A member of the public reported Fry’s comments on the RTÉ show to Gardaí in Ennis. More than two years after it was broadcast, Stephen Fry comments on The Meaning of Life with Gay Byrne in February 2015 are being investigated for blasphemy. The Irish Independent report that a member of the public made a […]

9 years ago

Pieta House’s flagship event has taken on a life all its own. Every year, Pieta House – the suicide and self harm prevention centre – stages Darkness Into Light, an event that has now become a global movement against suicide. This year, over 150,000 people in 150 venues all over the world took part in […]

9 years ago

The comedian made many valid points on Friday night’s Late Late Show. Bernard O’Shea, star of Bridget and Eamon, does not like Ed Sheeran. In fact, he “fuckin’ hates Ed Sheeran”, as he said so himself on Friday night’s Late Late Show opposite Ryan Tubridy. He’s sick of his songs, he’s sick of his youth, […]

9 years ago

“Goin’ to the toilet was tough enough.” And just like that, the world was obsessed with Fidget Spinners. The toy of the season was actually invented in 1997 by Florida woman Catherine Hettinger for her seven-year-old daughter, but all of 20 years later major retailers are running out of them and people are chasing them […]

9 years ago

This will soon be the most followed baby on social media. Before his first bottle feed and dirty nappy, Conor McGregor’s new baby son already has his own Instagram account. Unconfirmed reports suggest that McGregor’s partner Dee Devlin gave birth to a healthy baby boy on Friday, but the fighter himself is yet to break […]

9 years ago

Not featured: Liam Gallagher. They’ve long since buried the hatchet but it’s still a bizarre sight to see Damon Albarn and Noel Gallagher performing side by side, and it helps when the song is an absolute banger. We all know the back story – back in the mid 1990s, Blur and Oasis were engaged in […]

9 years ago

If it gets approval, the market will be located bang in the middle of Dublin city centre. Plans are afoot to create a brand new urban food market in the middle of Dublin city. The Irish capital has been crying out for a space similar to Cork’s thriving English Market for some time, and an […]

9 years ago

To the person who composed this, we salute you. OK, so you can probably do this with most people’s lower lips, but that doesn’t stop us from celebrating this wonderful use of Photoshop by one Mike Mitchell. We’re really just grateful to have something that can distract us from the destructive bile that the US […]

9 years ago

The incident happened early on Friday morning. Two people were taken to hospital after a Luas struck a truck on the Red Line in Dublin early on Friday morning. The incident happened at the Cheeverstown section of the track in Tallaght. Shortly after 6am the alarm was raised and six units of the fire brigade attended […]

9 years ago

The Kerry legend only announced his retirement from inter-county football recently. Colm Cooper will be joining The Sunday Game this summer. Having retired from inter-county football earlier this year, the five-times All-Ireland winner will move into punditry during RTÉ’s flagship GAA highlights and analysis show. RTÉ will announce full details of their summer GAA schedule […]

9 years ago

The Fianna Fáil leader was speaking to Shane Beatty on KFM earlier on Thursday. Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin has conceded that a referendum on repealing the eight amendment of the constitution is inevitable, but refused to support those who would choose to have an abortion after being raped by a member of their own […]

9 years ago

The first part of the Brexit negotiations will see ‘great attention’ paid to Ireland, insists Michel Barnier. Michel Barnier, the European Union’s chief Brexit negotiator, insisted that the interests of Ireland will be front and centre as talks begin on Britain’s divorce from the EU. “I will pay great attention to the situation in Ireland… I […]

9 years ago

You couldn’t pay us to go back to the awkwardness of a teenage disco, yet this makes us incredibly nostalgic. If you ever asked your mam to drop you off a good distance away so you wouldn’t be embarrassed in front of your pals, or swiped a bottle of Baileys Irish Cream for a good […]

9 years ago

True to form, Nigel Farage has blasted the EU for ‘stoking Irish nationalism’. Broadcaster Richard Chambers has shared the latest clip from The Nigel Farage Comedy Hour on LBC, in which everyone’s favourite cartoon fascist calls out the EU for ‘stoking Irish nationalism’. This is in regard to a recent indication from the European Union […]

9 years ago

Well, if it worked for Kendall Jenner why wouldn’t it work for this chap? You’ve got to admire Vito Gesualdi. So moved was he at the sight of Kendall Jenner bringing peace and harmony to the world recently by handing around cold cans of vegetable extract, he decided to do the same thing when things […]

9 years ago

Ireland could be about to become the number grower of cannabis in Europe. Dr. James Linden of Greenlight Pharmaceuticals is one of the country’s leading advocates for medicinal cannabis, believing it can alleviate the symptoms of cancer, epilepsy, arthritis and many other diseases and ailments, and he wants to establish massive ‘cannabis farms’ in a […]

