Ah, lads. The Spice Girls are back together. Were you aware of this fact? You probably were. Emma, Mel C, Mel B, and Gerri have joined forced again to bring a bit of 90s spice back into the UK (and hopefully Ireland, please) sometime next year. Victoria Beckham will not be joining the group because […]

7 years ago

Obsessed, yeah? It’s November. So, naturally, everybody is freaking the f*ck out about their upcoming Christmas parties. Where’s it going to be? Will there be a night-long bar tab? Is Richard from sales finally going to get hot and heavy with Leanne on the front desk? And, maybe more important than all of that – […]

7 years ago

The womb that just keeps on giving. A woman in the UK has just given birth to her 21st child – and insists that this will be her last. Sue Radford and husband Noel welcomed baby number 21 earlier this week, bringing their total family number up to a fairly considerable 23. Baby Bonnie-Raye weighed […]

7 years ago

A dog who accidentally shot his owner has been forgiven for being a Good Boy. Tex Gillian was hunting jackrabbits near his home in New Mexico when one of his dogs got their paws stuck in the trigger of his shotgun. The 74-year-old suffered an injured lung, three broken ribs, and a broken collarbone after […]

7 years ago

A familiar face. If you thought your industry was small, you’d want to take a seat and have a look at the soap world. Everybody knows everybody, it’s repetitive, it’s incestuous, you can’t turn on a show on a weekday without seeing somebody you knew from Holby City or Brookside or one of them back […]

7 years ago

Holly Willoughby has commented on Ant McPartlin ahead of her I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here! debut. The This Morning presenter is due to take up the role next weekend and has said that although she is looking forward to it, she doesn’t like saying that she is Ant’s “replacement.” She told The […]

7 years ago

Lol? Kate Middleton wears lots of things. Some of those things are outfits from Zara. Some more of them are not cheap outfits from Zara. Some of them are somewhere in between cheap outfits from Zara and not cheap outfits from Zara. And then some of them are plasters on her fingers because, you know, […]

7 years ago

Kensington Palace have been left at a loss after Meghan Markle’s personal assistant quit suddenly. The PA, known only as Melissa, left her job without much warning recently after just six months working for the former actor. She was the Duchess of Sussex’s closest aide in the palace. The Daily Mail reports that both the […]

7 years ago

Class. It’s November, which means a couple of things. The first is that it’s officially cuffing season, which means that people are going to be hooking up left, right, and centre, irrespective of whether they actually enjoy each other’s company or, indeed, even fancy each other. The second is that it’s absolutely freezing outside and […]

7 years ago

The global birth rate has almost halved since the 1950s. The findings, published in the Lancet journal, showed that close to half of countries around the world are producing fewer children than necessary to maintain their populations. The research showed that between 1950 and 2017, there has been a 49.4 percent decline in fertility rates across […]

7 years ago

“Cockroaches climbing on walls” and “unclean clothes” were among the reasons for the seven food safety closure orders issued last month. Meat being kept at room temperature, open backdoors, and no record of staff hygiene training were also included in the list of Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) reasons for the closure orders. The […]

7 years ago

Who’d have thought it? Well, a few people probably thought it but we didn’t so whatever, shut up. The widely anticipated next series of I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here! kicks off in just 10 (ten) days, and while the cast has yet to be revealed, there’s been a few rumours as to […]

7 years ago

Stephanie Roche has signed for Italian football club Florentia. The Irish striker will play as the centre-forward for the Italian club for the first time next month, as the team play against city rivals, ACF Fiorentina. Roche has been training with the club for the past few months following a broken leg that left her […]

7 years ago

It’s all kicking of in Carrickstown. But then again, when isn’t it? Over the past few years, everybody’s favourite Dublin-based soap has given us tears, tantrums, and a two-decade long kidnapping storyline that probably didn’t necessarily need to be that long, but whatever, we enjoyed it, next question. Tonight’s no different either. Well, it is […]

7 years ago

“Leaving isn’t a one-off event, it’s a journey.” 66 percent of all women with depression have experienced abuse in the home. Whether the abuse is physical or emotional, the vast majority of women with mental illnesses like depression have encountered gender based violence, often leaving them with anxiety issues or PTSD.  Moving forward from an […]

7 years ago

“The trust has been damaged and unfortunately, that’s what you’re left with.” 33 percent of women who have reported long-term domestic abuse have experienced depression. Women who have experienced sexual violence are more likely to experience suicidal ideation and emotional distress compared to those who haven’t. Two thirds of women with depression have experience of […]

7 years ago

Bit harsh. There are a couple of things you can do when you find an engagement ring in your fella’s nightstand. The first is get pretty excited because somebody’s about to get proposed to. The second is panic because you haven’t actually been going out for that long and proposing right now would be wildly […]

7 years ago

A city in China has all but banned people from having dogs. Officials in Wenshan have enforced laws that will stop owners from bringing their dogs for walks during day light hours between 7am and 10pm. The order also forbids people from bringing their dogs to public parks, shopping centres, sports facilities and other public spaces. […]

7 years ago

The first Muslim women have been elected to Congress following the US mid-term elections. Democrat Ilhan Omar, a Somali refugee, won her House of Representatives seat in Minnesota yesterday. She will succeed Keith Ellison, the first Muslim to ever be elected to the House. Rashida Tlaib also won a seat in her district, Michigan. The Detroit social worker, […]

7 years ago

She went in. Cheryl has some harsh words for Liam Payne following their split a few months back. The singer said that she often doesn’t know what she wants when it comes to romance but that from now on, she plans to take “no more bullshit.” Speaking to Jessie Ware on her podcast, Table Manners, […]

7 years ago

Massive congrats to all involved. ‘Single-use’ has been named the Word Of The Year 2018 by Collins Dictionary. The word refers to disposable products such as plastic that are made to be used once and are then thrown away. This year saw an influx of companies, restaurants, and bars commit to limiting their use of […]

7 years ago

Hook it to our veins. Salmon is delicious. It’s tasty, it’s good for you, its’a nice colour – ticks all the boxes, to be honest. But imagine if salmon could be better. Imagine if it contained another ingredient that has captured the imagination of the public. Imagine it was infused with gin.  Well, it is now and […]

7 years ago

Princess Diana once described her sex life with Prince Charles as “very odd.” The Princess of Wales said that when they were together, Charles would often only ask her to have sex every couple of weeks. She said that eventually, any intimacy between them “fizzled out.” Diana spoke to speech coach Peter Settelen in 1992 and […]

7 years ago

“The fear, whether real or perceived, can be really hard.” Rates of self harm and suicidal ideation are far higher for young gay, bisexual, and transgender teenagers. A 2016 report commissioned by Belong To and GLEN found that over half (56 percent) of LGBT teens in Ireland had self harmed. Of the group of 14-18 […]

7 years ago

A man has tried to justify cheating on his wife with her bridesmaid. The husband, known only as ‘Jeremy’ said that due to his wife’s mental illness, they haven’t had sex in a very long time and, according to him, when they do, it’s a “once a month dutiful obligation.” Speaking to Fatherly, the man […]

7 years ago

PLEASE DON’T STOP THE M-… Yeah that joke has been made a thousand times already but alright, whatever, get over it, it’s funny?  Rihanna has sent Donald Trump a cease and desist letter demanding that he stop playing her music at his rallies. The singer tweeted her disapproval in response to a user who attend […]

7 years ago

Ah, Jesus. Georgia Steele has been up to a lot of things since leaving the Love Island villa. She moved in with then boyfriend Sam Bird. She rejected rumours that she was cheating on then boyfriend Sam Bird. She broke up with then boyfriend Sam Bird very publicly via Instagram Stories.  It was a whole […]

7 years ago

A baby has been saved by a fisherman in New Zealand after he was floating in the sea alone. Gus Hutt was fishing near Matata Beach in the North Island’s Bay of Plenty when he spotted what he thought to be “a doll” floating in the rip current. When he reached down and touched the […]

7 years ago

“I met a guy through work a few years ago. “We started texting, not consistently. He would always respond with long messages. He has often suggested meeting for coffee. He has even asked me about my relationship status as he is just out of one also. “People have commented on us saying that they think […]

7 years ago

Giz. It’s cold now. Summer is over and it’s cold. You don’t need an article to tell you that – you’re well aware. You’ve been outside. You’ve experienced the air. You’ve accidentally smashed your iPhone off the ground for the fifth time because you were trying to take a photo of the sky but your […]

7 years ago

Legit, you won’t. Heading down the shops for some milk? €30 trench. Taking a city break with a mate? €30 trench. Hitting up the Workman’s smoking area on a Saturday night to scope out the vibe because cuffing season is well and truly upon us and Jesus Christ you are lonely these days? You guessed it. […]

7 years ago

“I was going to have to give up work because work was going to kill me.” *Some of the details of this story may upset some readers.  Meghan was 26 when she was diagnosed with depression. She had just returned from a trip to New York, one that she describes as a “dream” and “once […]

7 years ago

Successes in IVF treatments are leading to a drop in adoption rates. Almost one third of women under the age of 35 who undergo fertility treatment are successful. This rise in IVF improvements has led to an increase in people conceiving with the aid of fertility treatments, but has simultaneously led to a drop in […]

