Marching for change. Thousands of students in Ireland will take part in strikes across the country today to demand more action from the government on climate change. This is the third time a climate strike has been organised by Irish school students after similar marches were held in March and May. Some schools and third level […]

6 years ago

Ah here. Ireland is the second most expensive country in Europe for non-alcoholic beverages such as minerals, water, tea and coffee. New figures from the Central Statistics Office show that consumer price levels in Ireland are broadly the same as the notoriously pricey Nordic countries, such as Denmark, Sweden and Norway. The CSO found that Ireland […]

6 years ago

Trinity College has called on the government to work closer with Irish universities. Trinity College Dublin’s position in an international university rankings table has slipped significantly after dropping 44 places in the World University Rankings on Wednesday. The university is now rated as 164th best in the world in the Times Higher Education list falling […]

6 years ago

The ban was introduced in 2004. The Irish Blood Transfusion Service (IBTS) has announced that the permanent deferral of people who had resided in the UK for a cumulative period of more than one year between 1980 and 1996 will be removed next month. Until now, anyone who lived in the UK between 1980 and […]

6 years ago

Take note. Passengers on several Irish flights face disruption today after British Airways cancelled almost all services from UK airports. Several flights into and out of Dublin Airport are among those affected today, as are a couple of flights to and from Shannon Airport. This is the first day of strike action by British Airways […]

6 years ago

We thought this would go without saying but… A primary school in Wicklow has banned the use of smartphones on their grounds. St Cronan’s in Bray said they carried out a survey in June with parents who voted overwhelmingly in favour of banning smartphones. More than 91% of parents voted in favour of the ban. […]

6 years ago

Alright, alright, alright. Oscar-winning actor Matthew McConaughey has officially joined the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin. McConaughey, who graduated from UT in 1993, will be a “professor of practice” at the Moody College of Communication as faculty in the Department of Radio-Television-Film, according to a university news release. He has been a […]

6 years ago

You’re going to need a jacket. Met Éireann has issued a Status Yellow rainfall warning for 10 counties. The warning affects Galway, Mayo, Sligo, Roscommon, Leitrim, Donegal, Clare, Cork, Kerry and Limerick and is active from 6am on Friday until 6am on Saturday morning. Met Éireann warned that rain in these areas will turn persistent […]

6 years ago

Anyone with information is urged to come forward. Gardaí in Cork are appealing for witnesses following an alleged sexual assault on a woman. The incident occurred in the early hours of Saturday morning, 24 August. Gardaí investigating the incident said it occurred in the vicinity of Connolly Rd/ Vicars Rd, Ballyphehane, Cork. Gardaí in Togher […]

6 years ago

Anyone interested in taking these in? The ISPCA, responding to a call about a large number of dogs, removed 19 dogs from a property in Meath. 13 adult pointer dogs and six puppies were surrendered into the care of the ISPCA following the inspection. The dogs were in mostly good health but had been breeding […]

6 years ago

Very sad news. A boy has died after becoming ill at Center Parcs in Longleat Forest in the UK on Saturday afternoon. It is reported the boy became unwell while playing in the sub-tropical indoor pool area at the Longleat Forest complex. “We are deeply saddened by the tragic news that a young guest passed away […]

6 years ago

WHAT A WIN! There was one winner of tonight’s Lotto jackpot worth an eye-watering €11,225,280. The winning numbers were 10, 13, 23, 24, 25, 44 and the bonus number was 12. One other player managed to match five plus the bonus number to take home €134,412. At the time of writing there is no information on where the […]

6 years ago

Take note. Bank of Ireland has warned customers to be aware of a fraudulent text message being sent to customers purporting to be from the bank. The bank sent a push notification to customers shortly after 5pm on Friday reminding people they would never ask for them to update personal details by text. “We are […]

6 years ago

Significant changes. Changes in the rules around granting Irish exemptions for school pupils are to be introduced in the new school year. Minister for Education and Skills Joe McHugh announced new criteria for schools to grant students an exemption from studying Irish. Following an extensive public consultation earlier this year on draft revisions to the […]

6 years ago

I felt bad when I lost some change down the back of my couch this morning. Uber has released its second quarterly earnings ever as a public company, and reported a loss of $5.2 billion in three months. Yes, you’re reading that correctly. It says billion. The latest losses were worse than analysts had expected and the […]

6 years ago

Ryanair said it is “disappointed” with the planned industrial action. The British Airline Pilots Association (BALPA) has announced its UK-based Ryanair pilots have voted for two days of strike action. Members of the BALPA pilots’ union backed walkouts by a majority of 80% on a turnout of 72%. The union said “decades of Ryanair refusing to deal […]

6 years ago

What a win! An Irish man who has won £10,000 a month for the next 30 years in the UK Lotto has quit his job to pursue his dream career as a scriptwriter. Dean Weymes, originally from Dublin, won £3.6 million (€3.9million) as part of the National Lottery’s ‘Set For Life’ jackpot prize. The quirk […]

