With the college year almost back in full swing, lots of students are going to be in party mode and will be looking forward to freshers week and getting back into the swing of things. However, for most, the sad reality is that they’ll still be on the lookout for accommodation even when they’re a […]

8 years ago

Wouldn’t you just love to be either one of these two people. It’s a big pay day at Lotto HQ as two lucky Lotto players won two jackpots in last night’s draw. One person won a mega jackpot of €4,770,304 while the other won the €250,000 top prize on the lotto Plus 2 draw. The […]

8 years ago

The RTÉ News at 9 has always been a standalone and has remained unrivalled in Ireland for years. Rivals TV3 have always had their half 5 bulletin but never anything too near the precious 9 o’clock slot that has been ‘owned’ by RTÉ for so many years. Until today, that is. Because, the 30 August […]

8 years ago

Between the pandemonium of the Beast from the East and Storm Emma, we honestly couldn’t have asked for a better summer. But according to experts, the middle of September could be a rocky time for our little country as it it set to be hit with a storm “as strong as Ophelia”. Just to give […]

8 years ago

For many of us who grew up watching rugby in the noughties era of triple crowns, Munster Heineken Cup success and that missed penalty in 2009 to clinch a Grand Slam, one of your heroes will certainly be Ronan O’Gara. Whether it’s in the baggy Permanent TSB sponsored shirts, or the slim-fit modern day era […]

8 years ago

You can always rely on Dealz for the weird and wonderful and ahead of Electric Picnic this weekend, they are not disappointing. Their ‘portable female urinal’ product has been selling like hot cakes ahead of the Stradbally festival and at €1.50 a pop, it’s definitely worth getting it just incase. We won’t go into the […]

8 years ago

Looking forward to the cosy evenings in watching television and doing nothing after work because it’s miserable outside. WELL GET THAT IDEA OUT OF YOUR HEAD IMMEDIATELY. Weather Experts in America are saying that some of Europe – Ireland included – could be about to get what they describe to be an “Indian Summer”. They […]

8 years ago

There’s a comedy on as the Big Big Movie for RTÉ tonight but we’re not in the mood for laughing, oh no. ‘The Intern’ starring Robert De Niro and Anne Hathaway just won’t cut it for us tonight. It’s nearly September, the kids are back to school which means it takes the bus 100 hours […]

8 years ago

Last week we heard that Michael D could be going up against a former burlesque performer, pro-life campaigner massive Trump fan, Sarah-Louise Mulligan. A candidate so controversial that it was tipped that she might even follow in the footsteps of the American president that she loves so well. As well as this, various others have […]

8 years ago

Well rock me mama like a Wagon Wheel but there seems to be one name that has been ruled out of the running of becoming a storm name here in Ireland. According to The Irish Examiner, Met Éireann removed the name ‘Nathan’ from being elected as a storm because of country and western singer, Nathan […]

8 years ago

Because, the holiday never really ends if you don’t stop booking them. Then, you always have something to look forward to. We love a good old seat sale and nobody does a giveaway quite like Ryanair. They are currently having their ‘smart kids’ seat sale which sees up to 10% off seats to a whole […]

8 years ago

Stage times have been announced the Casa Bacardí stage at Electric Picnic and we are buzzing. Featuring a stellar line up of DJs throughout the weekend, this is the perfect location to soak up the party atmosphere across the weekend. Percussive and tribal house DJ Melé kicks off the opening night on Friday, 31st August […]

8 years ago

We’d be lying if we said that we long for the days of boot-cut baby blue jeans to make a comeback. We like our jeans tight, we like our jeans ripped – that is the what the typical Irish man’s jeans drawer looks like right now. So, it might surprise you to hear of a […]

8 years ago

IKEA can be a very daunting place especially if it’s your first time inside. You really need to brace yourself for it. But, if you kind of know what you’re looking for before you head in, you can really make the most of your big day out. And if you have this one item in […]

8 years ago

Play this once, and you will become instantly addicted to it. Improving your score and your technique all while trying to beat your mates… I’ll have a go at any sport and be decent enough at it but one thing I could never get my head around was golf. I just don’t have the coordination […]

8 years ago

Oh wow. Cutting the cake while your dearest mother takes a photograph is just not going to be as cute anymore as it used to be. These wedding experts have come out and told us the real disturbing reason why couples cut the cake at the reception of their wedding. According to Aleisha McCormack, a […]

8 years ago

There’s not many programmes that would entice you to stay up past midnight on a Thursday – we want to get to sleep as quick as possible so it’ll be Friday sooner – but this sports doc will certainly have you on the couch albeit in your jammies. It’s nearly four years old at this […]

