“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

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

“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

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

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

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

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

When Jon Hamm says doze tings. There’s no such thing as bad publicity, and there’s plenty of interest in the release of Wild Mountain Thyme today. It’s one of the most talked-about movies of the year (in Ireland, at least), thanks mostly to its hilariously twee trailer which brought out the best in Irish social […]

5 years ago

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

Just 5 more days for to guarantee delivery from large-scale online retailers. An Post has advised large-scale Irish and international online retailers that due to record volumes of online shopping, it can only guarantee pre-Christmas delivery of e-commerce parcels received into its processing system by close of business on Monday next, 14 December. A spokesperson […]

5 years ago

He was speaking on his RTÉ Radio 1 morning show. Late Late Toy Show host Ryan Tubridy says he did not actually drop an f-bomb during a segment of the show on Friday night. The TV host said that his phone had “melted down” after Friday night’s Late Late Toy Show and most of the […]

5 years ago

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

A man, aged in his late teens, has been arrested. Gardaí investigating the sale and supply of drugs in the Sligo area say they have seized drugs worth more than €196,000 during a search of waste ground today in Cranmore, Sligo. The Gardaí were assisted by the Garda Dog Unit. Cocaine with a value of […]

5 years ago

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

She apologised during her RTÉ Radio 1 ‘Sunday with Miriam’ show. Miriam O’Callaghan is the latest RTÉ presenter to apologise after she was photographed along with colleagues at a gathering where social distancing was not being observed. Images emerged on Friday that showed RTÉ employees posing for photographs with a retiring member of staff. The […]

5 years ago

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

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

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

Twitter has labelled the tweet as misleading and hidden it. Good morning! A decisive victory for either Joe Biden or Donald Trump is out the window so this race will rumble on for some time. But so far several key US states have gone to Donald Trump including Florida and Texas. That hasn’t stopped Trump […]

5 years ago

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

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

“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

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

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

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

The Taoiseach has released a statement calling on the Irish people to work together to ‘protect lives and livelihoods, show that we can contain the virus and prevent its growth’. The most recent COVID-19 cases revealed last evening as 1012 new cases and 3 deaths, but in his rallying call, Michéal Martin said that and […]

5 years ago

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

Last evening Dr. Tony Holohan said that 1,012 new Covid-19 cases were notified to the HPSC over a period of 24 hours up to midnight. Three deaths were also reported and the 14-day incidence rate has increased from 108 per 100,000 last Sunday to 150 per 100,000 today, which represents a 39% increase according to […]

5 years ago

‘Wet pubs’ in all counties bar Dublin will be able to reopen with robust protective measures in place on 21 September. Wet pubs in Dublin will need to wait for their opportunity to open due to what the Tanaiste, Leo Varadkar, described as the “worrying situation” in the county, which has seen a rise in […]

5 years ago

“The decision to reopen schools has not been taken lightly…” An open letter from the acting Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Ronan Glynn reassures parents, guardians of school children, and teaching staff, that any concerns they may have as they return en masse to school today is “natural and is to be fully expected after a […]

5 years ago

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 […]

5 years ago

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; […]

5 years ago

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 […]

5 years ago

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 […]

5 years ago

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 […]

5 years ago

“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 […]

5 years ago

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 […]

5 years ago

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 […]

5 years ago

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 […]

5 years ago

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

“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

There’s no end to her talents… Fans of Outlander will know her as Aunt Jocasta from the hit US TV show, but Maria Doyle Kennedy is firmly focussed at the moment on her music career that has always run in tandem alongside her acting. The stunning short film that accompanies her brand new song Colour […]

7 years ago

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

This is the show you have been waiting for. Christmas is here, everybody is in top form and you’re actually really happy to back amongst your flesh and blood. Don’t worry, that feeling is temporary and as tensions mount over what time dinner is being served and control of the remote, allow us to give […]

7 years ago

“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

A price worth paying… Alastair Campbell is leading the campaign for a People’s Vote in the UK. Speaking to Dion Fanning on an episode of Ireland Unfiltered that will be broadcast on video and audio this Tuesday, 20 November, he explained at length why he thinks the British attitude towards Brexit has been so bad […]

7 years ago

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 […]

7 years ago

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

#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 […]

8 years ago

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