A good night for La La Land. Having already swept the board at the Golden Globes, it was another good night for Damien Chazelle’s La La Land at the 2017 BAFTA Awards in London on Sunday night. Chazelle himself scooped the award for Best Director, while the musical romantic comedy also won awards for Best […]

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Form an orderly queue, gentlemen. The Rose of Tralee might not be to everyone’s tastes, but there’s no denying that it still continues to hold a huge appeal for a lot of Irish people on an annual basis. Apart from the host, the stars of the show are all female, of course, but the Roses’ […]

9 years ago

“I can’t mess this up for him.” Adele is renowned as an accomplished live performer, but for the second year in a row, things didn’t exactly go to plan when she sang live at the Grammy Awards on Sunday night. Performing a cover of ‘Fast Love’ in tribute to George Michael, who passed away on […]

9 years ago

Will Arnett is a funny, funny man. His Batman character was arguably the best thing about the first LEGO movie and we’re obviously not the only ones to think it because the character got a movie of his own, which has just been released this week. Arnett has been doing the promotional circuit in the […]

9 years ago

Luk who’s doing the business. J-League There was a little bit of a reshuffling of the pack in the J-League in Gameweek 24, but nothing could dislodge Ogie Nolan’s Tulig Panthers** from top spot after a solid score of 70 at the weekend. All but one of the remaining members of the top five managed […]

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The more Kings of Leon, the better. Kings of Leon will perform for two consecutive nights at the 3Arena in Dublin this summer, after a second gig was confirmed by MCD on Friday morning. Tickets for the band’s show on Saturday 1 July went on sale on Friday morning, and MCD confirmed that the Followills would […]

9 years ago

“Roll it there… Colette?” Where the hell was Róisín? Excitement is building ahead of The Late Late Show’s annual Valentine’s Day special tonight, an occasion that, as we’ve seen in recent years, takes on something of a life of its own. 35 years ago, it might not have been as wild and as raucous as […]

9 years ago

It’s an optional feature, but in the interests of security, it’s worth it. WhatsApp have officially rolled out an optional two-step verification feature on the messaging app, requiring a six-digit passcode for any attempt to verify your phone number on WhatsApp. Essentially, it will prevent anyone but you (or anyone you provide the six-digit passcode […]

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Fingers crossed the weather plays ball and stargazers will be satisfied. If you’re something of a stargazer and willing to bear the cold, then you could be in for a treat as a rare event takes place in the skies tonight. An event called a penumbral lunar eclipse will take place, described by EarthSky as […]

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It’s a team that would take some beating. This weekend sees the cream of the crop in club football face off in semi-finals of the AIB All-Ireland Senior Club Championship, easily one of the highlights of the GAA calendar. On Saturday, the four remaining clubs – the four provincial champions – will face off in […]

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We can see this receiving a lot of support. There was much disappointment amongst sports fans in Ireland this week when it emerged that Seo Spóirt would no longer be part of TG4’s schedule from April onwards. Presented by former All-Ireland winning Kerry captain Dara Ó Cinnéide, the show has been running for 11 years, […]

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From New York to Nairobi, some of the world’s most famous landmarks will be going green on March 17. We’re not just saying it because it’s ours, but few national holidays resonate around the world as much as St. Patrick’s Day, as we’ll see for ourselves once again in a little over a month’s time. […]

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No holding back. Hip hop artist Stormzy has hit out secondary ticketing websites after tickets to his upcoming gigs went on sale for prices vastly in excess of face value. Earlier this week, Stormzy announced details of a series of gigs between March and May of this year, including one in Dublin’s Olympia Theatre, and […]

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If a setting like this doesn’t get you in the mood, we don’t know what will. Without wanting to delve too deeply into the more intimate details, there are a few factors that have to be considered when getting in the mood to get biz-ay. Location is most certainly high on the list; needless to […]

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The decision was taken after a debate amongst Wikipedia editors over the last month. The Daily Mail has been banned as a source in Wikipedia articles after Wikipedia editors found that it was “generally unreliable” and because of its reputation for “poor fact checking, sensationalism, and flat-out fabrication”. A proposal was made by Wikipedia editor […]

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A devastating yet very important watch. 188 people died on Irish roads in 2016 in what was a particularly bad year for road safety in Ireland, a 15% increase on the figure for 2015 and a continuation of a trend that has seen road deaths rise in this country in three of the last four […]

