Five people were shot dead at an Airbnb. Airbnb are set to ban people organising “unauthorised parties” through the app, after five people were shot dead at a Halloween party in San Francisco. The incident occurred after a renter using the app booked an Airbnb for one night with the intention to throw a party, […]

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A poster circulating online is appealing for information related to the kidnapping and torture of a dog in Baltinglass, Wicklow. According to the poster, a dog by the name of Buddy was taken from a garden in Weavers Square on Monday 28 October in the area. The incident occurred in the evening. The poster further […]

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Gardaí have seized cocaine, MDMA, cannabis and more following a search operation in Lucan, Dublin. The drugs were seized during a search of a house in the Foxborough of West Dublin area on Friday night (1 November). Among the drugs was a quantity of cocaine with an estimated street value of €100,000. A spokesperson for […]

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“We really didn’t expect that one would cause so much offence.” An English flag that had been flying in Blackrock Village, Louth, was destroyed last night. The flag had been raised by the village’s Tidy Town’s committee ahead of Saturday morning’s Rugby World Cup final, where England face off against South Africa. Flags of both […]

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A man in his 70s has died after he was struck by a bus in Meath. Gardaí are appealing for witnesses after a road traffic collision on Friday (1 November) in which an elderly man was killed. The incident occurred on the R135 at Newtown Cross, The Ward near Ashbourne, at around 11pm last night. […]

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There’s no let up in the rain. Seven counties across Ireland were hit with rainfall warnings yesterday, and at 8am on Saturday, Met Éireann confirmed that five of those counties will experience another day of hazardous rain. In a status yellow west coast warning covering Galway, Mayo, Clare, Kerry and Limerick, Met Éireann has advised that […]

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The incident occurred during the early hours of Saturday morning. Gardaí are searching for a driver involved in a hit-and-run in Cork at the weekend that left a young woman with “serious, life-changing injuries.” According to a spokesperson for An Garda Síochána, a 23-year-old female pedestrian was struck by a car on Magazine Road, Cork at […]

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Police in Belgium have discovered 12 migrants alive in the back of a refrigerated truck. Reports from Belgium suggest that the driver of the truck alerted authorities to the migrants on board. Emergency services came to the scene where the lorry was parked in an motorway car park just outside of Antwerp. The vehicle had […]

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It’s a Christmas election. The House of Commons has passed a bill this evening calling for a general election on 12 December. The vote passed with emphatic approval across parties, with a margin of 438 to 20. After an intense day of voting in Westminster, attempts to change the date of the election, a failed attempt to […]

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No word on what kind of vegetables the drugs were hidden in. Gardaí have seized €3.2million worth of cannabis herb during a search on a commercial haulage vehicle in Ballymascanlon, Dundalk, Louth. According a statement issued by An Garda Síochána, “the cannabis herb was concealed within a legitimate load of fresh vegetables.” Pursuant to the search, two men […]

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The protest will take place tomorrow. Extinction Rebellion are planning to pour 15 litres of fake blood at the entrance of the Burlington Clayton Hotel in Dublin on Wednesday (30 October), in protest of the Atlantic Ireland Conference and Exhibition which is being held there. The environmental activists are targeting the conference, which is hosted by the […]

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Major roads were closed as a result of the fire. Three fire engines were deployed to deal with a fire just outside of Dublin city centre this afternoon. A turntable ladder was also required to put out the blaze, which started at a derelict property on Clanbrassil St on the south side of the inner-city. […]

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An effort to provide connectivity for Ireland’s homeless community. An Post have launched an initiative across Ireland to help Ireland’s homeless community connect with society using free mobile data. The donations to the network will come from An Post Mobile and its customers. 18,000GB has been donated by An Post Mobile to start the project […]

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Gardaí are investigating the circumstances surrounding the discovery of a woman’s body in Kerry on Tuesday morning. In a statement issued to JOE, a spokesperson for An Garda Síochána said: “Gardaí are investigating the sudden death of a woman in her 80s at a house approximately 1km outside Ballyduff. Her body was discovered this morning, […]

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The men are believed to have links to Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Essex police investigating the discovery of 39 dead bodies in the back of a lorry last week have confirmed that they are looking to speak to two men from Armagh. In a statement published on Tuesday afternoon, Essex Police said: […]

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There was one big Irish winner in Friday night’s EuroMillions draw. No player across Europe had the good fortune to nab the €61,669,532 jackpot tonight (25 October), but one Irish player did manage to match the five winning numbers and one Lucky Star. Whoever that lucky duck is will wake up tomorrow morning €400,907 richer. Tonight’s winning […]

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Very sad news from Cork. Gardaí have confirmed that a 40-year-old man has died in Cork University Hospital on Friday morning following a criminal assault. The man had been in serious condition in hospital for almost six weeks. A statement from An Garda Síochána confirmed that the man succumbed to his injuries this morning. The […]

