Conor Heneghan

The momentum is very much on Merseyside right now. J-League Only two teams in the top five before the international break have maintained their positions after Gameweek 11, illustrating once again the cutthroat nature of one of the most brutal Fantasy Football leagues out there. Despite a relatively average return, Christy O’Neill’s The Klopp End […]

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Brrrrrrrr. After parts of Ireland experienced snow on Thursday, the wintry weather shows no sign of abating with Ireland set to experience bitterly cold weather over the weekend. Met Éireann have forecast that temperatures will drop as low as -4 degrees on Saturday and Sunday night, with widespread severe frost expected nationwide as a result. […]

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Convenience is everything. Airbnb is only eight years old, but it’s already become the first port of call for many holidaymakers on the lookout for accommodation, both at home and abroad. Pretty soon, Airbnb users will not only be able to use it to book a room, a house or an apartment, but to plan […]

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A fantastic achievement. The famous town of Clonakilty in west Cork has earned significant acclaim on a wider scale after winning the Great Town award at the Urbanism Awards in London on Thursday evening. The Great Town goes to CLONAKILTY #UrbanismAwards pic.twitter.com/MkCgDuTRui — The Academy of Urbanism (@theAoU) November 16, 2016 Clonakilty beat off stiff […]

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Forget everything that’s gone before, this is our new favourite world record. Because there are Guinness World records for virtually everything these days, including the most toilet seats broken by one’s head in one minute (it exists, look it up), people have to come up with extremely niche ways of getting their names in the […]

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There’s only one change from Chicago but it’s a big one. Sean O’Brien has been included in the Irish rugby team to face New Zealand on Saturday in the only change from the side who earned a historic victory over the All-Blacks in Chicago earlier this month. O’Brien replaces the injured Jordi Murphy in the […]

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Proper order. As one of the biggest social media platforms in the world, there are plenty of positive sides to Twitter. It’s the first place you’ll find breaking news and the things everyone is talking about and it allows you to keep tabs on what people far more famous than you are getting up to. […]

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You could have more money in your pocket come 2017. Private sector unions will seek pay increases of approximately 4% from the start of next year. According to the Irish Times, a recommendation was made to seek the increase, based on economic analysis, by the private sector committee of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions […]

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Just what we all wanted to hear. While Game of Thrones fans can barely hide their anticipation for the seventh season next year, it will also serve as a reminder that the end is in sight for one of biggest and best shows of recent years. Seasons 7 and 8 have been confirmed as the […]

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An upgrade of the airport’s main runway is expected to take 18 months to complete. 150 construction jobs are to be created at Dublin Airport in a major project to upgrade the airport’s main runway. Construction on the project is due to start today, Monday 14 November and will take place overnight between 11pm and […]

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Gloves and scarves at the ready. Temperatures will drop to as low as zero degrees when a cold spell makes its presence felt throughout the country towards the end of this week. According to Met Éireann, after a mild start to the week, when temperatures will reach as high as 16 degrees on Monday and […]

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Organisers released a statement on Sunday night. The annual turning on of the Christmas lights ceremony had to be cut short on Sunday evening due to concerns over the size of the crowd gathered on Grafton Street. Performances by a number of acts that had been scheduled to appear during the ceremony, including Hermitage Green […]

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Hundreds of secondary schools throughout the country will reopen on Wednesday after the Association of Secondary Teachers in Ireland (ASTI) took the decision to suspend industrial action. The ASTI released a statement on Tuesday evening, which read: “Earlier today the ASTI was invited by the Chair of the Teachers’ Conciliation Council Ms Anna Perry to […]

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Number one is hardly a huge surprise. Lifetime usage of cannabis is considerably higher than any other illegal drug in Ireland, according to a government report about the prevalence of drug use and gambling in Ireland and drug use in Northern Ireland. The report analysed questionnaires filled out by over 7,000 respondents in Ireland and […]

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Oops. Donald Trump’s son, Eric Trump, is alleged to have violated New York State law when casting a vote for his father in the US Presidential election on Tuesday. Trump posted a picture of the ballot paper on which he voted for his father on Twitter this morning, obviously oblivious to the fact that it […]

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Two women were removed from the polling station and both are believed to have been arrested. Two topless protesters were removed from a polling station in Midtown in Manhattan, where Republican nominee Donald Trump is due to cast his vote in the Presidential Election. Videos posted on Twitter by Sharon Clott Kanter, deputy style director […]

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The message at the end is very clever, to be fair. Much like the Harlem Shake and the ice bucket challenge, the mannequin challenge that’s currently all over the Internet is likely to be a passing fad, but will be very hard to miss in the brief time that it’s popular. Obviously keen to show […]

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Kudos has been in plentiful supply. It was around Christmas time last year that fans became obsessed with Making a Murderer on Netflix and viewers may well have something equally as popular to feast on this festive season. According to Variety, Netflix have acquired the rights to Fauda, a critically-acclaimed series on Israeli television about […]

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Gardaí had been scheduled to strike on every Friday of this month. The Garda Representative Association (GRA) have decided to suspend three days of strike action that had been scheduled to take place later this month. According to RTÉ, industrial action is believed to have been suspended pending the results of a ballot of the […]

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Anyone fancy a trip to Pittsburgh? Icelandic airline WOW Air have announced details of new routes from Dublin and Cork to Pittsburgh in the United States, with prices starting at €130 one way. Pittsburgh will become the eighth city in the US and Canada serviced from Ireland by WOW Air when the route opens in […]

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It’s getting warmer, but a lot wetter too. The freezing temperatures of the weekend are set to clear the longer this week goes on, but the outlook is pretty miserable to say the least. According to Met Éireann, Monday is set to be a reasonably pleasant winter’s day, with dry and sunny spells ahead of […]

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Great to see the gang back together. Thanks to all the speculation about what’s around the corner in Season 2, there’s already plenty of excitement about the next instalment of Stranger Things on Netflix in 2017. There’s been plenty of chatter about what new characters might be coming in, the fate of one major character […]

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