The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) states as of August 1st that 13 Irish businesses were served with closure orders for breaches of food safety legislation for the month of July. The businesses were located in Dublin (6), Cork (4), Meath, Clare and Tipperary and they were: Roberto’s (Closed area: food storage and potato […]

8 years ago

Portuguese Media are reporting that a national criminal investigation is currently underway after the alleged rape of a British tourist by an Irish tourist. The English woman is in her 30s and states that the incident happened in a hotel room where the Irishman was staying in Portimão, Portugal. The pair met in a bar […]

8 years ago

This Irishman just found out that his bride-to-be had been cheating on him and instead of wallowing in self-pity, he was determined to get back on the horse, or horses rather. The man was selling his fiancé’s wedding dress for €750 and the proceeds were going on “beer, hookers and a bender at the Galway […]

8 years ago

The most popular first names for baby boys and girls in Northern Ireland from last year have been revealed. The names that came out on top of the list were Emily and James. James, Jack, Daniel and Thomas all feature in the top 10 while bizarre names like Zeplin, Blaise, Maverick, Ace and Jupiter also […]

8 years ago

You’re probably trying to fill the Love Island shaped void that is currently in your heart and while every day for the next month is going to be hard, RTÉ has you covered on Wednesday night. They are airing a movie that won best picture in the 2016 Oscars and a film that has a […]

8 years ago

You know the phrase ‘he’d forget his head if it wasn’t screwed on’, well that definitely applies to these bunch of hurlers in Laois. Ballypickas GAA shared this picture from their Junior C hurling WhatsApp group and it’s the definition of playing at this grade. They have a match on Wednesday night against Rosenallis and […]

8 years ago

The fact that 20 years later, we still use phrases from Father Ted just shows how much of an impact the show had on Ireland. We honestly cannot wait for the Father Ted musical which is on the way but it looks like a Father Ted character could be looking to move out of Craggy […]

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Now, before you go any further in this article, the following pictures are NOT SUITABLE FOR WORK. If you do choose to open them at your desk, have a quick look around and make sure nobody’s watching you. But if you get caught looking at it, best of luck trying to explain your way out […]

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It’s been 35 years since Shergar was kidnapped and went missing. It is one of the great mysteries of the modern age and presenter-director Alison Millar set out to see if she could shed a new light on the kidnapping of a racehorse that was worth a staggering €10m when it was stolen. However, it […]

8 years ago

Did you do the EuroMillions on Tuesday night? Oh you did, interesting. Well you could be in the running to have bagged yourself a whopper amount of cash as the numbers for the massive €56m draw were made. Nobody in Europe ran away with the top prize of €56,774,958 matching the five numbers with the […]

8 years ago

We honestly can’t keep up with Ireland’s weather. Just when we thought, ‘okay, we’re not living in a tropic country forever’, minutes later we’re being issued with rainfall warnings. August could be one of those months where you’re wearing a t-shirt but you have the rain jacket in the bag, just in case. Well, Ireland’s […]

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We thought that this place was just a piss-take but it actually turns out that this off-licence in Waterford is legit. Reddit User, StarlessAbstract shared the picture and we can’t get over the outside and the price that cans are going for. It honestly looks like someone’s shed but at €1 a can (or so […]

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Passengers were left angry and hurt at the weekend after another set of cancelled Ryanair flight left them stranded at Stansted Airport with no other other flights until the beginning of this week. The cancellation was described as an “utter disgrace” with Ryanair supplying “no information and no support” on the matter. Ailish Trimble, recorded […]

8 years ago

You may remember after Mayo were knocked out of the championship by Kildare in the third round, a video circulated online of them singing one of Garth Brook’s most famous songs. ‘The River’ a version by Aidan O’Shea, Cillian O’Connor and co was sang in Matt Molloys pub in Westport after the defeat and hit […]

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What are we going to do with ourselves now? We’re going to feel a very big empty space in our hearts come 9pm every weeknight as Love Island comes to an end. As we headed into Monday night and the finale of Love Island, we were left with four couples, Meg and Wes, Josh and […]

8 years ago

It’s no secret that people outside of Ireland find it very hard to pronounce the most Irish names at times. I understand the problem first-hand. People trying to pronounce the silent ‘gh’ at the end of my name turns ‘Da-ra’ into something like ‘darach’. And I’m not the only one: Siobhán, Niamh, Aoife, Fiachra and […]

8 years ago

Your Tinder Bio could be the one factor that turns your couple of matches into hundreds of matches. Sure, you could be the best looking lad or girl in your parish but if your bio is as dry as the grass following an Irish summer heatwave, people ain’t going to spend too long looking at […]

