Paddy McKenna

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JOE.ie Editor. Music and radio at the weekend. Leitrim|Everton|Ireland masochist.

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  • 1620 new Covid-19 cases confirmed and 12 additional deaths in Ireland

    1620 new Covid-19 cases confirmed and 12 additional deaths in Ireland

    “We are once again in the mitigation stage of this pandemic.” The Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HSPC) has reported 12 additional deaths related to COVID-19, as well as 1,620 new confirmed cases. There is now a total of 91,779 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland. There has been a total of 2,237 COVID-19 related deaths […]

    5 years ago

  • Boris Johnson’s dad has applied for French citizenship

    Boris Johnson’s dad has applied for French citizenship

    Makes sense. Stanley Johnson, the blowhard father of Britain’s Prime Minister, Boris Johnson says that he is currently applying for a French passport so that he can maintain his ties with the EU after Britain has left the union. According to the Reuters news agency, Johnson told RTL radio that he is pursuing his French […]

    5 years ago

  • CMO: “Substantial socialisation” the main reason for increased rate of Covid-19 cases

    CMO: “Substantial socialisation” the main reason for increased rate of Covid-19 cases

    “We have an opportunity to take actions that can turn around these patterns of transmission.” Ireland’s Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Tony Holohan says that “socialisation that we’ve done over the course of the last number of weeks” has led to the recent increase in Covid-19 cases. Yesterday the Republic of Ireland recorded 13 deaths and […]

    5 years ago

  • Irish band’s Christmas song picked out by Grammy-winning Adele producer

    Irish band’s Christmas song picked out by Grammy-winning Adele producer

    Christmas Feels Different. The Vibes from Drumshanbo, Co. Leitrim have certainly nailed the sentiment with their Christmas single and now a Grammy-winning LA-based music producer has given them his backing. Greg Wells, who won a Grammy for his work on The Greatest Showman soundtrack and has produced Elton John, Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, Adele, and […]

    5 years ago

  • Teenage Waterford rapper drops John Mullane-inspired All-Ireland banger

    Teenage Waterford rapper drops John Mullane-inspired All-Ireland banger

    As the dogs on the street know, John Mullane is in a romantic relationship with his county of birth and they’re going steady. The De La Salle man’s legendary love for his county of Waterford is a central theme in what is undoubtedly the pace-setter for pre-All-Ireland musical banger. Yung Shakur, a 19-year-old rapper from […]

    5 years ago

  • Zero: The number of flu cases reported in Ireland this winter

    Zero: The number of flu cases reported in Ireland this winter

    Since September 1,127,236 influenza vaccinations were provided by GPs and Pharmacists. In a report released by the HSE it shows that there have been no cases of flu in Ireland since October. Flu season in Ireland runs from October to April. In its report, the HSE noted that, “since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, […]

    5 years ago

  • Avengers star revealed as new Buzz Lightyear and 18 other amazing Disney+ announcements

    Avengers star revealed as new Buzz Lightyear and 18 other amazing Disney+ announcements

    Disney doesn’t do it by halves. At its Investor Day event, it delivered an avalanche of news about upcoming projects. Here’s a quick glance at just some of the movies and shows coming your way… New adventures. New Originals. Endless possibilities. All of these and more are coming exclusively to #DisneyPlus. pic.twitter.com/NGiqVGmH0G — Disney (@Disney) […]

    5 years ago

  • Joe Biden and Kamala Harris named TIME magazine’s ‘person of the year’

    Joe Biden and Kamala Harris named TIME magazine’s ‘person of the year’

    We’d have given it to Adam King ourselves but gwan TIME. US President-elect and Vice-President-elect, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have been named as TIME magazine’s ‘person of the year’. The shortlist for the prestigious prize also included the outgoing US president, Donald Trump, as well as frontline medical workers, and also a fourth nominee, […]

    5 years ago

  • One new Covid-19 related death and 318 new cases confirmed in Ireland

    One new Covid-19 related death and 318 new cases confirmed in Ireland

    Dublin has the most new cases, followed by Cork and Limerick The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 1 additional death related to COVID-19. There has been a total of 2,023 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland. As of midnight Saturday 21st November, the HPSC has been notified of 318 confirmed cases of […]

    5 years ago

  • WATCH: Brendan Gleeson’s speech remembering the 14 people killed on Bloody Sunday

