U2 make history with UK songwriting award
Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton, and Larry Mullen become first Irish songwriters to be awarded Ivors Academy fellowship
Adam Clayton
Henry Mount Charles: A Lord in Slane – The strange blend of fact and fiction around one of the last Anglo-Irish eccentrics
Television: Much we think we know about the custodian of Slane Castle is conjured from thin air, as becomes clear in this absorbing documentary
Ballroom Blitz review: Adam Clayton’s celebration of Irish showbands hints at the burden of being in U2
TV review: U2 bassist Adam Clayton is a decent presenter and great fun to hang with, but the documentary leans too hard on nostalgia for nostalgia’s sake
TV guide: the best new shows to watch, beginning tonight
November 24th-29th: Including Ballroom Blitz, an all-new female Matlock, and The Making of Do They Know It’s Christmas?
The album that nearly finished U2: The story of How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb and its new ‘shadow’ LP
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
U2: How to Re-Assemble an Atomic Bomb track by track review – Hold on to your mirror shades for classic moments and wigged-out curios
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
U2’s Country Mile and Picture of You (X + W): Two fantastic songs – but it’s hard not to be haunted by what they represent
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
New season on RTÉ: crime dramas, GAA docs and the return of ‘tricky’ comedy
News verification strand Clarity and natural history series Ireland’s Coast on the line-up as board approves more projects in wake of RTÉ's multi-year funding deal
Michael D: The Movie – Higgins in the frame for the Mary Robinson big-screen treatment
Plus: Intercom man’s vote of confidence in Trump; Shane ‘Mullet’ Byrne’s victory in dispute with tenants; and Adam Clayton’s application for gardener gaff
The Guide: Kilkenny Cat Laughs, Forbidden Fruit and more events to see, shows to book and ones to catch before they end
June 1st-7th: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
Folk band Lankum win RTÉ Choice Music album of year
Jazzy named artist of the year and breakthrough artist at annual RTÉ music awards
U2 rank music education scheme as one of their proudest achievements
Band was an original funder of Music Generation which now provides lessons for 85,000 children every year
U2 live in Las Vegas: An unforgettable gig unlike any other
U2:UV Achtung Baby Live, the band’s new Las Vegas set, sounds, looks and feels like no other gig you’ve been to
‘We’d love it’: The Edge on U2 returning with Larry Mullen jnr to the Las Vegas Sphere in 2024
U2’s residency-opening show went ‘way better than I ever could have expected or hoped for’, says the band’s guitarist
U2:UV Achtung Baby Live at Sphere in Las Vegas: What the first reviews say
What did the world’s media think of the most ambitious performance in the Irish band’s history?
‘I’ve never experienced anything like it’: U2 fans on the band’s Las Vegas Sphere debut
The band’s huge show U2:UV Achtung Baby Live at Sphere opened on Friday night at the most talked-about music venue in the world
U2 at the Las Vegas Sphere: 25 dates, $1m a show and 1,586 speakers to blast out the hits
Friday marks the first of 25 shows as part of the band’s UV Achtung Baby Live at Sphere concert
Life’s saving graces come in all sizes. U2’s music helped save mine
Having served as the soundtrack to my life, U2′s music became an escape during treatment for a tumour
Court refuses to compel Adam Clayton to answer ‘inappropriate’ questions from man suing over song
Judge dismissed motion in Maurice D Kiely’s case seeking €12m damages from U2 Ltd
A Sort of Homecoming: Bono and the Edge are a revelation as they go back to their roots with cantankerous David Letterman
Documentary is perfectly conventional and thumpingly agreeable and heart-warming
Ultimate U2: The Irish rock giants’ 20 best tracks, in order
The band release Songs of Surrender, featuring rerecordings of 40 songs from their catalogue, tomorrow. Here’s our choice of U2′s best songs
U2: Songs of Surrender – A cynical cash grab? Put your preconceptions aside
These ‘reinterpreted’ tracks are a reminder that, whether you like them or not, U2 have some exceptional songs in their back catalogue
Bono, Edge and Letterman mooch about a Dublin so old and gloomy even the crow’s feet have crow’s feet
A Sort of Homecoming: U2’s new album prompts the chatshow host’s first visit to Ireland. He lands looking ready for St Patrick: The Grunge Years
U2 sued by Dublin musician over alleged misuse of song he claims he wrote
Maurice Kiely claims he wrote song entitled A Man and A Woman which is included on U2′s 2004 album
U2 drummer Larry Mullen will not play in band’s Las Vegas residency
Statement on band’s website says drummer will undergo surgery in 2023
The Music Quiz: Which 1980s U2 record is not represented on their new ‘reimagined’ compilation album?
Plus: Who sang the theme song for The SpongeBobSquarePants Movie?
U2 are doing a Taylor Swift and covering their own songs. Are the results any good?
The band are releasing Songs of Surrender on St Patrick’s Day. Fans are already arguing about the wisdom of rerecording Pride and other classics
U2’s gobsmackingly quiffed Adam Clayton brings us on a true adventure
Television: In his film about Francis Bacon, the U2 bassist convincingly argues that this great ‘British’ artist is a lot more Irish than we might think
U2 drama series in development for Netflix, JJ Abrams confirms
‘The story is actually spectacular behind the band,’ Star Wars producer says
Phil Lynott: ‘I didn’t know how shy he was, how awkward, and scared of rejection’
In Songs for While I’m Away, Emer Reynolds shows the Thin Lizzy star in a new light
Phil Lynott: Songs for While I’m Away review – The word ‘heroin’ is never mentioned
Stirring documentary will retain a permanent place on Thin Lizzy fans’ playlists
Liam Neeson among new investors backing €100m Ireland Impact fund
Dublin-based VentureWave Capital to invest in Irish ‘tech for good’ companies
Hard Rock Hotel, Dublin: ‘We’re not going to print Billie Eilish’s texts and nail them to the wall’
A new branch of the hotel chain in the city charts the evolving nature of rock’n’roll
U2 members back new tech fund as it raises €20m in first round
Impact Ireland to invest in firms that ‘generate a return for society as well as investors’
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