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  • Kodaline launch CEOL 2018 CD with surprise visit to local Dublin school

    Kodaline launch CEOL 2018 CD with surprise visit to local Dublin school

    Picture This, Wild Youth and Gavin James all feature on the all-Irish CD. Kodaline chose Loreto College in their native Swords to launch new Irish album CEOL 2018 with friend and 2FM DJ Eoghan McDermott. The newly composed piece – curated by Conradh na Gaeilge, Raidió Rí-Rá and RTÉ 2FM radio presenter Eoghan McDermott – features a compilation […]

    8 years ago

  • Graham Norton kicks off again tonight with a bloody impressive line-up

    Graham Norton kicks off again tonight with a bloody impressive line-up

    He’s back. The Graham Norton show is back on our screens tonight, and he’s secured some pretty stellar guests to kick off his 24th series. On Friday night’s show, the popular presenter will chat to multi-award winning artist Lady Gaga and multi-Oscar-nominated Bradley Cooper, who are on to discuss their new movie A Star Is Born, […]

    8 years ago

  • Unwashed spinach and mixed leaves recall issued over Listeria contamination

    Unwashed spinach and mixed leaves recall issued over Listeria contamination

    The products identified in the tables with a code of 260 or 261 are implicated. Bags of unwashed spinach and mixed leaves are being recalled from a number supermarkets amid a warning over Listeria. The Food Safety Authority of Ireland announced the recall, stating that a detection of Listeria monocytogenes was discovered in a batch of […]

    8 years ago

  • The Eagles have just announced a Dublin 2019 gig

    The Eagles have just announced a Dublin 2019 gig

    The gig is being described as ‘an intimate, fully seated performance’. The Eagles are coming back to Ireland next summer. The legendary band will play the 3Arena on Saturday, 6 July as part of their European Tour. The gig will be an intimate fully seated performance. Co-founder Glenn Frey died in 2016 but his son Deacon will […]

    8 years ago

  • Thousands face disruption as Ryanair cancels 250 flights amidst strike action

    Thousands face disruption as Ryanair cancels 250 flights amidst strike action

    The strikes are the latest in a series of walkouts by staff over pay and working conditions. Tens of thousands of Ryanair passengers across Europe face disruption on Friday as 250 flights have been cancelled as a direct result of strike action. Thursday saw German pilots join groups of already striking pilots in the Netherlands […]

    8 years ago

  • Scouting Ireland funding halted until current Board of Directors steps down

    Scouting Ireland funding halted until current Board of Directors steps down

    This follows a series of allegations regarding sexual assault. All government funding to Scouting Ireland has been suspended until the current Board of Directors resigns, Minister for Children and Youth Affairs Katherine Zappone has said. Zappone made the decision after the board voted to reinstate chief scout Christy McCann as the chair of an emergency […]

    8 years ago

  • A square in central Brussels has been named in honour of murdered Labour MP Jo Cox

    A square in central Brussels has been named in honour of murdered Labour MP Jo Cox

    The 41-year-old politician was killed by a far-right terrorist in June 2016, during the EU referendum campaign. A square in Brussels was renamed on Thursday after murdered British MP Jo Cox, who lived in the city when she worked at the European Parliament and for Oxfam. The mother-of-two was murdered by Thomas Mair, a right-wing […]

    8 years ago

  • O’Donovan brothers, Sanita Puspure and Nathan Carter among many on the Late Late this Friday

    O’Donovan brothers, Sanita Puspure and Nathan Carter among many on the Late Late this Friday

    Cancel your plans. Friday night sees Ryan Tubridy take to the couch once more and interview pillars of the Irish community in the form of Olympic winners, weather gurus and country music superstars. Up this week are Paul O’Donovan, Gary O’Donovan and Sanita Puspure fresh from their gold medal winning victories at the World Rowing Championships. They’ll […]

    8 years ago

  • “We need a cultural change” – Fianna Fáil TD calls for children to be weighed in school

    “We need a cultural change” – Fianna Fáil TD calls for children to be weighed in school

    “We don’t need to think that weight is a dirty word.” Fianna Fáil’s Spokesperson on Children and Youth Affairs Anne Rabbitte TD has announced that she believes normalising weighing children in school would help tackle Ireland’s growing obesity problem. The Portumna native made headlines on Thursday morning with her controversial suggestion that weighing children in […]

