Ellie Goulding

Industry statistics on ticket sales also put the 3Arena in the world’s top 15 venues

Gerry Adams, Conor McGregor, Hozier, One Direction ... and some sad dads

Dermot O’Leary will take over from broadcaster who cancelled due to medical advice

The progressive, feminist, nice singer is one of the good guys – and not just because she stood up to Apple on behalf of her fellow artists

Stadium work continues as nearby Live in Marquee concerts set to top 100,000 fans

Philip King’s raison d’etre after 13 years running his hit televised concert series is still the same: ‘We provide a safe house for rambling troubadours from around the world. They find it inspiring and uplifting here’

Peter Aiken says Ireland needs to capitalise on venues like Croke Park and Aviva

Promoter also announces Ellie Goulding and Beck gigs for Live at the Marquee in Cork

Musician denies calling Adele 100 times in effort to include her on Ebola charity song

Do They Know It’s Christmas? was premiered on X Factor last night

‘The Nicky Byrne Show with Nicky and Jenny’ deal offered at €245,000 for 12 months

The rapper, just 22, is unusually honest, from her lyrics about a rape when she was a child to social-media posts about her relationship with Ireland Baldwin

Arrivals advised to get tents up as quickly as possible before rain forecast

No need to wait until your favourite acts do the festival circuit in Ireland. Get our continental drift? Lauren Murphy’s top 10 European festivals

Figures in show business and sport express shock and grief on Twitter

A terrace chant is heard at the top of iTunes

Kate Moss picks up award on behalf of David Bowie, who urges Scotland to stay in UK

On paper Other Voices is a music festival, but when its series of concerts in a tiny Dingle church mixes with the buzz and banter of the Co Kerry town, it becomes something much more magical

What does it sound like when the two highest paid DJs in the world go on tour? It’s the sound of cash registers being hooked up to the biggest sound systems imaginable

Sad songs say (and pay) so much for marketing companies

Q magazine award winners raise a cynical eyebrow

Arctic Monkeys, Franz Ferdinand and The Knife among acts bringing festival to a close

DJ Fatboy Slim a big draw at sold-out event for first night of weekend festivities in Laois

Aggressive ticket pricing discounting has paid off for the promoters

As the children of wannabe rock-stars, Haim were always destined to make music – “Our parents didn’t wave us off to college; they waved us off to a rock band”

Plant was the lead singer in the biggest hard rock band in history

French DJ David Guetta is headlining this year’s Oxegen festival along with Calvin Harris, Example and Snoop Dogg