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The second occasion the famous Houston Gaels have graced these pages. Size is a pretty relative concept when it comes to the state of Texas in the United States. Houston Gaels, for example, are the only GAA club in the fourth most populated city in the US and while that’s something to shout about, it’s […]

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Management are due to address staff at a meeting on Wednesday morning. Hundreds of jobs at the Hewlett Packard plant in Leixlip in Kildare are believed to under threat. A number of media outlets, including RTÉ, are reporting that employees at the plant are bracing themselves for job losses at a meeting with management on […]

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A tribute to just how highly regarded the great man was. Olive Foley, the wife of the late Anthony Foley, has described the 10,000 signatures on Limerick City and County Council’s Book of Condolences presented to her this week as a reminder of the ‘amazing goodness of people’. Olive Foley was presented with the Book […]

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Safe to say her daughter wasn’t as sympathetic as she might have been under the circumstances. Having never ingested dog medicine ourselves, we can only imagine what sort of panic would descend on someone who did exactly that, completely by mistake. Helen Maxwell from Tyrone was unfortunate to do so recently, having accidentally ingested medicine […]

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“He considers her his second Mammy.” Awww. Gogglebox Ireland returns to our screens on Wednesday night and after letting us know the counties where the stars of the show are from earlier this week, we now know the identity of the first couple. On Wednesday night, Irish audiences will be introduced to 16-year old Tadgh […]

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This is the English language in 2017. The way people communicate has changed dramatically in the Internet age and though some traditionalists might rage against replacing words with emojis or some of the terms the kids use these days, there comes a point where we all have to get with the times. The Mirriam-Webster Dictionary […]

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We haven’t seen them get this carried away since the Demogorgon showed up. It might have got lost in all the excitement over one of the best Superbowls of all time on Sunday night, but there was also a lot to get excited about for Stranger Things fans following the arrival of the first trailer […]

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Gogglebox is back. TV3 have confirmed five new homes for the new series of Gogglebox Ireland that gets underway this week, but they are keeping the details tightly under wraps until the first episode airs on Wednesday night. All the station are prepared to reveal so far is that the new homes are located in […]

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Fag butts, rats, live insects, human nails, a plastic rope and much, much more. The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) have revealed details of some of the 3,202 complaints made to the FSAI advice line in 2016 and some of them are bad enough to put you off your lunch for a week. The […]

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What a line-up this is. As if there weren’t already enough events to choose from for Irish music fans this summer, MCD have announced a brilliant line-up for ‘The Summer Series at Trinity College’ to take place in July of this year. Some big-name acts have been confirmed for a series of concerts running from […]

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If you’re planning a stag party soon, this might give you a few tips. Once a man gets to a certain age, it can seem as if their entire social life is dominated by stag parties and weddings and when it comes to the former, experiences tend to be quite varied indeed. Some grooms-to-be are […]

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There could be a few serious cases of jet lag for the passengers on board. 16 hours and 23 minutes after taking off from Doha, the longest non-stop commercial flight in the world landed in Auckland on Monday morning, five minutes ahead of schedule. The Qatar Airways Boeing 777-200LR crossed through ten time zones before […]

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Centra plan to invest €20 million in the Centra network in the coming year. Centra have announced plans to create 460 new jobs and to open 20 new stores throughout Ireland as part of a €20 million investment in the Centra network in 2017. Having recorded sales of €1.59 billion in 2016, a record and […]

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Well played sir, well played. Saturday marks the start of the 2017 Six Nations and with Joe Schmidt’s side in pretty fine fettle going into the tournament, Irish rugby fans would have travelled to Edinburgh in optimistic mood on Friday afternoon. The mood of fans on board flight EI3254 was made even better when the […]

9 years ago

It certainly makes an impression. It’s been an eventful first couple of weeks as US president for Donald Trump. Not even a month in, the furore over the size of the crowds at his inauguration, the commitment to building a wall between the US and Mexico and, in particular, the implementation of the travel ban […]

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If the mother of dragons says it’s going to be a good season, then it’s going to be a good season. What seems like an interminable wait for the next instalment of Game of Thrones will go on for a little longer yet, but we’re getting closer and closer. Filming wraps up for the seventh […]

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Worst. Driver. Ever. Anyone who’s ever done one knows the pressure that comes with doing the driving test; some either handle it well (or get lucky) and pass it first time, others take multiple attempts before getting their hands on a precious licence. Scotsman Craig Bazarra had barely put his foot in the door of […]

