We need to talk about Kevin de Bruyne. J-League It’s all change in the upper echelons of the J-League again this week, with no real pattern emerging just yet as to who is likely to be leading the chasing pack for the foreseeable future. The only surviving team from last week’s top five is Ronan […]

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Mulherin sought to provide clarity on the situation on Thursday afternoon. Fine Gael Senator Michelle Muherin has attempted to clarify matters in relation to her search for tickets to this weekend’s All-Ireland Final after she accused the GAA of discrimination having had a request for tickets denied by the association. The Mayo Senator applied for […]

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The must-have accessory for the agricultural GAA fan. One of the most anticipated Irish events of the year takes place next week, when The National Ploughing Championships take place in Screggan, Tullamore, Co. Offaly. Attended by over 280,000 people in 2015, agricultural enthusiasts will be there in their droves again this year and attendees who […]

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Are those tears in the Taoiseach’s eyes? A little earlier this week, you may have read that punters can make money on Enda Kenny crying if Mayo end a 65-year drought and win the All-Ireland title on Sunday. It may not take victory for Enda to get emotional, as he certainly seems to be welling […]

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Richly deserved. Were you one of the thousands of Irish fans cheering on the Boys in Green at Euro 2016? If you were, then give yourself a pat on the back because your contribution to supporting Martin O’Neill’s men in France has earned an official award from UEFA that will be presented to the FAI […]

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What a voice. If you scour the interweb as much as we do, you may have come across a man known as Mike Yung in the last few weeks. Mike, a New Yorker, captured the imagination of audiences worldwide when footage of an amazing performance of ‘Unchained Melody’ surfaced online; it’s fair to say he’s […]

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The pictures certainly look legitimate. Millions of people around the world will have their hands on shiny new iPhone 7 when it goes on release around the world on Friday, but it would seem as if some of them have slipped through the net earlier than expected. JOE reader Andy Borwick sent us pictures this […]

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Recommendations in a report by the Dublin City Council are due to be discussed on Thursday. A report by Dublin City Council aimed at increasing the efficiency of the collection of motor tax could end up hitting motorists in Dublin in the pocket. According to RTÉ, the report recommends imposing a levy on motorists who […]

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They were warned… An 18-year old woman in Austria is suing her parents after they refused to remove a series of childhood photos of her that were uploaded to Facebook. In what is the first case of its kind in the country, the woman, who has not been named because of Austrian privacy laws, is […]

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Rent rose by almost 10% nationally, while rent in Dublin is has reached a record high. The cost of renting private accommodation in Ireland rose by nearly 10% in Ireland in the second quarter of 2016 compared with the same period in 2015, according to the latest figures from the Quarterly Rent Index, compiled by […]

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Even by the standards of conspiracy theories, this one is a little far-fetched. Kurt Cobain, lead singer of Nirvana, one of the most iconic rock bands of all time, died aged 27 in April 1994. 22 years after his death, some are claiming that it was all a conspiracy, basing the theory on footage of […]

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So angry was the local man, he decided to highlight the matter publicly. A Carlow man recently took issue with cans of Coca Cola being sold as individual units in the fridge in a local shop despite being clearly marked as multipack cans. According to the Carlow Nationalist, Patrick Cahill from Friar’s Green in Carlow […]

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Prepare to be hit with a serious case of the heebie-jeebies. Ireland is not known as a home to some of the most frightening arachnids on the planet, but those of you with a fear of spiders might recoil just slightly at the sight of a spider found a house in Wexford on Tuesday night. […]

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We could soon have a new shopping centre in the heart of Dublin city. An extensive portfolio covering 18 commercial properties and 12 residential units located close to Grafton Street is expected to attract plenty of interest when it goes on sale from Wednesday morning. According to the Irish Times, agents Knight and Frank have […]

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Bargain. Earlier today, you may have read about a property formerly known as the Kilbride Inn in Roscommon, which went on sale at an auction on Tuesday, where the bidding started at just €30,000. A pub and house combo that has a car park and sits on 4.5 acres of land, the property is located […]

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In typical South Park fashion, there’s no holding back. Even if you’re no fan of the NFL, you may well be aware of the reasons why San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick is in the news at the moment. Kaepernick has been refusing to stand for the US National Anthem before games of late, saying […]

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Don’t look down… Derek Fleming and his partner, Nicola Gouldsbury, both from Dublin, are currently on holiday in Florida. On a trip to Sea World, they decided to try out Mako, a rollercoaster that only opened in June and claims to be the longest, tallest and fastest roller coaster in Orlando, which, as anyone who’s […]

