U2

At times you think this might be endurance test but Billy Corgan and crew produce victory in the end

Genre-defying Dublin band leave fans holding their breath in awe with performance at In The Meadows festival

Ditch journalist Roman Shortall settles his own rent bill; Siún Ní Raghallaigh has her say; and U2′s Dublin plans fall through again

Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan knows what it’s like to face a backlash. In Sinéad O’Connor, he says, he has also seen music at its purest

The centre was to contain exhibition spaces housing memorabilia from U2′s musical history including old guitars, performance outfits and other paraphernalia

Apple Music’s best albums list is a fair reflection of where music is at nowadays. But many fans should prepare to be vexed - it turns out to be a bonfire of the musos

The way we listen to music may have changed but our relationship with recorded sound remains a vital part of who we are

Maurice Kiely had sued U2 Ltd, alleging the song ‘A Man and A Woman’ was written by him in 1998 and he performed it for the US model

Hard copies of releases from U2, The Cranberries, Fleetwood Mac, Pearl Jam and more to be in demand despite availability of music online

Deal places value of €355m on Dean Hotel Group and opens door for brand’s expansion into Europe and the US

Co-founders of Naviro are aiming to develop a €160m business in the next five years

Test your knowledge of Irish music down the years with these 10 questions

Band was an original funder of Music Generation which now provides lessons for 85,000 children every year

What is left to do in Vegas once you’ve seen U2 at Sphere? Plenty - just try to hang on to your wallet

Band’s 40-show residency comes to an end tonight and should leave the band many millions of dollars richer

‘I remember when they headlined Glastonbury… I was sat at home, on my own’. Bands changing their line-ups is a cutting moment for the unwanted member

There are plenty of spots where you can revel in a rocking atmosphere, whatever the era you’re after

Seen & Heard: Ardstone’s Milltown plans; Parkgate Street office scheme scrapped; and celebs pile into craft brewer

Money, women and power wove the threads of the year

With 57 offices worldwide, Dublin is now the 15th global selling location for the 230-year-old auction house

The message of U2′s ZooTV tour was not only that violent nationalism and right-wing populism were on the rise in Europe but that the EU was too passive in the face of such threats

Hugh Linehan: Without their Achtung Baby pivot, U2 might now be doing shows in mid-sized arenas alongside Billy Idol or Simple Minds

Róisín Ingle: There are things you can’t write in a review of a U2 concert for The Irish Times, like how you cried uncontrollably for much of the gig

U2:UV Achtung Baby Live, the band’s new Las Vegas set, sounds, looks and feels like no other gig you’ve been to

U2’s residency-opening show went ‘way better than I ever could have expected or hoped for’, says the band’s guitarist

What did the world’s media think of the most ambitious performance in the Irish band’s history?

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

U2 guitarist The Edge said change could not be imposed on North and supported John Hume community focus

Friday marks the first of 25 shows as part of the band’s UV Achtung Baby Live at Sphere concert

Press Up-operated property had recorded a loss of €1.16m in Covid-hit 2021

Around the Block: Sale of modernist home is second most valuable residential deal to have taken place in Ireland this year

With his brothers, he built the business to more than 200 stores across Austria, Switzerland, Germany, France, the UK and Ireland

O’Connor ‘truly challenged an Ireland, and a world, that stifled women, children and anyone who didn’t conform’

Plus: Taylor Swift is the first living artist to have four albums in the Billboard Top 10 at the same time since which US recording artist?

From Pink Floyd to the likes of Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin, design house Hipgnosis forged some of the best known album covers with improvised chaos

The Irish photographer David Farrell lost a legacy in the recent Italian floods. What can artists do to protect their legacies?

Dave Fanning admits remarks on RTÉ radio about recently deceased Aslan singer were ‘incredibly ill-timed’

U2 frontman discussed Ireland in the 1980s and reflected on his memoir with Fintan O’Toole

Paul Charles is no pushover. One of the lessons of Adventures in Wonderland, the Irish music agent’s new memoir, is that sometimes you have to say no

On brink of stardom in 1980s, band imploded with Dignam sacked for hard drug use but reformed to great acclaim in 1990s