Harry Styles

As Harry Styles limbers up for this year’s gig, on Saturday, we pick our favourite performances at the castle since the inaugural Slane Festival, in 1981

Stadium operator’s accounts show a 63% rise in operating profit last year, with IRFU and FAI contributing €7m in revenue

‘Fontaines DC are a big inspiration... I’ve always been inspired by people who approach the world from the outside’

Rise in users of paid subscription services drives growth as industry figures call for higher prices

Fresh from Grammys triumph, the star towered over the British music industry’s annual bash, where 60% of winners were male

Hugh Linehan: How did the word’s richest and most sophisticated media industry get to be so bad at the basics?

Harry Styles showed up bare-chested, Mary J. Blige exposed her hips, while Lizzo, Sam Smith and Taylor Swift turned heads with stunning colours

Beyoncé won a record-breaking 32nd Grammy Award, while Harry Styles won album of the year

Garth Brooks gigs help Croke Park to 13th spot among world’s most successful concert venues in terms of box office receipts

The biggest gigs and festivals in Ireland coming your way in 2023

Teasdale and Chambers effortlessly replicate wit and wholesomeness threaded through first album

With hit songs hanging around charts for longer, streaming services have slowed down the consumption of new music

The behind-the-scenes drama on their new film, Don’t Worry Darling, is even juicier than the movie’s plot

Lord Henry Mountcharles backs singer for Meath venue while tickets go on sale next week

Events include Forbidden Fruit, Harry Styles, Electric Picnic and of course Garth Brooks

Director Robert Eggers on making his bloody Viking epic The Northman in time of Covid

Lisa McGee’s show is indicative of what it means to be Irish and, more particularly, Northern Irish

Not only does this classic rock album continue to sell, but sales for Rumours have increased year-on-year

Former One Direction singer’s Dublin plans have twice been thwarted by pandemic

Evening pivots from torture to scorcher as sound glitches followed by sizzling entrance

Pleasing is a refreshingly gender ambiguous brand with nail polish and two skincare products

The RTÉ presenter and journalist shares the playlist of songs she’s been listening to

Friends star’s challenge could be credibility. ‘Selling herself as the expert would be hard’

The jeweller has enlisted the singer and Jay-Z for its latest rebrand. But it could backfire

Little Mix make history in group category as Taylor Swift becomes first female global icon

Soundtrack of my Life: The health advocate on music, lockdown and cancer treatment

Such wild disdain for conformity can often be enthralling but it doesn’t quite work here

Magazine’s first male cover star met with conservative disapproval over his outfit

The Manchester actor on making the leap to Hollywood, and starring in new Irish-set film Pixie

Cult pop conceptualist on post-punk mythmaking and his discovery of classical music

With its retro sensibility and sense of exposure, the crop top is disrupting masculine dress

Here are some of the hottest new looks for 2020

A record attendance of 70,000 expected for the sold-out event at Stradbally in September

Half a million people, many from overseas, due to attend Dublin St Patrick’s Day parade

Love Island viewers related to Flack’s warmth and infectious laugh, as well the support she gave to troubled contestants

Triggering Troubles documentary Lost Lives, plus the return of Outlander and The Great House Revival, Al Pacino in alt-history thriller Hunters, and two Friends with new shows

Only one British woman, Mabel, is nominated in best album, song and new artist categories

Albums and gigs to check out from January to June: Green Day, Slipknot, Diana Ross, Damon Albarn, Tenacious D and more

Singer Mikaela Straus has got the songs, connections and attitude for popstar life

As the singer launches his solo career, he reflects on a series of personal tragedies