An extra 12 cases have been confirmed as of Wednesday morning. The Health Service Executive (HSE) has confirmed that the number of women affected by the CervicalCheck controversy has increased from 209 to 221. Confirming this news on behalf of the HSE was Director General John Conaghan, who told the Public Accounts Committee at a […]

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The victim’s condition is believed to be stable. One man has been assaulted grievously in south Dublin city centre following an incident which occurred on Wednesday night. The incident, which is originally thought to have happened on Clanbrassil Street, is now believed to have taken place on nearby St Vincent Street in the night of […]

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“A free, fair and balanced media is a cornerstone of democracy.” Leo Varadkar has apologised for his recent remarks about the way in which Irish political reporters conduct themselves. The Taoiseach came under fire earlier this week when his off-the-record comments recorded at a private lunch in New York stating that he sympathised with President Donald […]

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Spokespeople are asking those who were in the airport yesterday to check their suitcases. The winning ticket for the National Lottery was sold at Dublin Airport yesterday, making the lucky owner a cool €45,000 richer. Those who may have been travelling yesterday are being urged to check their luggage for the winning ticket, which was […]

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Gardaí are appealing for witnesses. A man has died following a road traffic collision which involved a motorcycle and a car in Donegal on Wednesday evening. Gardaí in Buncrana are investigating the incident, which occurred at Castleforward, on the main Burnfoot to Buncrana Road (R238), at approximately 5.30pm on the afternoon of 4 July. One man, […]

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99% of Ryanair pilots voted in favour of strike action. Ryanair crew have warned that they too could be joining their colleagues in strike action next week after after presenting the company’s CEO Michael O’Leary with a list of demands. According to the Guardian, crew representatives from across Europe met at a two-day summit in Dublin […]

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Nolan believes that it’s time to overhaul Ireland’s drug laws. In what is being considered a landmark interview in the most recent edition of Hot Press, retired Assistant Garda Commissioner, Jack Nolan, says that he’s in favour of decriminalising people found in possession of drugs for personal use. Nolan explained that he believes the current approach […]

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It seems like the show is addictive in more ways than one… A Dublin-based cosmetic surgery clinic has claimed that their most recent surge in popularity for facial enhancement procedures is down to the ‘Love Island effect.’ SISU Clinics, a chain of aesthetic clinics in Ireland, has seen a massive increase in demand for lip […]

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“The hot sun burned my L plates off Garda.” The heat can make you do strange things. Currently in Ireland, people are collectively losing their minds as there are cows sun-bathing, people carting their sitting-room furniture to the beach, and groups calling for more Irish nudist beaches. But it appears that the title for ‘most […]

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A valiant effort by the Wizards in Green. Some of you who may have read the Harry Potter books, and far more who haven’t, may be surprised to hear that an actual Quidditch World Cup takes place every year with actual people on actual sticks. According to the internet, ‘Muggle Quidditch’ is played with sticks […]

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How do you measure up? A new report by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) has revealed the average wage for an Irish worker in 2017. According to the report, average earning for all employees, including regular, overtime and irregular was €37,646 in 2017. The number is a 2% increase on the average income of €36,920 […]

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The teenager’s condition is described as “serious”. An investigation has been launched by Gardaí in Lucan as they search for new information regarding the serious assault of a 17-year-old man in Dublin on Monday morning. The incident occurred at Rowlagh Gardens, Clondalkin in the early hours of 2 July. It is understood the youth, who has […]

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The warning has been updated as temperatures continue to soar. A Condition Red danger warning for forest fires has been issued for the second time in a week by the Department of Agriculture in advance of further high temperatures this week. The original warning, issued last Tuesday, replaced an Orange High fire risk warning that had been […]

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The entire system is set to undergo a number of changes. A number of changes to the Dublin Bus network have been mooted by the National Transport Authority (NTA), which will see services improve integration between buses, trams and trains as well as adopt new, more frequent services. The redesign was implemented by the National […]

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A number of the orders have already been lifted. Seven Irish food businesses were served with closure orders for breaches of food safety legislation in June, according to the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI). The affected businesses are located in Laois, Dublin, Mayo and Wexford. Closure orders were issued for breaches of food safety […]

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Investigations are ongoing. A young man has been arrested by Gardaí investigating the discovery of a body of a man in Cork. The remains of the man, believed to be in his 60s, were found at a house in the Galway’s Lane area of Douglas on Monday morning. The alarm was raised shortly after 8am. […]