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The phrase ‘Morning glory’ might have something to do with this. As such a personal and private matter, sex is something that a lot of people don’t like talking about in public, but when one can do so anonymously, it’s a whole different ball game. With that in mind, Superdrug conducted a survey of 2,000 […]

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Damn nature, you scary. Despite not sounding very threatening at all, Storm Doris made her presence felt in Ireland on Thursday, when strong winds and heavy rain affected large parts of the country. As is always the case, it was coastal areas that felt the impact of the storm the most and the town of […]

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Fantasy managers looking for points should have Kevin on de Bruyne. J-League It’s been a few weeks since our last bulletin and in that time the landscape has changed dramatically at the top of the J-League, so much so that only two of the top five remain from last time out. One of those two […]

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Switzerland’s biggest sporting success story after Roger Federer… honest. 15 years ago, a group of non-Irish friends in Zürich formed Zürich Inneoin to promote the GAA in the city and throughout Switzerland. And they’ve been doing a pretty good job of it ever since. Originally, a hurling-only club, Zürich Inneoin are four-time Euroleague hurling winners (including […]

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Teams from the Chinese and Syrian communities will take part in an unprecedented tournament in Dublin on Sunday. It might not have grabbed the headlines, but one of the most amazing results in the world of football last year was the 1-0 victory by the Syrian national team over China in a World Cup qualifier […]

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Don’t let the non-threatening name mislead you, it’s very scary. Ireland could be about to bear the brunt of another storm in the coming days, a storm with arguably the least threatening name in the history of storms. After Storm Barbara and Storm Conor made their presence felt in these parts over Christmas, Storm Doris […]

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Yes to this. People raved about the Donald Trump inauguration being given the bad lip reading treatment last month and rightly so because it was brilliant. While bad lip readings of Trump are a somewhat recent phenomenon, the NFL has been getting the treatment for years and the geniuses behind it have it down to […]

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Trump later tweeted that he would “study this dumb deal” that would see refugees resettled in the United States. US president Donald Trump and Australian Prime Minister Malcom Turnbull are reported to have had a frosty conversation on Wednesday over a deal made during the Obama administration that would see over 1,000 refugees resettled in […]

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The account has well in excess of three million likes on Facebook. A popular Facebook page under the name of ‘God’ was unverified on Facebook on Wednesday, with the account claiming that it was due to posts about the shooting that occurred in Quebec in Canada over the weekend. A humorous account that quickly attracted […]

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The man was arrested and subsequently released without charge. A man travelling on the Luas Red Line was arrested and subsequently released without charge after he was spotted wearing a bandolier of machine gun bullets around his neck on Monday night. Gardaí said that a man was arrested for being in possession of suspected ammunition […]

9 years ago

Apart from Robbie Brady’s move to Burnley, this is the best deal of Deadline Day. Discovery Communications’ portfolio of channels, including the Discovery channels and Eurosport, will remain available to Sky customers after a deal was agreed the day before they had been due to go off air. Both parties confirmed the news on Monday […]

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Not sure about that Orlando Bloom haircut… Hard as it might be to believe, it’s been a little under 14 years since the final instalment of the Lord of the Rings trilogy was in cinemas; apologies if you’re feeling old all of a sudden. Mere mention of one of the most famous trilogies in movie […]

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Well done, James McClean. James McClean has made a “considerable personal donation” to go towards the cost of a heart transplant for a three-year old boy from his native Derry. The Derry Journal report that the West Bromwich Albion and Ireland winger contacted the paper on Monday after reading about the plight of Brayden Moore, […]

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Handy for people who are constantly on the move. WhatsApp are reportedly working on a feature that will allow users of the app to keep track of their friends and contacts (pending their permission) in real-time. Amongst a number of new features spotted in the beta version of WhatsApp on both iOS and Android is […]

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A number of customers have reportedly received text messages purporting to having been sent by the bank. Bank of Ireland has warned its customers to beware of a text message scam claiming that online access to their account information has been frozen and requiring customers to click a link to unlock it. According to RTÉ, […]

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The complaints related to interviews with the Sydney Rose and North Carolina Rose. The Broadcasting Authority in Ireland (BAI) has announced that it rejected five complaints about The Rose of Tralee at the most recent meeting of its compliance committee in December. On Tuesday, the BAI published the most recent broadcasting complaints decisions, five of […]

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Couch potatoes, your dream gadget has arrived. There are few lazier pursuits than sitting around on your ass watching TV all day, but for generations, mankind has searched for ways of making that activity even more convenient than it already is. Every so often, Netflix employees take part in what’s called a ‘hackday,’ in which […]

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