If you've been living under a rock, you may not know that last night Ed Sheeran opened his Irish tour in Cork's Pairc Uí Chaomh, in front of 44,000 people.

Good afternoon. Here’s all the news you need to know this lunchtime.

Irish coffee company Insomnia is set to move into the UK market in a partnership with UK and Irish retail giant Debenhams.

A European Technology Summit which will be held in Cork on Wednesday, May 15, will highlight some of the best business in the Irish and European Tech Sector with a wide variety of world class speakers.

Headstones and monuments at a plot maintained by Sinn Féin activists in Cork's St Finbarr's Cemetery on Glasheen Road have been targeted by vandals just 24 hours ahead of Easter Rising commemorations tomorrow.

Jessie J’s show in Cork's Marquee, which was due to happen tonight, has been postponed until tomorrow night due to "a trucking problem".

High-speed trains are running every hour from Cork to Dublin for the first time today.

Tommy Barker reports from the latest hot destination for Irish cash — South Africa.

Esat BT today announced that thousands of employees and visitors to Ireland's National Digital Park in Citywest, Co Dublin will be able to surf the web wirelessly using BT Openzone.