6 years ago

Rain, rain, rain. Following on from a number of weather warnings issued over the past few days, Met Éireann has issued a further rainfall warning. The Status Yellow rainfall warning will affect Munster and Leinster and will be active from 7pm on Thursday (8 August) until 7am on Friday morning. Met Éireann has said that […]

6 years ago

Want to be on TV? Gogglebox Ireland returns to Virgin Media Television this autumn, and the show’s producers want you to light up the small screen. Series five of the hit reality show is looking for new faces – and their sofas – to join the country’s most opinionated TV fans. It’s a family affair […]

6 years ago

If you’ve never been, you need to go. Keem Bay on Achill Island has been listed among the best beaches in the world according to a new survey. Global travel site Big 7 Travel has released the official list of the 50 Best Beaches in the World for 2019, and Keem Bay has ranked at number […]

6 years ago

Take note. Financial technology company Revolut has warned users to be wary of fraudsters contacting people pretending to be working for Revolut. The scammers pretend to be Revolut support agents and attempt to get users to share their SMS login codes to gain access to their accounts. Revolut warned users that their platform is app […]

6 years ago

Check those tickets. A Lotto player in Cork has scooped €209,809 from last night’s draw. The player managed to match five numbers plus the bonus number to come ever so close to taking home the €7 million plus jackpot. The jackpot will now roll over to Wednesday’s draw and will be worth over €8 million. […]

6 years ago

NOPE! A woman in Waterford spent six days in hospital after she was bitten by a False Black Widow spider. Speaking on Deise Today with Damien Tiernan on WLR FM, Maria Condon explained how she was bitten three times by the spider and that she’d discovered a nest of them in her house. “I got bit […]

6 years ago

A big step. Instagram has announced it is running a test in Ireland that removes the total number of likes photos and video views in Feed, Permalink pages, and Profile. The platform announced the news on Wednesday, stating it wants users to concentrate on the photos and videos shared, rather than the amount of likes and […]

6 years ago

R&B singer R Kelly has been arrested on sex trafficking charges, according to American law officials. Kelly, 52, was taken in to custody on Thursday in Chicago by New York police detectives and investigators with the Department of Homeland Security, and is expected to be taken to New York City. In a short statement, US […]

6 years ago

Are you guilty of it? Or ever get the feeling that your other half isn’t as committed as you are? An Australian psychologist has described a new term which she says is happening in many relationships. Melanie Schilling, an Australian psychologist, believes that ‘micro-cheating’ involves seemingly trivial behaviours which suggest that someone is emotionally or […]

6 years ago

This is difficult viewing… Love Island viewers were left somewhat astounded by an unseen clip from this week after a few islanders showed some gaps in their geography knowledge. On Saturday’s Unseen Bits, Belle Hassan, Joanna Chimonides and Jourdan Riane were having a conversation about Anton Danyluk, which took a turn towards geography. Have a look below […]

6 years ago

May she rest in peace. The wife of former footballer Vinnie Jones has died in Los Angeles, his management have confirmed. Tanya Jones passed away at their home in Los Angeles following a long illness. A statement from Jones’s management said: “At 8.46am local time in Los Angeles on Saturday July 6, Vinnie Jones’s wife, […]

6 years ago

Not what we expected to be hearing this Sunday morning, but there you go. Actress and comedian Amy Schumer has come out in support of Longford’s Maura Higgins – who is a contestant on Love Island – and described her as her “homie”. The Hollywood star is a huge fan of the reality TV series […]

6 years ago

Brilliant news! An Irish family facing deportation from Australia because their son has cystic fibrosis have been allowed to stay. Anthony and Christine Hyde, and their three-year-old son Darragh, who has cystic fibrosis, were granted a ministerial intervention on Friday, after their pending deportation caused outrage across the country. The last minute intervention from Australia’s […]

6 years ago

Gardaí confirmed the news. Gardaí have opened a murder investigation into the death of a two-year-old girl in Cork. The post mortem of the girl who died at Cork University Hospital on Friday morning has been completed by Deputy State Pathologist Dr. Margot Bolster. Gardaí will not be releasing the results for operational reasons but […]

6 years ago

Just like people, some birds can be dicks… The public have been urged to be wary of aggressive birds during the warm summer months as calls to deal with seagulls and pest birds have increased by 86% in the first half of this year. July is a part of a seagull’s nesting season, when the […]

7 years ago

Hugely promising. A cure for baldness could be within sight after scientists created hair that grows through the skin using human stem cells. Researchers in the United States said they had refined a method which allowed them to grow hair through the skin of mice using dermal papilla cells derived from human pluripotent stem cells. The […]

