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Sunday 24 September 2023 Dublin: 18°C

# Live Aid

All time
# boomtown rat
What do you do when the chart-topping band you toured the world with quietly collapses?
Boomtown Rat Garry Roberts has had a pretty interesting career. Actually, he’s had a few of them.
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Oct 20th 2018, 10:45 AM
# Live Aid
Live entertainment industry 'generates €1.7 billion and creates 11,000 jobs annually'
The report was based on sales by Ticketmaster Ireland over a 12-month period.
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Feb 12th 2017, 10:55 AM
# 1986
Irish politicians really wanted Bob Geldof to win the Nobel Peace Prize
It didn’t happen for Bob though.
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Dec 30th 2016, 11:21 AM
# live and kicking
Your handy one-stop Irish gig guide for August
All the gigs going on around the country this month.
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Jul 24th 2015, 11:52 AM
# IN 1985
Remember where you were? The moments we'll never forget from Live Aid, 30 years on...
Bono danced in the mud, Geldof swore at everybody and Phil Collins did the most 1980s thing ever.
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Jul 13th 2015, 8:01 AM
# letting them know
Bono hits out at world leaders on Ebola, as stars arrive for latest 'Band Aid' session
One Direction, Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant, Coldplay’s Chris Martin and Sinead O’Connor are amongst the star’s taking part this time out.
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Nov 15th 2014, 6:37 PM
# throw it on the pile
Bono to receive France's highest cultural honour
He once called Jacques Chirac a w*nker, but it appears all has been forgiven.
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Jul 16th 2013, 3:24 PM
# BIG TIME
Stephen Roche, Swingball, Big Time bars: Ireland in the 1980s (pics)
From the Enniskillen bombing to the divorce referendum, from Theresa Lowe to Ray Houghton…. images of eighties Ireland.
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Jun 3rd 2012, 1:00 PM
# Band Aid
Sorry Bob! BBC apologises over Band Aid claims
The BBC alleged that millions of pounds raised by Band Aid had been diverted to rebels in Ethiopia.
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Nov 4th 2010, 11:16 AM
# Feed The World
Do They Know It's Christmas? Because it wasn't
Five things you may have forgotten about Live Aid, held 25 years ago today.
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Jul 13th 2010, 12:04 PM