    WATCH: Brendan Gleeson’s speech remembering the 14 people killed on Bloody Sunday

    Remembering the 14 innocent people killed on Bloody Sunday. It’s fitting that Tipperary are Munster football champions, 100 years after their players and fans fell victim to British armed forces at Croke Park in the Bloody Sunday massacre. On Saturday night, Brendan Gleeson recalled the fourteen people who lost their lives in the attack as […]

    5 years ago

  • Gardaí in Cork arrest 9 males after large crowds gather in the city centre

    Gardaí in Cork arrest 9 males after large crowds gather in the city centre

    The scenes were filmed on Grand Parade in Cork City centre. Captured by Ali Hamou, an aid worker, it shows large groups of people gathered on the street. At one point several Gardaí are seen racing down the street, soon after followed by a Garda patrol car. In relation to the video, a Garda spokesperson […]

    5 years ago

  • “A Frankenstein monster” – Pennsylvania judge rejects Donald Trump’s election lawsuit

    “A Frankenstein monster” – Pennsylvania judge rejects Donald Trump’s election lawsuit

    He’s running out of straws. A Pennsylvania judge has rejected a Donald Trump lawsuit to overturn the results of the recent election, describing it as “a Frankenstein monster” that had been “haphazardly stitched together”. U.S. District Court Judge Matthew Brann wrote that “Because this Court has no authority to take away the right to vote […]

    5 years ago

  • CNN has called the American presidential election for Joe Biden

    CNN has called the American presidential election for Joe Biden

    Joe Biden will be the 46th president of the United State of America. CNN has officially declared Joe Biden the President of the United States. The 20 projected electoral college votes from Pennsylvania took him over the 270 college electoral votes threshold. Biden will be the 46th President of the US, while Kamala Harris will […]

    5 years ago

  • JOE’s Song Of The Day #869 – Pádraig Bennett ‘The Two of Us’

    JOE’s Song Of The Day #869 – Pádraig Bennett ‘The Two of Us’

    Definite echoes of a famous Canadian to this man’s vocal. No, not Bieber, the other fella. Pádraig Bennett is a 16-year-old, 5th-year student in Maynooth Community College, Co. Kildare. His debut single, ‘The Two of Us’ showcases his fantastic baritone vocal that 100% sounds like Michael Bublé. Pádraig told JOE that his song is, “a […]

    5 years ago

  • WATCH: The trailer for a new Jack Charlton film will have you in tears

    WATCH: The trailer for a new Jack Charlton film will have you in tears

    Well this looks absolutely fantastic. Losing Jack Charlton earlier this year was a gut punch for the entire nation. The outpouring of tributes to the great man was understandable given the esteem he is held in for the transformation he helped to bring about in Irish football. Euro 88-Italia 90-USA 94 is a golden era […]

    5 years ago

  • Two more people with Covid-19 have died in Ireland, 814 new cases

    Two more people with Covid-19 have died in Ireland, 814 new cases

    “This shows rapidly increasing growth rates across the country.” The Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC) has been informed of 2 additional deaths among people with COVID-19 in Ireland. As of midnight Saturday 10th October the HPSC has been notified of 814 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There have been 1,826 COVID-19 related deaths and 42,528 confirmed […]

    5 years ago

  • 7 gazebos from €40 to €12,000 for your outdoor entertaining

    7 gazebos from €40 to €12,000 for your outdoor entertaining

    Gazebo. Say it out loud right now because it’s a truly great word. Gah-zay-bo. Right so, first things first, who knows how much longer we’ll able to entertain guests in our homes. But if you are thinking of having the one other household over for a visit that Level 3 in Ireland permits, then receiving […]

    5 years ago

  • Northern Ireland records 1066 daily Covid-19 cases, one death

    Northern Ireland records 1066 daily Covid-19 cases, one death

    1066 cases of Covid-19 is NI’s second-highest daily figure since the pandemic began. The Department of Health also said one death has been recorded bringing the total to 588. On Friday, Northern Ireland recorded their single highest figure for daily Covid-19 cases. The 7-day infection rate per 100,000 in Northern Ireland is 314.0. Derry and […]

    5 years ago

  • Minister for Health says Dublin R number is 1, rest of Ireland is now 1.6

    Minister for Health says Dublin R number is 1, rest of Ireland is now 1.6

    The Minister for Health, Stephen Donnelly was speaking to the This Week show on RTÉ Radio1. He told Justin McCarthy that the current R number for Dublin was as low now as 1.0, but the R number for the rest of Ireland now stood at 1.6. The overall number for the whole country was 1.2. […]