7 years ago

Please. If there is one thing in this god forsaken world that makes life slightly less difficult, disgusting, and generally harrowing, it’s puppies. They’re soft, they’re lovely, they won’t care if you forgot to take the washing in or leave the wheelie bin out or haven’t showered in the last three days. They’re just the […]

7 years ago

Any excuse to start bawling, tbh. Crying is great. It’s cathartic, it’s relaxing, it’s extremely emotionally charged which means that people are going to freak out when you do it in public but whatever, it’s fine, we can’t help that we are extremely impassioned and often upset beings. There are plenty of scenarios where crying […]

7 years ago

A hospital is being sued for “losing” the ashes of a stillborn baby that were then used “as a paperweight.” Detroit couple Erika and Christopher Hinson were told by the Ascension St. John hospital that they could not make arrangements for their baby, Ellis, until the remains were returned. Ellis’s ashes were then discovered in […]

7 years ago

The woman who has sex with ghosts is now allegedly engaged to one. Amethyst Realm has frequented the beds of many a spirit during her time on earth, but now it seems as if one of them has finally popped the question. The 30-year-old met her groom-to-be on a flight back from Australia. She told […]

7 years ago

The female body is incredible. We all know this, we don’t need to be told about it again. However, there is one part of the female body that really doesn’t get the recognition it deserves – the cervix. We know, probably not the body part you were thinking of but the cervix and the work […]

7 years ago

“I lost our only little girl.” A mother has shared a stark warning following the death of her 12-day-old daughter. Baby Emerson was barely one-week-old when she contracted the Herpes Simplex (HSV-1) Virus – more commonly known as the coldsore virus. Her mother, Presley, said that the illness was passed onto her daughter through the “kiss […]

7 years ago

Class. Alright lads, we know – cottage cheese isn’t exactly the most superior cheese out there. When it comes to mozzarella, goats, and even humble cheddar, cottage is just not on the same level deliciousness-wise, but whatever, it’s still a cheese and we’ll take it. We’ll take it even more so now that we know […]

7 years ago

November 3 is Equal Pay Day. For the rest of the year, because of the gender pay gap, women in Europe work for free. The European Commission decided to mark November 3 to draw attention to the wage gap, the reasons behind it, and the ramifications it has for women across the continent. As of […]

7 years ago

Stop the lights. It’s November 3, and you know what that means. The festive season is already well and truly upon us irrespective of the many protestations from those among us who think that it’s far too early to be celebrating Christmas. And in fairness, they are absolutely right but this is the consumer hell […]

7 years ago

Rotten. Coronation Street fans have expressed their utmost disgust at some kebab meat that was spotted in the background of a scene. The putrid food stuff was present in the chipper where Chesney works during the week, acting as kebab meat is wont to act and sitting on a large stick that often is expected […]

7 years ago

They buried their baby daughter last week. Looks like the heartache isn’t over for Emmerdale‘s Paddy and Chas as the couple are set for more upset over the coming weeks. The pair said goodbye to their baby daughter, Grace, last week through a funeral that had the support of the entire village. Grace passed away […]

7 years ago

The royal family are pretty close. They just are. And you would be, like. Most of the time, you can’t hang out with anybody other than the people you live with (or live incredibly close to) so you might as well just make the best of things and be best mates. Make it easier for […]

7 years ago

Truly an inspiration. Mary Robinson has been praised for her appearance on Friday night’s Late Late Show.  The former president of Ireland joined Ryan Tubridy to discuss climate change, her newly appointed position as chair of human rights group, The Elders, and the recent presidential election. Robinson said that although she hadn’t been following the […]

7 years ago

Say you’ll be there…  Because you know you will, like. It’s official, it’s happening, it’s definitely a thing because a leaked lineup for the Jonathan Ross Show has shown that Geri, Mel B, Mel C, and Emma will be hitting up the couch next week to give us the reunion we’ve all been gasping for. […]

7 years ago

A few days ago, a photo of a pink Dublin doorway went viral online. It was shared widely across social media as a representation of the hundreds of women experiencing domestic abuse who walk through it each year. The photo of the pink doorway was originally posted by Women’s Aid on their Facebook page. They […]

7 years ago

A woman is being questioned after the body of a man was discovered in a house in Foxrock. The woman, in her 40s, is being held by Gardaí in connection with the death of the man in 20s. His body was found in the Tudor Lawns, Foxrock house in Dublin at around 11.30pm last night. RTE […]

7 years ago

Grim. When you go on an airplane, there are generally a fair few emotions at play. One of those emotions is excitement because you’re going on an airplane to somewhere that is assumedly far away from your own home and that, by extension, is exciting. Another one of those emotions is fear because you might […]

7 years ago