Witness the end. Amongst the many reboots we’ve seen in Hollywood in recent years, the rebirth of the Planet of the Apes series has been one of the most successful, both from a commercial and a critical perspective. War for the Planet of the Apes is the third offering since the franchise returned in 2011 […]

9 years ago

Creative Crime’s debut single, ‘Give Me Our Pain’, was released on May 9. Most Irish people will recognise him from Love/Hate but there have been plenty of examples in recent years where John Connors has shown what an impressive performer he is in front of a camera. Connors, who starred in the fascinating documentary America: […]

9 years ago

We were blessed there for a couple of weeks in fairness. We’re sure that the glorious spell of weather we all enjoyed in the first couple of weeks of May won’t be the last of the fine conditions for the summer of 2017, but it certainly doesn’t look as if they’re going to return for […]

9 years ago

Daniel was last seen on the morning of Tuesday, 9 May. Gardaí and the family of Daniel Kelly are seeking the public’s assistance in tracing his whereabouts; he has been missing for the last five days. Daniel, from Dunderrow, Kinsale, in Cork, was last seen on the morning of Tuesday, 9 May after leaving his […]

9 years ago

45 pints and an unlimited supply of crips and peanuts to the creator of this beauty. Given how much of a viral phenomenon Paddy ‘Pintman’ Losty has become in Ireland in recent months, it was only a matter of time before his face adorned an Irish flag at an international sporting event. From this Shane […]

9 years ago

Does this mean Johnny Logan is no longer the club’s most famous member? If you were paying attention, you may have noticed that Stephen Amell, star of the hit comic book TV adaptation of the Green Arrow, was hanging around in Dublin this weekend. And he wasn’t just checking out the Guinness Storehouse, Stephen’s Green […]

9 years ago

The bank looks set to significantly expand its workforce in Ireland over the next three years. US bank JP Morgan Chase has confirmed plans go on what the Financial Times has described as a “hiring spree” in Dublin over the next three years. James Kenny, head of investor services at JP Morgan, told the Financial […]

9 years ago

In the spirit of the Eurovision, it was all in good fun. As far as Eurovision song contests go, the 2017 edition had it all. It had plenty of, eh, interesting music, loads of colour, a definite sense of ceremony and occasion and an Australian baring his arse to an international audience. In the end, […]

9 years ago

The launch was described by South Korean president Moon Jae-in as “a severe challenge to the peace and security of the Korean Peninsula and the world”. Another ballistic missile test has been carried out by North Korea only a matter of weeks after a test missile failed within seconds of being deployed and only a […]

9 years ago

Well… some of them did. You can expect to see plenty of people climbing one of the most iconic mountains in Ireland, Croagh Patrick, on weekends at this time of year, as long as the weather isn’t absolutely terrible, of course. What you don’t expect to see too often is a bunch of men dressed […]

9 years ago

It’s for a great cause and hopefully it will get loads of support. Irish people have a habit of being creative when it comes to fundraising for worthy local initiatives, particularly when it comes to the prizes on offer in local raffles and auctions. The funds may not be there to offer up holidays or […]

9 years ago

Including The Joshua Tree album in full and loads more besides. U2 kicked off The Joshua Tree world tour in Vancouver on Friday night, which will only serve to remind fans that there are a little over two months to go until they perform to a sold-out Croke Park on July 22. The tour marks […]

9 years ago

Needs more cowbell… The class of 2017 at the University of Southern California were given a treat this week when one of the university’s most famous alumni dropped by to deliver the commencement speech. Such an important address requires a lot of people to be thanked and a lot of boxes ticked, but as one […]

9 years ago

Yes to this. The fourth season was not without its flaws – some would argue that the third season wasn’t either – but there’s still a lot of love out there for Arrested Development and with good reason too. The portrayal of the wildly dysfunctional Bluth family is up there with the best comedy shows […]

9 years ago

Costelloe came in for a barrage of criticism on social media as a result. Irish designer Paul Costelloe has been heavily criticised for comments made about a number of female figures during an appearance on the Late Late Show on Friday night. During the course of a discussion with Ryan Tubridy, Costelloe made derogatory remarks […]

9 years ago

“I have never seen a week where a president of our nation has behaved with such a cavalier disregard for the norms and institutions of our democracy.” Dan Rather, one of the most well-known journalists in the United States, has once again hit out at Donald Trump after an eventful week for the US president, […]

9 years ago

This is brilliant. In this day and age, we’re blessed with how easy it is to travel all over the world but it’s not that long ago since trips abroad were a rare and wonderful experience for Irish families. Judging by some of her youthful recollections as a guest on the Graham Norton show on […]

