U2 have been honoured with a new €2 commemorative coin marking 50 years since the Irish band formed in Dublin. The Central Bank of Ireland launched the coin on Friday 25 September, exactly five decades after Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr first came together as teenagers. Designed by longtime U2 creative
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U2 returned to Mount Temple Comprehensive School in Dublin on Friday 25 September to mark 50 years since the band formed, performing a surprise concert for hundreds of current students and staff at the place where their story began. Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr. played a seven-song set in the schoolyard,
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This image has been generated using AI Dolly Parton’s final recorded vocal performance will appear on U2’s new album Carnaval De Luz, with the country music icon duetting with Bono on the closing track, “Torn”. Parton recorded the song with Bono in June 2026, two months before her death on 25 August at the age
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A custom mirror-tiled Gibson Les Paul owned and stage-used by U2 guitarist The Edge has gone up for auction, with bidding currently at $75,000 (£55,000) and an estimated final sale price of up to $150,000 (£110,000). The guitar, being sold by Gotta Have Rock and Roll, is one of the most recognisable instruments from U2’s
Bono has revealed how U2 still works together as a band after more than four decades, describing the group as a “democracy” where everyone contributes — even if The Edge tends to have the last word. In a new interview, the U2 frontman joked that the Irish rock icons operate more like a balanced political
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