Grab that suncream and dust off the sandals lads and lassies, ‘cos some decent weather is finally expected to come our way.  After what is officially* the longest winter EVER (*ask anyone, it’s true alright?), the news that sun is fiiiiinally predicted has us schweatin’ just thinking about it.  Met Eireann predict highs of up […]

8 years ago

There was a Ryanair flight with a difference yesterday evening as passengers on board were treated to a ‘free bar’ by none other than head honcho Michael O’Leary.  Why the sudden outpour of generosity from the Ryanair boss? Sure didn’t his horse only go and win the Grand National! It seems that in the buzz […]

8 years ago

Gather ’round folks, it’s story time at Lovin HQ.  The beautiful tale of a very lazy gal (me) and an innovative Irish app that brings groceries straight to your door… It’s got a Disney re-make written all over it.  Fairytales aside, this app is 100% real and it has genuinely made my life SO much easier.  Buymie is […]

8 years ago

After much speculation, it has just been announced that Paddy Jackson and Stuart Olding have had their respective Irish rugby and Ulster contracts revoked by the IRFU with immediate effect.  The two men were at the centre of an internal review following the revelation in a recent rape trial of Whatapp messages which were deemed […]

8 years ago

Planning a staycation this summer? Forget about swanning off to east Cork or the glamourous Galway… The midlands are where it’s at don’tcha know.  Fáilte Ireland today unveiled ‘Ireland’s Hidden Heartlands’ as its latest new tourism brand – designed to boost tourism and drive visitor growth across the Midlands region and it’s expected to bring to […]

8 years ago

The best news we could possibly have seen this morning as we sip on our overpriced flat whites is that Aldi will be selling a Nespresso-style capsule coffee machine in its Irish stores for a serious bargain.  I mean, okay, it’s not a Nespresso machine but if you’ve been aching for some barista style home coffee you can’t beat […]

8 years ago

Want to live in pure paradise? Well, in Wicklow you can, but it’s gonna cost you a cool €28 million.  The most expensive house for sale in the country on Daft.ie as of now, Luggala Lodge in Roundwood, Wicklow, has been described as “the most beautiful place in the world” by English singer Marlene Enright.  […]

8 years ago

A man who broke into a Garda station in Donegal and went to the toilet on the counter before stealing official Gardai items has appeared before Letterkenny District Court. The Irish Independent reports that the now 21-year-old Michel Brennan broke into Lifford Garda station in 2015 through a side window shortly before 5am.  He defecated on […]

8 years ago

Anyone who’s on a diet, please, avert your eyes from the calorific chocolately glory that has just been released. Cadbury is now doing a heavenly (or hell-ish, depending on your views on chocolate spreads), Double Decker flavour spread. And we wanna lather this over EVERYTHING. It’s a milk chocolate spread with nougat flavouring and crunchy […]

8 years ago

Quick, shield the eyes of the innocents. Ireland’s favourite sex position has just been revealed and to be perfectly honest we’re actually a little surprised.  We’d have put good money on Irish couples opting for the boring but nice missionary as their preferred way to tango in the sheets but according to a Durex survey, […]

8 years ago

A national campaign in support of the Repeal the 8th movement has raised a huge €322,000 in just one day through their online crowdfunding campaign.   At the time of writing, the amount raised was €319,000 which had already increased to €323,000 by the time of publication.  Together for Yes is the national campaign to remove […]

8 years ago

As if we weren’t looking forward to summer craic already (we’re all in agreement that was the longest winter of all time, yeah?), the news that the Boyne Valley Food Series is kicking off again has us feeling all fluttery.  The food series events runs from March-December and is a jam-packed calendar of events which celebrates the […]

8 years ago

Blessed be the fruit betches, The Handmaids Tale is FINALLY returning to our screens with a second series this month.  The incredible television show based on the dystopian novel by Margaret Atwood will premiere on RTÉ2 on Thursday April 26 at 10.35pm, and you can also live stream it and watch on-demand through RTÉ Player.  Not only that, RTÉ2 […]

8 years ago

Ahh, the boomerang generation. We leave the nest, only to quickly realise we can’t afford a double room in Blackrock and pay the bills, so we scarper back home to mammy and daddy.  We wish it wasn’t so, but crazy rents right now means that almost 23% of Irish people over 25 still live at home.  Are […]

8 years ago

There’s two types of people in the world: those who like escape rooms, and those who don’t. If you’re the latter then we think there might just be a way to convince you, and it’s all to do with Coors Light.  If you already love escape rooms then consider this your lucky day. Friendships have […]

8 years ago

Jimmy Carr has made a bit of a rookie mistake: he’s only gone and pissed off locals in Donegal.  The British comedian performed at Letterkenny’s Clanree Hotel last night, but it seems like he wasn’t too impressed with being in the town.  Jimmy made a joke about Letterkenny being painfully old fashioned…  “I’m in Letterkenny ‘Gateway […]

