Headline acts for next month’s Guinness Cork Jazz Festival include the Coronas, Gary Numan, and The Drifters.

With whispers their marriage of political convenience had hit a rough patch, Enda and Joan decided to publicly renew their vows to each other — and the Tánaiste even wore white for the occasion.

Tina Mcintyre is attacked on Coronation Street and The Good Wife returns in an unfortunately late slot on RTE.

GIG WISE: The countdown has begun for Live at the Marquee in Cork, with young whippersnapper Cliff Richard kicking it all off on Monday, June 9, followed by the equally youthful Dolly Parton (June 12).

More than 1,000 musicians from 22 countries will descend on Cork for the annual Guinness Jazz Festival, delivering 400 performances at 50 venues over the October Bank Holiday weekend.

Cork Opera House is set to swing and jive to the sounds of top jazz acts for the first time in three years as it takes centre stage again for this year’s jazz festival.

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IT has hosted some of the biggest names in jazz, but Cork Opera House will be without a headline act next month following a row between Ireland’s biggest drinks companies.

Oscar Peterson, whose early talent and speedy fingers made him one of the world’s best known jazz pianists, has died, it was reported today. He was 82.

IF turning 30 years of age is the new 21, then Cork’s Guinness Jazz Festival has come of age all over again — despite its humble origins in a card-game tournament.

ONE of Europe’s most renowned jazz festivals, the Cork Guinness Jazz Festival, will celebrate its 30th year with a line-up featuring a mix of traditional jazz styles.

Romano Mussolini, a jazz musician and painter who was a son of Italy’s World War II dictator Benito Mussolini, has died, his daughter said today.

FOR what seemed like the first time all weekend only the Guinness was pouring as die-hard revellers got ready for a fourth night of jiving at the Cork Jazz Festival.

FRENCH singer Sacha Distel died in the south of France yesterday, aged 71. He had been ill for some time.

Sacha Distel, who switched from jazz guitar to singing and won millions of women fans around the world, died in the south of France today, aged 71. He had been ill for some time.

Jazz bassist Ray Brown has died at the age of 75.