8 years ago

People were a bit taken aback when they opened up The Times on Sunday. Writer David Quinn’s piece (subscription needed) contained the headline: “Theresa May is the UK’s Michael Collins” and added that the “Prime minister’s willingness to compromise deserves [the UK’s] support.” He stated that his father was a “die-hard Fine Gaeler and his […]

8 years ago

Several batches of Durex condoms have been recalled over fears that they may burst while coming to the end of their shelf life, The Health Products Regulatory Authority (HPRA) issued the recall after they were alerted by the makers of Durex condoms, Reckitt Benckiser. A number of the ‘Real Feel Latex-Free’ and ‘Latex Free Polyisoprene’ […]

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It’s not often that you are almost forced to turn off the radio from an interview but this one on RTÉ on Monday morning was extremely hard to listen to. Michael Jackson’s brother, Jackie Jackson was in tears as he spoke to Dave Fanning who was warming the seat for Ryan Tubridy who is currently […]

8 years ago

No. No, no. No thank you. PLEASE STOP. via GIPHY They are very much mistaken if Britain think they can take this one off of us. One of the darlings of Irish sport, Katie Taylor has gone from Olympic champion at an amatuer status to World Champion as a professional. She has won all of […]

8 years ago

On Thursday, rumours started circulating on social media about the identity of the person behind the page Bloggers Unveiled. A name had been floated about on Twitter and Instagram and even a page was set up outing the so called person behind the page. However, Bloggers Unveiled released an Instagram story to say that the […]

8 years ago

We’re really getting to the business end of Love Island now. New Jack and new Laura got the axe on Wednesday and Thursday night’s episode was pretty boring, all the couples went on dates and Alex broke up with Alexandra. ARE YOU FOR SERIOUS, ALEX? It’s hard to know whether there’ll be a return for […]

8 years ago

The Food Safety Authority of Ireland has issued a warning that a major Irish wholesale company is recalling its beef burgers in various Irish stores. The Glenmor Beef Quarter Pounders are sold in Spar, Eurospar, Londis, Mace and XL supermarkets. BWG Foods says it is recalling the batch as it is labelled with the wrong […]

8 years ago

Defo on the list of ‘ways to know you’ve made it’ is to get a massive holla from one of the world’s biggest television programmes and you can’t get much bigger than The Ellen Show. Two Irish hotels were showcased on Ellen DeGeneres’ hit TV show this week and the coverage is going to put […]

8 years ago

Well, it was good while it lasted but it seems like Ireland’s summer is over, for the time being anyways. Met Eireann took to Twitter on Friday morning to announce that a rainfall warning is being put in place for half of the country. The status yellow rainfall warning has been issued for all of […]

8 years ago

The going never stops for Meghan Markle and Prince Harry. It’s been a couple of weeks since they graced our presence here in Ireland but since then they’ve been flat out on the road attending different events. On Thursday they were close enough to home as they attended a Polo match in Windsor. The charity […]

8 years ago

Long live the good weather. It’s still here, after all the maybes and drops of rain here and there, the sun has always come back day after day like it promised it would. Met Éireann’s weekly renewal of their weather advisory continues and they say that there is a Status Yellow in place for Munster […]

8 years ago

Although you might not have agreed with his punditry over the last few years – or ever for that matter – Eamon Dunphy brought a daftness to RTÉ that will be missed dearly. The broadcaster confirmed in a short Twitter statement on Wednesday that he would be leaving RTÉ Sport to focus on his podcast […]

8 years ago

When Michael Gallagher predicted back in March that we would get a whopper of a summer, we laughed in his face. We were just after facing Storm Emma/Beast From The East and thought it was only going to get much worse. But, he was bang on the money and if you don’t believe us, here’s […]

8 years ago

If you didn’t get your hands on the bean cube when it went on sale in mid-May of this year, now is your chance. Starting from just €3.99, Aldi’s new home range is going to be hit hard when it goes on sale and the bean cube is going to be the main target for […]

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We’re getting into the tail end of Love Island now and in Wednesday night’s programme, another couple will meet their maker as they will be voted out of the villa. In the middle of all the lie detector tests and the row between Jack and Dani (we’re so glad mammy and daddy are still together), […]

8 years ago

A petition on Change.org to cancel a brand new Netflix series has reached over 100,000 signatures. The teen comedy-drama ‘Insatiable’ has had numerous complaints on Twitter following its trailer which was released last week. It follows a character Patty or ‘fatty-Patty’ as she is known to her fellow students who gets bullied for being fat […]

