Thursday. We are slowly but surely grinding our way to wards the end of the week and the beginning of Phase One (18 May). We’re not there yet, but until we are, there will be movies on TV. Here are a few of the best options on the box this evening. Housesitter – Sky Comedy […]

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Vital support for Ireland’s healthcare staff. Dettol, one of Ireland’s leading household brands in disinfectant and cleaning, have pledged to donate 40,000 of their products to HSE workers in their fight against Covid-19. In a statement issued today, the company said that “the Dettol antibacterial products will be distributed to hospitals and health service facilities […]

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Michael Bublé alert. That’s right, they don’t usually thaw the Canadian crooner out until Christmas time, but desperate times call for desperate measures. The ‘Haven’t Met You Yet’ heart-throb will be joining Ryan Tubridy digitally tomorrow (15 May), to discuss what life has been like in quarantine, as well as how the music industry has […]

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Somebody was evidently planning a pretty major party. On Tuesday (12 April), Revenue officers at Dublin Port discovered and seized 13,500 litres vodka. According to a statement issued today, the smuggled alcohol has an estimated retail value of €510,000, representing a loss to the exchequer of €326,781. The discovery was made when officers investigated an […]

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The bomb squad has been called in. The Harold’s Cross Bridge is currently closed off in both directions, after a grenade was discovered in the area earlier today (13 May). A statement from An Garda Síochána confirmed that the grenade was recovered from the water, and it has been reported that it was found by […]

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Tragic news from Carlow. A Garda Síochána search operation for missing man Joseph Savage has been stood down after a body was found on Wednesday evening (13 May). Gardaí had appealed for assistance from the public earlier today, after the 32-year-old had gone missing from Bagenalstown in Carlow on Monday. The original statement from the […]

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Deaths by Covid-19 continue their downward trend. The National Public Health Emergency Team has announced this evening (13 May) that 10 more deaths have been attributed to Covid-19 in Ireland. The latest figures bring Ireland’s death toll to 1,497. This takes into account the denotification of one death. Additionally, 159 new cases of the virus […]

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Whenever you’ve forgotten what day it is, it’s almost always Wednesday. At least we’re pretty sure that today is Wednesday. Let’s hope so, because these are the movies on TV this Wednesday evening (13 May). Diamonds Are Forever – ITV4 – 8pm Certainly one of the most iconic Bond theme songs, and probably one of […]

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We’re pretty sure that constitutes a smash hit. Normal People, Hulu’s screen adaptation of the Sally Rooney novel, has picked up 1.1million streams on the RTÉ player after just six episodes. Last night’s instalment, Episodes 5 and 6, picked up 343,000 live viewers, making up a 40% share of the 15-34 demographic, and a 39% share for […]

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A very nice gesture. Irish company Ishka Spring Water has announced that it is donating 250,000 250ml bottles of water to frontline healthcare staff as they battle Covid-19 in Irish hospitals. The donation is being made across 17 locations between the Ireland East Hospital Group and the UL Hospitals Group. Director of the company Dennis […]

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Gardaí report being spat or coughed at 64 times in the last month. An Garda Síochána has reported 64 incidents of spitting and/or coughing at members of the force in the last month, which were dealt with under temporary powers granted to Gardaí to maintain restrictions imposed in order to control the spread of Covid-19 […]

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A 47-year-old ticket inspector has died of Covid-19 after she and a colleague were spat and coughed at. The woman, who has been named as Belly Mujinga, had been working at London’s Victoria Station when a member of the public who claimed to be infected with the virus spat and coughed at her and another […]

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The man received a gunshot wound to each leg. The Police Service of Northern Ireland have said that a man was shot in both legs in west Belfast last night (10 May). According to a statement by the PSNI, the 23-year-old victim was approached by a lone male on a bicycle, ordered to lie down […]

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Monday, Monday. I don’t actually know any of the rest of the words to that song, so you’ll have to fill the blanks in yourself. As we head towards mid-May, the weather is getting colder somehow and we’re still indoors. Movies are still one of few sources of entertainment we have left. Here are the […]

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Rest in peace. Jerry Stiller, a beloved comedic actor known for his role as Frank Costanza in Seinfeld, and as one half of husband-and-wife comedy duo Stiller and Meara, has passed away at the age of 92. The news was confirmed on Twitter by his son, actor and comedian Ben Stiller, who wrote: “I’m sad […]

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It seems like isolation is getting to Johnny Logan and Dickie Rock. A war of words between Irish singers Johnny Logan and Dickie Rock has escalated after the pair made aggressive comments about one another in the media. In an interview with Irish Times journalist Róisín Ingle published over the weekend, the two-time Eurovision winner […]

