Far too fragile for this today, to be quite honest with you. Christmas can be a lovely time of year. But it also be a fairly crap time of year when it comes to loneliness, tragedy, and general upset. It can also be a questionable enough time for animals. Especially the ones that tend to […]

7 years ago

There are fresh fears for Sinead Tinker as her latest cancer treatment could lead to more heartache. The Weatherfielder was diagnosed with cervical cancer earlier this year, soon after finding out that she was pregnant with Daniel Osborne’s baby. She has since been lying to him about going to chemotherapy and instead, trying alternative medicine […]

7 years ago

A snow leopard has been shot dead after escaping from an enclosure at Dudley Zoo. The eight-year-old leopard named Margaash escaped the area when a zookeeper accidentally left a door open last month. After the animal was spotted outside, he was shot dead by the zoo’s firearms team. The zoo had been closed at the […]

7 years ago

Ant McPartlin is apparently being “consulted” for this year’s I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here link scrips and jokes. The presenter has been taking a break from television following a drink driving arrest earlier this year, leaving his jungle duties in the capable hands of Holly Willoughby. However, it turns out that Ant […]

7 years ago

V glam. It’s officially Christmas party season which means two things. You’re going to be suspiciously drunk off the bar tab with people you don’t really know all that well from the office. And you’re going to look unreal while doing it. A big part of the whole looking unreal sitch comes down the sheer […]

7 years ago

Shocking behaviour. Anne Hegerty has gone and ruined the entire I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here illusion by saying that she has to go over and do a few bits for Xtra Camp before the trial. The Governess let slip that the group trial scenario wouldn’t be taking place until a bit later […]

7 years ago

A man has proposed a woman by hiding the engagement ring in inside of his penis. The lucky gal discovered the gift when she was giving the man a blowjob. She said that she put her hands on his “c**k” and to her delight “pulled out” the ring. She then said that the man was […]

7 years ago

Camogie is now an official protected cultural activity. The Irish women’s sport was added to UNESCO’s list of protected cultural activities around the world recently, after a lengthy consideration process. Hurling has also been added to the list. In a statement, UNESCO said that the games are examples of  “intangible cultural heritage.” “Hurling or camogie is a […]

7 years ago

It’s that time of year again, folks. The time where sofas are settled into, takeaways are ordered, and drinking games are kicked off with the intention of getting absolutely hashtag wrecked. It wouldn’t be anything other than the Late Late Toy Show, lads. And although we’ve all been getting sufficiently hyped for this year’s instalment […]

7 years ago

Free the nipple, etc. Putting glitter on random parts of your new body is not a new thing. It’s been done. Done a lot. Done to death, in fact. Done so much that we’d actually just rather if people wore actual pieces of clothing instead of pieces of shiny plastic but whatever, we’re not here […]

7 years ago

Because that’s a thing that people do, apparently. Starbucks have very politely asked people to stop watching porn in their coffee shops by announcing a tool that will ban the explicit sites from their WiFi networks. The worldwide chain have been facing external pressure for years to introduce blocks on pornographic, adult, and illegal content […]

7 years ago

I bless the rains down in Live At The Marquee. It’s time to get absolutely hyped because the one, the only Toto have announced a massive Irish gig for next summer. The US lads will be hitting up the iconic Live At The Marquee event next summer in Cork, alongside the likes of Versatile, Christy […]

7 years ago

#Bodied. Look lads, Anne Hegerty has become a bit of an inspiration over these past few weeks. She’s been open and honest about her Asperger’s diagnosis. She’s tried her best to do a load of trials that the public for some reason keep making her do. And she’s just been a bit of an all […]

7 years ago

“It takes the edge off whatever they might be feeling.” It is thought that up to two percent of the population experience impulse control disorder, Trichotillomania. The condition, sometimes known as Trich or TTM, is characterised by hair pulling. It usually involves hair on the head but hair from the eyebrows and eyelashes can also […]

7 years ago

Don’t leave. But also, yeah do, because you’re on maternity leave and you deserve a break. Coronation Street‘s Jennie McAlpine will be heading away from the street for a bit next week to prepare for the fact that she’s going to give birth soon. Fiz is going to have her own issues to deal with […]

7 years ago

Knew it. Rachel McAdams has finally confirmed that she “secretly” gave birth to a baby boy earlier this year. The Mean Girls star welcomed her first child with partner Jamie Linden back in April, following a pregnancy that she managed to keep extremely low-key. News began circulating that the pair had had a child in […]

7 years ago

Ah, baby names. They’re handy for lots of reasons. One of those things is naming your baby. Another one of those things is differentiating your child from the other, potentially similar, children around. And another one of those things is creating shareable lists concerning the top baby names in the world for the purpose of […]

7 years ago

“Every mum thinks they need to be the perfect mum.” It’s thought that up to 80 percent of women experience what’s known as the ‘Baby Blues’ after giving birth. They’ll feel drained, they’ll feel like crying, they’ll feel more alone than they did before they had their baby. These feelings will generally pass after a […]

7 years ago

A serial sex offender has been jailed for sexually assaulting a Brazilian student he met on Tinder. Patrick Nevin has been sentenced to five and a half years in prison for the assault of the student he met via the app in 2014. The 37-year-old pleaded guilty last June to raping another woman and sexually […]

7 years ago

He’s into his younger women, in fairness. I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here producers are hoping that Nick Knowles and Emily Atack will get together in the jungle. Despite the pair having struck up a pleasant and formidable friendship, the lads behind-the-scenes are apparently gunning for something more meaningful to develop for the […]

7 years ago

It was not as ‘royal’ as you’d expect.