8 years ago

You’re feeling down, we understand. It’s Wednesday, summer is coming to an end and the weekend seems like four months away. The weather has gotten shite and all the television you love – the GAA and Love Island to name but a few have come to or are coming to an end. Fear not though, […]

8 years ago

Anything bad to do with that area down there will always make us shout ‘AHHHH, nope, sorry, not listening, come outta that now, la, la, la. You never want to see the words ‘flesh-eating’ and ‘genitals’ anywhere near each other, same as you don’t want to see an STI near you either. However, there is […]

8 years ago

For so long we thought Michael D was going to be uncontested in this year’s Presidential election but each week that passes, another person puts their name into the hat. The newest candidate to step forward is a whole host of things. She’s a burlesque performer, she supported that pro-life campaign and is a massive […]

8 years ago

The Forty-Five this week talked to Eamonn Leper Callaghan about everything from skinny jeans (there’s a really weird lads jeans trend happening in Ireland at the moment) to how to stay at the top level of sport for nearly 20 years as well as what to do once your inter-county career comes to an end. […]

8 years ago

Sun’s gone away. You’re trying to save a few bob before Christmas so nights out are going to be slack coming into September. No problem because Netflix has just released its new titles for September and there’s three showstopping movies that have just been added that will pass a night or two next month. The […]

8 years ago

A Belfast sports star has been jailed for four years after a vicious sex attack on a 27-year-old woman. Colin Grimason, who is 26, played for Belfast Prowlers in ice hockey. BBC report that the court heard that the victim was allegedly dragged into an alley and feared she was going to die during the […]

8 years ago

No matter how desperate we are to find accomodation around Ireland, and we’re pretty desperate, we would always draw the line at this. As students got offered their CAO courses yesterday, the search for accom all around the country began. With tens of thousands of students starting college in Dublin in September, the search for […]

8 years ago

The Lodgers is coming to Netflix this Thursday, 23 August. Set in 1920’s bloody county Carlow of all places, it follows Anglo-Irish twins Rachel and Edward as they share a strange existence in their crumbling family estate. Each night, the property becomes the domain of a sinister presence which enforces three rules upon the twins: […]

8 years ago

Independent TD, Shane Ross has given a sly dig to Kerry TD, Danny Healy-Rae after an images of Healy-Rae asleep in Croke Park during the All-Ireland Hurling Final emerged online. Many Galway, Limerick and GAA fans alike were left without tickets for the biggest hurling game of the year as Thousands flocked to the Gaelic […]

8 years ago

Gardaí are said to be on “high alert” due to fears of a gang who are allegedly “targeting and isolating” drunk women as they come out of Irish nightclubs. A main suspect has been identified by Gardaí and it has been revealed he was previously acquitted of rape. It is alleged that the man in […]

8 years ago

If you had any sort of interest in hurling or GAA in general, you were probably glued to a television somewhere on Sunday. As well as this, there’s a good chance that you were watching the game in the pub or in your local restaurant and sure who knows, you might have been skulling some […]

8 years ago

Galway are looking to complete two-in-a-row while Limerick look to end their thirsty drought for glory, a drought which Galway knew all too well up until last year. Eamon Fennell, Ross McConnell and Dotsy O’Callaghan all think that Galway will have enough to do the business on Sunday but there is one aspect that […]

8 years ago

Tyrone go on the search for their first All-Ireland since 2008 and are hoping to defeat Dublin, a feat which have not been reached since the League final last year. None of the experts are giving Tyrone the slightest chance and feel that Dublin’s experience alone will be enough to see them over the […]

8 years ago

Even on a good day, you’d have to get up pretty early in the morning in order to catch us out. In the days of Facebook competition for All-Ireland Final tickets, free drink giveaway and all that jazz, people will share anything in the hope of getting something for free. And, that’s what happened when […]

8 years ago

The main image of this article is from Diarmuid Connolly’s Twitter post from the 28 August 2016. Dublin had just won their Semi-Final game and would now face Mayo in the final. Connolly said “Hill 16 was Dublin Only” and us Westerners thought ‘fuck him’, we’ll show him. It’s a blessing to get an All-Ireland […]

8 years ago

Things just got serious. As we heard this morning, Storm Ernesto is on the way to Ireland and the tropical storm is set to batter our small little country this weekend. We are supposed to get the tail-end of the post-tropical cyclone which is feared might turn into a hurricane by Saturday. It’s meant to […]

