Chris de Burgh has confirmed Irish concert dates for March 2025. He will play Bord Gais Energy Theatre, Dublin on 09 March, Cork Opera House on 11 March and National Opera House Wexford on 13 March. Tickets go on sale this Thursday at 10am from www.ticketmaster.ie Chris de Burgh celebrates a remarkable and rare career milestone during 2024, half a century as a recording artist. Yet when he signed his first recording contract in 1974 and his debut album, ‘Far beyond These Castle Walls’, was released by A&M Records that same year, Chris did not look beyond the immediate future. “As I held a copy of that record in my hands, I had absolutely no idea that this would even go any further,” he recalls. “I was incredibly naive about the music business but I was full of hope and dreams and, spectacularly, my dreams not only came true, they came truer than true. I had no concept that I was going to last as long as this. Fifty years? Wow!” A song from that first album offered a very early glimpse of what might li

Thursday 14 March 10am JIMMY CARR: LAUGHS FUNNY NEW LIVE TOUR FOR 2024-2025 Extra Shows In Wexford Confirmed Tickets On Sale This Friday “A comedy hero for our times” The Guardian “Jimmy Carr is a world-class comedian” The Independent Jimmy Carr embarks on a nationwide Irish tour from May 2024. Two extra shows have been confirmed for National Opera House, Wexford on Saturday 25th May at 7.00pm and 9.30pm. Tickets for the extra dates will go on sale this Friday at 10.00am from www.ticketmaster.ie and venue box office. If you like fast-paced, edgy one-liners then get ready to be happy… one of the world’s best loved comedians, Jimmy Carr, is back on tour with a brand-new show for 2024 and 2025, Jimmy Carr: Laughs Funny. Jimmy tells jokes, and jokes are like magnets. Jokes attract some people, but they can also repel. Some people are repelled by Jimmy's dark brand of comedy. This show is not for them. But if it's the kind of thing you like, then this is the kind of thing you’ll like. A household name