O’Reilly said he was given the supplement “by someone unrelated to his team or association”. Irish boxer Michael O’Reilly has admitted unintentionally taking a supplement that may have contained a prohibited substance and will not compete at the Olympic Games. RTE this evening reported a statement from O’Reilly’s legal representatives, in which he said that […]

10 years ago

The end of the world as we know it? Plot’s it all about? Ordinary folk having to save the world is a common theme in Hollywood – Armageddon, Independence Day etc. – and in Arrival, it’s the turn of expert linguist Amy Adams to deal with a potential alien threat to mankind. Something tells us […]

10 years ago

Madness. Shocking footage has emerged of a Ryanair passenger running across the tarmac at Madrid Airport trying to catch a plane that was about to depart. The footage, which was filmed by a ground crew member and posted on Facebook by the Workers’ Commissions Trade Union, shows an unidentified man leaping off a jet bridge […]

10 years ago

If you’re one of those people, look away now. Electric Picnic is just around the corner and you can be sure that some of those heading to Stradbally will add the festival wristband to numerous other festival wristbands practically tattooed on their arm. For some, it’s an attempt to show off their prodigious attendance at […]

10 years ago

Very welcome news. €10 million in funding to support the regeneration of rural towns and villages across Ireland will be made available as part of a rural Ireland renewal scheme announced by Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, Heather Humphreys TD, on Tuesday. As part of the scheme, €380,000 will be available […]

10 years ago

If you’re buying property in Dublin and Wicklow, you’d want a few quid in your pocket. Just three counties in Ireland had an average property price of less than €100,000, according to survey conducted by GeoDirectory Ireland. House prices in Longford (€80,357), Roscommon (€88,317) and Leitrim (€91,608) were all under €100,000 in 2016 to date, […]

10 years ago

Think you know your Fantasy Football? Prove it. The Premier League returns this weekend and with it comes boundless optimism from all football fans about what’s in store for their team over the next nine months. And we don’t just mean the team they support, either. No, no. For an increasing number of football fans, […]

10 years ago

Ever eaten in any of these places? 12 food businesses in Ireland were served with closure orders for breaches of food safety legislation during the month of July, according to the Food Safety Authority of Ireland. Establishments in Dublin, Cork, Cavan, Donegal, Laois, Mayo and Longford were issued with closure orders served by the HSE […]

10 years ago

Seth might just have shaded this one. Lip-sync battles with A-list celebrities is just one reason why the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon is always worth a watch and Seth Rogen helped him deliver one of the best yet on Friday night. With both Fallon and Rogen having to enthusiastically mime two songs apiece, Rogen […]

10 years ago

What a game. We’ve been waiting all season for the hurling championship to spark into life but boy did Kilkenny and Waterford deliver the goods at Croke Park today. Huge underdogs following their Munster Final trimming at the hands of Tipperary, Waterford tore into the reigning All-Ireland Champions from the off and thanks to huge […]

10 years ago

As if he hadn’t been put through enough. You’ve probably heard or seen about it already, but it’s hard to think of a worse leg break in the history of live sport than the one suffered by French Olympic gymnast Samir Ait Said on Saturday. Said was vaulting during team preliminaries when his left leg […]

10 years ago

It really is uncanny. If you’re from the area or have ever been there on holidays, chances are you’ve paid a visit to Gougane Barra in Cork, a short distance from the Kerry border and a short spin from the village of Ballingeary. There’s a forest park with lovely walking trails and it’s also home […]

10 years ago

Monday Night Football is going to be a great laugh this season. Gary Neville’s anticipated return to Sky Sports was confirmed on Sunday morning, much to the delight of football fans. Despite the difficulties he experienced with both Valencia and England of late, Neville’s views on football have always been interesting and insightful and his […]

10 years ago

Pistorius was treated at a private hospital in Pretoria and has since returned to prison. Oscar Pistorius has been treated in a private hospital in Pretoria after suffering injuries to his wrists in prison, according to reports. Spokesperson for the correctional services department, Singabakho Nxumalo, said that Pistorius told authorities he had injured himself after […]

10 years ago

Excellent news. Sky Sports has confirmed that former Manchester United defender Gary Neville will return as an analyst and co-commentator for the 2016/17 season. Neville left Sky when he took the manager’s job at Valencia last season, a spell that ended disastrously when he was sacked after just 10 wins in 28 games in less […]

10 years ago

Stirring the pot… Conor McGregor has followed up his comments about WWE during a media conference call over the weekend with another cheeky dig at the wrestling business. The Notorious caused a bit of a stir in Friday’s media conference call for UFC 202 when he provided the following response when asked about potentially featuring […]

