And they would have gotten away with it too, if it wasn’t for those pesky Gardaí. Irish people have something of a reputation for chancing their arm when the opportunity arises – most notably in the political arena – but the key thing to remember when doing so is to know where the line is […]

9 years ago

A 23-year-old man in the Dominican Republic died after drinking an entire bottle of tequila for the sake of a bet. El Universal has reported that the man was offered roughly €579, or 12,531 pesos, to down the whole bottle. After finishing his drink, Kelvin Rafael Mejia was promptly paid his money. Tragically, he later collapsed […]

9 years ago

Gerry Adams has levelled blamed at the British government for problems relating to the political process in Northern Ireland. In a statement released today, the Sinn Féin stalwart announced that  “Sinn Féin will be at Stormont tomorrow to engage positively with all the other parties. Following on from the election, I have called on everyone […]

9 years ago

Trump is expected to sign a new executive order as early as Monday of this week. US president Donald Trump is expected to implement another travel ban this week, only weeks after his original travel ban caused chaos and controversy in the US and around the world. According to a report in Politico which cites […]

9 years ago

Uh-oh. Bad news for tweens in the UK as schools ban the latest must-have hair accessory, the JoJo bow. If you’re a mum or dad to a tween you might recognise the current hair accessory trend that is the JoJo bow. Youngsters in this country have gone nuts for the oversized hair bows that are based […]

9 years ago

Katie Taylor has won her third fight in a row as a professional after putting an end to her super-featherweight meeting with Monica Gentili in the fifth round in London last night. The 30-year-old Bray woman stormed past her Italian opponent just moments before the heavyweight grudge match between David Haye and Tony Bellew. Taylor, a London […]

9 years ago

Next time someone criticises your snooze button etiquette, point them in this guy’s direction. A discussion about etiquette regarding the snooze button on an alarm clock is something that could keep you going in the pub for hours. Some insist that it’s a refuge of the lazy and that you should be up and out […]

9 years ago

It even includes bacon and cabbage. You heard us. St. Patrick’s Day is fast approaching and while it’s always a big deal in Ireland, it’s often celebrated even more by Irish people abroad who might feel small pangs of regret about missing out on the big day at home. Whether it’s a time-honoured parade or […]

9 years ago

“This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy.” Current US president Donald Trump has made explosive claims against his predecessor Barack Obama, claiming that Obama wire tapped his phones in Trump Tower just before Trump’s victory in the US presidential election in November. In a series of tweets posted shortly after 5.30am eastern time on Saturday […]

9 years ago

A number of benefits announced in last year’s Budget will kick in this week. A series of changes to social welfare payments announced in the 2016 Budget will come into effect this week, with many recipients likely to benefit from a few extra quid in their pockets as a result. An increase in weekly social […]

9 years ago

US police are investigating claims of sexual assault made against That ’70s Show actor Danny Masterson. Masterson, who played Steven Hyde on That ’70s Show from 1998 – 2006, is being investigated by LAPD inflation to three separate cases of sexual assault. The 40-year-old actor married model and singer Bijou Phillips in Tipperary in 2011. The couple, who are both Scientologists, have […]

9 years ago

We have your weekend viewing sorted. Having announced a plethora of new shows this week, Netflix have reaffirmed their commitment to producing original content. While we’re all extremely excited about the new shows that will be coming our way, the online streaming giant already has a stunning library of documentaries for you to enjoy. If […]

9 years ago

The move is preventing a number of Northern Irish students from attending colleges in the Republic. Seven of Ireland’s most renowned third-level institutions will not accept results in Software Systems Development, Moving Image Arts, Digital Technology and Environmental Technology from A-Level students. According to the BBC, the move has seen a number of Northern Irish students […]

9 years ago

She’s very proud of her little Edward. RTÉ went to Wexford on Friday to meet Ed Sheeran’s granny Nancy, who’s very proud of her grandson on the day that he releases his third album ÷ (Divide). The record may be receiving some mixed reviews but will sell roughly 8 trillion copies regardless; Nancy, meanwhile, doesn’t care […]

9 years ago

Brought to you by Cadbury Creme Egg. A new week, a new Cadbury Creme Egg hunt. We’ve already hit Dublin and Galway and we still have Cork and Limerick to come. Next up is Cork, where we will host another Cadbury Creme Egg hunt on 8 March with another €1,000 cash prize up for grabs. […]

9 years ago

What do you think? Last night’s episode of First Dates Ireland marks the halfway point in the series. It certainly lived up to the standard level of awkwardness we’ve learned to expect from the show at this stage. While not everyone felt love’s warm embrace, there was sparks of romance in the air for some. There have […]

