Don’t be put off by the unofficial title – Scum F**k Flower Boy – this album is like blissful summer nectar

The actor on hitting every rung on the Hollywood ladder

Despicable Me 3 review: Minions, manic laughs and Pharrell Williams chimes in with his boppiest soundtrack to date

Phil Collins, who plays Dublin on Sunday, is hip again – but for Patrick Freyne he always was

Singer performs at benefit event as Bono tells crowd: ‘All our hearts are with you’

Students should remember that grandmothers – not billionaires and popstars – know best

British singer-songwriter was accused of ‘note-for-note’ copying of Matt Cardle track

A British musician claims U2 copied his demo tape, but copyright infringement is ‘a terribly inexact science’

Movie night on Dancing With The Stars Ireland throws up a few horror shows on the dance floor

Irish nominees come up short, Meryl Streep gives searing critique of Donald Trump

Research shows the rich and famous alienate more voters than they recruit

The Dublin Hun’s first book pays warm tribute to feisty working-class women, along the way giving tips on perfecting a Hun Bun and keeping trainers ultra-white with toothpaste

New British Labour base sees itself as allied to Syriza in Greece and Spain’s Podemos

Fifty residents of a New Zealand retirement village made a shot-for-shot Taylor Swift video with added cupcake dusting

Musical connectors are bringing together musicians and producers to blend methods and styles, and radically changing the way pop music is being made

Led Zeppelin accused of copying distinctive guitar pattern from a song by band Spirit

Bodies of drowned child and father Seán Sweeney found near Royal Canal last Sunday

Singer’s South African concerts face disruptions over deal with Woolworths