Croke Park will have to apply for special permission to host any more concerts this year — after both dates for the highly anticipated Bruce Springsteen concerts sold out in just under two hours.

MUSIC NEWS: Apple Music, the new streaming music service gets a boost today with the release of Dr Dre’s Compton: A Soundtrack exclusively on that facility and the almost traditional format, iTunes. 

It might not have been Ladies Day at the Dublin Horse Show yesterday but sisters were still doing it for themselves.

Musicians and campaigners are among those who have paid tribute to the folk music giant and activist Pete Seeger who has died at the age of 94.

Bruce Springsteen – what a guy.

He may have been born in the USA but we’ve claimed him as an Irishman.

The sporting temple of Thomond Park last night fell under the spell of The Boss in a near-religious celebration of the music icon.

Glory days are back in Limerick hurling, so who better to ring in the Treaty City’s GAA celebrations, than The Boss?

Some 50,000 fans of The Boss descending on Páirc Uí Chaoimh on Thursday won’t have to worry too much about being fed and watered for the event.

Carlton stole the show on Graham Norton, but what's he been up to since the Fresh Prince wrapped?

Bruce Springsteen kicked off his Australian tour with a tongue-in-cheek warning about his political influence over national economics.

Dessie Hughes’ Wise Oscar is the nap choice in the Happy St Valentine’s Day Handicap Chase on a moderate six-race card at Thurles this afternoon, should the meeting survive an 8am inspection.

Bruce Springsteen, with the full E Street Line Band line up, will bring his Wrecking Ball Weekender World Tour to a dramatic conclusion at Nowlan Park, Kilkenny, next summer.

He’s still the Boss — at least when it comes to selling concert tickets.

Australia’s finance minister has declared rock star Bruce Springsteen the answer to economic woes.

Rock legend Bruce Springsteen had 35,000 fans in raptures at the RDS last night — including one very special guest.

Rock’n’roll star Bruce Springsteen is back in Ireland next week. Ian Forde takes a peek at a new biography on the US rock legend

When The Boss appears in public, Manuela Spinelli is right by his side making sure nothing gets lost in translation.

Bruce Springsteen paid tribute to his friend of more than four decades and E Street Band saxophonist Clarence Clemons at a private funeral in a Florida church.

Clarence Clemons, the larger-than-life saxophone player for the E Street Band who was one of the key influences in Bruce Springsteen's life and music through four decades, has died. He was 69.

I DON’T often get cause to mention it but I’ve always had a soft spot for Park, one of nature’s real triers who’s never caused the club the slightest bit of grief.

RECOVERING from Saturday’s torrential rains, festival goers’ spirits were lifted yesterday as blue skies and sun once again returned to Punchestown. For a while anyway.

Blur top the bill at the world-famous Glastonbury Festival on Sunday and insist they are an appropriate choice to end this year's proceedings.

Bruce Springsteen has been dragged into a bitter divorce battle in a bid to "sensationalise" the case, according to a relative of the estranged couple.

Bruce Springsteen has fired back at reports he cheated on his wife Patti Scialfa by turning the media's attention to a statement he made about his marriage three years ago.

Bruce Springsteen has fought off competition from Lily Allen to remain atop the European albums chart with his new release 'Working on a Dream'.

Bruce Springsteen's half-time performance at Super Bowl XLIII has given his latest album a boost - pushing the CD up the US music charts.

Alan King completed a first-and-last-race double for the second year running at Warwick with jumping debutant Trenchant and smart bumper performer Double Pride.

Rock fans will be in for a treat tonight as legendary performer Bruce Springsteen takes to the stage in Dublin for the first of three nights.

CHAMPION trainer Paul Nicholls is full of confidence ahead of Noland’s assault on the Irish Independent Arkle Trophy at Cheltenham this afternoon.

Philip Hobbs is convinced inexperience over fences will not be detrimental to the chance of Ring The Boss in the Arkle on Tuesday week.

WHAT to make of Lucky Number Slevin (EIV, €21.99), a strangely dark and humorous thriller with plenty of twists and turns but an oh-too-neat ending.

The murky financial dealings of former Taoiseach Charles J Haughey have long fuelled the political rumour mill and led to the setting up of two state tribunals.

Billionaire New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner is coming to the Kentucky Derby with more than another World Series title on his mind. But he has plenty of competition to contend with, reports Simon Lewis

Bruce Springsteen is joining a group of musicians campaigning against George W Bush in the US election race.

THE Taoiseach yesterday defended his single greatest sartorial crime — the decision to wear those yellow trousers at the G8 summit.

THE largest family gathering in the country was Martin Cullen’s curious description of the Fianna Fáil Árd Fheis.

Bruce Springsteen is America’s biggest entertainment earner of 2003. The clean-living rocker made just over $115m (€90.5m) from his tour dates alone.

MUCH of Bruce Springsteen’s new album, ‘The Rising,’ is about the heroism of firefighters and ordinary New Yorkers on September 11 last year.

KILKENNY centre-forward Henry Shefflin has taken to calling Croke Park The Theatre of Dreams, and so it was for the Leinster champions yesterday as they put the nightmare of last year’s All-Ireland semi-final loss to Galway well and truly behind them.

Rock legend Bruce Springsteen has praised the way President George Bush conducted the war against Taliban and al Qaida forces in Afghanistan.