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Three men were arrested after reports of an armed burglary in the Citywest area of Dublin yesterday morning (10 May). At around 11am on Saturday, three men armed with a knuckle duster and a knife took part in an aggravated burglary and assault in Dublin 24. According to a statement by the Gardaí: “The three […]

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The target is €160,000. Over €85,000 has been raised through a GoFundMe page for an Irish girl in Galway who will require ongoing prosthetic limbs until she reaches adulthood. Saoírse Ruane was seven years old in December last year when she was diagnosed with a rare osteosarcoma tumour in her tibia bone. The problem required an amputation […]

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Say what you will about him, the man knows music. Bono was a guest on The Ryan Tubridy Show this morning and mentioned that he was putting together a playlist of his Top 40 Irish Songs… Now, the playlist is here. Bono has spread the shine widely on his fellow Irish artists, picking no more […]

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The car failed to stay at the scene. Gardaí are looking for witnesses following a serious road traffic collision involving a pedestrian and a car that occurred over a week ago in Market Square, Castlebar, Mayo. A woman in her late 60s was hospitalised at Mayo University Hospital with serious after she was struck by […]

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The weather is beautiful out there… But there’s still some serious limits on what we can actually do with it. Thankfully, as the sun sets this evening, there will be plenty to keep you entertained on the box. Here are the best movies on TV tonight. Jackie – RTÉ2 – 9.45pm Natalie Portman stars as […]

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27 more lives have been lost to Covid-19. The National Public Health Emergency Team has confirmed this evening (8 May) that a further 27 people have died as a result of Covid-19 in Ireland. The latest figures takes Ireland’s known death toll to 1429, taking into account the denotification of one death over the last […]

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We’re ready to party with Marty. If you’d told us last year that we’d spend the start of summer 2020 looking forward to a show filmed via Zoom in Marty Morrissey’s shed, we’d have said: yeah, that actually does sound unreal. Debuting this coming Sunday evening (10 May) on the RTÉ Player, the beloved Clare […]

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As Ireland focuses all its efforts on one health crisis, we should be worried about sleepwalking into another. This week, it was announced that prominent mental health charity Pieta House would make 28 clinical support workers redundant, with significant pay cuts for those who remain. Its flagship global event, Darkness Into Light, has been cancelled […]

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There’s a lucky duck out there amongst you. Now might not be the best time for spending money, but it certainly wouldn’t hurt to be waking up with seven figures in one’s bank account. That’ll be the case for one Irish lotto player as of tomorrow morning. The National Lottery has confirmed that there was […]

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Bewley’s will be sorely missed. Bewley’s Café, long a landmark of Grafton Street in Dublin, is set to permanently close its doors — citing problems due to the Covid-19 lockdown, and high rents. The closure will result in the loss of 110 jobs, according to a report in the Irish Times. Bewley’s had reopened in […]

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“When Ireland eases social distancing restrictions, we may have periods when the numbers of people infected increases significantly.” The reported number of deaths due to Covid-19 has jumped once more, with 37 further deaths announced by the National Public Health Emergency Team on Wednesday evening (6 May). The lastest figures take Ireland’s cumulative death toll […]

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Leaving Cert students are still in the dark. There is still no concrete plan for this year’s Leaving Cert examinations, following a meeting of relevant stakeholders today, including Minister for Education Joe McHugh. The Leaving Cert, which typically starts in June, have been thrown into disarray by the Covid-19 crisis, and students are no closer […]

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Ireland’s Covid-19 death toll now stands a 1,303. The Republic of Ireland has suffered 19 further deaths as a result of Covid-19, the National Public Health Emergency Team announced on Sunday evening (4 May). Tragically, the latest numbers see Ireland’s death tool rise to 1,303. These latest numbers also account for the denotification of two […]

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A major step towards a coalition government between the three parties. In a statement issued on Sunday afternoon, the Green Party confirmed that its parliamentary members had voted in favour of entering formal coalition talks with Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil. However, Green Party approval for a government programme requires a two-thirds majority of the […]

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And so we’ve reached the end of another week. Slowly, and not exactly all that surely, Ireland is creeping towards a relaxation of our containment measures. Eventually, there will be more and more opportunities to leave our homes, see our friends, take part in activities, and find our new normal. But until then, we’ve got […]

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The mistake was described as “an extremely rare event.” Mullingar Regional Hospital has issued an apology after an incident on 24 February in which “incorrect remains” were released to an undertaker. In a statement, the hospital said that the mistake was rectified once it was noticed, and that “we would like to offer our condolences […]

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Support for Fine Gael has surged throughout the Covid-19 crisis, according to the latest polling from the Business Post/Red C. Released on Saturday night, the polling shows that Fine Gael are the leading choice of party for 35% of voters at present. They had surged by the 13 percentage points in the same poll conducted five […]

