A 21-year-old mother has died after saving her 12-day-old daughter from a house fire by dropping the baby’s car seat from an upstairs window. US newspaper, the Journal Star, reports that brave mum Shelby Carter strapped her newborn daughter Keana into her car seat and dropped the twelve-day-old baby from an upstairs window of their Wyoming home, […]

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The journalist was indicted in France this week. Ian Bailey has been indicted in France for the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier in West Cork in 1996. The 59-year-old will face trial later this year after being served with papers by Gardaí, on behalf of the French authorities, this week. A previous extradition to France was refused by […]

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The results are in… Over 3000 of you voted in our poll where we asked you who should pay the bill on the first date? Living in an unpredictable world where the ground beneath your feet no longer seems a sure thing, the established codes of dating might be the only certain thing we have left, […]

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He says the account didn’t even have an overdraft

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A five-year-old boy died on Friday afternoon in the UK after choking on his lunch while surrounded by members of staff and his classmates. The young boy began choking while eating his lunch at Anlaby Primary School in Hull. The local newspaper, the Hull Daily Mail, reports that pupils were ushered out of the school’s busy canteen as […]

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Plan your week. The weather in Ireland has been brilliant over the last few weeks considering the time of year, it’s been mostly dry and mild with the odd wet day scattered in there. Although it is pretty nippy out there today. https://www.instagram.com/p/BQIPxwWjcg2/?tagged=ireland The people at Met Eireann have published their outlook for the week […]

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This is far too adorable for words.  The dad-of-four has taken to Instagram to share a video of his daughter Harper reading him a bedtime story and it was beyond cute. After hearing the five-year-old’s impressive reading skills we can understand why proud David decided to let his followers listen too. Oh Mr. Beckham, you SO make our […]

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A 14-year-old girl has tragically died after being thrown to her death from an amusement park ride in China. The heartbreaking incident occurred at a fairground in Zhaohua Park in a region of south-west China called Fengdu County. The Sun reports that the teenage girl was flung into the air for approximately five seconds before being thrown out of the ride […]

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It’s being called “one of the best ever”

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They are beloved by little girls everywhere. But now your daughter’s precious Barbies could be giving them a complex about their weight. New research published in the Body Image Journal, found that the dolls made girls as young as five see having a skinny body as ideal. The findings were based on the study of 160 […]

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Kerri Stedman from Oylegate in Wexford is vowed to raise awareness about the symptoms and reality of suffering an ectopic pregnancy. We spoke to the Wexford mum today, and she had this to say: “Ectopic Pregnancies, which occur when the embryo grows outside the womb, affects 1 in 80 pregnancies and can be life threatening. […]

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It’s World Cancer Day today. Please read and share this with other women, awareness can save lives. Paula McClean was just like any other mum. But in 2011, her world was turned upside-down when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. With 3 young daughters, she had to juggle her family life and medical treatment. In her own words, […]

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It’s a good one. If you were born five years ago, how old would you be? Think about it. It’s easy, right? If you’re having trouble figuring it out then you’re in the same boat as Donegal man Adam Byrne. Adam’s pals asked him the question last night and here he is attempting to answer […]

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Just stunning

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The latest in this never ending saga. There was big news Stateside in the early hours of this morning after a federal judge in Seattle ordered a temporary halt on Donald Trump’s Executive Order on Immigration or the ‘muslim ban’ as its more commonly known. Judge James Robart granted a restraining order after hearing arguments […]

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A juniper berry crisis has just occurred, and we were none the wiser. Thankfully.  Juniper crops were blighted with a fungul disease, which horticulturalists thought could signal the end to our beloved G&T drinks. Forever…. Gasp. According to The Telegraph an urgent seed collection project of the berries means that they can be cultivated, providing an […]

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It’s gas

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New reports suggests that 46,000 people are still receiving contaminated water in their homes every single day despite these findings being reported for the first time a year ago. Water supplies in the region have elevated levels of trihalomethanes (THM) – aka pollutants linked to cancer. According to HSE report on the pollutants: “Trihalomethanes are formed when there […]

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Valentine’s Day is just around the corner…

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He’s “vehemently opposed to the unethical practices” that they pursue. Ed Sheeran has said that he’s “deeply concerned” about touts and secondary ticketing sites that are charging extortionate prices for tickets to his gigs. Much like the process to buy tickets for U2 and Coldplay’s upcoming concerts, thousands of people were ultimately left frustrated as they […]

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Controversial, very controversial. One of the real pleasures from watching First Dates Ireland is seeing the lust, laughs and love that’s blossoming between two complete strangers. To the best of our memory, the majority of the singletons on the show have usually come across as kind and decent people, and last night’s show was no different. Thankfully, superficiality […]

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Awwwww.

