Question: "Danny" O'Donoghue, is an Irish singer-songwriter known for being the frontman of which Irish rock band formed in 2008 in Dublin, Ireland? 

Context articles: The Stunning
Bob Geldof
Gerry Smyth
Lir (band)
The Script
Danny O'Donoghue
Rain (The Script song)
List of songs recorded by U2
Mytown
The Walls

The Stunning are an Irish rock band formed in 1987.
 In the seven years that they were initially together, they toured relentlessly building up a following that would make them one of the most successful Irish bands ever.
 In 1990 their debut album <nowiki>"</nowiki>Paradise In The Picturehouse<nowiki>"</nowiki> spent five weeks at number one and became one of the most-loved Irish albums of all time.
 Two years later, the follow-up Once Around The World also hit the number one spot, and the band went on to sell over 100,000 albums in Ireland alone.
 Brewing Up A Storm has become an anthem of sorts and is to be heard everywhere from football stadiums to clubs around the country where it is still a guaranteed floor-filler.
 Songs such as Half Past Two, Romeo’s on Fire, and Everything that Rises is still to be heard on the radio and have been featured in movies and numerous compilation albums of the best of Irish rock.
 They toured the US and the UK with the likes of Bob Dylan and The B52s.
 During their time, the band scooped every music prize and award going and their music is still to be heard on the airwaves.
 The band split up in 1994 to pursue other interests and they reformed in 2003 to support the re-release of their debut album "Paradise in the Picturehouse".
 They perform regularly for select Irish shows and festivals, and in 2014 they returned to New York and Boston for their first gigs there since the early nineties.
 The band are currently in the studio recording new material, set for release in early 2016.
Robert Frederick Zenon "Bob" Geldof, KBE (born 5 October 1951), is an Irish singer-songwriter, author, political activist and occasional actor.
 He rose to prominence as the lead singer of the Irish rock band The Boomtown Rats in the late 1970s and early 1980s, alongside the punk rock movement.
 The band had Number One hits with his compositions "Rat Trap" and "I Don't Like Mondays".
 He co-wrote "Do They Know It's Christmas?
", one of the best-selling singles of all time, and starred in Pink Floyd's 1982 film "Pink Floyd – The Wall" as "Pink."
Gerry Smyth (14 September 1961) is an academic, musician, actor and playwright from Dublin, Ireland.
 He works in the Department of English at Liverpool John Moores University.
, where he is Profesor of Irish Cultural History.
 His early publications were mainly in the field of Irish literature, although since 2002 he has also written widely on the subject of Irish music.
 Smyth was an early advocate of postcolonial criticism in Irish Studies, although more recently he has been keen to emphasise the autobiographical dimension of critical discourse.
 "Decolonisation and Criticism" won the American Conference for Irish Studies' Michael J. Durkan Prize for best book published in literary criticism, arts criticism or cultural studies in 1999.
 "Beautiful Day: Forty Years of Irish Rock" (co-authored with Sean Campbell) was launched in the Clarence Hotel in Dublin in September 2005.
 "Our House: The Representation of Domestic Space in Contemporary Culture" (co-edited with Jo Croft) was launched at the Tate Liverpool in September 2006.
 His collection of critical essays "Music in Irish Cultural History" also won the Michael J. Durkan Prize (2009).
 Smyth has lectured throughout Europe and the United States on various aspects of Irish culture; most recently he was a keynote speaker at IASIL 2017, held in Singapore.
 In September / October 2006 he was Academic-in-Residence at the Princess Grace Irish Library in Monaco.
 He was appointed Visiting Professor of Irish Studies at the University of Vienna between October 2010 and February 2011.
LiR is an Irish rock band.
 Their sound has been described as "a fusion of funky progressive rock, folky mysticism and savvy pop".
 The band formed in the late 1980s in Dublin, firstly under the name The Spontaneous Frogs, then Uproar.
 They released their first EP, 'All Machines Hum in A', in 1992.
 In 1993, they released their first LP, 'Magico Magico!'
 under the label Velo Records (Velo was an Irish Indie) in Ireland.
 In 1994, they re-released 'Magico Magico!'
 to the US, under the independent record label What Are Records?
 (W.A.R.?)
.
 The new version of the album saw a revision to the track listing.
 LiR would release their second album, 'Nest', exclusively with W.A.R.?
, the following year, in 1995.
 Around this time, they were notorious for playing constant live shows in Whelan's Bar, on Wexford Street in Dublin.
