It will be the shamed cyclist’s only public interview in Europe in 2016. Lance Armstrong will be coming to Dublin in October to speak at a no-holds-barred interview live on stage at the RDS. It takes place on Friday, 21 October and forms part of the inaugural One Zero sports conference. “Lance Armstrong has been the […]

10 years ago

It will be the fourth film in the series. Benicio del Toro is in line to star in The Predator, the fourth in the action franchise that gave Arnold Schwarzenegger one of his biggest hits. The movie will be directed by Shane Black – fresh from the successes of both Iron Man 3 and The […]

10 years ago

Landlords across the country are going to love us for this. OK, while the vast majority of property owners in this country are responsible individuals who would never dream of renting out sub-standard accommodation, there are a number of chancers out there who don’t care about their tenants’ well-being. OFTEC, which represents the domestic oil […]

10 years ago

More sage-like wisdom from El-Hadji Diouf. El-Hadji Diouf has a very, very special place in the hearts of Liverpool fans. The Senegalese striker scored a phenomenal SIX goals in 80 appearances for the club between 2002 and 2004, and pretenders like Fernando Torres and Luis Suarez could never quite live up to the standards he set […]

10 years ago

We know what it sounded like, but it turns out we didn’t get the most stupid quiz answer in the history of television. Firstly, watch this… https://twitter.com/Amy__Kearney/status/775414363448569856 On first listen, it sounds like Boyle from Edinburgh names an island in the Baltic Sea as Ireland, prompting an incredulous Jeremy Paxman to pause for a moment […]

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Channel 4 will be the new home of the massively popular baking show from next year onwards. First of all, don’t pretend that you’ve never watched The Great British Bake Off. There’s no point. You love it, we love it, even if some of the contestants cause you to throw things at the telly from […]

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“I have found that Waterford, like so many other places around the country, has been massively impacted by high unemployment, and this has left many young people are suffering and feeling disillusioned about their prospects and the future.” Joe Caslin unveiled his latest work in Waterford today; a giant, seven-storey tall drawing that overlooks the […]

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Thankfully, by some miracle, nobody was hurt. CCTV footage of a runaway lorry in Derry that crashed into a shopping centre has been released. The vehicle was in the middle of being unloaded on Ferryquay Street at around 4.45am on Sunday when it started rolling away. It made its way down Linenhall Street and Newmarket Street […]

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Later in the day, she insisted that she felt much better as she left the apartment of her daughter Chelsea. Hillary Clinton appeared to faint as she left a 9/11 commemoration event in New York City on Sunday. The 68-year-old candidate for the U.S. Presidency had to be bundled into her car and brought to […]

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Another victory for Team Ireland. Ireland’s Michael McKillop has taken gold in the T37 1,500m final at the Paralympic Games in Rio. What a performance. GOLD for Michael McKillop! Watch him bomb down the home straight to victory. What a hero.#Paralympics #Rio2016 🇮🇪 pic.twitter.com/qutHzO8z0g — JOE.ie (@JOEdotie) September 11, 2016 Tremendous victory. Comprehensive in the […]

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If it’s all a bit quiet in the Dublin camp ahead of next Sunday’s All-Ireland final against Mayo, this should get the blood pumping. Singer and songwriter Gary Cunningham has celebratory video of Dublin football down through the years together, and composed an original song – Back To Back – to go with it. Sample […]

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As if a reminder were needed…

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The barman at the centre of a dispute with a Cork pub over his right to speak Irish at work has spoken about the reaction to the story. Cormac Ó Bruic has spoken about the reaction to news that he left his job as a Cork barman because his boss objected to him speaking his […]

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They’re proud of their mud in Longford. You’ll remember this gentleman from a few weeks ago, proudly telling us about all the wonderful things that happen in Longford (like the time the wasp flew into the chapel and Mrs. Mahon got into an awful flap). Good man, Mossie. Well, he’s after getting a couple of […]

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This looks incredibly painful. Liverpool fans feared the worst when they saw the name of Dejan Lovren curiously absent from the team to face Leicester City at a newly redeveloped Anfield on Saturday evening. The Croat had been replaced by Lucas Leiva, having received a dirty, dirty dig in training on Friday. Lovren posted the […]

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Bill Gates is no longer the richest person in the world, according to Forbes Magazine. The multi-billionaire founder of Microsoft has seen his record overtaken by the Spanish businessman Amancio Ortega, who founded the Zara clothing chain. Ortega’s net worth is believed to have reached $78bn, with Gates lagging behind with a paltry $77.4bn. Breadline […]

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If we know anything, it’s that jokes about the events of 11 September, 2001 will never be ok. Tell that to Miracle Mattress in Texas, who put out the following TV spot to promote their promote. In the ad, a woman and two men talk about the ‘Twin Towers sale,’ before the men and the […]

