Irish punters look on course to be right at home when they hit the 15-acre Euro 2012 supporters' campsite in Sopot, Poland - it's a horse race track.

It’s not the Stability Treaty, it’s the Stab Treaty — because all either side does is try to knife the other.

HERE’S an upside to the downturn.

MY sister in law is full of good ideas about how to make a fortune.

Jessie J had to have a bone transplant after breaking her foot.

A DOZEN tax inspectors will be among the revellers at tonight’s Prince concert in north Dublin.

A dozen tax inspectors will join the revellers at this weekend’s Prince concert.

IT’S 30 years, and the last deep recession/depression, since the then-British conservative MP Norman Tebbit effectively urged Britain’s unemployed to ‘Get on yer bike’, and go look for work instead of rioting.

FORMER Miss Ireland and social columnist Amanda Brunker will no doubt be hitting a few high notes when she joins seven other celebrities taking the reins of GAA teams for the hit RTÉ series Celebrity Bainisteoir.

Thousands of music fans will be making their way home from Oxegen 2011 today.

THE Oxegen music festival kicked off yesterday with early afternoon appearances by Fun Lovin’ Criminals, Glen Cal and Gypsies on the Mountain.

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SHE has bestrode pop culture like a colossus for well over a decade, but it’s still possible to pinpoint the exact moment that Beyoncé Knowles’ pop-culture-dominating superstardom reached its zenith.

WITH Oxegen next weekend and Castle Palooza at the end of the month, hot on the heels come Indiependance in August and Cois Fharraige and Electric Picnic in September, to name but a few.

Kings of Leon have been confirmed as headliners of Slane next summer.

CONCERT promoters MCD have been reported to health chiefs over the alleged promotion of cigarettes at the Oxegen Festival.

Concert promoters MCD have been reported to a health chiefs over the alleged promotion of cigarettes at a music event, it emerged today.

THE parents of one of the eight victims of the Inishowen crash have reached out to the driver and sole survivor of the accident.

WELL, we should have known. After a week of trumpeting the approach of a Munster hurling final — a Munster final between Cork and Waterford, no less — we’d ourselves set up for a fall.

NO one is naive enough to attend an outdoor festival in Ireland without raingear.

A man has appeared before a special sitting of Naas District Court after an incident outside the Oxegen music festival in Co Kildare in which a garda was injured.

A 20-year-old man is to appear before a special sitting of Naas District Court this morning charged in connection with an incident outside the Oxegen music festival in Co Kildare.

THE finishing touches are being put to one of Europe’s favourite rock ‘n’ roll weekends with promises of continued sunshine for tens of thousands of eager music fans.

CAVAN GAA chiefs are set to investigate claims members of the county senior football squad attended the Oxegen music festival the night before they exited the All-Ireland qualifier series against Wicklow.

IT’S the great rock and roll swindle.

The Script were the big winners at last night's Meteor Awards in Dublin, picking up the gongs for Best Irish Band and Best Irish Album.

AFTER a day spent celebrating our Irishness, international and homegrown stars flocked to the RDS last night to pay tribute to the big names in Irish music.

Damien Enright on how to keep a pond-robber at bay.

THE thousands of revellers that arrived at the Oxegen campsite yesterday will be relieved that, despite dull, grey conditions, the rain held off.

A man was arrested today in connection with the alleged rape of a young woman at the Oxegen music festival.

Music fans gearing up for the Oxegen music festival today were urged not to drink and drive.

TICKETMASTER is raking in money from sold-out concerts by re-selling tickets on its own auction website — despite condemning fans for doing the same a year ago.

Westlife walked away with the Best Irish Pop Act for the eighth year in a row at tonight’s Meteor Irish Music Awards in Dublin.

A CHAMPIONSHIP without Cork is like a wedding without a bride — impossible to celebrate.

Thousands of music fans are getting ready for the last day of the Oxegen Festival in Punchestown today.

Due to persistent rainfall An Garda Síochána and Oxegen promoters MCD have announced the closure of all car parks at the Punchestown site with immediate effect.

Motorists are being warned of very heavy traffic on all routes to the Oxegen festival in Punchestown.

THE thoughts of two grief-stricken families were with each other yesterday as they buried three young car crash victims and prayed for another passenger injured in the same accident who remains in a serious condition in hospital.

Up to 80,000 concertgoers are partying to more than 200 acts at this weekend’s Oxegen music festival in Co Kildare.

MOD legends The Who and American funk-rockers Red Hot Chili Peppers will lead the line-up at this year’s Oxegen music festival.

You’re a Star charity special winner David Mitchell and veteran republican rockers the Wolfe Tones are being tipped to get the nod from Lord Henry Mountcharles for Slane 2006.