    5 years ago

  • Gardaí appeal for information relating to missing Donegal man Cian Langelaan

    Gardaí appeal for information relating to missing Donegal man Cian Langelaan

    He was last seen on Thursday, 24 September. Gardaí have appealed for the public’s help in finding 27-year-old Cian Langelaan, missing from the Falcarragh area of Donegal since last Thursday 24 September. Cian is described as being about 5 foot 8 inches in height, of medium build, with sandy hair and blue eyes. He was […]

    5 years ago

  • Derry Girls creator reveals that plans are in motion for a Derry Girls movie

    Derry Girls creator reveals that plans are in motion for a Derry Girls movie

    Filming on the third season of the hit TV show was scheduled to be wrapped by now. But Lisa McGee, writer and creator of the show told The Big Reviewski host, Eoghan Doherty, that they had to pause the filming due to the impact of Covid-19. “We kind of made the decision to push things […]

    6 years ago

  • 42 new cases of Covid-19 confirmed in Ireland (Sunday)

    42 new cases of Covid-19 confirmed in Ireland (Sunday)

    42 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 have been reported to the Health Protection Surveillance Centre. There have been no new deaths reported today. There has been a total of 1,777 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland. The 42 new cases bring the total number of confirmed cases in Ireland to 28,760. Of the cases notified today; […]

    6 years ago

  • Firefighters battle blaze in Cork City, bring it under control

    Firefighters battle blaze in Cork City, bring it under control

    Cork City Fire Brigade says the blaze has been brought under control. The fire broke out at around 3pm this afternoon in the Togher Industrial Estate on the south side of the city. Social media videos showed smoke billowing from premises within the industrial estate. https://twitter.com/mxtthxwmxynxhxn/status/1300072604338991106 Cork City Fire Brigade say a fire at a […]

    6 years ago

  • Kerry councillor labels street party scene in Killarney as ‘crazy irresponsible’

    Kerry councillor labels street party scene in Killarney as ‘crazy irresponsible’

    The video was reshared on his Twitter page by the Kerry councillor, Jackie Healy-Rae. It features a video of a crowd of people on the Main Street in Killarney singing and dancing last night. Some men scale a phone box that houses a defibrillator and dance on top of it. https://twitter.com/Jackie_HealyRae/status/1299992503429537792 In a tweet about […]

    6 years ago

  • Mairead McGuinness confirms that she’s interested in replacing Phil Hogan in EU post

    Mairead McGuinness confirms that she’s interested in replacing Phil Hogan in EU post

    The Drogheda politician has thrown her hat in the ring. Mairead McGuinness was speaking on RTÉ’s This Week programme on Radio 1 when she confirmed her interest in succeeding Phil Hogan as Ireland’s EU Commissioner. She is currently serving the EU as Vice President of the European Parliament. She said that, “nobody has sounded her […]

    6 years ago

  • “Oh God, all the responsibility is on me now!” – Tenet star Robert Pattinson on the pressure of having to nail a Christopher Nolan set-piece

    “Oh God, all the responsibility is on me now!” – Tenet star Robert Pattinson on the pressure of having to nail a Christopher Nolan set-piece

    “I’m going to mess this up…” Tenet has arrived with a big ole backways bang, dividing opinion and confusing viewers in equal portions. If you haven’t seen it yet, do not fear, there are no spoilers here, there are only tidbits to whet your appetite for Christopher Nolan’s time-twisting thriller. Tidbits like star of the […]

    6 years ago

  • Irish dancing crew go viral on TikTok following cancellation of Leaving Cert

    Irish dancing crew go viral on TikTok following cancellation of Leaving Cert

    17 million views in the past 24 hours and climbing. Cairde Dance Company is a group of friends led by Galway man Ronan O’Connell, the youngest in the group. “We all kind of knew each other because we danced against each over the years in competition,” he told JOE. “In 2017 at the Fleadh in […]

    6 years ago

  • Global Covid-19 cases surge past 25 million

    Global Covid-19 cases surge past 25 million

    The United States accounts for almost six million cases. As of Sunday, there are more than 25 million confirmed cases of Covid-19 according to John Hopkins University which has been tracking the virus since it was first detected. It’s been over five months since the World Health Organisation declared the outbreak a pandemic, with data […]

