Who gets your vote? Of all of the categories in the JOE Men of the Year awards, this one proved to be one of the most difficult when it came to finalising the list of contenders. Merging the TV and movie star categories (both were separate in 2015) presented difficulties, as did the sheer wealth […]

10 years ago

Who made you laugh in 2016? Given the annus horribilis the world has gone through in the last 12 months, we’ve needed laughter more than ever in 2016. There’s never a shortage of people able to draw a laugh in these parts and all five nominees delivered plenty of them over the last year. Cast your […]

10 years ago

The singer was speaking to Ryan Tubridy about homelessness on the Late Late Show. Singer Glen Hansard confirmed that the Home Sweet Home group that has taken over the NAMA-owned Apollo House in Dublin are occupying the building illegally. Hansard is one of a number of well-known figures, alongside the likes of Hozier, Saoirse Ronan, […]

10 years ago

No, it’s not Johnny Logan. Galway man Brendan Murray has been chosen as Ireland’s performer for the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest in Kyiv. Murray was a member of the boyband Hometown, who announced their decision to take a break and pursue individual interests earlier this month. Clip via HomeTownVEVO The announcement was made on Friday’s […]

10 years ago

The FBI, CIA and the Director of National Intelligence all support claims of Russian intervention in the recent US presidential election. The FBI has supported claims by the CIA that there was Russian intervention to help Donald Trump claim victory in the recent US presidential election. According to a report in the Washington Post, CIA […]

10 years ago

Guinness and Christmas come together in glorious harmony. Beer-themed Christmas trees are traditionally found in student houses when the occupants get creative with the multitude of empty cans and bottles lying around, but an Irish bar in New York has taken the concept to an entirely new level. You may have already heard of Passage […]

10 years ago

The forecast for the weekend is promising; not so much for next week. Christmas shoppers will be glad to know that they won’t have much need for an umbrella this weekend, with dry weather forecast for most of Saturday and Sunday. According to Met Éireann, after a cold Friday night when temperatures will drop to […]

10 years ago

The first film is an incredibly hard act to follow, but the sequel’s already looking good. It might be a bit premature to start discussing the best movies of 2017, but if T2 Trainspotting lives up to the hype then it’s going to be hard topped next year. Following on from the incredible trailer released […]

10 years ago

At the end of this year’s Six Nations, it was hard to escape the feeling that the atmosphere around rugby in Ireland had fallen a little bit flat. A disappointing Rugby World Cup was followed by an equally disappointing Six Nations campaign, the provinces (with one notable exception) weren’t exactly tearing it up and for […]

10 years ago

A number of students presented with gonorrhoea and chlamydia to the UL Student Health Centre in recent weeks. Students at the University of Limerick have been alerted about an ‘outbreak’ of gonorrhoea and chlamydia on campus following an increase in the cases of both illnesses in recent weeks. The Limerick Leader reports that an email […]

10 years ago

“Merry Christmas, ya filthy animals.” As far as movies are concerned, few have the ability to get people in the Christmas spirit like Home Alone. It doesn’t matter how many times you’ve seen it, watching it in the lead-up to the big day is nigh on guaranteed to give you a warm, fuzzy, festive feeling… […]

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A big act to follow. As well as winning the inaugural JOE Man of the Year in 2015, Hozier also swept to victory in this category. So while we don’t want to exert undue pressure on our five nominees this year, they have pretty big shoes to fill. Cast your vote at the bottom of […]

10 years ago

Featuring the best version of ‘Duelling Banjos’ since Father Ted. We saw him show he’s well able to hold a note back in his hometown in Killarney earlier in the year and Michael Fassbender was once again illustrating his musical ability on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon on Tuesday night. Sort of. Fallon challenged Fassbender to […]

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The 2017 line-up is taking shape and it’s looking pretty good. Popular Dublin outfit the Coronas have become the latest act to be added to the line-up for the 2017 edition of the Sea Sessions festival in Donegal. 2017 will mark the tenth year of the surf music festival in Bundoran and having announced Primal […]

10 years ago

A Garda investigation is currently ongoing. Gardaí have launched an investigation following the discovery of a letter allegedly penned by an IT Sligo student threatening to shoot a number of fellow students in an exam hall next month. A Garda spokesperson confirmed to JOE that Gardaí in Sligo are investigating the discovery of a letter […]

10 years ago

An official selection at the Berlin film festival, it will be released in Ireland next year. Plot’s it all about? Based on a true story documented in a late 1940s novel of the same name, Alone in Berlin tells the story of a German couple who join the German resistance following the death of their son […]

10 years ago

The salary rates will apply only to members of the Irish National Teachers’ Organisation (INTO) and the Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI). The Department of Education has outlined the details of revised salary restoration for newer entrants to the teaching profession. Public servants, including teachers, recruited after that date were affected by a 10% reduction in […]