9 years ago

How a single tenner turned into 14 years of cider drinking competitions. Tim Burrows is a journalist for The Guardian and Vice, among others, and he has revealed how a gentleman contacted him a full 14 years after the Reading Festival in 2003 to tell him that his wallet had been found. The man who […]

9 years ago

Damien Dempsey’s new single will be released this week – watch it exclusively on JOE first. Damien Dempsey releases his seventh studio album next month and you can watch the video for ‘Soulsun’ on JOE first. The video was directed by legendary rock photographer Steve Gullick, who has shot iconic images of Nirvana, Beck and […]

9 years ago

We… can’t… look away. Meet the shipworm. A US science journal has published details of a rare, live giant shipworm that has been discovered in the Philippines. The existence of the shipworm had been known about for years but this is the first time a live specimen has been studied. The creature – which is […]

9 years ago

A British General Election will take place within a matter of weeks. “The country is coming together, but Westminster is not,” announce Prime Minister Theresa May on Tuesday morning as she announced a vote in the Commons on Wednesday. The Conservatives need a two-thirds majority to spark a General Election on 8 June, and it […]

9 years ago

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has dropped a bombshell. Turnbull has announced that the 457 visa – which brings skilled workers into the country – is to be abolished, a move that could affect the many Irish people who move to Australia to work from year to year. The change to a new temporary visa […]

9 years ago

Could she be standing down? British Prime Minister Theresa May has called a press conference for 11.15am on Tuesday morning and nobody is certain what she’s going to announce. Speculation that she is resigning is doing the rounds, although Downing Street is maintaining a strict silence. What Theresa May could announce at 11.15: Election, quitting, […]

9 years ago

Some things you just don’t want to know, but we’re going to tell you anyway. Netflix don’t release information about the viewing habits of their viewers easily, which makes it even more depressing when they throttle us with the news that users have spent half a billion hours streaming the movies of Adam Sandler. To make […]

9 years ago

A nice story to start your Tuesday with. A Kerry farmer is celebrating after 24 stolen sheep made their way back to his farm close to Killarney on their own. The Farmer’s Journal tells the story of how Dermot Donovan’s hoggets went missing for more than four days but found their way back to his farm […]

9 years ago

Jesus wept. If there’s anything better than a good mass, it’s a good mass that you can enjoy from the comfort of your own home. Sadly for RTÉ, things went somewhat awry over the weekend when the subtitles went kaput and a live mass from Sligo fell into disarray, right around the time Sister Assumpta […]

9 years ago

The bloody size of it. JOE reader Fiona Cullen works in an Irish bar in Switzerland and has been missing certain everyday treats from home. What she probably didn’t expect was her parents to turn up in a camper van with the entire stock from the local Super Valu in two. This is incredible. You’ve […]

9 years ago

“Barred from Dublin Airport.” Have moving walkway, will pretend to be an Olympic rowing team. In scenes that wouldn’t have been out of place at the height of Euro 2016, this stag party – led by JOE reader Neil McIlfatrick – brought Dublin Airport to a standstill over the Easter Weekend as they sought inspiration […]

9 years ago

Let us take you back to a golden time. April 2015 was a simpler time. The idea of Leicester City winning the Premier League would’ve been met by a curt, “would ya FUCK off?”, Jon Snow was weeks away from a grisly death (and subsequent spoiler alerts) and Donald Trump was just a haircut in […]

9 years ago

“We’re gone.” The final, haunting words of the crew of Rescue 116 before it disappeared off the north coast of Mayo on 14 March, as the preliminary report into the fatal crash was released on Thursday evening. The report found that data for Blackrock Island did not feature on the helicopter’s onboard warning system; according […]

9 years ago

Rooney was the former chairman of the Pittsburgh Steelers and American ambassador to Ireland. The much loved Dan Rooney has died at the age of 84. In a moving tribute on its official website, the NFL wrote: Few people in NFL history had as much influence for as long a period of time as Rooney did […]

9 years ago

The great man walks among us. Belfast Live reports that Morgan Freeman is in the city to shoot a documentary called The Story of Us. Freeman was snapped filming outside the famous Crown bar around midday on Thursday. Imagine #morganfreeman strolling around Belfast today. Who would have thought it! #starcity#belfast https://t.co/wPRudKnS2W pic.twitter.com/vL6O2AaWRD — Causeway Pictures […]

9 years ago

He’s taking on Wetherspoons. Most of us have dreamt of opening up our own pub, and Ed Sheeran is no different. The singer was on 98FM on Thursday morning where he told Cooper and Luke of his plans to take on the cheap booze emporium that is Wetherspoons and calling it Drinking Out Loud. “I […]

9 years ago

The pubs will be closed on Good Friday, but all is not lost if prohibition is not your thing. No meat, no booze, Jebus would have wanted it that way. As would Rex Banner. But. There are those of you who may want to wet your whistles on this soberest of days in Ireland, and (whispers) […]

9 years ago

You’ve got five minutes. 20 players, five minutes, can you name them all? One thing to note – loan deals are not included. Ready? Go!

