If all of this Christmas happy-joy-joy is getting a bit much for you, there’s a darkness to turn to on Netflix. The fourth series of the gripping dystopian series Black Mirror arrives today and it looks as dark and ominous as ever. Charlie Brooker’s series explores the lives of characters in a series of suspense-filled […]

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A teenager is reportedly fighting for his life in hospital following a two-vehicle collision in Kildare this evening.  Three other teenage men were arrested when their vehicle collided with another following a Garda pursuit.  It is understood that the four men were involved in a raid of a property in Athy in the hours before […]

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A 19-year-old man has been charged with the murder of a 43-year-old woman in Co Antrim on Christmas Day.  Jayne Toal Reat, a nurse and mother, was stabbed to death in front of her daughter in Lisburn on December 25.  The man in question is also charged with two counts of attempted murder after another man […]

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If St Stephen’s Day wasn’t all it was cracked up to be then you could be in with another chance to bag a real bargain. As the sales are starting earlier and earlier each year, lots of people will be buying stuff on impulse and then returning them to the store in the run-up to […]

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At this time of year, when every dinner requires second helpings and breakfast is whatever’s left in the tin of Celebrations, you’re not exactly at peak levels of sexy — but apparently you’re more interested in sex right now than usual. At least that’s what the findings suggest from a recent study by scientists at Indiana University and the […]

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Bono, Bono, Bono — when are gonna learn, man? The U2 frontman, who is no stranger to a good controversy, has caused a stir yet again by referring to modern music as “very girly”.  In an interview with Rolling Stone, Bono stated that it’s become difficult for men to channel their repressed anger into music as […]

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The magic of Christmas is but a moment that you’ll miss if you blink… and right now we’re in the post-Christmas wasteland. You know what I’m talking about here, that peculiar period where Christmas is over but reality still hasn’t quite settled back in yet, with your days being punctuated by the excessive eating of […]

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We never thought we’d see the day but… We’re actually getting sick of chocolate. We’re in that strange interim between Christmas and New Year, when we’ve been eating pure shite but we’re not quite ready to jump back on the fitness wagon just yet. (I mean – it would be a waste of leftovers!) So […]

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One of the main factors in the downfall of a marriage is, perhaps unsurprisingly, the age gap between partners. According to a recent study by Andrew Francis and Hugo Mialon, professors in the Department of Economics at Emory University in Atlanta, the bigger the age difference in a marriage is the more likely it is […]

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He may have travelled the world with one of the most successful bands of all time – but Niall Horan’s Christmas celebrations are basically the image of ours.  Pub sing-a-longs, drinking from cups and panning out on the couch. Check, check and check. The 24-year-old came home to his Mammy in Mullingar for the festive […]

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Whiskey, nappies and perfume were among the most popular items people crossed the border for this Christmas.  The continued weakness of the sterling means more and more people are travelling to take advantage of the bargains.  Seamus McNamee, the owner of the First and Last off-licence in Jonesborough, just south of Newry, told The Guardian last Saturday:  […]

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The day after Stephen’s Day – AKA the day you actually get to sit down and have a good root through your pressies.  The visits are over, there’s plenty of leftovers in the fridge, and you haven’t a BAR of heading out.  Well one lad who was getting acquainted with his brand new Amazon tablet spotted […]

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