Looking for a reading fix in anticipation of Sally Rooney’s third novel? Look no further. Sally Rooney took the world by storm upon releasing Conversations With Friends in 2017. She portrays with a unique honesty how dysfunctional people in their early twenties can be when it comes to life and love. Her second novel Normal […]

4 years ago

I bet when you read ‘RTÉ news reporter voice’, you knew exactly what I was talking about.  Oh, Irish TikTok. Don’t ever change. let’s be real, most of us now spend a concerning amount of time on this app. When you do, you’re bound to come across absolutely comical stuff like this. TikTok user Broadcaster […]

5 years ago

We’ve been eating ALL the good things over the last… well.. year, let’s be honest.  Eating all the things over the last twelve months means that we’ve honed our taste buds (and eyeballs) to spot the best of the best. So on this note, here are eight things from around the country that caught our […]

5 years ago

This week’s Late Late Show is set to be a Daffodil Day special, with Jedward, Shane Filan and Oisin Kiernan among the guests. For the second consecutive year, the traditional Daffodil Day fundraiser has had to be postponed due to Covid-19 restrictions. However, this week’s Late Late Show will mark the initiative in the hope […]

5 years ago

Amid the signs of spring appearing in recent weeks, it seems that winter isn’t quite finished yet. Met Éireann is forecasting a spell of fairly erratic weather over the coming days, and the first signs will begin later tonight with ‘frequent and heavy’ rain showers. Friday will be a ‘cold and windy day with blustery […]

5 years ago

Piers Morgan is well-known for being “anti-snowflake” so viewers were surprised to see him storm off set this morning after being challenged on his views. After the Meghan Markle interview that aired last night, Piers Morgan and the Good Morning Britain team fronted wall-to-wall fallout coverage and there was one point where it all got […]

5 years ago

Electric Picnic have issued a statement on plans for this year’s festival after reports in the media this morning said it “will go ahead unless told otherwise by the Government.” An article in the Irish Times quoted an interviewee as saying: “given the conditions we are looking at in terms of vaccines, you would not […]

5 years ago

If you’ve been outside today you’ll know that it’s absolutely baltic and by the looks of things, we’re only at the beginning of a very cold few days. The Government’s Crisis Management Team has already issued a statement about what could lie ahead over the coming days with the potential for widespread snowfall on Thursday, […]

5 years ago

Ireland faces the possibility of ‘widespread snow’ by the middle of next week but we won’t see a repeat of 2018’s ‘Beast from the East’, according to a weather expert. Yesterday, it was reported that National Directorate for Fire and Emergency Management (NDFEM) had met to discuss the imminent cold spell and were “preparing for […]

5 years ago

A “severe weather response” is being prepared as Ireland braces for potentially significant levels of snow from this Sunday onwards. Appearing on RTÉ Radio One today, Evelyn Cusack of Met Éireann confirmed that they are on “high alert” with temperatures set to drop on Sunday before the arrival of snow showers on Monday. As well […]

5 years ago

And so begins an Irish spring. Update 11.59am: An additional status yellow rain warning has been issued by Met Eireann for five counties – Donegal, Galway, Leitrim, Sligo, Mayo – for Monday and Tuesday. Valid from 20:00 Mon, 01-Feb-2021Valid until 23:59 Tue, 02-Feb-2021 More weather warning information➡️https://t.co/Xg3aMJlyuS (2/2) pic.twitter.com/mD1SzeCjnB — Met Éireann (@MetEireann) February 1, […]

5 years ago

The UK Met Office has issued an updated rain warning, effective from midnight tonight until 12pm on Wednesday.  People are being advised to batten down the hatches this week as forecasters predict that heavy rainfall is on the way. Coinciding with the anticipated arrival of Storm Christoph in the coming days, the UK Met Office […]

5 years ago