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Simple as anything, really. You may, or may not, remember Tadhg Fleming from such hits as ‘going gangsta and exasperating the aul’ lad in Tralee‘ and, well, that’s about it really… …but he’s outdone himself here. Tadhg got sick of seeing people’s snaps, Instagram posts and Facebook updates from Electric Picnic so he decided to […]

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This is so simple, we can’t believe we’ve never thought of it before. JOE reader Marty Ryan was in a takeaway in Limerick on Friday when an elderly gentleman came in to order a pizza. Then this happened. So simple, so brilliant. This man is our hero. Cheers to Jamie Porter for sending this our way. […]

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Mecca for motoring enthusiasts. Cannonball 2016 takes places this weekend, with some of the most incredible cars from across the country and beyond criss-crossing Ireland. We’re looking at 190 supercars, including our friend from Mayo, 450 Cannonballers, 1000 kilometres of high octane craic and an awful lot more. This clip, sent to us by O’Donoghue […]

10 years ago

“We wanted to create a powerful piece of content that would ignite important conversation about suicide, the complex issues that surround it and what everyone can do to address it.” Owen Sharp, the CEO of the Movember Foundation, address the issue of male suicide on World Suicide Prevention Day, Saturday 10 September. The organisation has […]

10 years ago

John Kavanagh talks about the incident that led him to mixed martial arts, the UFC and Conor McGregor. Speaking to Ryan Tubridy on Friday night’s Late Late Show, John Kavanagh discussed the incident in Rathmines, in Dublin, that led him to carve out a life as the country’s most successful coach of mixed martial arts. […]

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It’s a jungle out there, but Thomas Barr’s granny Breda has no fear. Thomas Barr may be an instant hit with the Irish people following a fine showing in Rio and a composed, articulate and compelling interview on The Late Late Show, but he’s not even the coolest person in his own family. Step forward […]

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We’re finally getting some payback for having to sit through Suicide Squad. You wait all year for something, anything, worthwhile to fill your local cinema screen and then four come along in the one day. They’re like Dublin Buses, when they’re not on strike. Today, Friday 9 September, sees four top class film releases in […]

10 years ago

What a glorious piece of television this is. At The Races presenter Matt Chapman’s face at the end of this interview makes for one of our favourite sporting clips of this, or any other, year. Josephine Gordon’s interview with Derek Thompson took a turn for the very, very strange on Thursday after he asked her […]

10 years ago

They had some time to kill, so they decided to help this man out. The #22PushUpChallenge is a worldwide craze, like the Ice Bucket Challenge before it, and JOE reader Stephen Naughton decided to promote mental health awareness in the company of some picketing Dublin Bus drivers earlier on the Thursday. Stephen’s actually on Day […]

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Meet Mr. Singh, the single greatest taxi driver in Dublin. Every now and again we get sent something that defies too much description, and this – from JOE reader Graham Darcy – is one of those videos. His taxi driver today, Mr. Singh from India, is an all singing and all dancing superstar of the […]

10 years ago

The former president of the Olympic Council of Ireland is under investigation in Brazil over whether he played a part in ticket touting for the Olympic Games. Pat Hickey and his fellow Irishman Kevin Mallon could face “eight to ten years” in prison if convicted of mis-selling tickets to this summer’s Olympic Games in Rio. […]

10 years ago

The latest crime documentary that we’ll be getting stuck into. Netflix have released the trailer for their upcoming documentary, Amanda Knox. Based around the murder of Meredith Kercher in 2007, it tells the story of how Knox spent almost four years in an Italian prison, having twice been both convicted and acquitted of the killing […]

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Maybe we’re all just fluttering kites. He didn’t. He couldn’t have, could he? We think he just might have, you know. CBeebies presenter Chris Jarvis appears to have snuck in the very worst of all the words while riding a pink and purple scooter on Show Me Tell Me on Wednesday. The c-word. “Kite tails, […]

10 years ago

Rory McIlroy. Michael Fassbender. Lenny Abrahamson. Saoirse Ronan. They’re all as Irish as a peat briquette smothered in Kerrygold, except those UK media vultures keep claiming them as their own. Even the great Jeff Stelling has done it. Thankfully, multi-Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seán Burke is on the case and he has finally found the reason […]

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Who doesn’t love a very kind deed? JOE reader Natalie O’Brien has sent us this story from a friend of hers, who wants to reach out to the man who helped her get her godson to his debs in Tullamore. When the car broke down near Enfield, this gentleman – whom she describes as having […]

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This is how you show devotion to your county (if you happen to have a Ferrari lying around). JOE reader Joseph Gilmartin has written to us about his father Paul, who is taking part in Cannonball 2016 this weekend. Cannonball is a yearly charity event, one of the largest road trips in Europe and celebrates […]