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Four people are now under arrest in connection with the incident. Police in London have arrested a second Northern Irish man in connection with the discovery of 39 dead bodies in a lorry in Essex. On Friday Evening, Essex Police released a statement confirming that another man from Northern Ireland had been arrested. Deputy Chief […]

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RTÉ have declined to comment on the matter. American musician Amanda Palmer has claimed that she was uninvited from The Late Late Show because she intended to play a song about abortion. In an essay published on Thursday on blogging website Medium, Palmer said she was invited to appear on The Late Late Show “about […]

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Drink up, my friends. Irish Water has confirmed that the Boil Water Notice for over 600,000 customers supplied by the Leixlip Water Treatment Plant has been lifted. The latest notice takes immediate effect. In a statement issued on Friday afternoon, the organisation confirmed that it had been agreed that the notice would be lifted during […]

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The group says the remarks “definitely come from a racist place.” London mayoral candidate Rory Stewart falsely referred to acclaimed Dublin hip-hop act Hare Squead as “minor gangsters” during an event in London on Wednesday. Stewart, who met the Dublin musicians while running for Tory leadership earlier this year, made the false claim while talking […]

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An Irish nurse has been awarded the prestigious Florence Nightingale medal for her work in Iraqi prisons. Since 1992, Vivien Lusted from Galway has worked as a nurse at crisis situations in Israel, Sudan, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Somalia, Zimbabwe, Nigeria and Myanmar — in addition to her 18-month stint as a detention nurse in […]

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“The casual attitude is a problem.” Ceann Comhairle Sean Ó Fearghaíl has today published a 102-page report addressing “votegate,” a scandal relating to TDs in Dáil Éireann voting on behalf of one another unlawfully. The report was presented to the Dáil Committee on Procedure by Clerk of the Dáil, Peter Finnegan, and the committee approved […]

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I am going to begin this article about the latest Dáil Eireann scandal by talking about a video game called Tekken. It’s an arcade-style fighting game, like Mortal Kombat or Street Fighter. When I was young, we used a term for people who have no real clue how to play those video games, so instead […]

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The DUP had the whole world in the palm of their hands. When Theresa May squandered her parliamentary majority with 2017’s snap general election, the mysterious outsiders with exotic accents were on hand to shore up her minority government for the low, low price of £1 billion. The position gave them an outsized degree of […]

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Horrifying news from Scotland. The Moray Police have confirmed that a man in his 80s has died following a mid-morning attack in the Birkenhill Woods in New Elgin, Scotland. Police were alerted to the attack at 9am yesterday morning. The man had been walking with two companions – a man and a woman, each in their […]

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Shiftin’ and driftin’ is no longer cutting it for the young man from Mayo. Pulling With My Parents, the show that asks “Is love worth this amount of cringe?,” is back on RTÉ this evening. Daniel has enlisted the help of his father Danny and his sister Selina in finding love. “I used to think […]

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A snowball’s chance in hell. Some rumours have been flying around about the possibility of snow this week, but Met Éireann have been pretty quick to put the kibosh on all the snow-talk. An update from Midland Weather Channel forecaster Cathal Nolan on Monday morning suggested that Ireland could feel its first snowfall of the […]

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Make sure you don’t have these in the freezer. The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) has alerted consumers to a warning that ‘turkey dinosaurs’ purchased form supermarket Iceland might contain pieces of metal. Iceland is recalling batches of Bernard Matthews 9 Turkey Dinosaurs (pack size: 450g) because they may contain small pieces of metal. […]

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This could be wonderful news. Researchers based in UCD have announced a breakthrough in their search for a cure for severe skin disease epidermolysis bullosa (EB). The disease, which affects roughly 300 people in Ireland, causes severe blistering from even minor internal or external trauma. In its most severe forms, it can be fatal. There is […]

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Northern Ireland is set to legalise marriage equality and decriminalise abortion at midnight tonight. The DUP’s return to Stormont for the first time since early 2017 has been dismissed as a stunt by other Northern Ireland political parties. The DUP have said they will return to Stormont today in an attempt to block the legalisation […]

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Very sad news from Tipperary. Gardaí are investigating a road traffic collision that resulted in the death of a man in his 30s. A man was pronounced dead at the scene of an incident that occurred at approximately 7.40pm on Sunday (20 October) on the Ballinderry road, just outside Puckane, Tipperary. According to An Garda […]

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A state of emergency is in place in Chile as over 1,400 protestors have been detained. According to Interior Minister Andrés Chadwick, 10,500 soldiers and police have been put on the streets in an attempt to control and curtail the protests. Five dead bodies were found in a “garment factory” near the country’s capital city, […]