7 years ago

Think before you selfie… Selfies have killed five times more people than shark attacks, a study in India has found. Between October 2011 and November 2017, at least 259 people died taking selfies around the globe, compared to just 50 people killed by sharks in the same period, according to India’s Journal of Family Medicine and […]

7 years ago

Well done to all involved. Bantry in Cork is the overall winner of Ireland’s Best Kept Town competition 2019. The results of this year’s competition were announced at an awards ceremony in Farmleigh House in Dublin. Ireland’s Best Kept Town is an all-island competition in which some of the best towns in the SuperValu TidyTowns […]

7 years ago

Thoughts? College Green in Dublin is set to be be pedestrianised on a trial basis for three Sundays this summer. Dublin City Council has announced the area will be closed to traffic on 21 July, 28 July and 4 August. It’s understood a number of family -riendly events will be organised in the city centre […]

7 years ago

Nightmare. An Air Canada passenger said she was left terrified after waking up alone on a pitch black, locked plane. Tiffani Adams said she fell asleep on the short 90-minute flight from Quebec to Toronto but awoke to to find herself on an empty plane. She then said she tried to call her friend, but her battery had died. Adams […]

7 years ago

Very hot air from Africa is being pulled across Europe. A heatwave is expected to bring temperatures as high as 40 degrees Celsius to parts of Europe next week. Temperatures in cities from Spain to Germany are expected to exceed 32C and could potentially climb to more than 38C or even 40C in the hottest […]

7 years ago

A brilliant idea. A grocery shop in Vancouver has gone to great lengths in designing plastic bags with embarrassing slogans to discourage its customers from using single-use plastics. Customers who don’t bring their own bags to the East West Market in Vancouver will instead have to carry their grocery home in bags reading “Wart Ointment Wholesale” or […]

7 years ago

Staying in tonight? There’s no Late Late Show this week as it breaks for the summer so there’s only one port of call if you’re staying at home in front of the TV as far as the chat show options are concerned. Over on The Graham Norton Show, there’s a typically great line-up to help start […]

7 years ago

Very sad news. A woman has died following a fatal road traffic collision in Roscommon. Gardaí are investigating the incident at Kilmaryal, Elphin, where the collision occurred at approximately 8pm on Thursday evening. A pedestrian, a woman in her 60s, was fatally injured when she was struck by a vehicle. She was pronounced dead at […]

7 years ago

The child had not received his childhood vaccinations. The parents of a 13-month-old boy admitted to intensive care in University Hospital Galway said they were influenced by anti-vaccine material they read on social media. The boy had not received his childhood vaccinations due to parental concerns regarding social media reports of a potential link between the […]

7 years ago

The saga continues. Taoiseach Leo Varadkar met with under fire TD Maria Bailey on Wednesday to discuss the compensation claim she is withdrawing against The Dean Hotel in Dublin. Bailey has come under increasing criticism following an interview she gave on Today with Sean O’Rourke earlier this week. It was announced on Wednesday that an […]

7 years ago

Take note if you’re leaving the country. Agriculture Minister Michael Creed has issued advice to the public about bringing ham and other food products into the country. Holidaymakers are being asked to be vigilant about bringing home food products such as ham sandwiches from their holidays abroad in order to prevent the spread of African […]

7 years ago

Take note, daters… If you’re going on a first date, you’re probably nervous enough without being told what you can and can’t wear, but it’s in your best interests to know. Aside from generally being sound, conversing, and wearing clean clothes, what can you do on a first date to ensure that you give yourself […]

7 years ago

Listen to JOE’s brand new Game Of Thrones reaction show, The North Awaits, with Michael Fry & Carl Kinsella right here. A serious amount of work went into it. Just a quick warning that there will be spoilers below if you haven’t seen the latest episode of Game of Thrones. We’re now just a few short days […]

7 years ago

Oh dear. Children were left in tears at a cinema in Canada after the horror film The Curse Of La Llorona was played instead of Detective Pikachu. The movie opens with a scene showing a mother drowning her child and centres around the story of a social worker who is trying to protect her children […]

7 years ago

Well done to everyone involved. Around 200,000 people around Ireland took part in Darkness Into Light on Saturday morning in a fundraising walk in aid of Pieta House The walk starts in the early morning while it’s still dark, and participants walk for 5km into the light of day, a symbolic act representing the road […]

7 years ago

Winner, winner! There was no winner of the Lotto jackpot on Wednesday night but there was a winner in the Lotto Plus 1 draw. The winning numbers in the Lotto Plus 1 draw were 2, 4, 13, 17, 23, 27 and the bonus number was 26. The winning ticket was sold in Tipperary.

7 years ago

NO Game of Thrones spoilers here. As you may have noticed over the past few episodes, there have been some very dark scenes in the new season of Game of Thrones, with some details rather difficult to make out. It is winter in Westeros after all, meaning long nights and short days, and with the Battle […]

7 years ago