The tiny kiosk has been trading for decades, and has now been bought by the owners of the Starbucks franchise in Ireland. Colum and Ciarán Butler are the brothers who run the Starbucks operation in Ireland, and they’ve just paid a mammoth €330,000 for a hexagonal kiosk in one of Dublin’s most exclusive areas. The […]

9 years ago

The companies have faced allegations of price fixing, with consumers reporting a sharp rise in their car insurance premiums. Updated 17:17, Tuesday 4 July  The Irish Independent is reporting that a number of Irish insurance providers were raided by officers from the State’s competition watchdog – along with investigators from the European Commission – on […]

9 years ago

The Breakfast Club comes to Netflix this week. If you were around for it, we’d like to apologise for making you feel old. If you weren’t around for it and have never come across the most classic of all John Hughes films, The Breakfast Club, then get out of our sight and do not come […]

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We feel the need, the need for speed!

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We’re ahead of the curve.

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“It’s Kevin looking after us.”

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The Talking Heads influence is strong in this new single from The Killers. The Killers have released the video for their new single, ‘The Man,’ which sounds uncannily like ’80s-era Talking Heads (which can only be a good thing). Brandon Flowers – channelling his best David Byrne – et al are preparing to release their new […]

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Criminal charges have been brought against six people over the Hillsborough disaster. On April 15 1989, 96 people died in the crush at Sheffield Wednesday’s stadium, which was staging an FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest Two former senior police officers are among the six people who have been charged. You can read […]

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Ed Sheeran has just announced a series of 7 stadium shows in Ireland.

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Ed Sheeran will play 7 massive shows in Ireland next summer. The singer has announced shows in Galway, Belfast, Cork and Dublin in May 2018. Sheeran will begin a series of dates with two shows in Cork’s Páirc Uí Chaoimh on 4 and 5 May 2018. He will then move on to Belfast on 9 […]

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The actor is prepared to go to trial.

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Paddy Armstrong on Life After Life.

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Bin Laden was shot and killed in 2011.

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Davis made the claim of an ‘invisible border’ on the BBC on Sunday morning. The UK’s Brexit Minister David Davis says that his government wishes to maintain an ‘invisible border’ between the six counties and the rest of Ireland. Speaking on The Andrew Marr Show on the BBC, he said that his government could monitor […]

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Gardaí are investigating an assault in Tramore in the early hours of Saturday morning. A man has died following a fatal assault in Tramore, County Waterford, in the early hours of Saturday. The man died of his injuries at University Hospital Waterford early on Sunday morning. The incident took place on Lower Strand Street in […]

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Sad news this morning.

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Leo Varadkar was among the revellers as Dubliners celebrated LGBT Pride in their thousands on Saturday afternoon.

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“Just walk past the abandoned nursery and you’ll find the haunted cottage.” Darragh Taheny is a filmmaker from Ireland who likes to scare the absolute shite out of himself and in this particular video he manages to terrify us too, just a little bit, by spending a night in a haunted cottage. So… Darragh went […]

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Could Anchorman 3 be filmed in Ireland? Having received the mother and father of all Irish welcomes back in 2013, Steve Carell and the rest of the cast want to shoot Anchorman 3 in Ireland. Carell says it all comes down to the reception he, Will Ferrell, Paul Rudd and David Koechner received when they […]

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Will Garnsworthy is hoping to make as much money as he can in support of MS Ireland. Will Garnsworthy, whose wife is living with Multiple Sclerosis, will be cycling the entirety of the Wild Atlantic Way in support of MS Ireland. Will will cycle the entire west coast of Ireland, a total of 2,272km, in […]

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Pride is in the air in Dublin.

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Sean O’Brien’s try aside, that was not pretty.

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The greatest band of all time?

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If you haven’t caught the film adaptation of Emma Donoghue’s exceptional novel, Thursday night on Film4 is your chance. Film4 will show Lenny Abrahamson’s incredible Room for the first time on Thursday night. On Thursday at 9pm, we're screening @LennyAbrahamson's Oscar-winning drama Room, starring @BrieLarson & @JacobTremblay, for the first time. pic.twitter.com/aN2XKlST7N — Film4 (@Film4) […]

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‘Who they are’ is far less important than ‘what they do’.

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Fine Gael issued a statement on Wednesday afternoon regarding gender balance in the government. Fine Gael have fought back against claims that Taoiseach Leo Varadkar’s Cabinet is skewed unfairly towards the male gender. Varadkar has faced criticism for a lack of female representation in senior positions within his government. “The numbers are stark,” said Orla O’Connor, […]

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This is not the kind of weather warning we’re used to. Met Éireann has issued a weather warning from midday to 6pm on Wednesday 21 June, and for once it’s not got nothing to do with alphabetical storm. Nope, what we’ve got here is a High-Temperature Warning. ⚠️A high temperature warning has been issued for […]

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“You are stirring up hatred. You’re abusing people’s religion…”

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O Captain My Captain. All hail Peter Butera. The spirit of Dead Poets Society (and a bit of The Breakfast Club) is alive and well in Peter Butera. The class president of Wyoming Area’s class of 2017 used his valedictorian speech to accuse the school’s authorities of stifling leadership and preventing students from realising their potential. […]

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What an age we live in. In terms of being taken seriously within his first week of leading the Irish nation, we’re not sure referencing a Richard Curtis rom-com in front of the world’s press is going to help Leo Varadkar’s quest for international gravitas. But what do we know? Maybe this, in which he […]

9 years ago

What could possibly go wrong?

