It may just sound like the setting of a thriller by Stephen King, but the Clown Motel is a real place. In the sleepy town of Tonopah, Nevada, it lurks. Upon arrival you’ll be welcomed by a cackling, juggling clown sign which looks like a hybrid creation of something from the Bates Motel mixed with IT. […]

8 years ago

That was one of the most intense finishes to a game you will ever see in any sport but in the end Dublin are the winners and get their 3 in a row. More heartbreak for Mayo. The nerves were absolutely frayed from all sides on Twitter… #DUBvMAYO #AllIrelandFinal #GAA #COYBIB pic.twitter.com/1LW6LEZwRe — Claire O’Connell […]

8 years ago

The All Ireland final is in full swing and a close match that has yet to be decided. Fans online were quick to point out an eye gouging incident towards the end of the first half. The ref didn’t pick on the full extent of the on the incident involving Eoghan O’Gara.  Make your own […]

8 years ago

There was a very special surprise for the fans in Croke Park at the start of the All Ireland final today with the Air Corps doing a fly by. They swooped in over Hill 16 and got the special day off to a great start. Although one of the planes had an issue with their […]

8 years ago

It’s all Ireland final day at Croke park and after a huge build up all week the players finally got to do their talking on the pitch. The first half has been tight and fans on Twitter have been getting involved passionately. Here are the best tweets from that frantic first half… The @IrishAirCorps are […]

8 years ago

It seems as if this year most people are going to spend the month of December opening alcoholic advent calendars. We told you about the Gin and Prosecco versions last week and now Aldi have just revealed they’ll be rolling out a wine version on the 15th November. Aaaall I want for Christmas is the Aldi wine […]

8 years ago

There seems to be a national day of some sort every single day of the week at the moment, but we’ve finally come across one that we can all firmly get behind. Tomorrow Is National ‘Leave Work At 4pm Day’ and people are starting to get behind it all across the UK and Ireland. It’s […]

8 years ago

Do you ever get that feeling when you wake in the morning (especially with a hangover) and you can’t quite decide if you want a can of Coke or a coffee to start the day? Well fear no more because news reaches us from Japan that they are now combining the two. The drink will […]

8 years ago

One of the most amazing things about Airbnb is the wide variety of houses and unique places that you can stay in when traveling.  This cottage is slap bang on the Ring of Kerry and has to be one of the prettiest places you can stay in the country. Costing just €110 a night and […]

8 years ago

Sometimes your eyes can’t quite believe what they are seeing and that is the case with the news that McDonalds have been testing out pizza in their restaurants. The pizzas have been popping up on the menu of three restaurants across the USA and Canada with people driving from all over the country to get […]

8 years ago

Music festivals are undoubtably brilliant fun but the bill for booze is something that we all struggle with.  Just when you think every conceivable way of sneaking alcohol has been thought of along comes a young man called Alex who is clearly and absolute genius. He was attending the Electric Zoo music festival but 3 […]

8 years ago

We all have our own favourite chocolate bars that we tend to stick to but a new arrival is about to burst onto the scene and could change the game completely. On the 18th of September we’ll be getting chunky Kit Kats that are “New York cheesecake” flavour and we have to say they sound […]

8 years ago

Let’s face it, we’re pretty much obsessed with anything to do with the green-eyed wizard since he first blessed our screens way back in 2001. It’s this time of year we wish we were packing up our trunks and getting our own Hedwig fed and prepped for the long journey to the Wizarding School Of […]

8 years ago

Gin is one of the greatest parts of being alive – and now there’s a hotel which shares the opinion. In fact, The Distillery is the UK’s FIRST gin hotel. Although it involves a flight and there should clearly be one of these here in Ireland already we are totally fine with spending a weekend […]

8 years ago

While the recent invasion of gin flavoured products has probably gone too far at this stage today we do have something new that sounds absolutely fabulous.  The new Rhubarb flavoured gin costs €30 a bottle and is available in selected stockists and online via Amazon. Not only will it taste of our favourite autumn dessert but […]

8 years ago

We’ve all been there on a Sunday evening where we utter the words…. “never again” or “I can’t go on like this” after putting our bodies through hell.  Like most people my answer on a Monday morning would be green juice, a couple of beroccas and a bit of yoga for 3 days before jumping […]

8 years ago

There are two things that people around the world can’t seem to get enough of and they are LEGO and Star Wars. They just never seem to go out of fashion and if anything become more embraced by every passing generation. We’ve seen plenty of Star Wars LEGO merchandise in the past but nothing quite like this.  […]