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The Force is strong with the first Avenger. With the week that’s in it, filled with BDE and heatwaves alike, it’s understandable to think we’re all somewhat lost out heads. Two people who haven’t lost their heads, however, are Mark Hamill and Chris Evans, who are currently embroiled in a Twitter battle debating what would […]

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Customers are being asked to expect serious delays. A train travelling from Heuston to Galway on Thursday afternoon has been compromised following an incident involving a herd of cattle. The vehicle hit eight cows while travelling west, injuring all eight and causing significant damage to the train. 15:35 Heuston Galway has hit a herd of […]

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The stars have aligned. A chicken wing festival is coming to Wicklow this summer, which’ll see a whole weekend dedicated to a line-up of “wingtastic” activities. Kicking off over the weekend of 20, 21 and 22 July, the Wings Food Fest includes over 15 wing pop ups who will be serving up a selection of […]

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Great news. Father Ted co-creator Graham Linehan has revealed that he has received the all-clear after being diagnosed with testicular cancer. Linehan went public with his health issues earlier in the week, when he took to social media to share the news of his diagnosis. “I got a bit of bad news recently,” he revealed […]

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We all know at least one person who thinks they’d have this in the bag. A keepy-uppy competition is kicking off in Dublin on Friday afternoon which will see one lucky winner bag themselves a pair of return flights to Doha. The competition is being run by Qatar Airways, who will be providing the flights […]

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Norris ran against Higgins in the 2011 presidential election. Scholar, senator and former presidential candidate David Norris has claimed that Michael D. Higgins is too old and thus should be deemed unfit to run for a second term as President of Ireland. In a scathing attack, Norris told the Seanad that he believed the president’s […]

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The bill provides for LGBTQ+ inclusive sexual education in schools, which includes the teaching of consent and contraception among others. A press conference was held on Wednesday morning with an intent to highlight the need for properly taught sexual education in Irish schools, and to call on Taoiseach Leo Varadkar to commit spending money on […]

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Both supermarkets are asking customers to return the product to the store in which it was purchased. A selection of Aldi and Tesco’s branded products have been recalled this week due to the fact that they may contain glass fragments. World Wise Foods issued the recall for the stores’ branded light and dark soy sauce […]

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Motorists have been warned of melting tar road surfaces as temperatures soar. Temperatures have risen so high across Ireland that the tar on the country’s roads are melting, posing a danger to motorists. Road-users are being advised to exercise caution when travelling during the heatwaves as tarred road surfaces boil and temperatures soar nationwide. The […]

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“I’m looking forward to getting stuck in.” It has just been announced that Mario Rosenstock has landed a new Sunday radio show on Today FM. The veteran radio presenter and gifted impressionist, who is known to listeners from the Ian Dempsey Breakfast Show, is set to host Mario’s Sunday Roast for two hours every week, starting […]

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The heroes we all deserve. The rising price of 99s has been a bone of contention over the years in the history of Ireland. The national treasure that is a 99 is deemed essential eating whenever the weather rises above 11 degrees, but often it seems like you’ve to take out a mortgage to afford […]

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An election is due to be held in October. Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin has confirmed his party’s stance of supporting current President Michael D. Higgins should he seek a second term in office, despite its Ard Fheis calling on the party to field a candidate of its own. The party leader took to Twitter earlier […]

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29 degrees, we never thought we’d see the day. It’s day five of heatwave watch here in Ireland, and the sunburn has spread to places we never thought possible. Ireland has been gifted a cracking week of weather for the second time this summer, and we’ve all but lost our heads with the high temperatures. […]

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“It’s the most peaceful way it could be done.” A group of self-proclaimed “peaceful protesters” from Ireland have rallied together in an attempt to acquire a huge amount of free tickets for the visit of Pope Francis to Ireland, and not use them, to ensure a low turnout at events. The movement is led by […]

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Long may it last. Ireland’s second heatwave of the summer has graced our presence, just in case the displays of sunburnt shoulders and over-exuberant lunchtime pints managed to evade you, and the results of the temperature lottery are in. While the vast majority of the country has been experiencing temperatures well into the twenties, only […]

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Doyle passed away in hospital on Monday. Love/Hate actor Daniel ‘Dano’ Doyle has died, aged 31. The Ballymun native passed away in the Mater Hospital, after being transferred there from Mountjoy Prison on Friday 15 June, when he was found unresponsive in his cell. He subsequently died on Monday afternoon. The cause of his death […]

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The series is set for the small screen sometime in August. Spiral Pictures, the production company behind Love/Hate, announced on Monday that the creation of a brand new crime drama for RTÉ is in the works and is set to roll into production later this week. Filming began on the programme, which has a working title […]