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You wouldn’t put a cat out in it. Manchester City were due to kick off their Champions League campaign at home to Borussia Mönchengladbach this evening, but it has been postponed due to fairly awful weather conditions in Manchester. Club announcement: Tonight’s #UCL match between #mcfc and @borussia_en has been postponed due to adverse weather […]

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We wanted this one to be true, we really did. Despite reports to the contrary by numerous sources throughout the worldwide web, a baby gorilla born in a zoo in China has not been given the rather fantastic moniker, Harambe McHarambeface. A report that surfaced on bostonleader.com at the weekend suggested that, following a massive […]

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Are any of these part of your daily commute? For the fourth year in a row, the busiest train in Ireland in 2015 was the 8:00 DART from Greystones to Malahide, with a total of 1,336 passengers using the service on a single day in November last year. The National Transport Authority (NTA) published its […]

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Persons living abroad and looking to rent in Dublin are reportedly being targeted. People on the lookout for rental accommodation in Dublin have been advised to be wary of an email scam targeting people living abroad and looking to rent in the capital. The City Council (DCC) and An Garda Síochána (AGS) are warning prospective […]

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It’s slowly but surely taking over. The doors have barely opened at Ireland’s second IKEA store in Carrickmines in Dublin and already there’s talk that the Swedish furniture giant could be about to open another outlet in Ireland’s real capital second biggest city. According to the Evening Echo, IKEA representatives have already held two meetings […]

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Surely if Mayo can end their All-Ireland famine, there won’t be a dry eye amongst the Green and Red contingent in Croke Park. Mayo haven’t managed to lift Sam since 1951, the year the Taoiseach was born, and one can only imagine the outpouring of emotion if Stephen Rochford’s men can end the most famous […]

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If you’ve ever had something stolen and never got it back, this might be your chance to recover it. People who have had personal property stolen from them could have the chance to recover it at Garda stations throughout the country on Garda National Property Recovered Day next week. In an effort to reunite property […]

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Terrible news. A crew member from the Irish Coast Guard has died and two other crew members have been taken to hospital after their vessel overturned during a search operation in Clare. According to RTÉ, the three Coast Guard crew members, all of whom were based at Kilkee in Clare, were involved in an ongoing […]

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They love their tea out west. Research by the Tesco Community Fund has revealed that tea is more popular in Connacht than any other province in Ireland. A survey conducted this month shows that more than eight in every ten people in Connacht is a tea drinker (82%), compared to 78% in Ulster, 73% in […]

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The big phone is coming back… Cult hidden camera show Trigger Happy TV will make a long-awaited return later this month. Trigger Happy TV, the brainchild of comedian Dom Joly, ran for two series on Channel 4 from 2000 to 2003 and contained a number of repeat sketches that lived long in the memory, particularly […]

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The fee could rise by as much as 60 cent per visit. Motorists who use the M50 and the Port Tunnel in Dublin could face toll price hikes of up to 60 cent due to an opinion issued in the European Court of Justice last week. According to the Irish Times, an opinion put forward […]

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“I love Mayo, till the day I die, when we beat the Dubs, it gon’ make me cry…” Mayo fans have been untypically lacking on the musical front in the lead-up to next weekend’s All-Ireland Final against Dublin. Granted, there have been a few numbers so far but under normal circumstances, you’d nearly have enough […]

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How fitting that a point like this was scored in Kerry. If you were out and about on Sunday afternoon, you’ll know that the weather conditions in most parts of the country didn’t exactly lend themselves to high-quality sporting action. Still, the show had to go on and in Strand Road in Tralee, spectators were […]

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The figures make for pretty grim reading. The vast majority of assaults in Ireland are carried out by males between the ages of 18 and 39 against males of a similar age, according to figures from the Garda Analysis Service. The figures show that 83% of offenders in assault cases in Ireland are male, that […]

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Pretty much the type of thing you’d expect at this time of year. Last week delivered a couple of days that suggested that we were in for an extended summer in Ireland, but the strong winds, scattered showers and weather warnings over the weekend brought us back down to earth with a bang. According to […]

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The couple will be singing at mass in St. Michael’s Catholic Church in Athy on Saturday evening. A gay couple have decided to return to their church choir in Athy having stepped down earlier this week after receiving abuse described as “hateful” by a local parishioner. Jacinta O’Donnell and Geraldine Flanagan, who were married in […]