8 years ago

Nothing beats getting away on a good city break and with summer upon us, we thought we’d give you a little inspiration when it comes to the best places to travel around Europe. Most of these are a little off the beaten track and not as well established as the likes of Rome, London and […]

8 years ago

We’ve all just about gotten over the spate of clowns that were popping up earlier in the year around parks in the UK when along comes the Stephen King clown horror movie IT. The movie will be out this week in the UK but one young man has decided to scare the shit out of […]

8 years ago

Prosecco, gin, more prosecco… It’s safe to say that Ireland is obsessed with these two drinks. So with the weekend fast approaching we thought it was our duty to tell you about a new game changing product to hit the world of Prosecco… This is a 750ml glass which holds an entire bottle of the […]

8 years ago

After a couple of days out partying after the fight in Vegas he has just released the following… “Just coming back around after a whirlwind couple of days.  “Thank you to all the fans for the support of the fight and the event! Without your support we as fighters are nothing so I thank you […]

8 years ago

It was the fight that everybody had been waiting for at in the middle of the night people got the entertainment they were looking for. The result didn’t go the way McGregor wanted it to but there were some brilliant tweets about the event. Here are some of the best of them… Ireland be like […]

8 years ago

Some of you might think it is just to early to be thinking about Christmas but it is just over 3 months until the 1st of December and the arrival of advent calendars. We already told you about gin baubles for decorating your tree and today we have some even bigger news for you with the arrival […]

8 years ago

Christmas is coming – well, in around 19 weeks or so. So Sipsmith are doing us all a major service by offering their tree decorating tips. And the super gin stars have unveiled ‘gin baubles’ to hang on your tree. Except, they’re not baubles so much as mini bottles… Jared Brown, Master Distiller at Sipsmith, told […]

8 years ago

Nothing beats a good internet meme and the latest is people sharing examples of people already living in the year 3017.  Essentially we are talking about people here who have life figured out to a whole different level. This includes people who have hacks, shortcuts and just generally more brains than the rest of us […]

9 years ago

Imagine just quietly making your dinner with your other half when a spider the size of a football suddenly appears at the window. While it looks like something out of a movie, this scene actuallyunfolded when a Huntsman spider showed up in Australia this week.  The couple named the giant beast ‘Aragog’ after the Harry Potter creature.  […]

9 years ago

Just when you thought the hype had finally calmed down a couple of notches after the McGregor versus Mayweather world press tour along comes a first trailer for the upcoming Notorious documentary.  The movie will be released via Universal and after some teasing from the McGregor camp along comes a first glimpse of what we […]

9 years ago

After 15 odd years as a brand and 750,000 customers – it has been announced that Meteor Mobile will retire as a brand come September.  All existing customers will be moving across to the Eir Mobile parent brand from September onwards.  A whole generation of younger customers (and students especially) have grown up with Meteor and […]

9 years ago

We love featuring some of the best talent that we spot on Instagram on  #lovinireland and this week we some jaw dropping photos and videos. One person making incredible content for the platform is Adrian Weckler who used drones and photography to show off this wonderful little country of ours. We’ve highlighted some of his best […]

9 years ago

Are you a true Game Of Thrones fan? Let’s find out. Our little quiz today is actually pretty straightforward, in that all you need to tell us is if these characters are dead or alive.  Given the plot twists and the amount of episodes, though, you might struggle to get over 90%. Let’s see what you’re […]

9 years ago

Do you ever wonder why we call certain things the names we do? No, neither have we.  Until now… Correct Names is one of the most inventive Twitter accounts we’ve ever come across. The premise is incredibly simply yet absolutely genius… they rename things as they should have been called. We’re thinking of starting a petition […]

9 years ago

This week has seen McGregor fever reach unprecedented levels around the world with the global press tour. Irish fans have been on the bandwagon for some time and the copycats are out there in force mimicking his every move and talking like McGregor. None more so than this classic fella picking up his girlfriend… Enjoy… […]

9 years ago

Beyoncé has owned the internet and social media this week with one simple photo featuring her and the newly-born twins.  However, an Irish mother who just had her own twins in February proved that she could go one better… All she needed was the back garden, a bath robe, the twins themselves and her very own […]