 The support act was regularly by another Dublin band called Dragonfly (the lead guitarist of Dragonfly later became LiR's second guitarist, after the departure of keyboardist David Hopkins).
 The LiR song 'Temple Child' appeared on the What Are Records?
 "Ammunition" compilation album, a music sampler of various independent artists.
 In 1997 the band appeared on the soundtrack for the movie "I Went Down", with the song 'There Are More Things'.
The Script are an Irish rock band formed in 2008 in Dublin, Ireland.
 It consists of lead vocalist and keyboardist Danny O'Donoghue, lead guitarist Mark Sheehan, and drummer Glen Power.
 The band moved to London after signing to Sony Label Group imprint Phonogenic and released its eponymous début album, "The Script", in August 2008, preceded by the successful singles "The Man Who Can't Be Moved" and "Breakeven".
 The album peaked at number one in both Ireland and the UK.
 Their next three albums, "Science & Faith" (2010), "#3" (2012) and "No Sound Without Silence" (2014), all topped the album charts in Ireland and the UK, while "Science & Faith" reached number three in the US.
 Hit singles from the albums include "For the First Time", "Nothing", "Hall of Fame" and "Superheroes".
 The band's fifth studio album, "Freedom Child", was released on September 1, 2017 and features the UK Top 20 single "Rain".
Daniel John Mark Luke "Danny" O'Donoghue (born 3 October 1979) is an Irish singer-songwriter known for being the frontman of the Irish alternative rock band The Script and as a coach on the first two series of the television singing talent show "The Voice UK".
"Rain" (stylised as "Ra!n" on the cover art) is a song by Irish rock band The Script.
 It was written by James Barry, Camille Purcell, Mark Sheehan and Danny O'Donoghue, with the latter two and Andrew Frampton, Jimbo Wallace, Max Farrar handling the song's production.
 The song was released on 14 July 2017, through Sony Music, as the lead single from the band's fifth studio album "Freedom Child".
U2 are an Irish rock band from Dublin.
 The band formed in 1976 and released their debut EP "Three" in 1979 exclusively in Ireland.
 Following the release of their single "Another Day" in 1980, U2 signed a recording contract with Island Records, which lead to the release of their first album, "Boy", later that year.
 The band has since released 13 studio albums, with the most recent release being "Songs of Innocence" in 2014.
Mytown was an Irish boy band formed in 1996 by members Danny O'Donoghue, Mark Sheehan, Terry Daly and Paul Walker.
 They released one album, the epomynous "Mytown" and had a number of singles before splitting up in 2001.
 Two of the prominent members of the band, namely Danny O’Donoghue and Mark Sheehan went on to form the pop rock band The Script alongside Glen Power.
 The band members co-wrote their debut album.
The Walls are an Irish rock band.
 They were formed in 1998 by two ex-members of The Stunning – brothers Steve and Joe Wall.
 Their debut album "Hi-Lo" was released in 2000 and included the singles "Bone Deep", "Something's Wrong" and "Some kind of a Girl".
 U2 invited The Walls to support them at their second show in Slane Castle in 2002 after the band sent them copies of their debut.
 A number of songs from "Hi-Lo" featured in movies: Goldfish Memory, On the Edge, and Dead Bodies.
 In 2002 they released the single "To the Bright and Shining Sun".
 It was used on an Irish TV commercial and became a hit in Ireland.
 The subsequent album "New Dawn Breaking" (2005) included "To the Bright and Shining Sun" and three other singles: "Drowning Pool", "Passing Through" and "Black and Blue".
 The 2013 movie Begin Again starring Keira Knightley and Mark Ruffalo features "Drowning Pool" over the opening credits.
 The first track on the album "Open Road" proved a favourite with Nic Harcourt on his KCRW show "Morning Becomes Eclectic" and he invited the band to play a session on the show in 2006.
 They played SXSW in Austin, Texas, a few days beforehand.
 The following year the band travelled to Australia and played their first shows there, opening up for Crowded House on the latter's first reunion gigs.
 The Walls opened the shows in Sydney and Melbourne and also performed their own gigs in both of those cities.
 The band's third album "Stop the Lights" was released in 2012.
 The first single "Bird in a Cage" became a firm favourite with Irish radio, in particular with Irish DJ Tony Fenton who championed them.
 The second single was the title track "Stop the Lights", an autobiographical story of a motorbike crash.
 A video was shot for the song in the brother's hometown, Ennistymon, and in the Dublin mountains.
 In March 2013 the band played their first shows in Russia and performed live on the Evening Urgant show.
 They returned the following year.