9 years ago

The attack on the NHS in the United Kingdom has placed Ireland’s health service on alert. Ireland’s Health Service Executive (HSE) is taking precautionary measures with its IT systems following the ransomware attacks on the NHS in the UK on Friday, which the HSE are treating as a ‘major incident’. A global ransomware attack that […]

9 years ago

Go hard or go home. The J-League Perhaps realising that there is no room for slip-ups down the final straight, the big hitters in the J-League all upped their game in Gameweek 36, with 66 points representing the lowest score in the top five. Ogie Nolan’s Tullig Panthers gave themselves some breathing room at the […]

9 years ago

Want to work for Netflix? Now’s your chance. Netflix have announced the creation of 400 jobs at a new customer service hub that opened this week in Amsterdam. Customers in 11 countries in Europe – Ireland, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Sweden and the United Kingdom – will be supported by […]

9 years ago

Did your town make the list? Drogheda is the most populated town in Ireland, according to figures from the 2016 Census released by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) on Thursday. The list, as you’ve probably gathered, does not include the five cities in the Republic of Ireland – Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway and Waterford. In the […]

9 years ago

You’re going to be hearing an awful lot about Barry Keoghan over the next few years. Of course, you may well have heard plenty about him already. Love/Hate fans will immediately identify him as Wayne ‘the cat killer’ while he’s also starred alongside Michael Fassbender and Brendan Gleeson in Trespass Against Us. As well as […]

9 years ago

Air pollution levels reached five times the permitted limit in Galway city this week. The HSE have issued a public health statement in relation to the outbreak of gorse fires throughout the country, particularly in the west of Ireland. The Cloosh Valley in Galway, Ireland’s biggest forest, has been the worst affected by the outbreak […]

9 years ago

Something to bear in mind for the holidays. Booked your summer holidays yet? Can’t decide on a destination? If you want to go where all the cool kids are going then it might be worth a glance through the top ten trending travel destinations right now according to Airbnb and Pinterest. The two internet behemoths […]

9 years ago

The answer, as it turns out, was significantly more boring than the vast majority of suggestions. Wheel of Fortune may be nearly as old as time itself, but it still has the capacity to deliver entertainment to viewers, often by completely unintentional means. Earlier this year, for example, a contestant was responsible for surely one […]

9 years ago

A 40-year old man was reportedly arrested on suspicion of the murder of an Irish woman on Wednesday morning. An Irish citizen has died as a result of a stabbing in the village of Taghazout, near the popular holiday resort of Agadir in Morocco. According to reports, a man in his 40s was arrested on […]

9 years ago

If you’re thinking of writing it in an upcoming exam, just don’t. Even the best laid plans have a habit of going awry and despite all the effort college students throughout Ireland are putting in ahead of exams right now, there’s a chance that the exam itself might not proceed along expected lines. Although time […]

9 years ago

Know anyone that would be interested in this? The gym doesn’t exactly strike us as the ideal place to meet someone new for the first time. If you’re doing it right, you should be sweaty, possibly out of breath and not exactly looking a million dollars, although that said, the vast increase in the number […]

9 years ago

‘Tis a fine vessel, it has to be said. The Celebrity Eclipse cruise ship, which measures 317 metres in length and can carry over 4,000 passengers and crew, arrived in Dublin on Wednesday morning. The arrival of the ship marks the start of Dublin Port’s 2017 cruise season, which will see 130 cruise calls confirmed […]

9 years ago

A consultation on the issue was undertaken in response to public concern at the resale of tickets for major entertainment and sporting events at a price often well in excess of their face value. Ticketmaster Ireland and Ticketmaster’s official marketplace for the resale of tickets, Seatwave, have expressed their opposition to a new bill that […]

9 years ago

“Get in the (Irish) sea you little bleeder. And then give yourself a clip.” Wow. ‘Galway Girl’ may be one of the most popular tracks (over 214 million streams on Spotify at the time of writing) on Ed Sheeran’s new album Divide (÷), but it wouldn’t be stretching it to say that it’s not universally […]

9 years ago

Our president has a habit of making ordinary photos seem extraordinary. As well as being a fine statesman and public representative, one of President Michael D Higgins’ greatest strengths is inadvertently making ordinary pictures of a president into so much more than that. People will remember him queuing in an orderly fashion for an ATM […]

9 years ago

The news was confirmed in a White House statement on Tuesday. James Comey has been removed as Director of the FBI by US President Donald Trump. In a statement released by Press Secretary Sean Spicer on Tuesday, it was confirmed that Comey had been removed from his role and the search for a new director […]

9 years ago

The fires are out of control in Ireland’s biggest forest. Aerial photos taken by Galway Flying club at a height of over 3,000 feet illustrate the extent of the gorse fires that are currently ranging in Cloosh Valley forest in Galway, the largest forest in Ireland. After fires were originally brought under control on Tuesday […]

