The festival, now in its sixth year, takes place in Marlay Park from July 13 -16.

The first round of acts are as follows.

The wife of Westminster attacker Khalid Masood has said she is "saddened and shocked" by the atrocity, saying she "condemns" his actions.

North Korea has denied that its agents masterminded the assassination of the half-brother of leader Kim Jong Un, saying a Malaysian investigation into the death is full of "holes and contradictions".

British police have arrested five people on suspicion of preparing acts of terrorism as part of an investigation which a security source said was linked to the attacks in Paris and Brussels.

EU struggles to understand what drives people to join terror cells, writes Sorcha Ní Coileain

Suicide bombers who blew themselves up in Brussels were originally considering an attack on a nuclear site in Belgium, but arrests started last week may have forced them to switch to targets in the Belgian capital, the DH newspaper said.

One of the suicide bombers behind Tuesday’s terror attack left a note on a computer claiming he was being “hunted everywhere”.

Malaysia has found 139 graves, and signs of torture, in more than two dozen squalid human trafficking camps suspected to have been used by gangs smuggling migrants across the border with Thailand, the country’s police chief said.

The Malaysian military claims it has radar evidence showing that the missing Boeing 777 plane changed course and made it to the Malacca Strait.

Two men travelling with stolen passports on a missing Malaysia Airlines plane were Iranians who had bought tickets to Europe and were probably not terrorists, according to officials.

The Pennsylvania woman who called herself Jihad Jane and a teenage accomplice from Maryland provided “very significant” assistance to US authorities in several terrorism investigations, but still remain a threat to the public, prosecutors say in new court filings.

Former Pakistani military ruler Pervez Musharraf has been placed under house arrest after being arrested over a case involving his decision to fire senior judges while in power.

Three men have been found guilty of leading a terrorist bomb plot that could have been bigger than the Jul 7 atrocities.

Three British men planned to detonate rucksacks packed with explosives in a major suicide assault that could have been more devastating than co-ordinated attacks that killed more than 50 people in London in 2005, a court has heard.

Afghan president Hamid Karzai is moving to replace the country's intelligence chief and the ministers of defence and interior.

Pakistani police have arrested a man accused of burying his newborn daughter alive because she was physically deformed.

David Lanigan is slightly concerned about the prospect of testing conditions for his Investec Derby runner-up Main Sequence ahead of the Grand Prix de Paris at Longchamp on Saturday evening.

In spring 1973, a brand new housing estate in Riverstown, Glanmire, was devastated by flooding.

A third person arrested as part of an Irish-American investigation into an alleged Islamic terror plot has pleaded guilty to terrorism charges.

Osama bin Laden spent his last weeks in a house divided, amid wives riven by suspicions.

HIPPO In The House by Lisa Regan, illustrated by Kelly Byrne (Bloomsbury; €5.92) is one of the Wild Things series, which introduce the very young to zoo animals.

Two civilians were killed when a motorcycle-rickshaw packed with explosives blew up as it was driving through the outskirts of southern Afghanistan’s main city today, officials said.

PAKISTANI authorities still have three of Osama bin Laden’s wives and eight of his children in custody, a week after the US raid that killed the Saudi terrorist leader.

A team of elite American commandos slid down ropes from helicopters into the compound where Osama bin Laden was hiding before shooting the al-Qaida leader in the head after he opened fire on them, US officials revealed.

CITIES across the Western world are on high alert this morning as fears mount that extremists are preparing to exact bloody revenge for the killing of Osama bin Laden.

A SUICIDE bomber blew himself up outside a textile factory yesterday in a crowd that gathered after two car bombings at the same spot in the worst of a series of attacks that killed at least 84 people across Iraq, the deadliest day this year.

Dozens of people were killed today when two car bombs and a suicide bomber struck outside a textile factory.

A Canadian man pleaded guilty to his role in a homegrown terror plot that heightened fears in a country where many people thought they were relatively immune from terrorist strikes.

A lawyer for a Canadian man accused in a terrorist bomb plot said his client has pleaded guilty.

Iraqi police and medical officials said a that car bomb in a crowded cattle market south of Baghdad this morning killed 10 people and injured 45 others.

A suicide bomber attacked a meeting today of pro-government Sunni sheikhs west of Baghdad, killing at least 23 people, including three US Marines.

Afghan officials say military operations have cleared Taliban militants from the villages they had infiltrated outside of southern Afghanistan’s largest city.

A suicide bombing at an outdoor dog fighting competition killed 80 people and wounded scores more today, an Afghan governor said, in what appeared to be the deadliest terror attack in Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban in 2001.

Gunmen kidnapped an American aid worker and her driver as they travelled through southern Afghanistan early today, a provincial governor said.

An express train crowded with holiday travellers derailed in Pakistan early today, killing at least 50 people and injuring many more, officials said.

Andre Fabre has an eighth Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe success in his sights after Manduro proved his stamina over a mile and a half in the Prix Foy at Longchamp.

Iraqi police today found the body of a man floating in the Euphrates River who was wearing what appeared to be a US military uniform.

THE Taliban’s most prominent military commander, a one-legged fighter who orchestrated an ethnic massacre and a rash of beheadings, was killed in a US-led military operation in southern Afghanistan, officials said yesterday.

A suicide bomber detonated explosives next to Afghan soldiers in an eastern market today, killing one soldier and wounding three, an official said.

A suicide bomber drove up to an American convoy in eastern Afghanistan and blew himself up today, leaving one Afghan civilian dead and two others wounded, police said.

Airstrikes by Nato helicopters hunting Taliban fighters ripped through three dried mud homes in southern Afghanistan as villagers slept, killing at least nine civilians, including women and children, said residents and the provincial governor.

Khalid Boulahrouz admits he is a ferocious competitor but rejects the idea he is one of football’s hatchetmen.