9 years ago

The latest poll on Irish abortion laws has shown more support for the regulation of abortion than repealing the Eighth Amendment. A new Irish Times/Ipsos MRBI opinion poll has revealed that the majority of Irish voters (38%) favour replacing the Eighth Amendment with a more liberal constitutional provision. The opinion poll was conducted on Monday and Tuesday of […]

9 years ago

Well… that’s just great. In what is becoming an increasingly common trend over the past couple of weeks, Met Éireann has issued another weather warning. Yes, we feel the same way as you at this stage… Late on Thursday, Met Éireann issued two separate weather warnings which run until 6pm today. The first is a status […]

9 years ago

“Minister Harris has no balls. Harris has no balls. The Minister abdicates his duties.” So goes the opening of MEP Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan’s latest statement about the political situation in this country. Today, Flanagan gave a withering evaluation of Minister for Health Simon Harris and his current handling of the healthcare system in Ireland. As […]

9 years ago

Hell yes! Those long days of standing in line waiting for your Big Macs and a McFlurry could soon be a thing of the past as McDonald’s look into launching delivery services worldwide. They’ve announced plans to roll out their own delivery services in a bid to combat falling visits to their restaurants over the […]

9 years ago

It might be handy but it’s not exactly healthy. The door of one’s fridge is often the first place you’ll find a couple of litres of milk, but those of us guilty of storing it there have been doing it all wrong, it would appear. According to a recent Good Housekeeping guide on how to […]

9 years ago

HOW did they manage this?!

9 years ago

Brought to you by OUTCIDER. “How do you like them apples?” You can barely throw a stone these days without hitting a new craft beer brewery but cider drinkers haven’t always had the same range of options. However, there’s a new kid in town and OUTCIDER is the latest Irish cider to hit the market… just […]

9 years ago

Adele has pulled firework displays from her upcoming Australian tour dates after debris from the pyrotechnics fell into her four-year-old son’s eye. The singer kicked off her tour of Oz on Tuesday but was horrified to discover that debris from a firework display ended up in her son Angelo’s eye during a dress rehearsal. The Sun reports that […]

9 years ago

What would you do? There was one winner of tonight’s Lotto jackpot worth €12,849,224 and the winning ticket was sold in Dublin. Do you know them? Do we know them? Do they know themselves? The winning numbers were 2, 15, 19, 26, 37, 38 and the bonus number was 39. We heartily congratulate the winner…not jealous at […]

9 years ago

What a moment… You may have seen during the Oscars that ten lucky Celeb-spotter tour bus members were brought out on stage by host Jimmy Kimmel and introduced to a whole host of stars. What you didn’t know was two of those brought out were Carlow father and daughter, Tom and Lisa. Aer-Lingus cabin crew […]

9 years ago

Having just won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal in Manchester By The Sea, Casey Affleck has been under constant scrutiny over the past few months. Word broke of two separate sexual assault lawsuits put against the actor, and with both of the cases being settled out of the court, part of […]

9 years ago

Trickshots impress us every time, but never more so as when they involve some sweet, delicious pancakes. This video was sent on to us by reader Darragh Connolly; he and his friends were on the batter on Tuesday and the results are more and more impressive the longer the video goes on. Our favourite trick […]

9 years ago

The phrase ‘broke the Internet’ became annoying a long time ago but it seems to have actually happened tonight. If you’ve been struggling with dodgy Internet this evening, then you’re certainly not the only one, with an Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage causing havoc online. The AWS S3 storage service, used by hundreds of thousands […]

9 years ago

It’s that special time of year, people. Time to spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about which of your many addictions you can gain some control over. That’s right, the most hopeful (yet disappointing) religious season of them all: Lent. Ah the Lenten period. Coming close enough to January that it feels like a sort of […]

9 years ago

Hallelujah!

9 years ago

Cue Lotto fever. Money can’t buy you happiness, but it can buy you an awful lot of Freddo bars and luxury cars. Wednesday night’s Lotto jackpot is set to reach an eye-watering €13m, as people across the country collectively start daydreaming about the moment they can tell their boss to ‘shove it’. (Not us at HER, […]

9 years ago

Really? Donald Trump has blamed the Best Picture mix-up at this year’s Oscars on politics. You probably saw at the Academy Awards, when the time came to announce the most prestigious award of the night, Best Picture, Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway read out La La Land as the winner when in fact it was […]

