Carl Kinsella

This is a bit sad… Politicians from every party and part of the country have featured on RTÉ’s Election 2016 country today, but few are cutting more despondent figures than the outgoing Labour TDs. Asked by host Miriam O’Callaghan whether or not it has been a difficult day for him, Dublin Bay South TD Kevin […]

11 years ago

Her views seem to resonate with the people of Twitter. Over the course of an election season, there will be people who do their best to convince us why certain parties and candidates will be able to provide the sort of Ireland the people want. Naturally, some people simply do not buy it. One woman, […]

11 years ago

Bad news for the people of Cork today, and it has nothing to do with the General Election. The people of the Whitegate area in east Cork have been given a boil notice for their water after high turbidity (or cloudiness) in the Dower spring source was found. Water to be used for drinking, food preparation, […]

11 years ago

Do you remember a time before Teresa Mannion? A time before the RTÉ western correspondent went outside into the lashings of Storm Desmond with her mic and her rain mac and reminded us all not to swim in the sea during a horrific storm, nor make any unnecessary journeys? At this point, she’s become embedded […]

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What’s the point in doing this? We won’t get all up on our sanctimonious high-horse and ask if it was for this that people fought and died for Irish independence, but we still don’t understand why you’d waste the time of going to a polling station only to totally blow off your right to franchise. […]

11 years ago

The team is in. Ireland take on England in Twickenham tomorrow in the hopes of leaving their disappointing defeat at the hands of France in the past. The 23-man match-day squad was published by the IRFU half an hour ago and features three new caps in the form of Stuart McCloskey and Josh van der […]

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Conor McGregor is hungry. We can’t imagine that The Notorious is in particularly good form after yet another Brazilian opponent cancelled on him due to injury, but McGregor is hungry to fight Rafael Dos Anjos’ replacement all the same. McGregor will be moving up two weight classes since his last fight Jose Aldo Jnr in […]

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This is totally unacceptable… If you’ve ever gone for a walk or a drive along Dublin’s Grand Canal then the chances are you’ve seen your fair share of rubbish dumped in the water. Some opportunistic waste-disposal artists have taken this to whole new lows by packing their rubbish into a car and seemingly pushing the […]

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Uncanny… Feel free to admit it: deep down you have always suspected that you actually have the chiselled jaw and shiny teeth of an Oscar-winning Hollywood darling. Well, now the search engine Bing have put together a website to help you confirm this definitely-true suspicion. CelebsLike.me is a website where you submit a photo of […]

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We simply cannot explain this. For starters, we don’t know if finegael2011.com was ever used by Fine Gael during their 2011 campaign, but we do know that exists… and we can’t really imagine it was ever used for anything else. But that assumption has been thrown into disarray this morning as we found out the […]

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Immigration is a key issue in America. As our general election approaches, themes like homelessness and people on trolleys in hospitals are at the forefront of the electorate’s consciousness. In America, one of the key issues is immigration – as many Americans feel as though their nation is weighed down by over 10 million immigrants, […]

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Electric cars are such a good buzz… Over the last few years you’ve probably noticed filling stations, car parks and motorways add ‘plug in’ booths for electric cars in one of our efforts to save mother nature from ourselves. The world’s second-most popular brand of electric car, Tesla Motors, will be launching in Ireland this […]

11 years ago

More than just a publicity stunt… This year’s Academy Awards will take place on Sunday, February 28 – and many groups are feeling overlooked. Most importantly, people of colour have expressed their grief at being drastically underrepresented, using the #OscarsSoWhite hashtag. However, there is another community within the film industry who feel like they don’t […]

11 years ago

On the face of it, this looks promising. After several years of austerity and harsh economic circumstances, the statistics are starting to look a little bit brighter for Ireland. According to the Central Statistics Office’s Quarterly National Household Survey for Quarter Four of 2015, the annual change in employment was a positive change of 44,100 […]

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What’s going on here? NASA don’t spend much time trying to go to the moon anymore, which makes sense – we already know all we need to know about the moon, right? Maybe not. The Science Channel have released a video of an Apollo mission that experience something pretty dang freaky when they reach the […]

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Would you want your children to play rugby? The new Will Smith film Concussion centres around head injuries in the NFL, and the sharp decrease in the quality of life of footballers once they retire. The issue is one that’s certainly as relevant to rugby players, who will often suffer a series of concussions and […]

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What. On. Earth. Election season often throws up its fair share of oddities by way of vandalised posters, ‘Booby Sands’-esque typos and unfortunate gaffes – but this leaflet purporting to be from Dublin Bay South Independent candidate Willie DJ Gorman takes the whole cake. The full leaflet was shared on the @CarlosVanSRon Twitter account earlier on […]

11 years ago

Isn’t it ironic that our association with something as nerdy as Star Wars has made us more popular? Tourism Ireland’s behind-the-scenes Star Wars ad, featuring interview footage with Star Wars Episode VII director JJ Abrams, has been listen in the top 10 YouTube ads for the month of January, 2016. The ad is being shared […]

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Are the other party leaders prepared to do this? Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams has said that he will forego his ministerial salary if he is elected to government, according to The Irish Times. In an interview with RTÉ radio this morning, Adams restated his desire to form part of the next government and his […]

11 years ago

“The most comfortable dating app for plus-sized singles and their admirers.” We all know how cruel the internet can be, and unfortunately this often extends as far as dating apps like Tinder. Some people will always use dating apps to be mean about the people they match with, but a new app called WooPlus is […]

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Rest in peace, Harper Lee. Harper Lee, acclaimed author of Junior Cert staple ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ has died at the age of 89 in her hometown of Monroeville. Lee had suffered a stroke in 2007 and was confined to assisted living for the remainder of her life. This led to some controversies, where it […]

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These guys are proper heroes. Dogs are a man’s best friend, so there’s few things we love to see more than a dog video. But videos of dogs looking cute and cuddly, or active and amusing, don’t quite compare to the joy and relief of seeing a dog successfully rescued from the perilous waters of […]

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