QUIZ: Can you name all 14 landlocked counties in Ireland?
You’ve got two minutes to name all of Ireland’s landlocked counties. One of the best things about how small Ireland is that you’re never really more than an hour or two away from the coast. We pretty much never get weather good enough to make you want to go, but that’s beside the point. There are […]
4 years ago
QUIZ: How much of an Only Fools and Horses expert are you?
He who dares, wins… Some TV shows simply never get old. 40 years after the first episode of Only Fools and Horses aired, it remains one of the most re-watched programmes on earth and would be many people’s choice for greatest comedy of all time. By “many people”, of course, I mean this writer. To […]
5 years ago
Next time you’re in UCD, keep an eye out for a flying spice bag
Drone-delivered food will be available from next month, and it’ll get to you in less than three minutes! The initial high of getting everyone to agree on what takeaway to get is often stifled by the long wait. An hour would probably be quicker than average over a busy weekend, and it is a scientific […]
6 years ago
QUIZ: How well do you know The Lord of The Rings movie saga?
Hard to believe it has been 18 years since The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring came out. As of December 19 2019, it has been 18 years since The Lord Of The Rings: Fellowship Of The Ring was released in cinemas. It’s all grown up. All these years later, it and the […]
7 years ago
COMPETITION: Win a VIP Teeling Whiskey Distillery tour for you and a friend
Brought to you by Teeling The prize includes getting to fill a bottle of Teeling Whiskey straight from the cask. It’s no secret that Irish whiskey has been seeing something of a renaissance over the past few years. That wasn’t the case until relatively recently though, as Irish whiskey fell behind that of Scotland and […]
7 years ago
Jim Barry on Brexit: “Opportunity will come from this”
“There’s always opportunities if you sniff them out.” Much of the time, being an entrepreneur boils down to the ability to spot an opportunity. Be it a gap in the market or a demand for something that has become a rarity off the back of a crisis, it’s having the nose to find it and […]
7 years ago