Des O'Driscoll rounds up the latest entertainment news.

As they get ready to play the Marquee in Cork, Hall and Oates tell Ed Power about the mad times of their 1980s heyday, and having Bowie support them for his first US gig.

So that’s Thursday nearly wrapped up. Here’s some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

I hear Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger is going under the knife this week. His heart is giving him trouble.

The frontman will have an operation to replace a heart valve in the next few days.

From Poirot’s moustache to signed pages from the script of Star Wars: Rogue One , an upcoming auction at the Fastnet Film Festival is a potential treasure trove for film buffs.

€2,187,500 worth of parking tickets.

This column is in confessional mode today. After a trend, I wish to confess in public to having endured a traumatic experience in my past, writes Michael Clifford.

The foursome arrived in Dublin earlier in the week and judging by their social media accounts they’ve been loving every minute.

Ireland's inaugural Test managed to attract Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger to Malahide, and the hope now is domestic interest will ensure the game becomes a "major sport" within a decade.

William Porterfield feels Ireland proved they belong in cricket’s longest format after their gripping inaugural Test ended in a five-wicket loss to Pakistan.

A vanity case belonging to the fiancee of Michael Collins is to go under the auction hammer next month.

President Michael D Higgins has led tributes to Guinness heir Garech de Brún, founder of Claddagh Records, and custodian of Luggala Estate, following his death at the age of 78.

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.

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Who would have thought that a marquee in Cork could attract the world’s biggest music acts? Peter Aiken reflects on 12 years of Live at the Marquee with Ed Power.

“You’re last year’s model,” Sam Gideon quips, as he throws a high-tech enemy from an airship. 

As Bono and co get ready to revisit The Joshua Tree, Ed Power looks back on a classic album that really has stood the test of time

Rita de Brún believes the next stage of the space race will be for — lunar real estate.

Kya deLongchamps takes a turn on vintage record players making sweet music in the collectables market at the moment.

Vinyl was a new HBO show created by Martin Scorsese and Mick Jagger about the music business in the 70s. It had a big budget, creatives from Boardwalk Empire involved and a cast including Olivia Wilde, Juno Temple and Bobby Cannavale.

Brazilian model Luciana Gimenez has spoken warmly about the bond between her son, Lucas, and his father, Mick Jagger.

Gone are the days of feeling past it when you hit 45 — just look at the long list of celebs revelling in their new-found youth, says Dave Kenny.

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NOT another one. If you’re still trying to comprehend the idea that David Bowie was not, in fact, a star man made of star dust, but encased in a biodegradable meat sack like the rest of us, then the news of Prince will have felt like a great big purple slap, writes Suzanne Harrington. 

Enya has not had a number one single in the UK in more than two decades, but that has not stopped the Irish star from landing a spot in The Sunday Times Rich List of music millionaires.

Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood says he is looking forward to being right “among the muck and bullets” when he becomes a father for the fifth time.

Just in case you missed it, Sky News had a feature on The Trumpster recently titled ‘Trump: America’s Next President’’.

Juno Temple plays a starring role in the new Scorsese series on the crazy world of the New York music scene in the 1970s, writes Susan Griffin

David Bowie was working on a new album before he died, his ex-girlfriend has claimed.