    8 years ago

  • Legislation to provide abortion procedures to go before Dáil next week

    Legislation to provide abortion procedures to go before Dáil next week

    The Bill will be introduced and debated in the Dáil next week. Minister For Health Simon Harris announced on Thursday morning that he intends to publish the text of the abortion legislation over the coming days and introduce it in the Dáil next week. Harris will today seek Cabinet approval for the text of the Health […]

    8 years ago

  • Elf auditions for Fota Island’s Christmas experience kick off this week

    Elf auditions for Fota Island’s Christmas experience kick off this week

    ♫ It’s the most wonderful time of the year… ♫ Fota Island Resort is looking to hire a selection of “magical elf helpers” to assist with Seek at Fota Island Resort, this winter’s new project. The woodlands at Fota are set to be transformed into a total Christmas wonderland for the sixth year in a row and […]

    8 years ago

  • Gardaí investigate attempted abduction of woman at Kildare bus stop

    Gardaí investigate attempted abduction of woman at Kildare bus stop

    An image has been released of the suspected abductor. Gardaí in Celbridge, County Kildare are investigating an incident which saw the attempted abduction of a woman waiting at a bus stop at Barberstown near Straffan. The woman involved in the case – aged in her 40s – reports that she was waiting for a bus […]

    8 years ago

  • UCC staff asked to take students in amid growing housing crisis

    UCC staff asked to take students in amid growing housing crisis

    Accommodation has grown scarce in the people’s republic. Staff in University College Cork (UCC) have been asked to take in students for the impending academic year as the growing housing crisis that’s sweeping the country has been encapsulated in the south. According to the Times, faculty received an email from the university asking to give up their spare rooms, […]

    8 years ago

  • “Selective DNA sampling” taken in Kerry Babies investigative case

    “Selective DNA sampling” taken in Kerry Babies investigative case

    In January of this year, the Garda Serious Crime Review Team began a cold case review of the investigation. It was announced earlier in the week that a house-to-house investigation was being undertaken in south Kerry into the unsolved case involving the death of a newborn baby boy in 1984. According to An Garda Síochána, approximately […]

    8 years ago

  • Eoghan Murphy expected to survive no-confidence vote

    Eoghan Murphy expected to survive no-confidence vote

    Sinn Féin will bring the motion to Cabinet ministers on Monday. A motion of no-confidence in Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy will be debated on Tuesday following Sinn Féin’s confirmation some three weeks ago that they had planned to table such a vote during this Dáil term. The party – who have criticised Murphy’s handling of […]

    8 years ago

  • Tuam babies historian Catherine Corless to receive honorary NUI Galway degree

    Tuam babies historian Catherine Corless to receive honorary NUI Galway degree

    She will be awarded the degree alongside Sharon Shannon, Helen Rochford Brennan, Brendan Dunford. Galway historian Catherine Corless will receive an honorary degree from NUI Galway, for her advocacy work on behalf of Tuam survivors, and the children who lost their lives. Corless – whose tireless work uncovered a mass grave holding 796 babies at the former […]

    8 years ago

  • Gardaí conducting house-to-house investigations into Kerry Babies case

    Gardaí conducting house-to-house investigations into Kerry Babies case

    “After all these years, Baby John deserves the truth.” A house-to-house investigation into the death of a newborn baby boy in 1984, Baby John, got underway on Monday on Valentia Island, County Kerry. Approximately 20 members of An Garda Síochána – both uniform and detectives – are undertaking the canvas. Baby John was found with multiple injuries […]

    8 years ago

  • Listowel has been named as Ireland’s Tidiest Town 2018

    Listowel has been named as Ireland’s Tidiest Town 2018

    The competition is in its 60th year. Ireland’s tidiest towns have been revealed in the annual Supervalu competition which compares every inch of Ireland’s landscape to see which location comes out on top. In an awards ceremony which took place in the Helix in DCU on Monday morning, Minister Michael Ring TD and Managing Director […]

    8 years ago

  • There will officially be six candidates on the Presidential ballot in October

    There will officially be six candidates on the Presidential ballot in October

    It is just over one month until the Presidential Election. It’s been officially decided that six names will appear on the ballot paper for the Presidential Election in October. The candidates will be: Peter Casey (Independent) Gavin Duffy (Independent) Joan Freeman (Independent) Seán Gallagher (Independent) Michael D. Higgins (Independent) Liadh Ní Ríada (Sinn Féin) This […]