9 years ago

Tragic news. An 11-year old girl has tragically died after falling from a ride at Drayton Manor theme park in Staffordshire in the United Kingdom on Tuesday. According to the BBC, the girl died after falling from the Splash Canyon rapids ride into water on Tuesday afternoon; she was airlifted to Birmingham Children’s Hospital and […]

9 years ago

Line improvement works will begin this Saturday, 13 May. A number of Irish Rail services to and from Dublin’s Heuston Station will be affected by line improvement works on Saturdays starting this weekend and lasting until November. Irish Rail have advised customers using services to and from Heuston and all connecting services to check their […]

9 years ago

If you let them, your Snapchat friends will be able to view your snaps for as long as they wish. The original appeal of Snapchat was based on the fact that picture messages sent via the app were only available for a short space of time before disappearing into the ether. The clue is sort […]

9 years ago

“A hip hop, hippie to the hippie the hip, hip a hop, and you don’t stop…” A man of considerable talent on the rugby field, Munster and Ireland rugby star Simon Zebo wouldn’t be a man that would be found wanting when a singsong breaks out. Zebo has showcased his impressive musical chops on a […]

9 years ago

How one man’s desperate search for chicken nuggets turned into an Internet phenomenon… The famous selfie taken by Ellen DeGeneres at the Oscar ceremony in 2014 has been overtaken as the most retweeted tweet of all time. By a tweet posted by some random dude looking for chicken nuggets. And it took just over a […]

9 years ago

If you needed convincing to experience it for yourself this summer… Most Irish people knew of the beauty of the west coast of Ireland before a major tourism campaign helped showcase it to a wider audience, but there’s no doubting that the advent of ‘The Wild Atlantic Way’ has had a hugely beneficial effect out […]

9 years ago

Being from Cork will be a distinct advantage. It was with much delight in Irish film and TV circles that greeted the news that one of the best movies to come out of the country in recent years, The Young Offenders, had been commissioned for a six-part TV series by BBC Three and BBC Comedy, […]

9 years ago

The men, from Algeria and Morocco respectively, were arrested earlier today. Two men, from Algeria and Morocco, were arrested on Monday under anti-terrorism laws introduced in Ireland two years ago. The men, aged in their 30s and 40s, were arrested in the Dublin area by members of the Counter Terrorism International Unit. The arrests were […]

9 years ago

The debacle that was the Eurosong contest in Father Ted has nothing on this. A member of the official Norwegian jury for this year’s Eurovision Song Contest has been replaced after slamming Ireland’s entry before the competition has even started. Speaking on Adresse Kiev, Norway’s official countdown show to the Eurovision, Per Sundnes, former head […]

9 years ago

You couldn’t make this stuff up. A blasphemy investigation arising from comments made by Stephen Fry on the RTÉ show Meaning of Life in 2015 has been dropped. According to the Irish Independent, An Garda Síochána decided not to proceed with the investigation because they were “unable to find a substantial number of outraged people”. […]

9 years ago

This could be one of the movies of the year. There are so many sequels and reboots in the movie business these days that it can be sometimes hard to get excited when another one is announced, but Blade Runner absolutely does not fall into that category. 35 years after the release of the original […]

9 years ago

The bad news is it’s for a limited time only. Topaz Athlone will celebrate selling a winning lottery ticket worth over €6.1 million last weekend by dropping fuel prices to just 61c per litre on Tuesday. Motorists should be advised, however, that the offer will only last for 61 minutes from 1.06pm on Tuesday, May […]

9 years ago

This advice could prove particularly timely for college students all over Ireland right now. Ireland is in the midst of a glorious spell of weather right now, which, as usual, happens to coincide with exam time in third level institutions all over the country. While the vast majority of students doing those exams find it […]

9 years ago

Yeah, yeah, yeah… Last week, James Murphy thrilled LCD Soundsystem fans around the world with the release of two news songs from the band’s forthcoming album and an announcement that both of those tracks would be performed on Saturday Night Live. Given the band’s massive following and the fact that they hadn’t released any new […]

9 years ago

Blasphemers! It’s fair to say that news that emerged over the weekend that Stephen Fry is under investigation for comments made about God during an appearance on The Meaning of Life with Gay Byrne didn’t go down too well. The investigation, in case you hadn’t heard, has come about after a member of the public […]

9 years ago

The proposed design will create a world class civic space for Dublin city centre. College Green in the heart of Dublin city is set to undergo a major facelift and be transformed into a world class civic space within the next two years. An exciting and creative design for a pedestrian priority space at College […]

9 years ago