If you can get 13/16, you’re a true movie buff.

3 years ago

It’s as easy as they come, until you realise you only have two minutes. They’re only sums at the end of the day – if you’re not getting 15/15 here we’re giving you extra homework tonight. No pressure.

3 years ago

“We are utterly in shock and disbelief.” RTÉ News Bryan Dobson reflected the mood not just of the Irish people, but of those across the world when the twin towers of the World Trade Centre were struck by two airplanes on September 11, 2001. The RTÉ broadcaster spoke to Carole Coleman, the Washington correspondent of […]

4 years ago

Brought to you by The Lotter Did you know there is no law in the United States prohibiting someone from overseas winning the lottery? Who hasn’t dreamed of riches beyond their wildest dreams? Not only that, but who hasn’t looked at the US Mega Millions jackpots, totalling hundreds of millions of dollars, with envy? Well, […]

5 years ago

This really comes down to one question – were you or were you not paying attention in geography class?

7 years ago

With his new film being released on Netflix, an appreciation of his best work. The Oscar-winning director of Dances with Wolves is back with his new film The Highwaymen being released on Netflix. With that in mind, we’ve ranked his ten best films all the way to the top. Fans of Waterworld, there’s nothing to […]

7 years ago

“Mmmm… Tastes like a good night wasted…” Introducing the definitive list of Ireland’s best hangover foods. Like all good ranking lists, this one is going to piss a lot of people off but we don’t care. Bring on the hate, that’s what I say, because we have complete faith that this is THE Bible when […]

7 years ago

Are you an expert on all things Elf? Hands down the greatest Christmas movie of them all, Elf is the one film most of us will go out of our way to watch over the festive season. It’s hard to believe that it is 15 years old this year. One of Will Ferrell’s greatest performances […]

7 years ago

7 years ago

If you get above 11/14, you should probably get out a bit more.

7 years ago

Former Irish team manager Mick Kearney with a story from one of Joe Schmidt’s earliest team meetings. Mick Kearney, a successful businessman and the former team manager of Ireland’s rugby team, has revealed the lessons other people in business could take from Joe Schmidt and co. Speaking to host Tadhg Enright on The Architects of […]

7 years ago

Martin McVicar, the Founder of Combilift in County Monaghan, hopes to be at the helm of a billion dollar business within the next five years. With a manufacturing plant three and a half times the size of Croke Park and the fact that his Combilift company exports to 85 different countries across the world, Martin […]

7 years ago

Quite the admission from Leo Varadkar, the man at the head of the Irish Government. Leo Varadkar has admitted that he’s not the most natural politician in the world, but that he’s become better at meeting people and ‘pressing the flesh’. Ireland’s Taoiseach is our guest this week on Ireland Unfiltered with Dion Fanning, and […]

7 years ago

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar is our guest this week on Ireland Unfiltered with Dion Fanning, where he spoke about tackling the housing crisis. Taoiseach Leo Varadkar admits that his government needs to do something to alleviate Ireland’s crushing housing problems, but that people are living in ‘fantasy land’ if they expect thousands of homes to be […]

7 years ago

Ryan Tubridy, the host of The Late Late Show is our guest this week on Ireland Unfiltered, hosted by Dion Fanning. Ryan Tubridy was not hounded off Twitter. The host of The Late Late Show is our guest this week on Ireland Unfiltered, and tells host Dion Fanning that he has a far less interesting […]

7 years ago

Daniel Mackey and Peter Coppinger of Teamwork reveal their earliest mistakes in business, and how ‘wising up’ ultimately led them to being named EY Entrepreneur Of The Year™ 2018. Daniel Mackey and Peter Coppinger of Teamwork reveal the massive cost of buying their website’s domain name. Cork duo Mackey and Coppinger took home the biggest […]

7 years ago

Teamwork.com have been named the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year™ 2018. Teamwork.com, the Cork company that develops task management and team collaboration software, has taken the overall prize at the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year™ awards in Dublin. The company was founded by Daniel Mackey and Peter Coppinger in 2007, and now works with some […]

7 years ago

Kevin O’Loughlin, the founder of IT specialists Nostra, describes the madness of the Irish property market in 2003 – a madness that’s close to being repeated in 2018. Kevin O’Loughlin knew he was no expert in the Irish property market, but that didn’t stop him taking number of chances with his investments in the early […]

7 years ago

If you routinely stay back in the office long after everyone else has gone home, businessman Kevin O’Loughlin has this advice: Stop. Better to be an early bird than someone who works long into the night, insists Nostra’s Founder Kevin O’Loughlin O’Loughlin has built a massively successful IT company that deals with a number of […]

