Feel like pure sh*t, just want them back. It’s been seven hours and zero days since they took Derry Girls away, and we’re not okay. The act of saying goodbye to a show that’s so perfectly made and adored by so many feels painful and unnatural, but if Lisa McGee’s intention was to end on […]

4 years ago

Sunday mornings in his own bedsheets. Disclaimer: Niall’s actual bedsheets may not be included. This one goes out to all the One Direction stans with the guts of €800k to splurge on a gaff in Westmeath: Niall Horan’s mansion is up for sale. The 6 bedroom, 6 bath house sits on 10 acres of land, […]

4 years ago

“It has always been an honour”. After serving the town of Midleton in Cork loyally since 1986, the owners of Batt Murphy’s have announced their retirement. Batt & Helen Murphy took to Facebook to announce the news, “with great sadness and regret”. The Murphys wrote: It is with great sadness and regret that we announce […]

4 years ago

Kylie Jenner’s fejka-adorned snapback will haunt us for years to come. It’s Met Gala Monday (Tuesday technically, but that doesn’t have the same ring to it), and as usual, the actual looks from the event pale in comparison to the photoshopped masterpieces popping up on Twitter. The general consensus is that the Gilded Age theme, […]

4 years ago

Is maith liom sceallóga prátaí. We do love our prátaí after all. Galway chipper truck Prátaí set up shop in November 2021 at the Christmas Markets. They took a short break and reopened to the public in February 2022, moving from location to location over the weekends. On Fridays they can be found at […]

4 years ago

The SEOs were waived initially in an effort to protect Irish nightlife. In October 2021, when nightlife in Ireland returned (for a brief time ahead of Christmas) a waiver was put in place when it came to Special Exemption Orders (SEOs) in order to help bars and clubs recover from the pandemic. This waiver […]

4 years ago

After a long nine weeks, Aye Cork reopens on Friday! Like many other restaurants and bars at Christmas time, Aye in Cork decided to close for the foreseeable future after a staff member tested positive. What was initially meant to be a short-term thing became “a small hibernation” as the Cork spot extended their closure. […]

4 years ago

If you grew up in Ireland, you’ll know all too well the power the Child of Prague holds in his wee blue orb. Hosting a First Holy Communion party and hoping the small fortune you’ve spent on a bouncy castle won’t go to waste? Child of Prague. Have an obscene amount of washing to get […]

4 years ago

You’ve probably seen the blue and highlighter yellow of the new Garda “collection” all over your Twitter and Instagram feeds for the past day or so. Ever since Richard Chambers shared the first pictures on Twitter yesterday (we can always rely on him to keep us in the know, tg) many of us had questions […]

4 years ago

Handsome Burger is expanding, opening a third location in Knocknacarra. Galway just got its second Handsome Burger location. Co-owners Rory McCormack and Cathal O’Connor launched Handsome Burger in Knocknacarra initially, just outside of Pureskill, which makes this something of a full circle moment. Handsome Burger launched in 2017 when the best friends were cooking burgers […]

4 years ago

After a fire caused serious damage to Glenisk’s Tullamore plant back in September, the company begun their return to production this week. Following the fire at their Offaly factory last year there was an outpouring of public support from people across the country who’d never be with out a tub of Glenisk in the fridge. […]

4 years ago

We could be looking forward to an easing of restrictions as early as next week. Speaking on RTÉ Radio 1 this morning, Taoiseach Micheál Martin sounded hopeful in terms of an easing of restrictions as the Covid situation in Ireland has improved. We have come through Omicron better than we might have expected prior to […]

4 years ago