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Bono on U2’s first days, 50 years ago: ‘Edge and Larry could play. Adam and myself were bluffing’
U2 talk about the truth behind their now legendary origin story at Mount Temple school in Dublin, what has kept them together since 1976, and their new album
U2 play special gigs at Mount Temple Comprehensive and Grafton Street to mark 50th anniversary
Bono, Larry, Edge and Adam return to former school - where drummer stuck up a note ‘seeking bandmates’ - half a century after first rehearsal
U2 fans treated to surprise Dublin street performance to mark 50th anniversary
U2 perform from Bewley’s balcony for fans from around the world who made pilgrimage to Dublin to mark band’s 50th anniversary
U2 are sometimes dismissed as do-gooders, but the last 50 years have proven it is no act
Macklemore’s dismissal from Ed Sheeran’s Loop Tour is a sign of how supine the modern music industry has become
U2, born this day 50 years ago: ‘I was there. I witnessed the first spark’
Ivan McCormick attended that first rehearsal in Larry Mullen’s kitchen aged 13. His Teisco Stratocaster was the most advanced guitar in the room
The Irish Times view on U2 at 50: drummer finds musicians
Band went on to become one of the most successful in rock history, and the biggest ever to emerge from Ireland
Bono: ‘The new U2 album is called …’
Story Lines – the home of audio storytelling from The Irish Times
Drummer Seeks Musicians: the untold story of how Ireland’s biggest band was born
Story Lines – the home of audio storytelling from The Irish Times
Drummer Seeks Musicians: Listen to a trailer for our new podcast about the origins of U2
From Mount Temple Comprehensive on Dublin’s northside to the world stage, this is the story of how U2 began
Four new films to see this week: The Summer Book, Have You Never Heard of Bill Fuller?, Nimrods: A Green Day Comedy and Queens of the Dead
Glenn Close, Emily Matthews, Mason Thames and Katy O’Brian feature in quartet of movies released in the week of August 7th, 2026
A trip to Malahide felt exotic and adventurous so I left for the dentist in plenty of time
I’ve lived in the north inner city for more than 20 years, but the joke in my family is that culturally and spiritually I remain a southsider
U2 release new single Street of Dreams – a buzzy, uplifting number clearly made for radio airplay
The sound of ambition is writ large on the new single from the band’s first studio album in nine years
U2’s Adam Clayton and others on their boarding school days: ‘Being separated from the age of 8 was a trauma’
How do famous former boarders view their time at school now?
Tradfluencer – The Sharon Shannon Story review: A folk superstar never cut out for celebrity
Television: Fascinating portrait of pioneering musician fails to find the person behind the music
AI don’t believe it: What do Gerry Hutch, Michael Healy-Rae and Charlie Haughey have in common?
Plus: U2 ride the bus in Mexico City; Ryanair seeks to fill Europe’s ‘best’ comms manager job; Minister goes from eating humble pie to cake
U2 company records €1.4m loss, accounts reveal
Band’s musical equipment, once valued at €266,000, now on books as worth €2,100
Dónal Lunny returns to stage after illness with surprise appearance in Cork
Musician performed with Andy Irvine following a showing in Cork of a new film about his life
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
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
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