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If you’re lucky, you might even end up in this taxi over the weekend. Taxi drivers are no doubt enjoying the extra space afforded to them in the bus lanes due to the Dublin Bus strikes of recent days, but nobody’s enjoying it more than Indian taxi driver Mr. Singh. Indeed, Mr. Singh strikes us […]

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Hazard warning. The J-League 58 was a popular figure on what was a difficult Gameweek 3 given the struggles of early pacesetters Sergio Aguero and Zlatan Ibrahimovic. The top three teams in the J-League all finished on that number in the last round of fixtures before the international break and given it’s still early days, […]

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He managed for 154 seasons and won 151 league titles. As anyone who’s ever played it will know, Football Manager can be incredibly addictive, particularly for gamers who are so obsessive that they actually wear a suit while sitting in front of their computer. It happens. Seriously. There’s dedication, however, and there’s sticking with the […]

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They might look confusing, but there’s no mistake. New cycle lanes that take up more than half of the road have been attracting a lot of attention in Clane in Kildare in recent days. According to Kildare Now, the lanes, which have been painted on to the Ballinagappa Road in Clane, have been causing confusion […]

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It’s going to be a hit… in more ways than one. More than one in two people watching TV in Ireland last week were tuned in to the first episode of the new season of The Late Late Show, showing that, for all the criticism it takes, it’s still incredibly popular with the TV audience. […]

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Jacinta O’Donnell and Geraldine Flanagan have stepped down from the church choir and other church music activities. A gay couple in Kildare have stepped down from the St. Michael’s Catholic church choir in Athy after receiving abuse from a local church activist, including a “very personal” text message and “hateful stuff” on his Facebook page. […]

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If you’re already a big Kings of Leon fan, you’ll enjoy this. The Tennessee four-piece have released the first single from their highly anticipated new album out next month and it’s not a huge departure from their output in the recent past. That’s not intended as a slight on a band who enjoy massive popularity […]

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We’re going to go ahead and say that this is better than the actual Game of Thrones theme tune. There won’t be a new season until well into next year and it won’t be long until it’s over for good, but the theme tune to Game of Thrones is so iconic that it will live […]

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All the questions are related to drink-driving. The Road Safety Authority (RSA) have announced that 17 new questions on drink-driving will be added to the Driver Theory Test from October 10 onwards. The move from the RSA is a direct response to a report issued earlier this year which showed that drink-driving is still a […]

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A tasty development. Some will rightly point out the ridiculousness of talking about Christmas as early as September, but there are some circumstances in which it is justified and this is one of them. Tayto Pop-Up shops have proved very popular in Ireland in the recent past and the good news for Tayto connoisseurs out […]

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Two words: Rain gear. The tourism industry in Ireland is in a pretty great place at the moment; 5.4 million people came to visit us from overseas from January to July of this year, representing a massive 12.7% growth on the same period in 2015. With so many tourists coming to Ireland and because many […]

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Rumour has it, the last time the Mayo footballers did a crossbar challenge before an All-Ireland Final was in 1951… We’re joking, of course – we’re not sure if the crossbar challenge existed in 1951 – but the Mayo footballers did take some time out from the serious preparation for the All-Ireland Final to give […]

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Those are some damn big animals. The 2017 Guinness Book of World Records was released on Wednesday and as you’d expect, it was full of all sorts of unusual achievements from people, things and animals around the globe. Amongst the new entries announced on Wednesday, it was the latter that caught our eye, specifically the […]

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This was always going to happen. Dublin Bus services stopped operating at 9pm on Wednesday night ahead of strike action on Thursday and Friday but it was always going to be the morning and evening rush hours when the effects were mostly felt and it’s proved to the case on Thursday morning. Disruptions to the […]

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Will you be splashing out? Over 2,000 people responded to a poll on our site asking that very question on Wednesday evening and the majority (67%) said that they wouldn’t be getting their hands on Apple’s new toy. That said, we can still see the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus being very popular indeed […]

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Have you had trouble getting to work this morning? As if the Dublin Bus strike wasn’t going to cause enough hassle for commuters in Dublin, the Luas has served notice of disruptions to the Luas Green Line on Thursday morning. In a statement, Luas passengers were advised that the Green Line is operating between Carrickmines […]

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The recruitment drive is aimed at increasing the size of the force to 15,000 in the coming years. 800 Gardaí will be recruited every year for the next four years as part of an accelerated recruitment programme by the Irish government. According to RTÉ, an accelerated recruitment programme will see the recruitment of 800 Gardai […]

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