Not many songs are recorded in a polytunnel, but this one is and it sounds damn good too. In the bonkers year that is 2020, every industry has been forced to adapt to the circumstances brought about by Covid-19 and the music industry is no different. Musicians have had to come up with creative solutions […]

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It’s Guinness alright, but not as you know it… Guinness has announced the launch of a new alcohol-free version of the famous drink, which will be called Guinness 0.0. The new drink comes with the slogan ‘The Guinness with everything, except alcohol’, and claims to boast the same “beautifully smooth taste, perfectly balanced flavour, and […]

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“People tend to leave their guard down in terms of their families so that’s a message we’d like to get across.” The Public Health Director of the HSE in the Mid-West region has appealed to the public to remain vigilant around their families and extended families in attempting to combat the spread of Covid-19 in […]

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Much public scrutiny had greeted the decision to allow 25 people to attend weddings, but only 10 people at funerals. Cabinet has agreed to increase the number of people allowed attend funerals under Level 5 restrictions from 10 to 25. From midnight on Wednesday, for a six-week period, the entire country will move to Level […]

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Heavy rain has had a severe impact in the city overnight and on Tuesday morning. Road users in Cork are being urged to avoid Cork city centre until at least 11am on Tuesday morning due to “severe flooding” in the area. Footage posted on Twitter by Cork City Council showed the impact of flooding on […]

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“Someone knows their secret, someone knows they’re scared… and someone knows what they did last summer.” So went the tag-line for the rather self-explanatory 1997 horror movie I Know What You Did Last Summer, which horror fans of a certain age will be delighted to learn is making a comeback… in TV form. The late […]

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“The idea that someone would spend €1,300 a month to live in a shoebox beggars belief.” Sinn Féin is looking to ban co-living and substandard design of build-to-rent properties for renters in a new bill due to be discussed in the Dáil on Tuesday (20 October). In a statement, the party said it will be […]

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Essentially, don’t spend any time outdoors unless if you have to until at least Tuesday evening. On a day when the country is expecting to hear of a move to tighter restrictions to combat the escalating levels of Covid-19, the weather forecast isn’t going to provide any relief for a few days yet. On the […]

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You might need to wrap up well if travelling on any of the affected trains in the near future. Windows in carriages on some trains operated by Irish Rail will be left open over the winter months to combat the spread of Covid-19, the company has confirmed. Speaking on Newstalk Breakfast on Monday, Barry Kenny, […]

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Positive cases emerged in 10 private households and a sports team as a result. A man who failed to restrict his movements after returning to Ireland from abroad was responsible for 56 cases of Covid-19 in the Mid-West region, a HSE report has revealed. A report outlining the response to Covid-19 across Limerick, Clare and […]

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Over one in five Irish employees would consider relocating and a little under one in 10 employees have already moved due to their ability to work remotely. 23% of employees with the ability to work remotely would consider relocating and 7% have already moved, according to an expansive NUIG survey on remote working in Ireland. […]

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The average price of a house in Dublin between June and September was just over €380,000. The price of houses in Ireland rose by just under 5% between June and September, according to the latest House Price Report by Daft.ie, Ireland’s largest property website. The report reveals that house prices rose in all 54 markets […]

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The entire country could be facing Level 5 restrictions until late November or early December. The National Public Health Emergency Team (NPHET) has recommended to the government that the entire country move to Level 5 restrictions for a six-week period. The recommendations were made by Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Tony Holohan in a letter to […]

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The beloved author said he has been “treating retirement as an experiment so far this year” and said the experiment has been “very successful”. Best-selling author Bill Bryson, author of a number of popular travel, science, historical and language books, is set to hang up his pen for good. Speaking to Times Radio, Bryson, 68, […]

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“These stereotypes were wrong then and are wrong now.” A number of classic Disney movies have been updated with a content advisory notice for racism that appears when they’re played on the Disney+ streaming service. An advisory message has appeared on certain identified titles since last year, including classic Disney movies such as Peter Pan, […]

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Arsene Wenger at the double. That’s right, Arsenal fans can treat themselves to a double helping of their beloved former manager this evening as he will be appearing on both The Late Late Show and The Graham Norton Show. The Frenchman hasn’t suddenly taking a fancy to the chat show circuit, rather he has a […]

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Gardaí will be out in force throughout the country over the coming days. Added checkpoints and increased crime patrols will be rolled out across the country this weekend as part of a high-visibility policing plan focussed on crime prevention and support for vulnerable people. The plan came into effect at 7am on Friday (16 October) […]

