All profits from the event will be used to provide Christmas dinner for homeless people in Clare on December 25.

High walls hide a hive of activity as builders on stilts expertly plaster and polish what will be Cork Penny Dinners' brand new day centre in the city.

It's a mixed bag for Electric Picnic attendees but GAA fans should be happy with the forecast for Sunday's All-Ireland final.

The wait is finally over!

Following the State's longest-running murder trial, the pair will speak about their father and the sentencing of Patrick Quirke on tomorrow night's programme.

Wild Youth have been widely tipped as the country’s next big thing. They tell Ed Power about their unashamed pop leanings and what they learnt from touring with Niall Horan.

In 2017, they emerged with “All or Nothing”, which stormed to the top of the Spotify Viral Charts.

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With a new album out today and a viral hit, thanks to X Factor, Ed Power finds Kodaline in a happy place.

Picture this: A couple of thousand young women and men, in their late teens and early 20s, all crammed excitedly into a giant tent in search of romance, or at the very least, the shift.

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Founder of the Happiness Research Institute, Meik Wiking, has spent the past five years delving into what makes societies smile, writes Deirdre Reynolds

Not bad. Not bad at all.

The official launch of Dublin's New Year's festival is taking place this evening, with a number of events happening across the weekend.

Ellie O’Byrne suggests some interesting ways to spend January 1, to get 2018 off to a great start

Kodaline will be the headline act for the New Year's Festival in Dublin.

Fota Wildlife Park features as the video location for Kodaline’s latest track ‘Ready to Change’ from their new EP ‘I wouldn’t Be’.

Although he is slow to distance himself from his biggest hit, Mike Rosenberg tells

The family of 17-year-old Ciara Lawlor made the announcement on a Facebook memorial page for their daughter.

They even got a cheeky smile and nod from the man himself.

After singing with Hozier and becoming one of the faces of the Repeal campaign, Jess Kavanagh is now intent on making a of of her funky fourpiece, writes Eoghan O’Sullivan.

A new music industry conference is to be held in Cork this summer, with speakers to include the head of the record label behind Mumford & Sons and Florence and the Machine, along with the agents for bands like Muse and Coldplay.

We are pretty sure there is nothing better than an Irish pub at Christmas.

More than 200 beds will be made available for rough sleepers in the capital this week and this morning there is a hearing in the High Court to halt the illegal occupation of Apollo House on fire safety grounds.

WOW, just WOW.

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Members of the band Kodaline were among the mourners of Kilkenny teenager Ciara Lawlor who died attending their gig in Dublin at the weekend.

Former Munster rugby player Barry Murphy and his pals stumbled into careers in music, he tells Ed Power

Of course growing up with the King of Pop as her dad, she knows good music when she hears it.

Named after a Pink Floyd song, Irish group Overhead, The Albatross are impressing with their new album, writes Eoghan O’Sullivan.

MCD-promoted music gigs attracted more than 1.2m fans in Ireland last year with a similar number of revellers expected in 2016, according to company chief Denis Desmond.

Little Green Cars’ second album looks set to reinforce their status as one of the best bands in Ireland, writes Ed Power

2015 is almost out, so it’s time to look to what the new year will bring in terms of

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.

The Late Late Show returns to our screens this Friday, and what better way to get ready for the show than by having a sing-song with some well known faces.

MUSIC NEWS: Is it really eight years since the last New Order album? The Manc electronica outfit have announced a new release, Music Complete, for September 25, complete with keyboard player Gillian Gilbert, albeit without bass player Bernard Sumner who has been estranged from the band since 2007.

Staying in tonight? Here's the TV shows you should be watching.

8,000 festival goers left the site and the gates of Deer Farm in Mitchelstown closed for another year as Indiependence Festival 2015 came to an end on Monday.

Hard graft and a realistic outlook on the music business have helped keep Kodaline on an upward trajectory, writes Ed Power

Ed Sheeran dazzled tens of thousands of devoted fans in Croke Park last night, every inch the honorary Irishman.