Brooks will return next year to Cork, Belfast, Kilkenny, Limerick and Galway – all the low places where he has friends – but not Dublin

Walmart call upon the Muppets for heavy-handed Scrooge allegory while Prada target Hollywood’s emerging stars

The friends made music together through decades when Ireland became a lot more liberal. But it could still be more egalitarian, like the society Irvine’s hero Woody Guthrie campaigned for

The art rockers felt they were the next big thing. But tastes change. Who determines what’s popular, and where do the ideas they champion come from?

Kindness and community are to the fore at the Alicante event hosted by Marty Morrissey and featuring six of Ireland’s seven Eurovision winners

New version of Carrie burns with cathartic female rage – and sparks some scary school memories

We live in a world of surveillance. Our phones, our apps, security cameras and doorbells can track us. Does this enable or inhibit people’s development?

Wayne’s role is to sit near Coleen, looking confused. Her role is to sit near Wayne, looking disappointed

Simon Harris looked miserable as he ran through the numbers, but that’s probably because he’s been up all weekend with a new baby

End Times Fascism by noted author and her collaborator Astra Taylor contains a hopeful prescription for neighbourly resistance

Bono, Larry, Edge and Adam return to former school - where drummer stuck up a note ‘seeking bandmates’ - half a century after first rehearsal

Carnaval de Luz is U2’s first album in nine years. It’s nice to have them back

Brilliant Irish actor Lola Petticrew (just a normal Irish name) stars in Elizabeth Meriwether’s Disney crime drama, Furious.

The broadcaster turned entrepreneur on messianic tech billionaires, and his new book tracking his journey from tech-optimism to disillusionment to a new cautious hope

Dáil Sketch: At Leaders’ Questions, recriminations over RTÉ Investigates programme reach full volume