7 years ago

When the Cooley Distillery, founded by his father John, was sold to Beam Inc. in 2012, Jack Teeling was forced to break some very bad news to the company’s distributors. Life in business is never straightforward. Just ask Jack Teeling. The Co-Founder of Dublin’s massively popular Teeling Distillery in the Liberties, and the whiskey it […]

7 years ago

Brought to you by Aer Lingus As underrated European cities go, Bilbao is up there with the best of them and makes for the ideal winter getaway. The perfect city for anyone who fancies something a little bit different this winter, Bilbao stands out as a cultural marvel in the Basque Country, and one of […]

7 years ago

One of the brothers behind Teeling Whiskey, Jack Teeling, explains why he decided to leave the world of finance and get involved in the family business. Jack Teeling has revealed why he decided to leave the world of finance behind and get involved in the whiskey business. Teeling, along with his brother Stephen, is behind […]

7 years ago

Dr. Johnny Walker, the founder of Jinga Life, reveals his motivation behind creating a company that’s changing healthcare in the home. Jinga Life is the brainchild of Dr. Johnny Walker, interventional radiologist and the founder of the major medical tech company Global Diagnostics. He told Tadhg Enright on The Architects of Business, in partnership with […]

7 years ago

Dr. Johnny Walker is our guest this week on The Architects of Business, in partnership with EY Entrepreneur Of The Year™. Dr. Johnny Walker is no ordinary entrepreneur, and no ordinary doctor. The Founder of Jinga Life – a company that keeps health records for patients digitally – balances his work in business with his […]

7 years ago

Tom Brennan and Louise Grubb, the Co-Founders of TriviumVet – a company that manufactures pharmaceuticals for animals – are our guests this week on The Architects of Business, in partnership with EY Entrepreneur Of The Year™. Raise more capital. That’s the advice of Tom Brennan for anyone looking to get their enterprise off the ground, […]

7 years ago

If the world of height rental doesn’t seem like the most glamorous profession in the world, think again. Height For Hire have some stories to tell. Fergus and Frances McArdle are two of eight siblings involved in the running of Height For Hire, one of Ireland’s – and Europe’s – most successful machine rental companies […]

8 years ago

We’re no longer prepared to just clock in, do our eight hours, zone out and go home, insist two of the McArdle siblings behind Height For Hire. One of Ireland’s most well-respected family businesses, Height For Hire has been operating its machine rental business out of Ashbourne for the last 40 years. Frances and Fergus […]

8 years ago

Sean Brett, the founder of Steeltech Sheds, reveals how much money people can save by working from home. Speaking to host Tadhg Enright on The Architects of Business, JOE’s show in partnership with EY Entrepreneur Of The Year™, Sean Brett revealed exactly how much money people waste in travelling to and from work. Having started […]

8 years ago

Brian Lee’s massively successful healthy food chain continues to expand. Freshly Chopped – co-founded by Brian Lee, a recent guest on JOE’s The Architects of Business – has announced that the company is to create more than 150 new jobs as it plans the opening of ten new outlets. All ten outlets – located in […]

8 years ago

Businessman Sean Brett believes Irish people need to open their eyes and realise that third level education is not for everyone. Primary school. Secondary school. College. Possible post-graduate qualification. Workforce. Mortgage. Etc. It’s a well-worn path for many, many Irish people but Sean Brett – the man who founded Steeltech Sheds – believes there are […]

8 years ago

Samuel Dennigan, the founder of Strong Roots, is our guest this week on The Architects of Business, in partnership with EY Entrepreneur Of The Year™. We’re a nation of procrastinators, but Samuel Dennigan believes this may be no bad thing when it comes to business. Whether the remote control is… just… out of reach and […]

8 years ago

With the world heading for a massive food shortage in less than 35 years, Samuel Dennigan believes we need to rethink our attitude to vegetables. Speaking to host Tadhg Enright on The Architects of Business, in partnership with EY Entrepreneur Of The Year™, Strong Roots Founder Samuel Dennigan was clear about Irish attitudes to misshapen, […]

8 years ago

Ciara Clancy is our guest this week on The Architects of Business, in partnership with EY Entrepreneur Of The Year™. Ciara Clancy, founder of Beats Medical – a company that builds technology to help people with Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease and other neurological conditions – doesn’t believe it’s possible to build a successful career without […]

8 years ago

Ciara Clancy is no ordinary entrepreneur, with her company Beats Medical far less concerned with making money than it is with helping people live with various neurological conditions. At the age of just 29, Ciara Clancy’s work in helping people to live with the likes of Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s, dyspraxia and the effects of stroke […]

