearts of a new generation of millennials thanks to a mix of reality TV shows and quirky boiler ads, writes Caomhan Keane.

Carol O’Callaghan previews some up-coming craft fairs to keep us shopping for the next few weeks.

Viewers will also meet some of Ireland’s young carers and chat about Ireland’s teenage mental health issues.

Having shot to fame on TV3's Gogglebox Ireland last year, a tea cosy in the likeness of our President quickly became the must-have household item in Ireland.

Nathan Carter has a new TV show starting on Sunday and a big gig lined up in Dublin in the spring. Life sure is good, he tells Ed Power

With a Congolese heritage and a penchant for electronic r’n’b, Dublin singer Soulé is being hailed as one of the leading lights of an emerging scene in Ireland, writes Ed Power

A successful business making pens which have been bought by famous people around the globe was almost bankrupted by an uncle of the two teenage entrepreneurs.

Accumulated profits at the entertainment firm owned by singer Daniel O’Donnell fell €130,000 last year to €2.73m.

The Irish Red Cross has revealed that it lost ambulances and life-saving equipment worth €250,000 in the floods that devastated parts of Co Donegal last month.

Daniel O’Donnell has taken to Facebook to set the record straight after hackers tried to set up a bogus account using his name. The singer has more than 82,500 followers on his Facebook feed.

If a well-known beer did ringside seats, they would probably be like this — right in front of the cattle ring with a freshly-poured pint in one hand and a cigarette in the other.

Every year the programme attracts thousands of viewers and stands as their most popular special, next to the Toy Show of course.

They may rail against the Donegal jokes, but Little Hours are proud to be spoken of as their home county’s next big thing in the music world, writes Ed Power.

Here's your evening update.

Your home viewing entertainment wrap for the week ahead, with Des O’Driscoll.

Moving an adult with an intellectual disability out of congregated settings “works for the vast majority of people” says minister of state with responsibility for disability, Finian McGrath, who added he is very much committed to the policy.

Mrs Brown’s Boys star Rory Cowan has vowed to keep using Twitter despite being falsely accused of being a paedophile on the social network.

2016 will go down in history as a year which saw enormous change.

Graham Norton or The Late Late Show? You decide.

A battle over the Eighth will make other referendum campaigns look like a Daniel O’Donnell tea party, writes Michael Clifford

Thank crunchie it’s Friday.

We look at five big events going on around the country.

For the past five years, she has wowed audiences in community halls and theatres all over Co Cork — now a middle-aged, control-freak housewife from West Cork is the star of a new film.

Good afternoon. Here’s all the news you need to know this lunchtime.

Nathan Carter has caught a wave with his catchy, genre-busting, tunes and his fame is going to continue growing this summer, writes Ed Power