9 years ago

Roy. Sonia. AP. Katie. Padraig. Rory… The biggest sports stars Ireland has ever produced are very easily identifiable by their first names alone and we all rank them differently based on our own affinity for the various sports.  Calling one the biggest over another is a pub argument that nobody was ever going to win […]

9 years ago

While everybody in Ireland was captivated by the Coldplay concert in Croke Park last night, our very own U2 were over in London doing something wonderful of their own. U2 invited 50 of the firefighters and their families who had so bravely attended the scene at Grenfell Towers for a private concert which doubled as their […]

9 years ago

The naysayers often diss Coldplay as bland, but no one can deny that their show at Croke Park last night was absolutely spectacular. These photos and videos from the concert will give you a serious dose of FOMO… The place absolutely exploded into colour… View this post on Instagram Absolutely insane concert! #Coldplay #Dublin A […]

9 years ago

Most people pick a nice vintage car to arrive at their wedding, but one Irish couple decided to do something a little bit different. They drove straight into the reception in the Radisson Blu Hotel & Spa in Sligo in their very own dumper truck.  Zero fucks were given. Not an entrance those guests are […]

9 years ago

We are at the height of summer and with people out and about, criss-crossing the islands some of the photos you have been sharing are just stunning.  With hundreds of photos tagged every single day on Instagram using #lovinireland the standard seems to get better every single week. Give some of these amazing accounts a follow […]

9 years ago

We know the fight is on August 26.  The know that the first press conference is on Tuesday in LA.  And now we have the first official fight promo video. Created by Showtime, who will be broadcasting the fight, it shows the two stars doing what they do even better than fighting… talking the fight […]

9 years ago

Having a baby is a really hard graft at the best of times but combining that taxing workload with having to raise a puppy isn’t for the faint hearted.  When one imgur user told her friends she was getting a puppy weeks before having a baby girl everybody advised her not to.  As this photo […]

9 years ago

Ingredients Ballymaloe Steak Sauce Sweet Potatoes Feta Cheese Lemon Breadcrumbs Cajun Seasoning Egg Free Range Chicken breasts cut into strips The whole dish only takes about 30 minutes from start to finish and as soon as you taste it you might just have a new favourite meal. Huge bold flavours that you’ll absolutely love. Instructions Step […]

9 years ago

We’ve used to seeing videos, photos and hearing stories about Fungi the famous dolphin in Dingle but it looks as if he might have a rival on the West Coast of Ireland. This female dolphin was spotted on Inis Oirr, one of the Aran Islands, being incredibly friendly with the divers. The video was taken today […]

9 years ago

Many of us head out for brunch at the weekend, but in a bid to save you a bit of money (and to improve your cooking skills) we thought we’d share some recipes from the very best bloggers in the world.  Just wait to you see the expression on your friends faces as you whip these […]

9 years ago

I don’t know if you’re like me, but every winter I get sick of Ireland.  It might be the first of July now, but the gloomy weather outside makes it feel like January. The wind that shakes the house. The days where it only gets bright at about 9am and is dark again by 3pm. […]

9 years ago

Sometimes when you live in a country and look at the same things day in, day out you get a little complacent about how stunning the place actually is.  But Ireland really is one of the most stunning places on the planet and we thought we’d share some photos to prove that.  If anything, this […]

9 years ago

The food scene in Ireland feels like it has moved to another level in the last couple of years with a serious depth of world class restaurants. We have the very best produce in the world on our little island which certainly helps, and when you look at what some of the talented men and […]

9 years ago

Kerry has to be one of the most spectacular counties in Ireland by some distance, with tourists flocking there to see the sights.  Living there, for many, would be the dream and today we have a dream house for you to check out.  It’s fairly steep – coming in at €1.9 million, which is huge […]

9 years ago

When it comes to chocolate there are many varieties that we all go for but perhaps none more luxurious than Ferrero Rocher. The big daddy of all the after dinner treats. While they taste great as they are – straight out of the gold wrappers – we thought we’d look around the world to see what […]

9 years ago

While there are many social networks to choose from these days, the very best to keep up with all our favourite celebrities still has to be Instagram. With the hot weather having arrived and summer holidays to be had Irish celebs are busy looking good and taking the photos to prove it. Here are 21 […]

9 years ago

Every week you guys tag 1000s of photos using both #lovindublin and #lovinireland over on Instagram and with the weather being fecking fantastic this week there have been some incredible snaps. We thought we’d share some of the absolute best which only prove how lucky we are to be living on this little island of […]

9 years ago