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I know… it’s up… for me… IF YOU STEAL MY SUNSHINE. One-hit wonders are an inexplicable phenomenon. Down through the years, artist after after has delivered one of the songs of the year only to fade into obscurity or worse in the afterglow of the track’s success. Still, when these tracks drop in the club […]

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Barney is a dinosaur from our imagination. Sometimes it’s like life just throws a bunch of random nouns in a hat and pulls them out at random. Today, it emerged that Get Out star Daniel Kaluuya will be working on a reboot of… Barney (whether the reboot is ‘gritty’ or not is yet to be […]

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Good news for anyone in the information and communications or finance and real estate sectors. This week, the Central Statistics Office of Ireland released the Statistical Yearbook for the year ending in December 2018. Last year, the average annual total earnings for someone in Ireland were €38,871 in 2018, up from €37,637 in 2017. On average, […]

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Important info for anyone headed to the game. Whether or not Mick McCarthy’s men manage to qualify for next year’s European Championships, Ireland will have the privilege of hosting four matches — all at Dublin’s Aviva Stadium. The station, which is a stone’s throw away from the stadium, will be closed between 5.30pm and 11pm […]

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Where does your bus feature? Recent figures published by the National Transport Authority (25) reveal that the 84x received the most complaints of all Dublin Bus routes during the second quarter of 2019. The 84x, which travels from Kildare St in Dublin city centre out to Newcastle/Kilcoole in Wicklow received 25 complaints per 100,000 passengers. […]

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Dublin Bus has been fined over a quarter of a million euro by the National Transport Authority in the first half of 2019. The NTA measures the performance of Dublin Bus in four-week periods, of which there are 13 in a year. €165,096.69 of the fines were for “failure to meet punctuality target” and were […]

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You know what? We’ll take it. We’re barreling our way towards winter now, so we’re expecting the weather to take a terminal turn for the worse any day now. But apparently, this weekend is set to be… acceptable. Saturday morning will begin with a few showers, but by afternoon, sunny spells will have broken through […]

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“We very much regret that this happened.” A sticker bearing the phrase ‘Jobpath Macht Frei’ was placed outside a Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection office in Cork this week. On Facebook, the Irish Polish Society page noted that two members of the Polish community pointed the sign out to the manager of the […]

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Not over Brexit, mind. Guy Verhofstadt, the European Parliament’s lead negotiator on Brexit, has taken to Twitter this morning to call for the introduction of a European Army. Verhofstadt, who was Prime Minister of Belgium between 1998 and 2008, has been an MEP since 2009. Writing in response to a video from The Daily Show […]

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The DUP will be voting against Johnson’s deal. There are fears that the deal agreed by Boris Johnson and the EU could be dead on arrival by the time it reaches a parliamentary vote. The DUP, in a move that has surprised precisely nobody, have said they will not support the deal, outlining their rationale […]

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It was a night of joy at the Olympia, punctuated by one or two moments of rather painful awkwardness. Star of Queer Eye Jonathan Van Ness (JVN) brought his Road To Beijing show to Dublin on Wednesday night, his first foray into the world of stand-up comedy, a medium to which his talents are spectacularly […]

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Close your eyes. Clear you mind. Don’t think about Brexit. Now, imagine an adorable newborn baby gorilla, laying on its mother’s chest, just chillaxing. Okay, you can open your eyes now. BAM. Take that Brexit, we’ve got a new gorilla. The six-day-old wee creature was born to first-time mum Vana and dad Bangui in Dublin […]

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Get checking those tickets. Last week, a player in the United Kingdom scooped €190 million, the absolute maximum allowed by the game’s rules. This Tuesday evening, the €26.3 jackpot has gone untouched. However, there was some sweet news for one Dublin player who will wake up tomorrow morning half a million smackers better off. The EuroMillions […]

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Suit up. In one of the most surprising casting choices since Robert Pattinson was chosen to be the new Batman, it looks Neil Patrick Harris is set to become part of the Matrix franchise. A return to the Matrix franchise has been hotly anticipated, and even more so since it became clear that stars of […]

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Some of Ireland’s bravest people will be honoured. An Comhairle na Míre Gaile (the Deeds of Bravery Council) will present 20 National Bravery Awards at Farmleigh House in the Phoenix Park on Friday. The awards include one posthumous reward for Michael Gallagher Snr, who helped save 15 people who got into difficulty while sailing 63 […]

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Your escape route from the Ireland match. The chances are you’ll be spending your evening watching Mick McCarthy’s men struggle to get a win against Switzerland in Geneva. But on the off-chance that you’ve got the wherewithal to spare yourself that inevitable struggle, there are some good movies on TV tonight. We’ve picked out a […]

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“The largest government investment in the history of Mayo.” Minister for Rural and Community Development Michael Ring has confirmed that the government will invest €241 million in the construction of the N5 Westport to Turlough road. The development will involve 20.3km of dual carriageway from Westport to Turlough and a 2.5km link to the N59, which […]

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