10 years ago

First of all, the key points. We won’t beat around the bush, these are the main talking points following Apple’s launch of the new iPhone 7 on Wednesday evening. The earphones jack is gone. It’s all about the AirPods, which you will lose and be forced to replace constantly. Super Mario Run will launch with […]

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After ten seasons, it looks like the show may be coming to an end. It may be one of the most popular sitcoms of the last ten years but there’s no doubt that the writers of The Big Bang Theory have been phoning it in ever since Penny and Leonard got together. Now, the stars […]

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“In a lifetime spent making natural history films, I’ve been to many wonderful places.” David Attenborough is the grandfather, the godfather, the king of observing and commentating on activities in the wild and his, ehm, ‘take’ on this Limerick nightclub is as evocative as they come. “Nowhere else on Earth are so many animals on […]

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Director Mark Riordan presents The Black, a short film that aims to give a voice to male victims of domestic abuse. Riordan and producer Aaron O’Neill will premiere The Black at the prestigious Kerry Film Festival next month, with the hope of bringing it on to a number of other festivals in the coming months. […]

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They’ve clearly had a word with Conor McGregor’s tailor. The O’Donovan brothers, Gary and Paul, have received a rapturous welcome home since they rowed their way to an Olympic medal in Rio recently. On Friday night, they appeared with Ryan Tubridy on The Late Late Show and the response was as positive as ever. They […]

10 years ago

Two absolute champs. Whatever about the travesty of his Olympic Games exit, Michael Conlan is heading for great things in the boxing world but he didn’t forget one of his biggest – and littlest – fans in Dublin on Friday night. The boxer was so touched by this letter, containing the gift of a gold […]

10 years ago

No, not Ronny Rosenthal. If you’re a famous former football or a celebrity of any kind, you need to know that if you’re passing through Ireland West Airport in Knock it is compulsory to be pictured with some Mayo GAA merchandise. If it says Mayo For Sam, as the legendary former Liverpool FC striker Ian […]

10 years ago

If you’re commuting this evening, take note of this. Irish Rail have suspended services in parts of North Dublin after a vehicle struck a bridge between Portmarnock and Malahide. Trains are currently operating only to and from Clongriffin for the moment, with trains going to Dundalk and Drogheda affected. Irish Rail have people on the […]

10 years ago

What is it about Tipp and Kilkenny? One of the great enmities in Gaelic Games across the country, this Sunday sees the latest in a long line of All-Ireland finals between Tipperary and Kilkenny at Croke Park. The 2 Johnnies ask whether it’s Larry Corbett’s magical hat-trick, or Richie Power out of nowhere? If it’s the pint […]

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The father of three was recently shot and killed in front of his family on the island of Majorca. A fund has been set up to help the family of Trevor O’Neill, the Dubliner killed in Majorca last month in a case of mistaken identity. Trevor worked for the Drainage Division in Dublin City Council and […]

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It’s like he’s never been away. Hopefully Ryan Tubridy and The Late Late Show’s producers are starting as they mean to go on, as Friday night’s first show of the season is an absolute cracker. Granted, 87% of the population will be huddled together in Stradbally over a single tin of beans and six-pack of […]

10 years ago

Amy Schumer is not a woman to be fucked with. During a show in Stockholm, the comic heard a member of the audience shouting out, “Show us your tits!” and this did not end well for our friend. Our friend, we should add, was wearing a t-shirt with ‘I love pussies’ on it. “What do […]

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The Union of Students in Ireland have issued the following warning to people heading to Electric Picnic 2016 in Stradbally, Co. Laois this weekend. “We are urging students not to take unknown substances, or any substances from people they don’t know,” Annie Hoey, USI President, said. “Festivals are a great chance to enjoy music, art […]

10 years ago

If you’re not going to Electric Picnic, chances are this what you’ll be doing with your weekend. The second series of Narcos hits Netflix this weekend, and we’ve been sent an exclusive clip of everyone’s favourite cocaine magnate as he goes on the run from the Colombian authorities. This may just be a minute and […]

10 years ago

We always knew he could hold a note. Good man Robbie. Having finished his Ireland career on Wednesday night with a goal against Oman, Robbie Keane headed out for his Ireland retirement party afterwards and this video has been doing the rounds since. Robbie, fine singer that he is, teams up with singer George Murphy […]

10 years ago

They pass the test with flying colours. Foil, Arms and Hog keep up their win ratio with this humorous look at what it takes to get through the United States’ borders. Two of our friends meet a US interrogator as they try to get into the country, but he has a few questions about the […]

10 years ago

They’ll be headlining the Body & Soul in the small hours of Saturday morning. Hot on the heels of the release of their debut album llvv, All Tvvins – Conor Adams and Lar Kaye – will be playing the Body & Soul stage at 2.30am in the very early hours of Saturday morning. With llvv having […]

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