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Unveiling the year's top downloads , Oliver Schusser, senior director of iTunes Europe, said 2009 had been "the biggest year ever for us in terms of the number of songs downloaded" while apps had a "sensational" year, ahead of Apple...

Pearl Jam will return to Europe in the summer for a series of headlining and festival appearances, beginning June 22 in Dublin. The group has announced seven dates so far, with four more shows to be revealed at a later...

Liam Clancy was the youngest and last surviving member of the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem. Clancy died at the age of 74 on December 4 in Cork, Ireland. Known for their Irish folk singing, Liam was looking to make...

Irish balladeer Liam Clancy, last of the Clancy Brothers troupe whose feisty, boozy songs of old Ireland struck a sentimental chord worldwide, died Friday in a Cork hospital, his manager said...Clancy for years had incurable pulmonary fibrosis, the same lung-destroying...

Mr. Todd, who died in his sleep, had been ill with cancer for some time, his spokeswoman told Agence France-Presse. Dark-haired and Irish-born, Mr. Todd simultaneously embodied the dashing romantic hero and the straight-backed British military man. He earned an...

19 The X Factor contestants are rumoured to be performing George Michael hits this weekend. Louis Walsh reportedly went on the radio in Ireland and confirmed the theme. The six remaining acts will choose from the Careless Whisper singer's back...

Cat Stevens rallied round overnight after he was booed by a small number of people at the first gig of a long-awaited comeback tour. A small number of people walked out when Yusuf Islam, staging his first tour since 1976,...

The Dublin City Council has presented Irish rockers U2 with a £33,125 fine for exceeding the noise ordinance limit during their Croke Park concerts in Dublin last July. Residents of the area were already upset with the rockers because some...

Writing the sequel to "The Boondock Saints" took Troy Duffy three years — a task he likened Tuesday at the University of Notre Dame to "cracking a code." Ninety-nine percent of sequels are terrible, Duffy said. He knew writing a...

London: Sir Elton John has been discharged from hospital and is feeling "fine", his spokesman has revealed. The veteran singer was taken to the King Edward VII Hospital in Windsor after being diagnosed with an E.coli bacterial infection.