8 years ago

Already itching for it to be festival season? We feel your neon glowstick and flower crown pain. If you haven’t already heard though, there’s a pretty slick festival taking place in Cork this weekend and there’s still some €50 day tickets available for the Sunday.  Ireland’s first ever live-in (it’s all based indoors AND you […]

8 years ago

The humble chip sambo has just been discovered in America and quite frankly, we’re surprised that it’s taken them so long.  A staple snack of many a hungry guy or gal in the UK and Ireland (we ate at least two of these bad boys a week in secondary school), the chip butty is, according […]

8 years ago

The New York State Athletic Commission’s executive director Kim Sumbler has compared Conor McGregor’s recent UFC incident in the same sentence as American cult serial killer Charles Manson.  Following on from last week’s incident in Brooklyn, in which Conor McGregor was filmed throwing barricades at the UFC event in New York after being stripped of his Lightweight title, he […]

8 years ago

Police in Belfast have launched an appeal for information after a woman allegedly spat in the face of a taxi driver on Friday March 30.  The taxi driver, who was driving a white Nissan Quashqai, dropped the woman off at Edward Street in Belfast city. When she went to leave the car, the taxi driver said […]

8 years ago

A rainy weekend in January had all the potential to be as grim as it sounds, but throw in a mini-getaway to Belfast and a stay in one of the country’s most stylish hotels and suddenly that rain is the most atmospheric thing you’ve seen. I was up north to check out the new Titanic […]

8 years ago

Instagram obsessed just like us? We’re always looking out for a cool pic to feature on the ‘gram, and luckily Ireland has no shortage of amazing photographers.  This is shown perfectly in the 2018 Huawei Creatives competition, which attracted more than 15,000 entries in this its third year and is supported by global technology company Huawei and […]

8 years ago

Y’know how birthday parties when you were young always followed the same trend? Funzone activity centres, face painting in the garden or, if your parents were really sound, a bouncy castle.  Well listen up boys and girls. Things just got a shit tonne better for the youth of 2018.  A company in Sligo is now doing a […]

8 years ago

A 60-year-old man has died in Donegal after an accident occurred at his home in which his television exploded, The Irish Independent reports.  An investigation is underway after details emerged that the man, who was a farmer in the Raphoe area of Donegal and lived alone, was watching television alone on Monday evening when his television exploded […]

8 years ago

Songsters and musicians of Ireland, gather round and get those creative caps on. The well-known TG Lurgan is on a mission this March and are kicking off a national talent search for original music in Ireland.  TG Lurgan has featured among the top 10 Irish produced videos on YouTube each year since bursting on the scene with […]

8 years ago

Our skin is pasty pale, there’s not even the slightest hint of a freckle on our faces and we’ve been wearing wool jumpers and a hat for the past gazillion months – basically, we need a holiday.  Summer seems like it’s actually not too far away so it makes sense that now should be when […]

8 years ago

Jaysus, we give out about online dating enough but you’ve gotta admit that Tinder can be a real help for getting back on the scary horse that is meeting strangers for a date.  While we’d consider a few matches a week to be fairly successful, it’s nothing compared to two Irish guys who are officially among […]

8 years ago

A tourist from Cork wrote a “strongly worded” letter to the Irish Independent after a visit to Dingle in Kerry where he said that despite it being a Gaeltacht area, himself and his wife “quickly discovered that few if anybody there speaks as Gaeilge”. “We naïvely expected that, being in Dingle, in the Gaeltacht, the Irish […]

8 years ago

Pizza is to life what oxygen is to living: a completely and utterly vital component to being human.  You don’t like pizza? GTFO, I’m not even joking. For those of us who do understand that pizza is them most wonderful creation to ever exist than be glad to know that this summer you can eat fresh, homemade […]

8 years ago

Ahhh, the holy biscuit-y grail that is false tan.  The obsession of every Irish gal at least once in their lives, fake tan has given us that all-elusive opportunity to look (for as long as that tan lasts) as though we too are from the continent and not the back arse of nowhere in Kerry.  […]

8 years ago

First of all, let’s just make things known that it’s a proven fact* that Guinness drank outside of Ireland just isn’t the same.  Agreed? Agreed. Which is why when we spotted a photo of Guinness cans for sale in Japan by Reddit user mlargh with the caption ‘WTF Japan’, we thought they we just giving out for […]

8 years ago

Three weeks into an intensive fitness challenge I set for myself at the start of the year I was beginning to question why I had told everyone I was doing it.  If nobody knew, that meant I didn’t have to finish it, right? Unfortunately, everybody knew, so that meant for six weeks I was hitting the gym […]

8 years ago

It’s Easter Sunday and everyone around you is treating themselves to delicious chocolatey delights.  But if you’re on a health buzz, or chocolate just isn’t your thing – it doesn’t mean you should miss out on a bit of indulgence.  A new survey of 2,000 people by Small Luxury Hotels of the World has revealed people’s […]