8 years ago

If you’re a primary school teacher, or if you just know somebody who is, you should spread the word about this year’s Junior Entrepreneur Programme. The 2019 Junior Entrepreneur Programme (JEP) launches on Monday 3 September, with fifth and sixth class pupils across the island of Ireland learning what it means to start their own […]

8 years ago

Pat McCann, the CEO of Dalata, Ireland’s largest hotel group, learned the hard way not to return lost property without getting a call from the guest in question first. We’ve all left phone chargers, keys or other items of personal property in hotel rooms in our lifetimes, and there’s a reason why hotels don’t just […]

8 years ago

If anyone knows the secrets of the hotel business, it’s Pat McCann. Pat McCann is the founder and CEO of the Dalata Hotel Group, Ireland’s biggest of its kind, and has revealed how online booking sites don’t give a true reflection of how many rooms are available in a hotel at any one time. Speaking […]

8 years ago

Are you smarter than a ten-year-old? We all remember the dread of those multiplication tables in Primary School. None of that adding or subtracting bullshit, that was child’s play. No, multiplication was big league stuff and you knew that if you nail your times tables, you could do anything. Well, it’s time to access your […]

8 years ago

Caroline Keeling, the CEO of Keelings Fruits, describes the moment some business associates realised she was a woman to be reckoned with. Speaking to host Tadhg Enright on The Architects of Business, in partnership with EY Entrepreneur Of The Year™, Caroline Keeling admitted that she has faced discrimination due to her gender in the past. […]

8 years ago

This list is definitive, and is the result of extensive research. We’ve consulted chocolate experts up and down the office to rank the best bars (and bags) on sale in your Maces, Spars, Centras, Londises, local shops and bars up and down the country. We have included all proper-sized bars, although we break this rule […]

8 years ago

One in ten people in Ireland are living with dyslexia, but Caroline Keeling is proof that it need not stop you building a massively successful career in business. As CEO of Keelings, arguably Ireland’s largest fruit company, Caroline Keeling is at the forefront of Ireland’s drive towards healthy eating. What many people don’t know, however, […]

8 years ago

How important are you? This is the narcissist’s guide to giving up Twitter. Next time you contemplate announcing your departure from social media, know that we’re on to you. And nobody bar the most sycophantic follower (or your mam) will notice your absence. This is how it all plays out… Day 1. Announce to your […]

8 years ago

Every day’s a school day. Each time we take a flight and are asked to switch our phones to ‘Flight Mode,’ we assume it’s because leaving it on normal mode would cause the plane to break in half and plunge us to our watery death below. Well, that’s not the case at all. The reason […]

8 years ago

You really need to be getting more than 90% here.

8 years ago

David McKernan of Java Republic slams some of the world’s biggest coffee retailers for how they treat farmers in Africa and Central America. “Coffee is really horrific, in terms of what the farmer gets,” explains David McKernan, who has grown Java Republic into one of Ireland’s biggest coffee brands since founding the company in 1999. […]

8 years ago

If you enjoy a caramel latté, look away now. David McKernan – the man who founded Java Republic – believes you’re not doing yourself any favours. If anyone knows their coffee, it’s David McKernan. The Founder of Java Republic, McKernan has been in the coffee world for almost 30 years, having started his career with […]

8 years ago

Owner Liam LaHart explains why the Porterhouse in Temple Bar ushered in a new kind of pub in Dublin. It may not have been easy, and they may have encountered some dirty tricks on the way, but Porterhouse Co-Founder Liam LaHart will count the decision to open the Porterhouse on Parliament Street in Dublin as […]

8 years ago

Go on, fish it out of your wallet or check down the back of the couch. The National Lottery is looking to make two ticket-holders very, very happy. Almost €10m in prize money is currently unclaimed as the National Lottery calls for people to check any Lotto or EuroMillions tickets they may have bought recently. […]

8 years ago

This is the most significant blow yet to both Alex Jones and InfoWars, the broadcaster which airs his far right conspiracy theories. Apple have removed shows involving Alex Jones from its podcast directory, the most significant blow yet to one of the world’s most notorious conspiracy theorists and a vocal supporter of President Donald Trump. […]

8 years ago

Start planning your day around this – Ireland’s women’s hockey team are coming home. Ireland’s new wave of women’s hockey fans will get to celebrate the magnificent achievements of the team with a homecoming ceremony in Dublin on Monday afternoon. The team, which fell to a 6-0 defeat to the Netherlands in Sunday’s World Cup […]

8 years ago