    8 years ago

  • Leo Varadkar to deliver speech at Nelson Mandela Peace Summit today

    Leo Varadkar to deliver speech at Nelson Mandela Peace Summit today

    The summit marks the 100th anniversary of Mandela’s birth. The Taoiseach and the Tánaiste are headed stateside this week to attend high-level meetings and United Nations events in New York. Varadkar will attend the Nelson Mandela Peace Summit on Monday, in which Ireland played a prominent role, having led the negotiations in partnership with South Africa […]

    8 years ago

  • Abortion Rights Campaign to host seventh annual March for Choice later this month

    Abortion Rights Campaign to host seventh annual March for Choice later this month

    The march is set to highlight the fact that no legislation has been put in place since the referendum was repealed. The seventh Annual March for Choice – organised by the Abortion Rights Campaign (ARC) – will take place in Dublin later this month, to highlight the fact that “nothing has changed” since the referendum […]

    8 years ago

  • Top temperatures of 21 degrees have been forecast for this week

    Top temperatures of 21 degrees have been forecast for this week

    “Noticeably warmer” weather will be felt later in the week. Following a swift drop in temperatures in recent days, Met Éireann has revealed that summer may not be over yet – as one last spike of warmth is awaiting us this week. Monday morning started off chilly with highs of 12 – 15 degrees forecast, […]

    8 years ago

  • The average house price of a semi-detached house in Dublin has been revealed

    The average house price of a semi-detached house in Dublin has been revealed

    It’s increased by over €5,000 from last year. The price of a three-bed semi-detached in Dublin has increased by 2.7% in the last 12 months, a new survey by Real Estate Alliance (REA) has found. The REA Average House Price survey for Q3 found that the rate of increase in second-hand three-bed semi-detached homes in Dublin city’s […]

    8 years ago

  • British pound flops against the dollar following Theresa May’s Brexit speech

    British pound flops against the dollar following Theresa May’s Brexit speech

    The GBP may, on Friday, experience the biggest one-day drop in value this year so far. The British Pound has swiftly dropped on Friday afternoon after the highly combative speech Theresa May gave at 10 Downing Street highlighting the lack of mutual respect shown between the UK and EU in Brexit negotiations. Both nations have reached an […]

    8 years ago

  • Hozier to headline 2FM Christmas Ball in aid of the ISPCC

    Hozier to headline 2FM Christmas Ball in aid of the ISPCC

    A big year for the Wicklow native. Hozier has been announced as the headline act for the annual 2FM Xmas Ball in aid of The Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (ISPCC), which will take place at 3Arena on Friday, 14 December. Last year’s event raised over €480,000 for children in need and this […]

    8 years ago

  • Irish religious organisation to take Da Vinci Code publishers to High Court

    Irish religious organisation to take Da Vinci Code publishers to High Court

    Dialogue Ireland is a registered charity and accepts donations through its website. Religious organisation Dialogue Ireland has confirmed that they are taking the publishers of Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code to the High Court, as they claim they’ve been defamed in the author’s most recent book. Dialogue Ireland refers to themselves as an “independent trust that […]

    8 years ago

  • Take That and Rick Astley to play Dublin in 2019

    Take That and Rick Astley to play Dublin in 2019

    2019 marks Take That’s 30th Anniversary. Take That has just announced that they will play Dublin in 2019 as part of their 30th anniversary tour, with Rick Astley their special guest on the night. The group’s Gary Barlow, Howard Donald and Mark Owen and special guest Astley will play Dublin’s 3Arena on Monday, 29 April, […]

    8 years ago

  • Thousands apply for organ donor cards following Orla Tinsley documentary

    Thousands apply for organ donor cards following Orla Tinsley documentary

    “This is true community.” The Irish Kidney Association has shared that they have received over 4,000 donor card requests – some for multiple cards – since the airing of Orla Tinsley: Warrior on RTÉ on Monday night. According to a spokesperson from the group, on an average day, they would receive less than 20 requests […]

    8 years ago

  • Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin to appear on The Late Late Show on Friday

    Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin to appear on The Late Late Show on Friday

    This follows the party’s recent annual think-in on housing and on health. The leader of the Fianna Fáil party, Micheál Martin, will be interviewed by Ryan Tubridy on The Late Late Show this Friday night. In a wide-ranging interview, the leader of the opposition will chat to Tubridy about his time leading the political party over […]

