Ebenezer Scrooge himself would struggle not to be moved by some of these. Three families in Ireland are currently battling it out for the coveted title of the most Christmassy home in Ireland, with only two days left for the public to cast their votes. A national competition to find the most festive abodes throughout […]

9 years ago

“Jesus Al yer man in the shop must have thought I was very kinky sure I bought six of them.” Many of you will have done so ages ago and others will leave it until the last minute, but we’d wager that a majority of homes in Ireland will have a decorated Christmas tree in […]

9 years ago

Because one weather warning for today obviously wasn’t enough. After issuing a status yellow wind warning for six counties earlier on Tuesday, Met Éireann have issued a fresh status yellow weather warning ahead of the arrival of sleet and snow in the coming days. The warning, issued at 7pm on Tuesday evening, warns of scattered […]

9 years ago

A male arrested in relation to the incident remains in custody. Gardaí in Blanchardstown investigating a shooting that occurred in Parslickstown, Mulhuddart on Monday have arrested a 23-year old woman in connection with the incident. A 29-year old woman, her six-month-old baby boy and a 17-year old male were injured as a result of a […]

9 years ago

You might or might not be happy to learn it has nothing to do with snow. With half the country still showing visible effects from a heavy blanket of snow at the weekend, Met Éireann have issued yet another weather warning, with six counties in the west of Ireland affected this time around. A status […]

9 years ago

Proof, as if it was needed, of what a legend the Irish captain is. Earlier this year, you may have read about Francis Conmey, an Everton fan from Athlone who lives with Asperger Syndrome. Together with his friend Eoin Mulligan, Frances was meant to travel to Goodison Park for Everton’s Europa League clash with Hajduk […]

9 years ago

“Ryanair will not recognise an Aer Lingus pilot union, no matter how often or how long this tiny minority try to disrupt our flights or our customers’ plans during Christmas week.” Ryanair says that Irish-based pilots participating in a 24-hour strike later this month “don’t care how much upset they cause colleagues or customers”. News […]

9 years ago

Live like a king for a little over €100 a night. It’s not often one gets the opportunity to have a castle all to themselves without having to break the bank for the privilege, but in Ireland, you can do just that for a price that won’t burn too big of a hole in your […]

9 years ago

Coppers will be like Castlebar this Friday night. It probably won’t be the first time, but one of Dublin’s most famous nightspots will be bombarded with Mayo jerseys this Friday night, 8 December. Copper Face Jacks, the hallowed nightclub on Harcourt Street in Dublin, announced on Thursday that the Mayo footballers will be having a […]

9 years ago

Businesses in Wexford, Meath and Dublin were affected. The evidence of rodents led to closure orders being served on three food businesses during the month of November, according to the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI). The FSAI reported on Thursday that three closure orders were served on food businesses during the month of November […]

9 years ago

Irish fans of the hit Netflix series Narcos have an extra opportunity to share the experiences of the real-life stars of the show when they come to Ireland next year. *This article contains spoilers for Narcos seasons 1-3* Having already been pencilled in for an appearance at the Olympia Theatre in Dublin on Thursday, 17 […]

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We’d be surprised if you don’t have at least eight of the top ten. You can’t look sideways this weather without catching sight of an end of year list and as they do every year, Apple has released its list of the top 20 most downloaded apps from the App Store over the last 11 and […]

9 years ago

Hero. Footage recorded by a local news crew shows a man saving a rabbit on Highway 1 in California while wildfires blazed by the roadside. Witnesses said that the man in the video below, recorded by RMG News, pulled over after spotting a wild rabbit caught up in the flames on the side of the […]

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A Garda and another man have been injured as a result of a shooting in Ballymun on Thursday morning. Gardaí are investigating an incident that occurred during a planned search of a house in Barnwell Drive. Two people have been injured, a Garda and male civilian. Both were treated at the scene by trained Gardaí […]

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Bravo. Another day passed on Wednesday with no resolution reached on the issue of how the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland will be affected by Brexit, an issue that needs to be resolved before all parties can advance to the next phase of negotiations. Theresa May shared phone conversations with DUP leader Arlene Foster […]

9 years ago

“We are working hard to find a specific solution to the unique circumstances in Northern Ireland.” A spokesperson for Theresa May said that both the UK Prime Minister and Taoiseach Leo Varadkar agreed on “the paramount importance of no hard border or physical infrastructure at the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland” in a phone […]

9 years ago

Looking for a pet for Christmas? The ISPCA is appealing for new homes for a number of cats currently in the care of the ISPCA National Animal Centre in Longford. The cattery is now full to capacity with over 50 cats and kittens needing good homes. 351 cats and kittens have been responsibly rehomed from […]

