Then-taoiseach told Sheryl Sandberg Ireland would take ‘minimalist’ approach to rules

Majority of funding will go into development, which has been outsourced until now

Fast-growing e-money firm chooses Dublin as post-Brexit base of EU operations

Singer-songwriter had claimed Night Changes infringed his musical work

Doug Putman rescued HMV in Canada, but will his approach work this side of the pond?

The TV producer on doing ‘covers’, lessons from ‘Anglo’ and everybody loving ‘Goggler’

Planet Business: Also this week, Apple’s slide and an Australian media mega-merger

Fame, failure, assualt, getting high: nothing is off limits in the singer’s memoir

The ex-Moloko singer on the freedom and heartbreak that inspired her favourite tracks

Acquisition gives Sony catalogue of more than 2 million songs

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Former EMI exec joins A&R startup Andrson, which connects unsigned artists with labels

‘On Christmas Eve there was always a sherry reception for the customers’

Behind the scenes at the making of the film version of the Beatrix Potter’s book – and keeping lookout for an appearance by Julian Assange

Emer Reynolds's new film ‘The Farthest’ looks at the extraordinary, humbling story the Voyager space project

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Released 50 years ago, The Beatles’ opus changed the way people listened to music

Aslan singer Christy Dignam on rehearsing in a pigsty, writing ‘This Is’, drug problems, collaborating with Finbar Furey, and staying positive through gruelling bouts of chemotherapy

Court documents reveal depth of shareholder discord as merger of Capital Bars and Mercantile falls apart within a year

As he releases a new album, the acclaimed songwriter has little interest in his legacy – ‘Time takes care of that’

Cold Water finds the Biebs boldly promising to be his beloved’s rock of support, stability and common sense in a world gone mad

Largest deal ever with a British musician allows Sony to release her future music exclusively

Last time The Stone Roses returned from a lengthy hiatus, their calling card a magnificent, sprawling, multi-layered beast of a comeback single. History, alas, has not repeated itself here

Originally published in 1986, Fintan O’Toole recalls the Thin Lizzy frontman’s upbringing in Crumlin, the band’s rise to fame, and the final days of the rocker

Who are the acts to watch in 2015? And how did our predictions for last year fare? We asked some music industry insiders to look into their tea leaves and make some predictions

BearingPoint warns unwillingness to adapt to new technologies or ignorance of them may be holding back businesses

After years of Irish bands taking the do-it- yourself approach to releasing music, things are changing. More acts are signing with international labels -- and record companies are splashing the cash again

Large, plastic music discs still being sold to niche audience

Nobody comes close to Mark Lewisohn as a scholar of the Fab Four. The extended special edition of his biography of the band is an epic on an unprecedented scale

The proposed change may, if we’re lucky, prompt a courtroom farce or two

The UK’s previously unrivalled expertise in the nuclear sector is long squandered

Nokia can trace its roots to a pulp mill in Finland