Taylor Swift

The Music Quiz: Which famous Taylor is the title of a track Taylor Swift album The Life of a Showgirl?

Plus: By which name is Hayden Silas Anhedönia professionally known?

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s podcast: Eight things we learned

Taylor Swift, who rarely gives interviews, gave a rare insight into her relationship over two hours on the New Heights podcast

‘I don’t think the Department of Finance have any respect for the tourism industry’

Inside Business podcast with Ciarán Hancock

Oasis payday is here with Gallagher brothers and Dublin city set for a bonanza

Fans have shelled out hundreds to see the band, while gig tourists will swell the local economy this weekend

Taylor Swift announces imminent release of new album

Singer-songwriter’s website said copies of the album would be sent out by October 13th

‘The best night out’: The Gen-Z ‘Ticketmaster warriors’ spending €1,500 a year on gigs

‘Concerts are the best night out you can have as a young person in Ireland,’ says one music fan, who spent €1,500 on tickets last year

David McRedmond: ‘An Post has been brilliant. I’ve never been remunerated less and enjoyed a job more’

McRedmond’s credo is: ‘All businesses are dying; you have to find the new thing’. He has lived that philosophy at State-owned postal service, whose core business has shifted from letters to parcels and, increasingly, financial services

MCD on course for second busiest year as Oasis and Dua Lipa concerts due

Company will sell 2.5m tickets in 2025, says MD Denis Desmond

‘The Tudor von Trapps, the Royalling Stones’: How Six, the smash hit musical about Henry VIII’s wives, was born

Six is less the staging of a traditional historical musical than an indoctrination into the cult of the superfan

It’s Friday the 13th, what can possibly go wrong?

If you suffer from friggatriskaidekaphobia, pretty much everything

Taylor Swift buys back rights to master recordings of her first six albums

Swift originally lost the rights in 2019 when her first label, Big Machine, sold them to Scooter Braun

Donald Trump attacks ‘dried out prune of a rocker’ Bruce Springsteen and ‘no longer hot’ Taylor Swift

Veteran musician’s fiery speeches trigger angry insults from US president

Is Taylor Swift poised to release a new album? Let’s decode the cryptic clues

Swifties believe the singer is ready to drop her next record – but they could be just clowning

Aviva Stadium operator sees profits rise

Revenue boosted by Taylor Swift concerts

What high-end tourists get up to in Ireland: ‘You always have to make things happen. We do a lot of helicopters’

From Taylor Swift to millionaire CEOs, luxury travel agency founder Siobhan Byrne caters to the desires of the rich and famous who want bespoke Irish holidays

Bertie Ahern’s talent for mangling everyday phrases is undimmed

Radio: The former taoiseach joins former tánaiste Simon Coveney to analyse the turmoil surrounding Donald Trump’s tariffs

The inside story of Evie, the US conservative women’s magazine with big ambitions, and sex tips for wives

‘I think more women want a soft life, a beautiful life, than feeling all this pressure to do all these things,’ says cofounder Brittany Hugoboom

How to have a number one album, from U2 to The Beatles: An Irish expert shares his music industry experience

Michael Mary Murphy’s new book hails the managers who have steered U2, Hozier and The Beatles to the top of the charts

The age of liberalism is over. What does this mean for culture?

As the world gets worse around us, and authoritarians seek cover for their activities, the art of the future will happen on your phone

Spotify says it paid musicians $10bn in royalties in 2024

Money is paid to rightsholders, rather than directly to artists, and is based on their percentage of total streams over the year

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