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The cat had been stuck up a fifty-foot tree. Despite efforts made by the Carlow SPCA, ISPCA Inspector Fiona Conlon, local volunteers and the Tullow Fire Service, a ginger cat was remain stuck in a tree after six days, with rescuers unable to free it. A spokesperson for the ISPCA said: “It was heart-breaking to hear […]

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25 more people have died from Covid-19. Ireland has suffered a further 25 deaths as a result of Covid-19, according to the latest figures released by the Health Protection Surveillance Centre and the NPHET. The latest figures put the Republic of Ireland’s death toll for the virus at 1,286. Validation of data at the HPSC has resulted […]

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Gardaí have issued a statement addressing the partial closure of the Phoenix Park for a time on Saturday afternoon (2 May). The park in central Dublin was closed to the public shortly before 2pm, with some people asked to leave the park, as a gathering of people attempted to stage a protest beginning at the […]

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The sun may be out, but you better be in. There’s still a while to go before we reach the more permissive phases of the roadmap back to reality, and for now, nothing has changed. We should still be hunkered down, staying safe, and most importantly, watching movies on TV. Here are some of the […]

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Phoenix Park was closed off on Saturday afternoon ahead of a planned protest against Covid-19 restrictions that was scheduled to take place there. The march had been scheduled to begin at 2pm this afternoon (2 May), in conjunction with a worldwide “March for Freedom.” Video footage from the scene appears to show a Garda presence […]

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“It’s actually something I’m incredibly proud of.” Paul Mescal, the star of Hulu’s much-discussed new series Normal People, has waded into the heated debate over the show’s sex scenes. The show, directed by Lenny Abrahamson and adapted from the novel of the same name by Sally Rooney, was the subject of a, frankly, iconic discussion […]

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We’re not crying, you’re crying. The lockdown has been hard on everyone, but some of those hardest hit are grandparents who can no longer play with and hug their grandchildren. One such pair is Tom and his Nanny Pat, who featured on last year’s Late Late Toy Show. The two haven’t been able to see […]

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Tragic news. Actor Sam Lloyd, best known for his portrayal of hapless lawyer Ted Buckland on Scrubs, has passed away at the age of 56. He had been diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour in early 2019, which was later discovered to be the result of metastasised lung cancer. Lloyd was also known for his […]

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Hey, Green Party. This might sound crazy but… I’m from the future. And I’m here to warn you that very bad things will happen if you accept Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil’s offer to enter government as their junior coalition partners. I’m talking lose all your seats, never-trusted-again, no-more-wolves-for-Eamon-Ryan bad. But I accept that there […]

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Very sad news. Gardaí have confirmed that a man has died following a road traffic collision on Lad Lane in Dublin 2, an area near the city centre. The incident occurred at around 10.45am this morning (28 April). Emergency services attended the scene and brought the driver and sole occupant of the vehicle to St. […]

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Operation Fanacht has resumed so you know you better be staying in tonight. Thankfully, there are some good movies on TV to get you through this strange time – not least an Oscar-winning gangster flick, one of the best Rocky movies and a horror film (in case the times we live in aren’t horrifying enough for […]

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Nine out of ten Irish workers surveyed by Irish Jobs are now working from home since the onset of Covid-19 restrictions. The research, which surveyed 877 Irish employees, found that 44% of Irish workers now find themselves to be working longer hours than they did at the office, with just over one in five saying […]

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As if we didn’t have enough to be dealing with. The US Department of Defence has released footage of what it refers to as “unidentified aerial phenomena,” recorded by the US Navy. The first video was taken in 2004, and the second two taken in 2015. While the videos had been unofficially released by a […]

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“People have done so well and we don’t want to undo all of that good work for the sake of a couple of weeks.” Dr. Cillian de Gascún, chair of the National Public Health Emergency Team Expert (NPHET) Advisory Group, has warned of the dangers of easing Covid-19 restrictions too quickly. Speaking on Virgin Media’s Tonight […]

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Gardaí have announced plans to relaunch Operation Fanacht ahead of the long weekend. A statement from An Garda Síochána issued on Monday afternoon confirmed that Gardaí would be ramping up checkpoints and sending additional patrols to beaches and prominent leisure spots over the long weekend. The original operation was put in place in the days […]

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Monday, Monday. Another week has begun, not that the days seem to. matter much anymore. What has changed (for the most part) is the line-up of movies on TV. There are some excellent options this evening, and we’ve picked some of the best for you to peruse below. Days Of Thunder – Sky One – […]

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No Rose of Tralee until 2021. Organisers of the Rose of Tralee International Festival have taken the decision to cancel the festival for the first time in its 61-year history. A statement from organisers cited “unprecedented times” as the reason for cancelling the festival until 2021, as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic that has […]

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