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
Plus: You can’t keep Phil Hogan down, trouble at Jack’s Hole in Brittas, and Ireland’s starring role in reality TV
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
Matter of ‘profound regret’ that nobody has been made accountable for worst atrocity of Troubles, says President Michael D Higgins
U2:UV Achtung Baby Live, the band’s new Las Vegas set, sounds, looks and feels like no other gig you’ve been to
U2’s residency-opening show went ‘way better than I ever could have expected or hoped for’, says the band’s guitarist
What did the world’s media think of the most ambitious performance in the Irish band’s history?
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
Friday marks the first of 25 shows as part of the band’s UV Achtung Baby Live at Sphere concert
Case brought over Hears Technology which provides hearing tests via smartphones
RTE boards response to BBC Lineker row, Larry Mullen’s housing plans, Ryanair’s Israel apology, Oisin Fanning’s discovery and the Slattery’s aviation emissions plan
Having served as the soundtrack to my life, U2′s music became an escape during treatment for a tumour
Documentary is perfectly conventional and thumpingly agreeable and heart-warming
The band release Songs of Surrender, featuring rerecordings of 40 songs from their catalogue, tomorrow. Here’s our choice of U2′s best songs
These ‘reinterpreted’ tracks are a reminder that, whether you like them or not, U2 have some exceptional songs in their back catalogue
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
Statement on band’s website says drummer will undergo surgery in 2023
Plus: Who sang the theme song for The SpongeBobSquarePants Movie?
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
‘The story is actually spectacular behind the band,’ Star Wars producer says
Video includes images from the shooting that claimed 14 lives in Derry
Finding Jack Charlton lays bare his remarkable connection with the Irish psyche
Navajo Nation say Irish generosity is the ‘good in all of the bad that is going on’
Film shows first-hand accounts of former Ireland manager’s struggles with dementia
Dublin 5 neighbourhood a draw for young families seeking forever homes in solid semis
Best-selling novelist appeals construction plan over ‘catastrophic’ impact on privacy
The radio DJ with a voice ‘as smooth as a billiard ball’ will live long in the collective memory
Review: Only once during the RDS gig did Dave Grohl and friends take a foot off the gas
Review: Both band and audience were determined this would be a night to remember – so it was
The band's 1997 tour to support their mediocre ‘Pop’ album was an expensive folly, confusing fans
Larry Mullen and his partner claimed they lost over €1 million due to unsuitable advice
As part of the Experience + Innocence show in Paris U2's lead singer has lots to say on Trump, the perils of success and how he’s only half a man without Ali
Singer (58) says anything serious has been ruled out and he will perform on rest of tour
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Full general election coverage including analysis and results for all 43 constituencies
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices