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He probably should have expected it, given the current situation… Congressman Paul Ryan is the Speaker of the House of Representatives, which puts him third in line for the Presidency, and he is the youngest speaker since before the Civil War. He comes from Irish heritage on his father’s side and often frequents Irish events. He […]

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This is just awful.

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Hahaha.

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The dream really.

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Punxsutawney Phil, the weather prognosticating groundhog, has made his official predictions at the 131st celebration of Groundhog Day on Gobbler’s Knob in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. Groundhog Day, an occasion made world-famous by the eponymous 1993 movie starring Bill Murray, saw the weather-predicting rodent emerge from his burrow to see his shadow today; meaning Americans will endure another six weeks […]

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Don’t let the non-threatening name mislead you, it’s very scary. Ireland could be about to bear the brunt of another storm in the coming days, a storm with arguably the least threatening name in the history of storms. After Storm Barbara and Storm Conor made their presence felt in these parts over Christmas, Storm Doris […]

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Fancy a bit of extra cash? Aside from a plethora of memories and some remarkable experiences, most students that travel to the US on a J1 working visa will return to Ireland with a severely depleted bank balance. Totally worth it! Still though, wouldn’t it be nice to get some cash back? If you, or someone […]

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What was happening there?

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Gardai are appealing for the public’s help following a serious sexual assault in Killiney on Monday evening. A woman in her forties was said to have been viciously attacked by a lone man while walking in the Bayview Estate area in the South County Dublin suburb. The attack occurred at approximately 5.45pm after the woman […]

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Yikes!

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London MEP Seb Dance has had enough. UKIP’s Nigel Farage was left red faced this afternoon after London MEP Seb Dance decided that enough is enough. During a speech in which Farage accused the EU of being “anti-American” and “anti-democratic zealots”, Dance decided to switch seats and hold up a sign which read “He’s lying to you”. Take […]

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Tell us more.

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Can you imagine?!

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“I can’t explain love, because I’ve never had it”. First Dates Ireland has provided a fair few characters this season with ‘bolloxed’ Ciaran, the Ass Man and the cute couple Paddy and Lauren all highly entertaining over the past few weeks. There’s another Paddy on this week’s episode, which airs on Thursday night, and he seems […]

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Some of these are quite surprising.

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There’s great chemistry between these two. Jamie Dornan is on the promo trail for his new movie Fifty Shades Darker and he made an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live last night. The film hits Irish cinemas on February 10 and it’s expected to be even bigger than the first movie which made over $500 million […]

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Some movers… Apple has been dethroned as the most valuable brand in the world by mammoth search engine Google in an annual study of the world’s leading brands by Brand Finance. The creators of the iPhone had been top of the list for the last five years but suffered a 27% drop in brand value over […]

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This really surprised me. I’ve quickly realized the benefits of quitting smoking. So many things have improved – my health, my hair, my skin and my taste buds. I feel better, I’m less tired in the mornings and in general I’m a total convert. One thing that has really surprised me is how much money […]

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A last minute deal has been agreed.

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Thirsty work. There were over 15,000 pints of draft beer sold in the Dáil bar last year with Guinness by far and away the most popular drink among Irish politicians. The black stuff generated €33,400 in revenue from the sale of 7,591 pints which was twice as much as the next most popular drink Heineken. The third […]

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A number of customers have reportedly received text messages purporting to having been sent by the bank. Bank of Ireland has warned its customers to beware of a text message scam claiming that online access to their account information has been frozen and requiring customers to click a link to unlock it. According to RTÉ, […]

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This could come in handy!

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There are some great ideas in here.

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Have you ever slipped up with some of these sentences? There’s an adage that’s true about most relationships, whether their romantic, platonic or professional. You can say the right thing a million times and nothing major will come of it, but say the wrong thing once and you won’t hear the end of it. Any […]

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Researchers from Cambridge University have identified traces of what they believe is our earliest known prehistoric ancestor, and the microscopic, bag-like sea creature ain’t good looking. A tiny sea creature that lived about 540 million years ago has been identified from microfossils found in China and boffins think it may be the earliest known step on an […]

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Brought to you by Fibre One.  Say goodbye to the 3pm slump. Staying full all day at work is no easy task. There’s an awful lot of time between breakfast, lunch and dinner, especially when you spend most of your working day sitting at your desk daydreaming about your next meal. When the hunger pangs […]

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Police in the UK have launched an appeal to find Linzi Davis and her eight-year-old son River Bain, who were last seen on Friday near a train station in the Scottish Highlands. The mother and son from Auldearn, a village situated close to Nairn train station where the pair were last spotted, have not been in contact […]

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Batteries supplied with the laptop are a fire risk.

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