9 years ago

Gives lie to the line that Ireland would be a beautiful country if we could only put a roof on it. Not many can deny that sunrises and sunsets in Ireland are too often spoiled by blankets of cloud that seem ever present at times, but on occasion, they do make for stunning sights in […]

9 years ago

There are only two counties in the Republic of Ireland where no people access homelessness services. A new report in Irish Country Living, a weekly magazine inside the Irish Farmers Journal, has detailed the number of people accessing homelessness services in every county in the Republic of Ireland. The report reveals that there are currently […]

9 years ago

Great news for Harry Potter fans. The absence of Die Hard, the ultimate Christmas movie (we will hear no arguments), from the list is the first thing we noticed, but RTÉ have still put together a decent selection of movies for broadcast over the festive period. RTÉ announced their line-up for the festive season on […]

9 years ago

How was your 2017? If you’re particularly active on Facebook, then you can reflect back on your last 11 months in Facebook’s personalised ‘Year in Review’ video, which you can access here from tomorrow, December 6. An annual event, it compiles moments from this past year that you’ve shared or been tagged in a short […]

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The weather is even more all over the shop than usual this week. Hours after issuing a weather warning for seven counties in light of the expected arrival of Storm Caroline on Thursday, Met Éireann have issued a second status yellow wind warning for four counties that comes into effect on Wednesday. The warning applies […]

9 years ago

Ryanair pilots in Portugal have voted in favour of industrial action due to their anger at Ryanair’s refusal to negotiate with their representative bodies. The Portuguese Civil Aviation Union (SPAC) have announced that Ryanair pilots in the country have voted in favour of industrial action, up to and including strike action. According to RTÉ, the vote for […]

9 years ago

I’ll just launch it up here, be grand. Black Friday and Cyber Monday have just passed and we’d wager there’s a good chance many of you reading have had purchases made on those days delivered to your door in the last week or so. If you have, we hope the delivery worker responsible for doing […]

9 years ago

Information that could come in very handy over the coming weeks. Now that we’re well into December, the party season is well and truly underway, but sorting out a lift home for yourself and your friends should be top of the priority list before you start to let your hair down. With that in mind, […]

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Winds of up to 110 km/h have been predicted. With a cold blast of weather and even snow showers forecast for later this week, Ireland will also have to bear the brunt of Storm Caroline that is expected to hit the UK in the coming days. Given its name by the UK Met Office, Storm […]

9 years ago

“One whiff and you’re stiff.” Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has denied that fumes from a Viagra factory in Ringaskiddy in Cork are having an arousing effect on locals, and even dogs, in the village. In a statement to the Sunday Times, a Pfizer spokesperson said that suggestions of the impact of the fumes in the village, […]

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The incident occurred in Blackrock on Friday night. Gardaí in Blackrock in Dublin are investigating a serious assault on a young female which occurred shortly after 10pm on Friday, 1 December. During the attack, which took place in the vicinity of a path between Merrion Woods and Seamount Apartments, it is believed a caustic substance […]

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Tickets go on sale this Saturday. Picture This and The Chainsmokers have been announced as the headline acts for Summer in the City, a new open-air event coming to the RDS in Dublin in 2018. Athy duo Picture This will perform their biggest ever show at the venue on Saturday, 23 June, with The Chainsmokers […]

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“Fucking hell, it smells of pig round here, don’t it?” Peaky Blinders fans in the middle of watching an already excellent Season Four will be given an extra boost by the news that Alfie Solomons, played by the one and only Tom Hardy, will return to the show in this week’s episode. Footage released by […]

9 years ago

The driver of the lorry was sentenced to 16 months in prison. West Midlands Police in the United Kingdom released footage on Sunday of a motorway pile-up caused by the driver of a lorry who has been sentenced to 16 months in prison as a result. The driver was sentenced to 16 months in prison […]

9 years ago

Familiar with any of these places? Four Irish business were served with closure orders for breaches of food safety legislation during the last month, according to the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI). The affected businesses are located in Dublin, Meath, Wexford and Louth. The food businesses were issued with closure orders for breaches of […]

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“Along with Donald Trump and me, there were seven other guys present on the bus at the time, and every single one of us assumed we were listening to a crass standup act.” Billy Bush, the former host of the US TV Show Access Hollywood, has confirmed that it was US President Donald Trump who […]

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It’s beginning to look a lot like… After a mild start, there will be a fairly dramatic shift in the weather in Ireland towards the end of this week, with freezing temperatures, sleet and, whisper it, a good chance of snow in parts of the country heading into next weekend. According to Met Éireann, it […]