8 years ago

“The English claim athletes as British when it suits them” – that was the reaction after Michael Conlan was pictured beside a British emblem as he fought in his homecoming bout against Brazilian Adeilson Dos Santos. Fair enough, Conlan is from Belfast so you’ll have a few that will argue the case but he’s always […]

8 years ago

Looking outside you can tell that the shit, rainy, normal Irish weather is creeping back in and when that happens, it’s time to turn to our good friend television again. There’s no Ryan Tubridy or Graham Norton to keep us entertained tonight but RTÉ’s new chat show will give The Late Late a run for […]

8 years ago

Batten down the hatches, get the supplies in and switch on Netflix, because you ain’t going anywhere kid. Weather experts in Ireland are warning that Ireland will feel the height of Storm Ernesto in the early hours of Sunday morning. The tail-end of the storm will bring with it a wet and breezy conditions on […]

8 years ago

Rents rose nationwide by an average of 12.4% in the year to June 2018, according to the latest quarterly Rental Report by Daft.ie. This represents the ninth consecutive quarter in which a new all-time high for rents has been set and also in which annual inflation in rents has been greater than 10%. The average […]

8 years ago

We love a gamble. We love cheering on the underdog and hoping that they get the win in the final. We root for the hopeless dancer in the movie just for the small chance that they might turn on the style to impress the girl at Summer Dance. When it comes to dating, the underdog […]

8 years ago

Podge and Rodge is coming back to Irish television and we’re absolutely buzzing. Ballydung Manor is flinging open its doors again for celebrity roasting and scorching music acts. New co-host Doireann Garrihy joins the lads this year and may not know quite what she’s letting herself in for. If she gets the same stick from […]

8 years ago

You’d be a brave man or woman to clamp a garda car and this latest photo has got loadsa people commenting, but not for the reason that everyone expected. WeBuyAnyVehicle.ie shared this on their Facebook page of a Garda car being clamped while parking on a double yellow line. The clamp is on the front […]

8 years ago

The Irish Examiner has said that two Dublin students from an exclusive fee-paying school have been allegedly involved in a knife incident. The incident took place at an Irish college in Mayo during the summer. The two boys in question were attending Coláiste Uisce, a water Sports Irish college. According to sources, one of the […]

8 years ago

Did you do the Irish Lotto on Wednesday 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, almost €3m draw were made. While nobody claimed the top prize in the main draw, somebody did manage to claim […]

8 years ago

We don’t have many All-Ireland football medals, we don’t have any big city but what we do have is some lovely scenery. The views from Ireland up the side of any old mountain are normally unreal but the scope from the top of Croagh Patrick is just unreal. Looking over the top of Clew Bay, […]

8 years ago

We still have nightmares about the absolute torture that is the Leaving Cert. It’s a bullshit set of exams which favours those who can learn spiels and spiels of mostly pointless information and then regurgitate it back on a piece of paper in under 3 hours. It doesn’t define you etc, if you really want […]

8 years ago

Whatever about reversing into a parking space and taking up two parking spaces, we can offer some bit of forgiveness. Maybe you didn’t look into your mirrors and didn’t notice that you were overstepping two white lin… No actually scrap that. Unless you are blind, you’ll have noticed that you’re taking up multiple spaces when […]

8 years ago

For ages, we thought that Michael D would be uncontested in the upcoming presidential election but each week, more and more contenders are coming to the floor to take Higgins’ place at the Aras. They want to take the Aras, they want to take that Aras bad. Anyway, Group Political Correspondent for Communicorp, Sean Defoe, […]

8 years ago

A transatlantic jet was forced to divert to Shannon Airport on Wednesday morning after fears of a possible fire on board. The Virgin flight was diverted to Shannon Airport at around 8am after it was flying from Antigua to Gatwick Airport in London. The call was made when the plane was about 250km south of […]

8 years ago

We’ve been blown away with the summer that we’ve got here in Ireland and according to a study reported in the Journal Nature Communications, we can expect four more years of this type of summer weather. The high-tech weather forecasting system has predicted that 2018 to 2022 will be “abnormally hot” courtesy of climate change. […]

8 years ago

If you’re a gin lover and you haven’t been to the home of the best Irish Gin bar, then you my friend haven’t lived. If you haven’t been handed ‘The Gin Bible’ and been absolutely overwhelmed by the choice on offer, you can stop pretending that you’re some sort of gin expert when you’re clearly […]

8 years ago

Although it looks unlikely that Michael D Higgins will go into the presidential election alone, he’s still going to be a firm favourite among the public to receive a second term. However, Newstalk broadcaster, George Hook, says that if Higgins wants to serve another term, there is one essential thing that he needs to do. […]

8 years ago