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Possession of drugs for personal use made up 72% of all 2017 drugs offences. A number of senators, politicians and the CityWide Drugs Crisis Campaign met on Monday morning for a press conference to urge members of the public to show their support for the decriminalisation of people in possession of drugs for personal use. […]

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The tickets for Pope Francis’ trip to Ireland went live on Monday morning. Thousands of tickets for a series of events to do with Pope Francis’ visit to Ireland later this summer went live on Monday morning and have received unprecedented attention resulting in a large sum of the tickets already selling out. The Pope […]

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Investigations are ongoing. Gardaí and emergency services are at the scene of a “very serious” incident in Dublin where a collision between a vehicle and a number of pedestrians has taken place. The incident occurred outside the grounds of the Immaculate Conception Church in Clondalkin Village, Dublin 22. Gardaí understand that a car collided with […]

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The Dogs Trust Ireland initiative is part of a wider push to make the nation more canine-friendly. While dog-friendly offices, shops and restaurants are slowly becoming the done thing, there are still, unfortunately, a number of places across the country that don’t cater to man’s best friend. And it seems that employers may be missing […]

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The video has been circulating online. A video of a French-speaking priest slapping a distressed baby during a baptismal service has garnered attention online in recent days. The clip shows the baby being held in a woman’s arms as she stood beside another woman and man beside a baptismal font in a church. It goes […]

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“You’re looking in great shape. You’ve cut the hair.” The Irish rugby team is in Sydney to take on Australia this Saturday morning in the third and final test of the summer series, you can see the team Joe Schmidt has named for the encounter here. During a rare day off in the city before their […]

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The incident happened in the early hours of Thursday morning. A man has been hospitalised with serious injuries following a single vehicle collision in County Meath. Gardaí in Navan are investigating the incident which saw a car collide with a tree. This occurred at approximately 4.30am on the Windtown Road, about ten minutes from Navan […]

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Nothing to worry about, it’s only the World Cup… What’s the one thing you don’t want to do when representing your country on an international level in a sport you love in front of dozens of television cameras? Forget to let go of the ball. Iran and Spain took to the Kazan Arena in Kazana […]

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Is that a baby, or a turkey? One of Ireland’s greatest films of the last 30 years has been made into a highly-anticipated play which saw its opening night in Dublin on Wednesday. Roddy Doyle’s famed story about a young Irish woman who becomes pregnant, resulting in a guessing game as to the identity of […]

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One of the worst we’ve ever seen. Ireland’s motorists have gained something of a reputation in recent years for badly doctoring insurance and tax discs in an attempt of not getting caught out. And it seems that with insurance prices rising all the time, the attempts at disc-altering have only gotten poorer. Check out one […]

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Clonburris is set to play a central role in addressing the demand for much needed new housing in Dublin. A Strategic Development Zone (SDZ), which spans 280 hectares and is located between the established communities of Lucan, Clondalkin and Liffey Valley, is set to be the location of Dublin’s newest manmade town, Clonburris. The town […]

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The report compared 28 Member States across the European Union. In a recent study compiled by the EU statistical office Eurostat, figures show that alcohol and tobacco in the European Union are at their most expensive in Ireland. The report, which compares a number of goods and services between EU states, found that although price […]

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Just… Don’t be Dick. A new campaign asking Dublin’s coffee drinkers to forego disposable coffee cups has been gaining traction for its suggestive tag line ‘Don’t be Dick’. The ‘Don’t Be Dick’ campaign highlights how careless actions can have serious consequences on the environment, and asks consumers to think about the domino effect that comes […]

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Strong words from the Kerryman. Michael Healy Rae has taken to Twitter to share a threatening message to the person who stole his bike on Wednesday afternoon. The Independent TD told Twitter that his bicycle was stolen after he left it outside the passport office in Dublin while he had been running some errands. He […]

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There can only be one. Ireland’s best burger has been revealed as thousands of Irish food enthusiasts voted for the most mouth-watering burger in the country. In the past month alone, almost 17,000 burger fans voted for their favourite out of 500 burger outlets to choose from. The deserving restaurant which came out on top […]

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The man, in his 20s, went missing earlier this week. The public’s assistance has been sought by Gardaí to help in tracing the whereabouts of 29-year-old Philip Power who has been reported missing from his home in Carlow. Power was last seen on the 18 June at approximately 7pm in Borris, Co Carlow. He is […]

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Airlines are advising passengers to check the company’s website before flying. Airline passengers travelling both to and from Spain could see their flights affected this week as workers in Spanish Air Traffic Control (ATC) have expressed their plans to strike. Irregular working patterns and a system of one day off for every eight worked are […]

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