10 years ago

“I am appalled, dumbfounded, outraged and indeed absolutely livid at what I have witnessed on my television screen this evening.” Labour senator Aodhán Ó Ríordáin has posted a picture of a letter he sent to RTÉ expressing his outrage at the debate on the refugee crisis on Claire Byrne Live on Monday night. Actor Liam […]

10 years ago

Imagine surfing a wave as high as this. A new world record for the highest wave has been established by an expert committee representing the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO). The wave, all 19 metres (62.3 feet) of it, was measured by a buoy in the North Atlantic between Iceland and the United Kingdom at approximately […]

10 years ago

Including a specific emoji for Artificial Insemination (AI). You heard us. Although there seems to be an emoji for virtually everything these days, the agricultural community had only a few generic animals and some machinery with which to depict everyday farming life. Until now. On Tuesday, the Irish Farmers Journal launched Farmoji, a new app […]

10 years ago

Make your return to the People’s Republic extra special this Christmas. One of the many good things about the upcoming festive season is meeting up with friends and family living abroad who have come home for Christmas. Not every Irish person living abroad has the opportunity to make the trip back home, but thousands do […]

10 years ago

This is lovely. You might remember pictures from earlier this year of a young boy wearing a blue and white plastic bag that he had managed to turn into an Argentina jersey with the name and number of the great Lionel Messi on the back. After surfacing on Messi fan sites on social media, the […]

10 years ago

Can anyone take the crown off last year’s winners? Dermot and Dave from Today FM will hope not, because after another great 12 months, they’re back at the top of our list of contenders for media personality of the year in 2016. Three RTÉ heavyweights and argubly the best chat show host in the business […]

10 years ago

Revenue issued a similar warning to consumers only a few weeks ago. Consumers tend to be a little more liberal with their money in the run-up to Christmas than at any other time of the year, but that means they should be even more vigilant than usual when it comes to the security of their […]

10 years ago

Just when you had finally managed to push ‘You’re Beautiful’ out of your head… Say what you like about his music, but James Blunt knows his way around social media. Time and time again, the singer has proved himself to be the master of the comeback on Twitter, mostly by acknowledging the fact that he […]

10 years ago

A fantastic gesture. The Westmeath senior and under-21 hurlers will serve hot meals to the homeless on Grafton Street in Dublin on Monday night. Members of both panels, who are foregoing a post-match meal to perform the gesture, will distribute 100 hot meals to the homeless from 8.30pm on Monday evening in an attempt to […]

10 years ago

We are a nation of very handsome creatures. Unfortunately, none of those said handsome creatures responded last week when we put the call out to our readers looking for contenders for the best lookin’ JOE from down the road award in the JOE Men of the Year awards for 2016. Ahhhhh, KIDDING. As we expected, […]

10 years ago

Tell us more, Jamie. Former Liverpool teammates Jamie Carragher and Didi Hamann had what might be described as an ‘interesting’ exchange on Twitter on Monday afternoon when a debate over Liverpool goalkeeper Loris Karius was suddenly taken up a notch. Karius has been receiving plenty of attention due to some high-profile mistakes for the Reds […]

10 years ago

In a word, Arsenal. Despite actually going and topping their group this season, Arsenal have received their traditionally difficult draw for the last 16, having been paired against German giants Bayern Munich in the first knockout phase. That game, and the clash between PSG and Barcelona, are the two standout ties from the last 16 […]

10 years ago

Plenty of opportunities for those working in the construction industry in Ireland. The Construction Industry Federation (CIF) in Ireland say that approximately 112,000 workers will be required in an effort to deliver some ambitious targets in Government housing, infrastructure and FDI (foreign direct investment) strategies in Ireland in the next four years. The CIF launched […]

10 years ago

Biebs is coming back. Justin Bieber is coming to Dublin for a major show in the RDS next summer as part of his Purpose World Tour. News of Bieber’s return to Ireland was confirmed on Monday morning, with thousands of Irish Bieber fans now eagerly awaiting his arrival in Dublin on Wednesday, June 21, 2017. […]

10 years ago

An extra treat for revellers in Mayo this Christmas. For the second year in succession, Mayo County Council are to implement a novel campaign aimed at reducing rowdiness outside nightclubs over the festive season. Last Christmas, punters were given lollipops when leaving nightclubs and late bars in the county as part of a campaign that […]

10 years ago

You might not have known a lot about some of these guys at the start of 2016, but you certainly did by the end of it. Cast your vote for JOE’s Rising Star of 2016 at the bottom of the page. Ferdia Walsh-Peelo Star of one of the feel-good hits of 2016, Ferdia Walsh-Peelo’s performance […]