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Two-litre milk products from a number of brands sold in Irish supermarkets have been recalled. The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) has announced that certain batches of milk are being recalled by Arrabawn Co-op as they are considered potentially unsafe due to the presence of Enterobacteriaceae bacteria. Various brands of two-litre milk sold in […]

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It would appear the famous Fungie the dolphin isn’t ready to bid farewell to Dingle just yet. Reports of two sightings of Fungie the dolphin have emerged in the last 24 hours after growing fears that the most beloved sea creature in Ireland was missing. On Thursday evening, it was widely reported that Fungie hadn’t […]

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The retailer reported the matter to Gardaí as far back as March. A man in his 50s has been arrested in Kildare after it was alleged that he received bribes from a supplier in his role as a procurement manager for a large retail business. The Anti-Corruption Unit of the Garda National Economic Crime Bureau […]

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These measures will apply throughout the Republic of Ireland if Level 4 measures are applied nationwide. On Wednesday night, Taoiseach Micheál Martin confirmed that Cavan, Monaghan and Donegal, all Ulster counties with a border with Northern Ireland, will move to Level 4 of the government’s Living with Covid framework from midnight on Thursday (15 October). […]

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“We believe it is possible that this is not the first occasion he has done this and he was simply unlucky to have pulled over a police officer.” A 26-year-old man has been arrested by police in Craigavon in Armagh on suspicion of impersonating a police officer after he pulled over an off-duty policeman in […]

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Standing 140 metres tall with 34 storeys, it will be by far the tallest building on the island of Ireland when completed. Cork City Council has granted planning permission for what will become the tallest building in Ireland at the old Port of Cork site on Custom House Quay in Cork city. The new building, […]

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It’s been a while coming, but the upgrade of one of the busiest junctions in the country is now ready to proceed. The government has confirmed that a contract has been awarded to SISK Construction to upgrade the Dunkettle Interchange in Cork, at a cost of €215 million. The news was announced following a cabinet […]

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We can see this offer proving quite popular. Furniture giant IKEA has announced a new initiative in which it will ‘Buy Back’ unwanted furniture from customers that it will then sell second hand in stores across the UK and Ireland. The ‘Buy Back’ initiative is due to launch just under a month before Christmas on […]

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The new system will replace the ‘Green List’ to determine where in Europe Irish people are permitted to travel to. Member States of the European Union have agreed on a new system to determine the countries in EU deemed safe to travel to based on information relating to the impact of Covid-19 across the continent. […]

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The company said it is learning more about the participant’s illness before sharing additional information. Johnson & Johnson, one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies, has announced that it is pausing all Covid-19 vaccine clinical trials due to an “unexplained illness” in a participant. In a statement, the company said it is respecting the privacy […]

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In a year like 2020, we needed something like this. Depending on a variety of conditions – location, weather, size of the passing crowd etc. – busking can be a tough gig and those doing it appreciate any sort of gratitude that comes their way. Imagine then, how Martin McDonnell must have felt in Dublin […]

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Regarding treatment for Covid-19, the president said he planned to distribute “whatever the hell they gave me” to hospitals in the United States. Donald Trump claimed to feel “so powerful” and “immune” to Covid-19 in his first public rally since he was released from hospital after a positive diagnosis of the virus. Speaking to large […]

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Get in there! So conditioned are we to receiving bad news in 2020 that any sort of positive development, however minor, suddenly becomes a cause for celebration. And with that in mind, a run-of-the-mill weather forecast flagging fairly decent weather for the days ahead is something we’re going to go ahead and shout about. According […]

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Nowa Dęba is one of a large number of municipalities in Poland to have declared itself a “LGBT-free zone”. The Twinning Committee in the Cork town of Fermoy have decided to officially terminate a twinning arrangement with a town in Poland because of its anti-LGBT status. A termination of the twinning arrangement between the two […]

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The dog was found underweight and her nails were extremely overgrown, likely due to a lack of exercise. A dog is recovering well in the care of the ISPCA having recently been rescued after she was discovered locked in a crate by an ISPCA Inspector in the midlands. It is unclear for how long the […]

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“Case numbers are growing across all age groups and throughout the country.” The Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC) has reported that three people have died and that there have been 1,012 new confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Ireland on Saturday (10 October). Of the cases reported on Saturday, there were: 241 in Dublin 112 in […]