10 years ago

Judging by the pictures, this could have been a whole lot worse. A cyclist escaped with what has been described as a “nasty leg injury” after a horrific-looking collision with a taxi in Dublin city centre on Saturday. Dublin Fire Brigade last night posted pictures on Twitter of the aftermath of the incident, showing the […]

10 years ago

If it’s any consolation, the clammy conditions we’ve been having appear to be at an end. Starting from Monday, temperatures are set to be a lot cooler and fresher than they have been in recent weeks, or for the first half of the week at least, according to Met Éireann. No more of this for […]

10 years ago

What an incredible transformation. Two years ago, Paul Moore, a 26-year old Cork man currently living in Sydney, attended a festival in Melbourne. At the time, he weighed just over 20 stone. Pictures of him enjoying himself, perched on a friend’s shoulders with his top off, were circulated online and ended up on a gym […]

10 years ago

This is not a drill! One of those ice-creams, like Romantica, that seemed to be saved for special occasions, Viennetta has a special place in the ice-cold hearts of Irish ice-cream lovers. The delicious chocolate and vanilla combination is just as popular all over the world as it here, of course, and the people of […]

10 years ago

It’s a bit of a long shot, mind. It’s been a long time since most of the world finished watching the first series, but the very welcome news that it’s going to return for a second season has sparked much interest in Making a Murderer all over again. The new series will examine the efforts […]

10 years ago

“My reaction was, first of all, I was thinking ‘Thank God it wasn’t an athlete’”. Unfortunately from an Irish perspective, the main talking point about the Rio Olympics so far has been the news that Irish boxer Michael O’Reilly failed a drug test prior to the competition. The latest reports, as per the Irish Independent, […]

10 years ago

The numbers don’t lie. Figures released by the Department of Foreign Affairs have illustrated the staggering increase in Irish passport applications from the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland in July, following confirmation of Britain’s exit from the European Union at the end of June. Such was the demand for Irish passport applications in the immediate […]

10 years ago

Thankfully, most of those affected are said to have incurred minor injuries. Dozens of people were injured after the collapse of a railing at a Snoop Dogg concert in New Jersey on Friday night. According to CNN, local authorities said that up to 42 people sustained injuries, most of which were said to be minor, […]

10 years ago

Goosebumps. The sight of Paddy Barnes waving the tricolour and leading Team Ireland into the opening ceremony at the 2016 Rio Olympics was enough to send shivers down the spine of the many Irish people watching on TV last night. For those who were there in person, we can only imagine that it was an […]

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And so it begins… As will be the case with a lot of events during the 2016 Rio Olympics, the opening ceremony took place at a fairly unsociable hour, so many of you may have been in dreamland when the XXXI Olympiad began with a bang. For some observers, the opening ceremony takes on a […]

10 years ago

This will certainly make you stand out at training. South Africa Gaels will be one of the many international teams coming to Ireland for the Etihad Airways GAA World Games this weekend and they’re certainly going to make people sit up and take notice. For a start, they are the only solely GAA-dedicated club in […]

10 years ago

*Drools* It’s a beverage known the world over, but Irish people have had an affinity with Lucozade for generations. Particularly popular amongst people nursing a hangover or a brigade of football fans watching the Premier League in pubs throughout the country, it’s a fizzy staple of many an Irish person’s liquid diet. With that in […]

10 years ago

Incredible stuff. At the very least, Dundalk will be playing Europa League football this season after a stunning victory over BATE Borisov on a truly historic night at Tallaght Stadium. Thanks to a comprehensive 3-0 victory on the night – sealed with goals from David McMillan (2) and Robbie Benson – Stephen Kenny’s men claimed […]

10 years ago

Just another day on Donald Trump’s Presidential campaign. Barely a day passes without something eventful happening in the world of Donald Trump and today was no different. During a speech at a rally in Ashburn, Virginia on Tuesday, a baby could be heard crying in the audience. Trump, smiling, responded by saying: “I hear that […]

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Hopefully there’ll be more than 20 people there this time around. On August 20, 1991, a then little-known band known as Nirvana performed at Sir Henry’s on South Main Street in Cork city. The gig took place just three days after Nirvana recorded the iconic music video for ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit,’ one of the […]

10 years ago

You’ll find all sorts enjoying the Kingdom at this time of year. Always a popular spot with tourists throughout the year, even more visitors from home and abroad seem to flock to Kerry during the summertime and we wouldn’t blame them; it is really a beautiful part of the world. So beautiful, it turns out, […]

10 years ago

For one brief moment, Leo had him going. Leonardo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill had quite the on-screen chemistry in The Wolf of Wall Street a couple of years ago and it would seem as if the friendship forged at the time is still strong today. Footage surfaced of the pair of them meeting in New […]

