Rory McIlroy has announced his return to The Open Championship by throwing down the gauntlet to his major rivals by declaring he is ready to spring back to top form.

George Martin has been described as "visionary" and "a musical genius" as tributes flooded in following his death at 90.

Vintage cars still going strong at the Munster Vintage Motorcycle & Car

In this game, at this time of year, it’s the question that constantly, inevitably, crops up in the car home.

Many moons ago the late Beatle John Lennon was being quizzed by the media when one bright spark asked him if Ringo [Starr, the band’s drummer] was the best drummer in the world.

Eric Clapton has paid tribute to legendary blues musician BB King, who has died aged 89.

We should probably be glad that Irish kids are too busy being kids, playing and going to school to be bothered with who random celebrities are.

They’re the biggest band of all time and whether you love them or loathe them everybody knows their songs.

Ringo Starr will join the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame tonight with fellow Beatle Paul McCartney doing the honours of introducing him at the ceremony in the US.

Beatles drummer Ringo Starr says he still misses his “brothers” in the band and said it must be harder being in a boyband today than in the era-defining Liverpool group.

British Muslim leaders urged people to contact police if they knew the man with an English accent who appeared in a video showing the beheading of a US journalist.

Sir Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr have been invited to perform at 'Alien Woodstock' in a bid to make extra-terrestrials reveal themselves to the planet.

Let It Be, an international touring show that celebrates the music of the Beatles, is very much an occasion of nostalgia for the Swinging Sixties.

Meet Yoko the ferret. Today's not been her day.

An insider’s account of the Beatles’ American invasion

AFTER a recent gig in Japan Harry Styles of boy band One Direction is reported to have said that the band “could be as big as The Beatles”.

The Beatles have made an annual turnover of £43.5m (€51m).

As music legend awaits the final appeal of his murder conviction and Al Pacino plays him in a new film, Vikram Jayanti remembers Phil Spector’s tortured struggle between genius and monster

The stars behind a potential Christmas number one single which aims to raise money for the Hillsborough families today called on the chancellor to waive VAT on it.

Recordings by Ringo Starr's first ever band have been found after more than 50 years.

Unseen photos of The Beatles are to go up for sale after lying in a family album for nearly 50 years.

The sons of The Beatles are considering forming a band.

Davy Jones' Monkees bandmates have led tributes to him following his death yesterday.

Paul McCartney paid tribute to the other “three boys” in the Beatles as he unveiled his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Paul McCartney has received a star on Hollywood's Walk Of Fame.

Ringo Starr called for harsher sentences for those caught carrying guns on the anniversary of John Lennon’s death today.

A BEATLES contract for a 1965 California concert that reveals that the Fab Four refused to play before a segregated audience has sold for $23,033 (€16,827) — more than four times its estimated price.

Ringo Starr has claimed The Beatles were lucky to have him as their drummer.

SEEMS they were jumpier than Harvey Smith listening to Van Halen yesterday morning at Fine Gael HQ.

IN case Red C don’t cut it, Newstalk have turned to the English Channel.

FF’s not-so-Fab Four took to the stage yesterday to perform live in front of their would be fans.

The Beatles are going to be available on iTunes for the first time, it was announced today.

Liverpool is getting ready to celebrate the city's most famous band.

With a little help from his friends, Ringo Starr celebrated his 70th birthday in New York with a global “Peace and Love” moment.

Ringo Starr has defended referencing his late bandmate John Lennon in a new song, insisting it was a “normal” thing to do.

THE lazy, hazy days of summer are on their way – and what better way to spend a summer’s evening than stretched out on the Co Cork coast listening to a mini funk orchestra that counts President Barack Obama, David Byrne and Q-Tip among its fans.

New York: Pfizer business development VP William Ringo is to retire.

Ringo Starr was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame yesterday.

A star for former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr was added to the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Ringo Starr has praised Paul McCartney as a “genius” for improving his forthcoming solo album.

Simon Cowell has said that The Beatles would have failed auditions on ‘The X Factor’.

Andy Welch gives his verdict on the newly remastered albums that are set to earn the Beatles €1.13bn

The Beatles entire back catalogue has been digitally remastered and will be released today.

SOME 45 years after the first wave of Beatlemania, retailers are preparing for the biggest chart invasion ever seen by the Fab Four from today.