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Very sad news. A man in his 50s has died after the truck he was driving was involved in a collision in Ratoath in Meath on Saturday morning (10 October). Gardaí are investigating the collision, which occurred on the R155 shortly before 12pm. A man aged in his 50s, the driver and sole occupant of […]

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Another weekend of protests in Dublin city centre. Two men were arrested following a confrontation between large groups of protestors outside Dáil Éireann on Saturday afternoon. The confrontation occurred at the scene of a Let Ireland Live protest by the National Party, where a crowd of approximately 50 people had gathered to protest restrictions imposed […]

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The bus that had become stuck was removed in the early hours of this morning. An investigation has been launched by Bus Éireann after a double decker bus got stuck under a bridge after accidentally taking a wrong turn on Friday night. The bus, which was carrying passengers on the 220 Ovens to Carrigaline route, […]

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Despite the impact of Covid-19, job vacancies increased by 56% in the third quarter of 2020. Vacancies for remote working roles in Ireland increased by 112% in the third quarter of 2020 and by 1,264% compared to the same period last year. Those figures are included in the latest Jobs Index from Irishjobs.ie, which also […]

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“I suppose a ride is out of the question?” One of a number of memorable quotes from an all-time Irish classic, which you can relive in its entirety on the box from 10.25pm tonight. If you’ve seen it enough times already – you can never watch The Snapper enough times for our liking – then […]

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“I don’t wanna wait for our lives to be over…” Remember Dawson’s Creek? If you were a teenager in the late ‘90s it would be hard for you to forget it. With the show being broadcast regularly on Irish television around the turn of the millennium, we saw plenty of ourselves in characters who were […]

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The biggest show in town is a little different this year, but you can still be a part of it… There are few dates in the calendar year in Ireland that generate near-universal excitement like The Late Late Toy Show. Consistently one of the most-watched TV programmes of the year (in fact, it’s usually THE […]

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“We knew that Gay was popular and loved but we didn’t know how much… we do now.” Kathleen Watkins, the widow of the late Gay Byrne, issued a heartfelt message of thanks to “the entire nation” for messages, letters, cards, notes and Mass cards received by her family following the passing of the beloved broadcaster […]

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Health Minister Stephen Donnelly is expected to make a statement on the matter later today. Tánaiste Leo Varadkar has said that nobody in the government “had any indication” that a recommendation of a nationwide move to Level 5 was being considered by the National Public Health Emergency Team (NPHET) until last Sunday. Varadkar’s comments come […]

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“When you see shopping trolleys being pushed out of supermarkets with nothing in it only alcohol, you know that there’s a problem.” Minister of State Patrick O’Donovan has called for a review of the times alcohol is sold in off-licenses and supermarkets in Ireland and of the volume of alcohol that people can purchase at […]

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An extra Bank Holiday is also among a number of suggestions put forward. Varying the timing of school holidays in different areas of the country has been suggested by the government’s tourism recovery taskforce as one way of revitalising the sector in Ireland. The taskforce published its Tourism Recovery Plan 2020-23 on Tuesday, outlining a […]

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122,000 workers in Ireland are set to benefit from the increase. The Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection has confirmed that the minimum wage in Ireland will increase by 10 cents per hour to €10.20 per hour from next year. The increase will come into effect from 1 January 2021, while two reports by […]

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Something a lot of people would be happy to get on board with. The government’s tourism recovery taskforce has called for consideration to be given to the merits of introducing an additional Bank Holiday into the calendar in Ireland. There are currently nine Bank Holidays in the Irish calendar and the taskforce has recommended that […]

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Graham Norton, of all people! Charming TV chat show host and West Cork native Graham Norton has been revealed as the most dangerous celebrity name to search for online in the UK. Thankfully, Graham himself has absolutely nothing to do with such a notorious status, it is entirely to do with the fact that a […]

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The man was assaulted at a house before being forced into a grey Mercedes Benz car. Three men and two women have been arrested following an incident in which a man was assaulted at a house and then forced into a car in Donegal on Sunday morning (4 October). Gardaí at Letterkenny are investigating an […]

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“There will be county finals again next year – and we want to make sure Covid-19 does not rob some of the chance to enjoy them.” Cork GAA has issued a statement pleading with all clubs and supporters in the county “not to engage in celebrations that breach current guidelines”. The statement comes in the […]

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“The reality is that if we keep going the way we are, if you or I had a bad road traffic accident in November… there might not be an intensive care bed.” A member of the National Public Health Emergency Team (NPHET) has said that the recommendation for a nationwide move to Level 5 is […]

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