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U2 singer faced criticism for taking honour from administration giving military backing to Israel

Dubliner released her second album, Everybody Needs a Hero, last year

U2 singer calls for Hamas to release hostages and Israel to be released from Netanyahu

The actor on ‘the Harry Potter thing’, his role in Guy Ritchie’s Fountain of Youth, and the gift that Tom Cruise keeps sending him

The film version of the singer’s stage show Stories of Surrender received a seven-minute standing ovation

The Cannes film festival is back at the centre of the movie world thanks to recent Oscars success

Including Murderbot, Welcome to Wrexham, The Better Sister, Dept Q and Bono: Stories of Surrender

Unthinkable: There may be lessons from Northern Ireland in responding to the horrors of the Middle East

Proposal to build four luxury homes on grounds of listed home not deemed compatible with Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown county development plan

Plus: Shane Lowry adds bulk, film producer Alan Moloney’s big plans; and the bald truth about hair-loss exploitation

Documentary based on U2 frontman’s memoir will premiere in Cannes, while Paul Mescal will attend for The History of Sound

Kildare-based whiskey maker has been producing spirits since 2022

Plus: Mairead Ronan’s stamina tested by Waterford planning saga; Scandi Noir in the High Court; and Justin Barrett continues his struggle over National Party reins

The Stunning and The Walls musician and actor on honesty, activism and a life in the arts

Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton, and Larry Mullen become first Irish songwriters to be awarded Ivors Academy fellowship

Michael Mary Murphy’s new book hails the managers who have steered U2, Hozier and The Beatles to the top of the charts

Sale ended Bono and The Edge's connection to Dublin hotel

Plus: Spot the film without a credit for Bono

The U2 frontman was an early cheerleader for his fellow Irish band, who are back on tour to mark 40 years together. But his acceptance of a medal from Joe Biden sent the wrong signal, they say

The Dublin band are well aware of their gilded backgrounds. But, they say, as they prepare to release their glossy third album, ‘We’re, like, kind of dorks’

Blistering punk-pop duo Lambrini Girls recorded debut album last year, when the world seemed to be at peak insanity. But the spiral continues, they say

Dublin visual and audio post-production facility has its roots in storied recording studios on Dublin quays, where U2 and other major acts once recorded

Joe Biden choosing to give the Argentinian soccer genius this accolade shouldn’t be such a big deal. That doesn’t make it any less odd and inexplicable

U2 singer pays tribute to bandmates and fellow activists as he becomes the first Irish recipient of highest US civilian honour since Mary Robinson

Plans for the hotel, formerly owned by members of U2, include demolishing Anne’s Bar and building a six storey extension

Band Aid revisionism hasn’t dropped from the clear blue winter sky. It’s been there since the start

To think of all that time we spent embarrassed by Bono’s oppressive sincerity

Band Aid 40 remix of Do They Know It’s Christmas? blends voices of Bono, Harry Styles and George Michael

How to Re-Assemble an Atomic Bomb features 10 tracks from the recording sessions that made some of the band wonder if they’d have anything to release

Inevitably for an out-take album, it’s a bit glued together and rough at the edges, but even U2 agnostics will like a lot of the tracks

Cillian Murphy probably didn’t expect to be taken literally when he compared Ireland in the 1980s to the dark ages, but that is where we are now

Radio: The combative RTÉ host is good-naturedly determined to come out on top in a grilling about Dutch dairy produce in Irish schools

David Hepworth, author of Hope I Get Old Before I Die, on why rock stars never retire

Ecce Homo, the singer’s new album, is not just the best record of his significant solo career but also an account of a life less ordinary

How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb was U2’s last artistically relevant album. These new releases are from the reboot How to Re-Assemble an Atomic Bomb

When young, she questioned whether people were her friends because they liked her, or because they liked her father Bono

Bono, The Edge and Paddy McKillen snr sold facility last October to the Dean Hotel Group

Chris Martin runs like an Olympian during show that is a triumph of staging, dynamics and connection

Henry Winkler spoke at Dalkey Book Festival about his time on Happy Days and his newfound love of Irish soda bread

At times you think this might be endurance test but Billy Corgan and crew produce victory in the end