9 years ago

Wrap up and stay safe… Storm Doris may have passed by leaving behind some lasting effects on rural Ireland and safe in the knowledge that she caused chaos during her time on our shores. While she has left us, that doesn’t mean the stormy weather is going away anytime soon. Met Eireann has issued another status […]

9 years ago

It might be time to learn a whole new set of passwords. A few days ago, Cloudfare – an internet performance and security checking company – released a blog post declaring that they had accidentally been releasing private information on the internet. While fixing a bug in the system, the company discovered that they had […]

9 years ago

Not a choice we expected…

9 years ago

Jimmy Kimmel’s Mean Tweets bit is still as funny as it has ever been, and for the special Oscars Edition, he dug up some of the meanest tweets he could find. A host of winners and nominees including Natalie Portman, Sam Jackon, Whoopi Goldberg and Emma Stone were on the receiving end of some super […]

9 years ago

The reason for the emergency landing is being reported as a maintenance issue. A United Airlines flight from Newark to Paris was forced to make an emergency landing in Shannon Airport at around 9:30 this morning. It was initially unclear why but United Airlines have since clarified the situation, replying to a query on Twitter […]

9 years ago

Singer and mum-of-two Lily Allen has told fans that she is taking a break from Twitter after being subjected to a torrent of abuse about her stillborn baby and mental health. Trolls turned on Allen (31) after she tweeted about the prejudice faced by immigrants and Muslims. The abusive tweets led to the Smile singer revealing […]

9 years ago

Three-year-old twin brothers have tragically died after falling into a washing machine at their home in Delhi, India. The incident was reported to emergency services at around 12.40pm on Saturday afternoon. The Times Of India reports that twin brothers, Laksh and Neeshu, were found head-down in the tumbler of a top-loading washing machine at their family home. […]

9 years ago

Listen to a brand new business podcast, The Capital B, here. Fronted by Nick Webb, the new podcast which features Oscar-nominated film producer Ed Guiney, technology king Ray Nolan who started and sold Hostelworld.com, JOE founder Niall McGarry and Róisín Hogan of The Apprentice fame, has just arrived. After some noodle tasting, the panel ask […]

9 years ago

Neil Fingleton, best known for his portrayal of “king of the giants” Mag the Might in HBO’s Game of Thrones, has died at the age of 36. Fingleton, who at 7’7″ was also the tallest man on record in Great Britain, passed away this weekend from heart failure, according to The Mirror. Fingleton originally made […]

9 years ago

A survey published by insurance company AA has revealed that drivers in Cork and Dublin are more likely to speed than drivers elsewhere in the country. The survey, which also revealed that more than 20% of Irish motorists broke the speed limit in 2017, had over 7,000 participants. In both Cork and Dublin, only one […]

9 years ago

Hollywood star Bill Paxton has died at the age of 61. The action movie star best known for the likes of Aliens, Twister, True Lies and Titanic has reportedly died due to complications during surgery. He had been filming on the TV version of the hit movie Training Day in the days leading up the […]

9 years ago

Horrific storms are like buses…You wait ages for one and then two come along, one after another. We’ve just seen Storm Doris out the door but don’t un-batten the hatches just yet, because Storm Ewan has arrived. The storm will involve wind-speeds of 120km/h – equivalent to 75mph, and the worst-affected counties will be along the south coast, […]

9 years ago

The placement of bank holiday days in 2017 means if you take these days off, you’re getting a very lengthy holiday

9 years ago

The story of Ian McKellan and Patrick Stewart’s ultimate friendship will be told for centuries to come, such is the level of their BFF-ness. Last night they were both on the Graham’s couch, joined by Hugh Jackman, to discuss the upcoming blockbuster Logan. But before McKellan joined them on stage, Stewart took a moment to […]

9 years ago

We shouldn’t laugh, which makes this video from Denmark all the funnier. While we hate to move on from the gentleman who slipped on the ice on the RTÉ news back in 2010, we’ve found something that might be just as funny. This incident took place on a footpath in Denmark, with TV2 Ostjylland sharing […]

9 years ago

Last night in Hollywood saw the 12th Annual Oscar Wilde Awards take place in California, an event known to most as ‘The Irish Oscars’. Star Wars: The Force Awakens director J.J. Abrams hosts the event in his Bad Robot production company headquarters every year, with the awards set up to help celebrate the Irish contributions […]

9 years ago

Hopefully you don’t plan on spending too much time outdoors in the next few days. The strong winds and driving rain brought on by Storm Doris earlier this week have eased since the chaos of Wednesday night and Thursday morning, but the weather in Ireland isn’t about to improve spectacularly anytime soon. According to Met […]

9 years ago