Eoghan Cormican picks three players to watch in tomorrow's All-Ireland U21 Hurling semi-finals, featuring Kilkenny v Derry and Limerick v Galway.

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Lead vocalist and DJ, Win Butler then continued the ‘Thank You Dublin party’ by taking to the decks.

TV IS dead; long live TV.

MUSIC NEWS: Didn’t make it to one of the 22 London shows? At least Kate Bush is releasing the resultant live album on November 22. 

JACK O’Rourke is an overnight sensation 10 years in the making, writes Ed Power

MUSIC NEWS: Quote of the week goes to Tim Commerford, bassist with Rage Against the Machine, who told Rolling Stone: “I do apologise for Limp Bizkit. I really do. I feel really bad that we inspired such bullshit.” 

MUSIC NEWS: Netflix subscribers now have access to two worthwhile music documentaries: Keith Richards: Under the Influence, in which the Rolling Stones guitarist talks about his new solo album and the sounds that have inspired him over the years; and Time Is Illmatic, the film that tells of Nas’s classic 1994 album, and his background in New York that gave rise to it. 

’Protesters Against Protesters Party’ is the latest comedy skit from Pop the Cherry Comedy. The young men thought that since the Irish public has been "protesting about everything under the sun lately," they would start a protest of their own.

With the Leaving Cert (finally) ending last Friday, Irish comedy duo Mark Holland and David Atkinson have made a video that will strike a cord with those who have just finished the State exams.

Take a look at this piss-take of the age-old stereotype that women take too long in the bathroom.

Standing firm on their name and rerecording a new album has paid off for a band ready to expand beyond Ireland, writes Ed Power

My greatest fear is playing in front of crowds of people. You need to give what you fear a hug.

The theme tune to True Detective brought The Handsome Family to a whole new audience, writes Don O’Mahony

Looking for plans for the weekend? Here’s a list of what’s on and where.

It’s been one hell of a fortnight for crowd favourite Ed Sheeran – first he performs with Beyonce, then he celebrated his 24th birthday, and now he has delighted the Irish masses by announcing a huge gig in Croke Park this summer.

ANNA GEARY is the captain of the Cork camogie team, the Cork Rose 2014 and a marketing executive with Dell Ireland. She also is a national ambassador for Ireland’s first Workplace Wellbeing Day, which takes place on Friday, March 27.

CHRIS KENT riffs about the zaniest subjects — like the night terrors he gets from eating cheese — in a deadpan way. 

The Thinking Out Loud singer will perform the intimate gig for a crowd of 400 people at the Wexford Street venue, as part of a live broadcast for VH1’s Storytellers series.

Ed Sheeran will play a surprise gig in Whelan’s pub, Dublin later this month.

Contented and writing the best songs of his career, Lloyd Cole really is a merry old soul, says Joe Dermody

BALLYTURK: Anybody wishing to see Cillian Murphy’s return to his hometown stage needs to get on the case soon as all evening performances of Ballyturk at Cork Opera House (August 26-30) are sold out-

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A judge has ruled that it would be “incredibly unjust” to send two Anglo banking executives to jail as they were led into “error and illegality” by a state agency, the country’s financial watchdog.

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The first two people to be convicted of crimes related to the collapse of Anglo Irish Bank are likely to receive softer sentences because of the role the financial regulator’s office played in their activity.

The jury in the fraud trial of three former bank executives over a €625m loans-for-shares deal in the defunct Anglo Irish Bank has been told Ireland’s banking collapse is not on trial.

AARON Dessner chuckles ruefully as conversation turns to ‘Beyoncé-gate’.

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The jury in the trial of three former Anglo Irish Bank executives over the alleged unlawful provision of loans for the purchase of shares has been told that it is making legal history.

MICHAEL POPE is dying to share a secret. “We have a guest vocalist on our new album but I can’t tell you who it is,” says Le Galaxie’s singer, his voice falling to a whisper.

ICONS of Irish music don’t come much bigger than Christy Moore. The 68-year-old singer has just released a new album, Where I Come From.

AMERICAN songwriter, John Murry, is one of the many fine acts that will play at this weekend’s Kilkenny Roots Festival.

Open auditions have begun in Dublin today for 12 roles in the upcoming production of 'Once'.

Arthur’s Day promises top-class pub gigs. Tanya Sweeney recalls some great stories from Irish pubs

To mark Dublin Fashion Festival, five resident movers and shakers tell Deirdre Reynolds what gives the city its edge.

SMALL but perfectly formed was the verdict on the Liss Ard arts and music festival in West Cork over the weekend.

The former chairman of Anglo Irish Bank has been arrested by fraud squad officers investigating financial irregularities.

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OFF the track since disappointing in the Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial at Leopardstown in May, the John Oxx-trained Zanughan made a successful return to action when landing the listed Ardilaun Hotel Oyster Stakes in Galway last night.

What a difference a year makes. November 18, 2009: it’s Ireland v France in front of a capacity crowd in Paris, playing for a place in the finals of the World Cup and giving birth to a global controversy eclipsed only by Saipan in the annals of Irish football infamy.

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