    6 years ago

  • Dara Calleary resigns as Minister for Agriculture after attending golf event

    Dara Calleary resigns as Minister for Agriculture after attending golf event

    The Minister for Agriculture is resigning from his role it has been confirmed. Dara Calleary, who assumed the role in July after Barry Cowan’s resignation, last night “apologised unreservedly” for attending a golf event with over 80 other people on Wednesday night. He confirmed his intention to resign from the cabinet this morning to RTÉ […]

    6 years ago

  • Why precision nutrition could influence what the farm of 2050 looks like

    Why precision nutrition could influence what the farm of 2050 looks like

    The future is bright, the future of farming is more precision. Speaking on JOE’s business show, All In, which is backed by AIB,  Aidan Connolly, CEO of Cainthus, who work with farmers to develop the world’s most advanced farming tech, spoke about how farming will could be influenced by the demand for precision nutrition. “What do I […]

    6 years ago

  • Irish doctor predicts big changes for medicine post-COVID emergency

    Irish doctor predicts big changes for medicine post-COVID emergency

    “We’re not going to do it the old way anymore…” Dr Johnny Walker is the founder of Jinga Life, which is a health solution platform for families. Speaking on this week’s episode of JOE’s business show, backed by AIB, All In, Walker outlined some of the changes that he foresees for general medicine in the wake of […]

    6 years ago

  • KELLIE HARRINGTON: I was sick of living in Katie Taylor’s shadow

    KELLIE HARRINGTON: I was sick of living in Katie Taylor’s shadow

    It’s been an incredible 2018 for Ireland’s latest world boxing champion. Having taken the decision to drop a weight class to 6okg, Kellie Harrington was rewarded for that brave choice when she scooped gold at the AIBA World Women’s Elite Championships in New Delhi in November. Having won a silver medal in the light welterweight […]

    7 years ago

  • Micheál Martin explains how a meeting with Unionists changed his politics

    Micheál Martin explains how a meeting with Unionists changed his politics

    “It’s our kith and kin and it’s our family that are being murdered.” Micheál Martin is our guest on a brand new Ireland Unfiltered this week and he spoke with host Dion Fanning in an in-depth interview about coping with unbearable tragedy, his journey as a nationalist and how Brexit can be stopped. He spoke of […]

    7 years ago

  • Leo Varadkar: Europeans no longer feel at home in Brexit Britain

    Leo Varadkar: Europeans no longer feel at home in Brexit Britain

    Taoiseach Leo Varadkar says he believes the EU and the UK are getting close to a Brexit deal but he has lamented the UK’s decision to leave the European Union. Speaking on Ireland Unfiltered, Varadkar said “the European Union is going to be a weaker place without the UK” and said it was up to […]

    8 years ago

  • EXCLUSIVE: Watch the brand new Chasing Abbey video first here on JOE

    EXCLUSIVE: Watch the brand new Chasing Abbey video first here on JOE

    It’s gonna be a big 2018 for the boys from Tullamore. Their timeline over the past 18 months has been incredible. Formed from the ashes of a folk band that wasn’t working out in June 2016, Chasing Abbey have gone on to see their first single receive massive buzz and Irish radio airplay last year, […]

    8 years ago

  • WIN: Tickets for Ireland v Denmark by watching #JOEpenhagen Live this Saturday

    WIN: Tickets for Ireland v Denmark by watching #JOEpenhagen Live this Saturday

    #JOEpenhagen: Probably… the best Irish fan trip in the world. This Saturday, JOE will broadcast LIVE from the heart of the action in Copenhagen at the Visit Carlsberg experience and brewery with hundreds of passionate Irish fans. #JOEpenhagen kicks off at 3pm Irish time (4pm Danish) and broadcasts live on JOE and SportsJOE’s Facebook and […]

    9 years ago

  • VIDEO: Here’s exactly what Conor McGregor wants now from the UFC

    VIDEO: Here’s exactly what Conor McGregor wants now from the UFC

    And you thought McGregor beating Alvarez was the biggest story of the day! Like every other damn thing in his life, Conor McGregor’s post-fight press conferences are never ever dull. First there was the news of his impending fatherhood and the danger in store for his jocks… "I'm crapping me jocks with that thing." – […]

    10 years ago

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