9 years ago

More transport mayhem is in the offing. SIPTU workers at Dublin Bus have voted to go on strike in solidarity with staff at Bus Éireann, as the long running dispute involving Ireland’s public transport system shows no sign of conclusion. The date, or dates, of Dublin Bus strike action are not yet known. A post […]

9 years ago

Moussa’s story is one of the more heartbreaking videos you’ll see. Channel 4’s Unreported World have shared the story of Moussa, a Syrian boy who could go blind if he doesn’t receive urgent surgery. Moussa, who has already lost the sight in one of his eyes, and his family fled the Syrian civil war but […]

9 years ago

Does she pull the trigger? Orange Is The New Black remains one of the best original shows on Netflix and season four left us on the edge of a cliff, as Daya aimed the barrel of a gun squarely at the head of the depraved C.O. Humphrey. With a riot breaking out, this short clip […]

9 years ago

We’re sure he’s doing it ironically. U2 will appear on the new album by Kendrick Lamar, ‘DAMN.’, which is released on Friday. DAMN. by Kendrick Lamar. pic.twitter.com/ucQcg0PuzG — Kendrick Lamar (@kendricklamar) April 11, 2017 The presence of the crowd-pleasing yet incredibly safe Dublin rockers – as well as Rihanna – has come as a bit […]

9 years ago

Massive news for the self-proclaimed ‘accidental activist’. Production company Playground has bought the rights to Rory O’Neill’s 2014 memoir ‘Panti: A Woman In The Making’ and will turn it into a comedy-drama series based on the his life as alter-ego Panti Bliss. O’Neill himself will star as Panti in the series, which will be set […]

9 years ago

Gary Cunningham is a singer, guitarist, painter, decorator, boyfriend, son, proud Dublin GAA supporter and a former prisoner of Mountjoy in Dublin and Loughan House in Cavan. Gary first got in touch with JOE last year in the hope of getting some publicity for the band he had started in prison, The Off#enders, with their […]

9 years ago

Ray Flavin’s heartbreaking story has made headlines in recent days. A GoFundMe campaign has been set up to help the bereaved father of five children who has been threatened with the loss of his home in Kerry. Despite admitting earlier this year that Ray Flavin had overpaid on his tracker mortgage, the bank is fighting […]

9 years ago

A bold move from Donald Trump. Steve Bannon has been removed from the national security council by President Donald Trump, according to reports. Bannon – Trump’s chief strategist – was placed on the council in the earliest days of Trump’s presidency, a move which was criticised by many people in Congress and Washington’s foreign policy […]

9 years ago

The social media giant fights back against revenge porn. Facebook have announced significant new measures to help protect intimate images of people shared by others on social media. The company – whose European headquarters are based in Dublin – has launched a tool that will enable it to stop ‘revenge porn’ from appearing on Facebook, […]

9 years ago

Louis C.K. was appearing on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert when the subject of Donald Trump came up. “He’s a gross crook dirty rotten lying sack of…”  was just the tip of the iceberg as comedian Louis C.K. tore into the presidency of Donald Trump on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Tuesday […]

9 years ago

The singer came out to People magazine. Legendary singer Barry Manilow – the man behind hits such as ‘Copacabana’ and ‘Mandy’ – has come out as gay at the age of 73. Manilow has been in a relationship for 39 years with his manager Garry Kief. They met back in 1978. The performer says that […]

9 years ago

This three minute video would do wonders for tourism in the North-West. If you’re ever ‘out foreign’ and get the opportunity to tell the locals why they should take a trip to Ireland, all you’ll really need to do is show them this video. Filmed by the people behind Aereaphotography.ie, this is an incredible look […]

9 years ago

Noel King is the former manager of Ireland’s women’s national team, and he’s not happy with Tuesday’s press conference. Noel King appeared on Morning Ireland on Tuesday morning and tore into the players’ claims that they were being treated as ‘fifth class citizens’ and that they were the ‘dirt on the shoe’ of the FAI. […]

9 years ago

Kendall Jenner decides to join the revolution, whatever the revolution is. The non-Kardashian Kardashian has thrown off her oppressors and her blonde wig (you can’t be a blonde protestor, after all, EVERYONE knows that) to protest against the injustices of the world in Pepsi’s new ad. No more photoshoots, no more Instagram feeds and no […]

9 years ago

As far as we’re aware, the two cows are still out on main road causing havoc. This glorious piece of video has been doing the rounds for a week or so now, and we can see why. Filmed by Caitlin Lyons in Lismore, County Waterford, it shows the comedy of errors that follows the escape […]

9 years ago

They want to compete for trophies on a global level, and are looking for the means to do just that. Having watched their counterparts on Ireland’s women’s rugby team go from strength to strength, the country’s footballers have spoken out on Tuesday to address concerns over their ability to compete for their country. Journalist Marie […]

9 years ago