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Ahead of his court date in the US at the end of July, Conor McGregor has been given one of the warnings of a life-time. It has been nearly two years since McGregor last took to the Octagon and became the ‘Champ-Champ’ and it is creeping up to his anniversary of fighting Floyd Mayweather in […]

8 years ago

You’ve all heard of the so-called miracle creams by La Prairie? You haven’t? Well, maybe that’s because the real McCoy sets you back about €500 but now Aldi have a version of the scientific potion on sale for 100 times less than what it should be. You can now begin your journey on the road […]

8 years ago

SuperValu alongside local retailers Eugene and Catriona Scally has announced that it will launch an initiative to make this place, Ireland’s first ever Autism Friendly town. The four month journey will see businesses, organisations and community groups undergo training and organisational changes to ensure they secure full Autism Friendly Accreditation. In 2015, Scally’s SuperValu in […]

8 years ago

If you weren’t tuned into Monday night’s Love Island, you missed one hell of an episode. The producers decided to wheel out the lie-detector test and strapped up all the boys to see who was faking it and who was real. The most talked about test came from the person who we all thought was […]

8 years ago

Want us to let you in on a little secret? Taaffes at the bottom of Shop Street in Galway does one of the best and creamiest pints of Guinness that you will find in this blessed country. Its outside area is a notorious people-watching spot where you can take in the sights and sounds of […]

8 years ago

In a week’s time, we are going to crown someone king and queen of Love Island, meaning they walk away with a cool €50,000. However, that means that will also have to say goodbye to the show that has gripped the nation over the past couple of months. It was announced mid-way through Love Island […]

8 years ago

There’s no greater sight or sound than children laughing and playing in the Irish summer sun. If you grew up in the country, you probably had acres of fields to roam about in and a slide could even come in the form of a grassy hill with a drop that you could roll down. It […]

8 years ago

Delta Airlines has confirmed that one of its flights was forced to head back towards Ireland in order to make an emergency diversion. The flight, DL31, was heading from London Heathrow to Atlanta when it was forced to make its way to Shannon Airport because of a reported “medical emergency” on board. It had just […]

8 years ago

Marty Whelan – the gift that keeps on giving. The year is 2178: Ireland will be in its 3000th day of successive heatwave-like temperatures, Dublin will still be All-Ireland football champions and Marty Whelan will be lining out to present Winning Streak while organising his notes for the upcoming Eurovision song contest (which we still […]

8 years ago

We’ve been binge watching episodes of Friends since they were made so available on the likes of E4 to more recently Comedy Central before they were added to the streaming giant that is Netflix. If we had to guess, we’d say that we have re-watched all ten series of the six-some at least 16 times. […]

8 years ago

If you think Love Island is one big made up game where contestants pretend to be in love with each other just so they can get some dolla-dolla, you’re wrong. If you think Jack and Dani, Sam and Georgia, Frankie and Samira along with the rest won’t last five minutes in the outside world, this […]

8 years ago

We have kind of become well equipped with how to handle snow and thunderstorms over the last few years, but what happens if we get a proper – near national emergency type – heatwave… Well, that could become a sharp reality over the next couple of days for Ireland as our neighbours across the foam […]

8 years ago

No matter how old some Irish men get, the thought of chatting up a woman scares the living bejaysus out of them. And to think that our race might be run before we even speak to them is an even more frightening concept. That’s right, doesn’t matter how tall, good looking or muscly ye are […]

8 years ago

The Irish Sun is stating that an Irish soccer coach has been arrested in connection with an alleged sexual assault. The league of Ireland coach is accused of assaulting the teenage boy on a trip away in early 2018. The complainant states that he was sexually assaulted and woke up with his underwear around his […]

8 years ago

If you were watching Love Island on Thursday night you’ll have got an hour full of surprises. Georgia and Sam were forced to leave because they didn’t want to recouple with anyone else. Dr. Alex chose to go back with Alexandra despite telling her earlier in the week that he wanted to basically keep his […]

8 years ago

No matter how many group chats you’re in on Whatsapp (and there’s quite a few) you’re always going to have that main one. You know the one, where plans are made, videos are shared and the all-round craic is had. When you find a good video or joke – or rather steal it from another […]

8 years ago

Board at your own risk. Set in Limerick, Nightflyers follows eight maverick scientists and a powerful telepath who embark on an expedition to the edge of our solar system aboard The Nightflyer – a ship with a small tight knit crew and a reclusive captain – in the hope of making contact with alien life. […]

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