10 years ago

No holding back here. Barack Obama has said that Republic nominee Donald Trump is unfit to succeed him as President of the United States. Trump and Hilary Clinton have officially been confirmed as the Republican and Democratic nominees for the Presidency of the United States and the current President left Americans in no doubt as […]

10 years ago

If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em. It can be hard to keep up with everything in the world of social media these days, but what we do know is that the ‘stories’ feature on Snapchat has been one of its most popular features for quite some time. So popular is it, in fact, that […]

10 years ago

If you own one of these, you’re in good company. One of the most telling signs that an economy is showing signs of improvement is new car sales and if the 2016 figures are anything to go by, then the boom is very much back. That might be exaggerating things slightly but the figures are […]

10 years ago

Five deaths are being investigated in Ireland where drugs known as Fentanyls have been involved. The Union of Students in Ireland is urging young people to stay away from Opiate drugs known as ‘Fentanyls’ after a number of drug-related deaths in Dublin and Cork in recent weeks. Fentanyl is a narcotic analgesic used in both […]

10 years ago

He’s one tough cookie. Simon Norton togged out for Clonad in the Laois Junior C hurling semi-final on Friday evening in what could turn out to be his last ever game before he hangs up his hurl. We’re reliably informed that Simon was a superb hurler in his day and is a hardy bit of […]

10 years ago

This is a little concerning. Do you use WhatsApp on an iPhone or another iOS device? If so, WhatsApp conversations that you thought had been deleted may still exist, according to a prominent security researcher. Jonathan Zdziarski, who writes a blog called Zdziarski’s Blog of Things and specialises in Apple products, recently penned a post […]

10 years ago

This trend of cleaning up after major events is really catching on. Of all of the many, many standout moments involving Irish fans at Euro 2016, one of the most memorable was the clean-up job conducted by singing supporters in Bordeaux. Sure, we were going to have a good time but we weren’t going to […]

10 years ago

Now all they need is the sunshine. Although it’s been uncomfortably warm and humid at times, the summer of 2016 has only delivered the odd cracking day here and there, when you’d rather nothing more than a trip to the beach. Seeing as the county has no coastline, the people of Cavan have to travel […]

10 years ago

It looked like they were out long after half past the eleven the night before. Of all the brilliant guest stars in Father Ted, there were few more memorable than Father Noel Furlong, played, of course, by Graham Norton. Noel starred in a number of classic Father Ted scenes, but perhaps his finest moment was […]

10 years ago

More than one in ten Irish motorists have admitted to drink-driving in the last year. A survey of just under 11,000 motorists in Ireland has revealed that 13 per cent of motorists have admitted to drink driving within the last 12 months. The results of the survey were published just in time for the August […]

10 years ago

Forget Real Madrid v Barcelona, Madrid Harps v Barcelona Gaels is the real ‘El Clasico’. The sporting rivalry between Spain’s two biggest cities isn’t limited to soccer and it’s the capital who have been reigning supreme on the GAA front, with the Madrid Harps senior men’s team having captured their third Iberian Championship on the […]

10 years ago

“A route where you can truly lose yourself in the best of ways.” If you still have holidays to take this summer and are undecided about where to go, you could do worse than take a spin on the Wild Atlantic Way. Taking in some of the finest scenery the country has to offer all […]

10 years ago

He must have had a REALLY good day at Ballybrit. Some in-the-know punters will tell you that it’s more difficult to back a winner at the Galway Races than at any other meet, but there will always be plenty of people who make a fortune at the bookies’ expense. One such punter decided to celebrate […]

10 years ago

Thankfully, the kitten is expected to make a full recovery. The ISPCA are appealing for information from members of the public after a young kitten was rescued by ISPCA Inspector Alice Lacey in Waterford city with severe burn wounds. Inspector Lacey rescued the kitten and brought it for immediate vet attention for his horrific wound. […]

10 years ago

Will you be there? So good that it generated its own separate festival, the Body&Soul village is always popular with Electric Picnic goers and that will likely be the case once again this year. The line-up for the Body&Soul and Earthship stages were released on Thursday and there’s plenty to look forward to, with the […]

10 years ago

The percentage increase has been very minimal in Ireland since 2007. A report by British Union TUC has revealed that wages in Ireland increased by just 1.6% between 2007 and 2015, one of the lowest rankings amongst OECD countries. That figure is far below the OECD average of 6.7%, with only Czech Republic, Italy, Portugal, […]

10 years ago

People of Cork, remain calm. Actually, scratch that. Go nuts, because if the possibility of Garth Brooks and Adele playing in the home of GAA in the Rebel County in the summer of 2017 isn’t something to get excited about, then what is? According to the Irish Examiner, the Cork county board has confirmed that […]

10 years ago