10 years ago

Five titans of the hurling and football world, but only one can get your vote. It would be a stretch to call the 2016 Championship season a vintage one in either code, but as always seems to be the case these days, both of them came to life when it boiled down to the business […]

10 years ago

“I have to say when I first met him he probably had the worst voice I’d heard.” Those were the words of vocal coach Michel Durham, who has been providing singing lessons for one of Galway’s most famous sons, Davy Carton of the Saw Doctors, of late. You may have heard that Davy recently had to […]

10 years ago

Kane is able. J-League For the first time in yonks there is a new team perched at the top of the J-League, ending the long reign of The Klopp End, managed by Christy O’Neill, at the top. Christy’s charges didn’t just relinquish top spot, but dropped to 21st place after his decision to hand the […]

10 years ago

The Toy Show is a tough act to follow, but it’s a decent line-up on both shows tonight. The Late Late Show Ruth Negga Fresh from the cover of Vogue magazine comes Limerick actress Ruth Negga, who’ll discuss her role in Loving, a movie already generating talk of Oscars, and her rise to stardom from […]

10 years ago

It’s been a good year. It would be hard to make that claim about 2016 in general, but it’s definitely been a good 12 months as far as Irish football is concerned. Euro 2016 marked Ireland’s most respectable performance at a major tournament in 14 years and Martin O’Neill’s men have gone from strength to […]

10 years ago

They would have been bananas not to accept an offer like that. Fyffes, the fresh fruit distribution company based in Ireland, is to be bought by the Japan-based Sumitomo Corporation in a deal worth over €751 million. Under the terms of the deal, Swordus Ireland Holding Limited (“Bidco”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sumitomo, will acquire […]

10 years ago

Praise was in plentiful supply, but the content of the documentary made a lot of people angry. The multi-award winning documentary, Atlantic, aired on RTÉ One on Thursday night, a documentary made by the same team behind the acclaimed 2010 documentary The Pipe (which covered the controversial Shell pipeline off the west coast of Ireland) […]

10 years ago

It’s going to start feeling more like winter again. After a week in which temperatures were positively balmy for this time of year in Ireland, the weekend will revert to more customary conditions for the middle of December. According to Met Éireann, Friday will once again be mild with temperatures reaching as high as 14 […]

10 years ago

It is understood that economics students were inadvertently provided with answers in an exam this week. An issue that arose with an economics exam paper this week is currently being investigated by NUI Galway after reports emerged that students were inadvertently supplied with solutions to the questions on the paper. According to Galway Bay FM, […]

10 years ago

“Why do your balls sound like three-year old girls?” Plot’s it all about? It seems like barely a week passes these days without a Hollywood remake of something that was popular decades ago, but we’re not going to quibble too much about a reboot of a show that was a staple of Irish households in […]

10 years ago

Working abroad but interested in coming home on a permanent basis? If that applies to you or anyone you know, then a number of free events taking place throughout the country later this month may well be of interest. The ‘Home for Work’ campaign was launched on Thursday with the aim of offering jobs to […]

10 years ago

Has this ever happened to you? Seeing your phone run out of battery is incredibly frustrating; seeing it do so even though there appears to be life left in the battery even more so. Why would they lie to us? WHY? It’s a problem that many iPhone users have experienced in recent years, with no […]

10 years ago

Vintage video game fans, this one’s for you. The recent re-release of the original NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) showed that, despite all the advancements made in video game technology, there is still very much an appetite for the classics. Video games don’t come much more classic than Super Mario Bros., a game that’s so popular […]

10 years ago

We never thought Paul O’Connell would feature in this category but it’s been that kind of year. We’ve said it before, we’ll say it again and we’ll never stop saying it because it always bears repeating: at JOE we’re eternally grateful for the content provided to us by you, the JOE readers, on such a […]

10 years ago

“It was 1951 and Mayo were playing in the Gaelic Football All-Ireland Final…” When the Chicago Cubs ended a 108-year drought to win the World Series last month, the famine that the Mayo footballers have endured in their quest to win an All-Ireland title was cast into the spotlight once more. The curse that was […]

10 years ago

Be on your guard this festive season. Today, December 8, often tends to be one of the busiest shopping days of the year in Ireland; it being the day, of course, when country folk descend on the capital to do their Christmas shopping. It is perhaps fitting then, that today also marks ‘Retail Safety Day’ […]

10 years ago

Was it really that bad? James Corden dropped his latest Carpool Karaoke on Wednesday night as he toured the streets of New York City with none other than Madonna herself. The latest episode in the series followed the usual formula; Madonna and Corden sang a few songs and she told a few stories (including one […]

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