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The university has distanced itself from the views expressed in the email sent by a former member of staff, and disabled the account. Dublin City University has distanced itself from an email sent to its entire academic staff by “an individual who had retired from St. Patrick College, Drumcondra a number of years ago.” The email […]

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Well, this is curious. Tickets for Radiohead’s show in Dublin on 20 June are back on general sale, despite reportedly selling out in just minutes before Christmas. A quick search of Ticketmaster’s site shows that a number of standing tickets for the show, priced at €90.50, are still available as of 1.30pm on Friday afternoon. […]

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This show was pure magic.

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Worrying scenes from the US Open golf as a blimp covering the golf major explodes into flames. The Milwaukee Sentinel reports that the blimp went down about 11:20am local time near Highway 83 and Highway 167. It crashed into some nearby woodland and people were seen evacuating the craft via parachutes. Emergency services immediately attended the […]

9 years ago

All hail King Homme.

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The Crime Victims Helpline has launched a series of videos to explain how the Criminal Justice System in Ireland works. If you’ve ever been the victim of a crime but never been sure how to go about reporting it, or what happens once you’ve visited or phoned your local Garda station, this series of videos […]

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The Countdown presenter will no longer host Friday Night Football alongside Jeff Stelling. Rachel Riley has been forced to quit her role as a host on Sky Sports as the result of abuse she received over comments she had made about Tottenham Hotspur on air. Riley had described Spurs’ 1-0 defeat to West Ham as […]

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We’re sure that journalist Mark White regretted this immediately. Everybody says stupid things from time to time, and it can be tough to cover breaking news on a major tragedy, but journalist Mark White will wish he hadn’t made this comment to a 12-year-old schoolboy live on Sky News on Wednesday morning. White was interviewing […]

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Big Brother is watching. Business owner Gabriel Matei called Joe Duffy on Tuesday to explain how he caught three men who were using his food company’s bins without permission. Matei, who owns an artisan shop in Dundrum called ‘Baked’, noticed how he was being charged a lot more than he should have been for recent bin […]

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Age Action Ireland have come out strongly against the news that 100 Bank of Ireland branches will be cash-free by the end of the year. Updated: 14.32 Bank of Ireland has been accused of discriminating against the elderly after announcing that 100 of its branches will be cash-free by the end of 2017. Customers will […]

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It’s a year since Ireland opened their Euro 2016 campaign with a 1-1 draw against Sweden. Can you name the team? We may have the Lions tour but, let’s be honest, nothing is going to beat one of the best experiences in Irish sport last summer when we took over the streets of France. It […]

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We’re not drinking as much as we used to, but we’re getting there. Updated: 3pm, 13 June Irish people are drinking a lot less than we did at the height of the Celtic Tiger years, according to a report from the World Health Organisation, but our boozing culture is in danger of taking over once […]

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Tommy’s come a long, long way.

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HSA inspectors are currently on the site. A number of people were hospitalised after a ‘dangerous occurrence’ at the Poolbeg Incinerator in Dublin. According to reports, 11 people were taken to hospital after an uncontrolled release of lime at around 6am on Thursday morning. Nine of those 11 have since been released, with two remaining […]

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“It’s been the best thing that’s happened to us,” insists Louis Copeland. Tailor Louis Copeland has described how Conor McGregor singlehandedly breathed new life into his business, and that the UFC superstar’s influence has altered men’s fashion in Ireland. The 28-year-old from Crumlin has built up an association with the Louis Copeland tailoring business since his […]

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Ever wondered why Conor McGregor looks like he’s wearing a picnic blanket? Host Nick Webb talks to Louis Copeland, a man who has become synonymous with Ireland’s UFC champion. Conor McGregor’s dress sense has inspired men all over the world to imitate his style and give a real business boost to one of the country’s best-known […]

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Ferris Bueller, Dublin-style. Dylan Cantwell and his pal James Hendricken are facing the start of their Leaving Cert on Wednesday, with the day they skipped school and headed to Paris instead now in the all too recent past. This was one of our favourite stories of the year so far. Dylan started off by leaving […]

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The UK-based researchers believe their study will have far-reaching implications for the public. A 30-year study has found that even moderate use of alcohol can have a negative effect on people’s brain health. The study looked at 550 men and women, none of whom were addicted to alcohol, who were all around 43 years of age. […]

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Carragher was happy that Sturridge confronted him.

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