9 years ago

Legal action has been taken on behalf of working holidaymakers from eight countries. A controversial tax on backpackers in Australia has been brought into question by Irish company Taxback.com, who have initiated legal action against the federal government in Australia on behalf of working holidaymakers from eight countries. The company argues that the Backpacker Tax, […]

9 years ago

“Unwatchable! Totally biased, not funny.” Chances are you’ve come across a sketch about Aer Lingus starring Saoirse Ronan on Saturday Night Live at this stage; if you haven’t, let’s just say it was bizarre to say the least. While the sketch itself didn’t target Aer Lingus directly, the airline was highlighted quite prominently in a […]

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The collision occurred at approximately 7am on Sunday morning. A cyclist in his 40s has died as a result of a collision with a car in Waterford on Sunday morning. Gardaí are investigating a fatal road traffic collision which occurred in the townland of Kilcop on the Dunmore Road in Waterford on Sunday morning, 3 […]

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The original tweet, posted on Saturday, has since been deleted. The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has attempted to clarify a tweet posted on its account on Saturday relating to the issue of consent over the Christmas period. A tweet posted from the PSNI account on Saturday read: “If you bump into that special […]

9 years ago

We’re not quite sure what’s going on here, to be honest. This weekend’s edition of Saturday Night Live, with Saoirse Ronan as host and U2 performing live, was possibly the most Irish edition of the show in its fabled history to date. The Irishness didn’t just stop with the host and the musical act, however, […]

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“Can we safely say that the British government has ensured that Irish citizens would be protected from such measures? I am afraid that we cannot.” A new report drawn up by legal experts in the United Kingdom has warned that the status of Irish citizens in the UK could be negatively affected once Brexit comes […]

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He mustn’t have been following events over here this week. Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg suggested on Sunday that Ireland’s position on Brexit is being influenced by a no-confidence motion that never took place in a Tánaiste who resigned last Tuesday. In an interview on The Andrew Marr Show on BBC One on Sunday Morning, Rees-Mogg intimated […]

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“Ever have one of those nights that starts out like any other but ends up being the best night of your life?” With Christmas only a few weeks’ away, it’s not rare to see pubs at this time of year packed with revellers embarking on annual 12 pubs of Christmas pub crawls all over the […]

9 years ago

They might never get it right. Saoirse Ronan has established herself as one of the finest actresses around in recent years, but despite her ever-increasing profile, her peers and audiences Stateside still can’t grasp how to pronounce her first name. It’s been something of an ongoing theme in the last few years, with Ryan Gosling […]

9 years ago

There’s something in our eye… those damn onions. We were ready for the toys, for the laughs and for cringing at Ryan Tubridy’s Dad jokes, but we weren’t ready for this. Just when we thought we were going to get through the Toy Show without resorting to tears, Sergeant Graham Burke, who is just back […]

9 years ago

Yet another damning revelation from the GSOC report following an investigation of Fixed Charge Notice cancellations by An Garda Síochána. A motorist driving at a speed of up to 240 km/h had a fixed charge notice for penalty points cancelled by An Garda Síochána, one of nearly 75,000 fixed charge cancellations in a four year […]

9 years ago

How the author and publisher actually allowed this to make the final cut, we have no idea. If you’re a bookworm, you may well be aware of the Bad Sex in Fiction awards, hosted on an annual basis by the Literary Review. The title of the awards barely require much explanation; suffice to say, they […]

9 years ago

EU President Donald Tusk met with Taoiseach Leo Varadkar in Dublin on Friday. Donald Tusk said that the EU is fully behind Ireland and the request that there should be no hard border on the island of Ireland in a visit to Dublin on Friday. Speaking after his meeting with the Taoiseach, EU President Tusk […]

9 years ago

Don’t try this at home. Those of you who work or have worked in the construction industry might be familiar with something called the ‘hard hat challenge’. For the uninitiated, it usually involves someone launching a hard hat into the air using a shovel and manoeuvring their body so the hat lands on their head. […]

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Are you one of them? 64% of Irish workers have no idea of how much tax they pay on a weekly or monthly basis and many have no idea of the refunds they’re entitled to on an annual basis. A 2017 customer sentiment survey conducted by Taxback.com revealed that only 38% of Irish workers know […]

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“Look at all the workplaces throughout the country… do they have a place to drink inside in the middle of their premises? They don’t.” Michael Collins, an Independent TD from Cork, has called on the bar in the Dáil to be closed immediately. Collins, who is opposed to Transport Minister Shane Ross’ Road Traffic Bill, […]

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