8 years ago

Driving anywhere this weekend? If so, take note of safety advice issued by gardai as hailstones are predicted across the country. Yesterday, gardai attended a total of 12 road traffic incidents where a total of 36 vehicles were involved, with one person airlifted to hospital.  Met Éireann have issued a weather warning for hailstones for […]

8 years ago

Planning to travel to America? You miiiight want to have a little look at how you are portrayed on your social media accounts as The New York Times reports that the US State Department wants all U.S. visa applicants to submit their social media usernames, previous email addresses and phone numbers.  The news comes as the […]

8 years ago

A petition for the Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU) to conduct a full review into Paddy Jackson and Stuart Olding and for the findings of that review to be made public if the men are ever to play on an Irish team again has reached almost 30,000 signatures.  The online petition, which is hosted on change.org, […]

8 years ago

Gardai were called to a morning screening of Finding Dory at an Irish cinema after a family caused a furore over being asked to move from premium seats that had not paid for.  The Irish Independent reports that family tried to claim discrimination on the grounds of family status under the Equal Status Act as they were not […]

8 years ago

There’s no feeling like that you get when you’re snuggled in bed in a divine hotel, surrounded by luxury and pure comfort. Floating around the room in a white robe and slippers allows us to pretend that we live the high life for that brief time, and I’m just as happy in a four […]

8 years ago

So. You’ve made it down to Ireland’s sunny south (look outside, is it raining yet?) and you want to explore everything that Cork has to offer. Turns out it’s got heaps. The Rebel County is overflowing with beautiful villages, fine dining restaurants and innovative seafood shacks, beaches and walks and forest trails. We’ve put together […]

8 years ago

Hoodies are like a material hug that you can wear all day and allllll night. Brunch in your hoodie? Perfectly fine. Sleep in it? Yep.  Basically, it’s the most wonderful item of clothing ever invented and if there’s one Irish company who understands the humble hoody then it’s Gym+Coffee, an Irish athleisure brand.  In fact, they […]

8 years ago

After nine weeks and two days of evidence, and three hours and 45 minutes of deliberation by the jury, four Irish men have been found not guilty of rape and other charges in a Belfast court.  Paddy Jackson and Stuart Olding, rugby players for Ulster and Ireland, were cleared of sexually assaulting a then 19-year-old […]

8 years ago

It may still be pretty chilly outside but summer is juuuuuust around the corner and that can only mean one thing: Irish people going absolutely mad.  The tank tops come out, shirts get taken off to reveal pasty pot bellies and if you don’t get sunburnt at least once then chances are you didn’t see the […]

8 years ago

Just when you think the glory of Ireland winning the Six Nations this year was fading, along comes this – an English fan getting a bright green shamrock tattooed on his ass after losing a bet.  YASSSS.  The Irish Post report that an unlucky English rugby fan, Luke Hoyle from Devon, made a bet with […]

8 years ago

Y’know how when you’re growing up there was always that one kid in your class who seemed minted? They had new runners every term, fancy clowns or magicians at their birthday parties and the idea of them owning a pony wasn’t out of the question.  Basically, they were #primaryschoolgoals.  So we can only imagine how amazing it […]

8 years ago

All the boozy brunches, cocktails with the gang and sips of red wine by the fire over winter can really add up, meaning that you’re probs drinking more often than not.  As people get more health conscious, more and more people are starting to question their relationship with alcohol in a way that hasn’t been […]

8 years ago

This is half hilarious, half terrifying. A new app created by popular sci-fi show Black Mirror is a mock-up on the episode Hang the DJ.  Haven’t seen it? Basically, it’s a futuristic dating world where couples can see their relationship expiry date – when they will break up – by simultaneously pressing a button.  Now YOU can […]

8 years ago

Two State-run Community National Schools have come under fire for dress codes for staff that restricts teachers from wearing skirts “just above the knee,” boots above the knee or dying their hair in “inappropriate” colours, including any red colour that’s “unusual.” The dress codes were seen by RTE, who reports that they are part of rules […]

8 years ago

Listen up kids, this one’s for you. All those bills you’ve racked up ordering Instagrammable cocktails and eating in places with pretty backgrounds? Be careful, or you too could end up in debt.  Lissette Calveiro is a lifestyle blogger from Miami, who moved to New York to work for a PR firm and soon found herself […]

8 years ago

If the thoughts of being in absolute bits the day after Paddy’s Day and having to leave your house to get some grub fills you with cold sweats and more fear than your Christmas work party, then fret not: Deliveroo has your back.  This weekend, Deliveroo is teaming up with over 14 restaurants across the […]

8 years ago

Who wouldn’t want to work at Disney? Seriously, it’s the most magical company in like, the universe. Pretty much, anyway.  So when we saw that their Irish office was looking for a someone for a 12 month paid internship we were almost tempted to pack up our desks and apply ourselves. JK.  The job posting says that “every […]

8 years ago