    8 years ago

  • Gardai issue advice for anyone attending the Liam Miller tribute game

    Gardai issue advice for anyone attending the Liam Miller tribute game

    45,000 people are expected to witness Roy Keane and Martin O’Neill’s respective sides. Gardaí have issued instructions for those who plan to attend The Liam Miller Tribute match in Pairc Ui Chaoimh, County Cork on Tuesday 25 September. Gates are due to open at 12:45 with the event due to finish at approximately 5pm. “We are […]

    8 years ago

  • A motion of no confidence in Eoghan Murphy is to be debated in the Dáil next Tuesday

    A motion of no confidence in Eoghan Murphy is to be debated in the Dáil next Tuesday

    “We need to stand together, and we need to get these people out of Government.” A motion of no confidence in Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy will be debated in the Dáil on Tuesday 25 September. This follows weeks of unrest surrounding the housing crisis, fuelled by the fact that homelessness figures are growing month on month. Sinn Féin […]

    8 years ago

  • “Approximately 20 persons” deferred from Direct Provision due to overcrowding

    “Approximately 20 persons” deferred from Direct Provision due to overcrowding

    “A crisis has been allowed to develop and we are seeing no urgency to tackle it.” A spokesperson from the Department of Justice has confirmed to JOE that an estimated 20 people have been refused accommodation in Direct Provision centres over the past fortnight due to an unprecedented increase in the number of people arriving […]

    8 years ago

  • Simon Harris confirms that abortion services in Ireland will be free

    Simon Harris confirms that abortion services in Ireland will be free

    “Yes, it is my intention that the services will be free,” the Health Minister confirmed. Following the official signing of abortion legislation into law on Tuesday night – thereby formally removing the Eighth Amendment from the constitution – Health Minister Simon Harris has confirmed that Ireland’s imminent abortion services will be completely free. Harris confirmed this […]

    8 years ago

  • “The result of this referendum has created a new reality” – National health institutions share concerns over abortion services

    “The result of this referendum has created a new reality” – National health institutions share concerns over abortion services

    “Whichever model of care is developed, the patient must be front and centre in the required clinical care pathway.” The Institute of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and Irish College of General Practitioners have expressed concerns over the proposed timeline regarding the introduction of abortion services in Ireland. This follows the news that President Michael D. Higgins, on […]

    8 years ago

  • More than 60 post offices experiencing disruptions due to Storm Ali

    More than 60 post offices experiencing disruptions due to Storm Ali

    Fallen trees and dangerous weather have played a part in the disruption. Storm Ali has taken its toll on mail and post office services throughout the North and North West of the country on Wednesday morning. The first named storm of the season has already brought gusts of over 140km/h to parts of the country and […]

    8 years ago

  • Here are all of the transport services affected by Storm Ali

    Here are all of the transport services affected by Storm Ali

    Services in the West are seemingly the worst affected. An Orange Weather warning for strong winds, rain and gusts of up to 120km/h was issued ahead of the arrival of Storm Ali over Ireland on Tuesday night. The first named storm of the season was expected to batter Atlantic coasts from 5am on Wednesday morning […]

    8 years ago

  • Here are all the roads across the country affected by fallen trees due to Storm Ali

    Here are all the roads across the country affected by fallen trees due to Storm Ali

    The West seems to be more severely affected. Motorists are being urged to exercise caution with reports of a number of fallen trees across the country as Storm Ali beckons on. A status yellow weather warning took effect from 5am on Wednesday morning as heavy winds and strong gusts battered the Atlantic coast. Met Éireann measured […]

    8 years ago

  • UPDATE: 186,000 homes without power as Storm Ali batters Atlantic coastal counties

    UPDATE: 186,000 homes without power as Storm Ali batters Atlantic coastal counties

    17 counties in Ireland are under some form of weather warning. The strong winds and heavy gusts that were promised by this week’s Storm Ali have well and truly made their presence known by leaving 186,000 homes and businesses without power. The figure had originally been set at 55,000. ESB Networks confirmed the news, mentioning that […]

    8 years ago

  • State-of-the-art football pitch for children who use walking frames unveiled in Dublin

    State-of-the-art football pitch for children who use walking frames unveiled in Dublin

    The pitch is the first of its type that specifically caters to frame football players. A specially designed all-weather pitch catering for children who use walking frames has officially opened in Dublin. The 2G Frame Football Pitch, located in Hermitage Park, Lucan, was opened by Mayor of South Dublin Mark Ward on Friday and begins […]

    8 years ago

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