7 years ago

James, who?  Just kidding. Everybody knows that James McVey is the lead guitarist of British pop band, The Vamps. But does everybody know that he’s also appearing in this year’s series of I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here! because honestly, nah, we didn’t. The jungle has a lot of large-ish characters wandering around it […]

7 years ago

There’ll be a teen pregnancy bombshell for Steve and Tracy in the new year as their daughter Amy announces that she’s expecting a baby. The 14-year-old will discover that she’s pregnant in a few months, sending her parents into a state of panic as they try to decide what to do. Tracy and Steve will […]

7 years ago

Is she gonna do the same with the song she dedicated to him on her last album too, or? Ariana Grande has finally covered up her Pete Davidson tattoo, a few months after the pair called it quits. The God is a woman singer had the SNL star’s name tattooed on her finger while they […]

7 years ago

Yes, you did read that correctly. And no, it isn’y early-to-mid 2018 but you’d be forgiven for thinking that it was. Pat Phelan met his end in June of this year after months upon months of him killing people, doing shady and questionable shit, and essentially never getting caught. At one point he even swam […]

7 years ago

There are plenty of not ideal scenarios that come with being an adult. One of those scenarios is taxes. Another one is the Dublin rental market. And another one is trying to make new friends. Because honestly like, how else are people supposed to meet each other in a situation that doesn’t involve being drunk […]

7 years ago

Great. Storm Diana is on its way to Ireland this week with rainfall and wind weather warnings being issued. Met Eireann issued the yellow rainfall warning for Munster, Dublin, Carlow, Kilkenny, Wexford, Wicklow, Galway and Mayo earlier today as well as a status yellow wind warning for Munster, Dublin, Carlow, Kilkenny, Wexford, Wicklow, Donegal, Galway, Leitrim, Mayo […]

7 years ago

A royal correspondent has tweeted that some members of the royal family find Meghan hard to deal with. Richard Palmer wrote that the Duchess of Sussex is regarded as “difficult and demanding” by many people she’s close with, including members of Kensington Palace staff. Palmer also said that there was little truth to the story […]

7 years ago

Highly controversial, if true. A scientist in China has claimed to have made the world’s first genetically edited babies. Prof He Jiankui announced this week that he had helped to edit a pair of twins’ DNA as embryos to ensure that they could not contract HIV. The scientists’s claim has not yet been verified. The […]

7 years ago

“I recently got into using sex toys when I masturbate. “Tbh, I didn’t see the appeal for years but once I started I was sold. The only problem now is that I wanted to start using sex toys during sex with my boyfriend, but I’m not sure he’d be into it and I don’t know […]

7 years ago

A 69-year-old Irish woman with Parkinson’s disease has decided to climb Mount Fuji with her son for charity. Maura Ward was diagnosed with the chronic brain illness in 2013. An avid fan of travel and backpacking, the Co Down mother decided that she wasn’t going to let Parkinson’s slow her down. So, she and her […]

7 years ago

Grim. Tinder’s a bit of a minefield. On one hand, you’ve got a small collection of nice lads who want to go for drinks, who you otherwise wouldn’t meet elsewhere, who you may end up forging some sort of decent connection with, or at the very least secure a few extra likes on Instagram from. […]

7 years ago

Slow Twitter day, is it? Just kidding, every day is a slow Twitter day because Twitter is the worst and yet we all still spend our entire lives on that website just watching the hours tick away. It’s grand, whatever, there are worse ways to spend a day. Except a recent Twitter interaction has left […]

7 years ago

We’ll take 12.

7 years ago

Not wrong, in fairness to him. Dr Alex may not have won Love Island, but he certainly won the hearts of the nation. With his severe red sunburn, his inability to run while wheeling a buggy, and his intense, intense awkwardness, Alex was never going to settle down in the villa, but he sure look, […]

7 years ago

Unreal. Michael Bublé has just added two more Irish dates due to phenomenal demand. The Canadian crooner will be playing two extra shows in Dublin’s Three Arena on June 7 and Belfast’s SSE Arena on June 10. Bublé was due to only play two nights in Ireland on June 6 and 9, but demand has […]

7 years ago

Over half of murdered Irish women were killed by a current or ex-partner. A new report has shown that the vast majority of women (almost 9 out of 10) who were murdered in Ireland since records began in 1996 were killed by a man who was known to them. 61 percent of women were murdered […]

7 years ago

“Throughout my talk, she cried. Just silent tears running down her cheeks…” *Warning: this story contains details of suicidal ideation, self harm, and depression.  Ellen Downey is a primary school teacher from Cork. When she was growing up, she experienced what she describes as an “immense depression” leaving her confused, embarrassed and ashamed to ask […]

7 years ago

Look at their little faces. Adopting a dog is probably one of the greatest decisions you could make in your life. It’s kind, it gives a poor rescue dog a home, and it also means that you’ll have a dog – so, you know, everybody wins. And if you’re in the market for a new […]

7 years ago

A woman has been jailed for sharing “sexualised” breastfeeding videos online. Leigh Felton had been posting footage of herself performing sex acts with her 18 month old son. The Florida mother was found guilty of one count of lewd lascivious performance this week. She had been accused of lewd and lascivious molestation and promoting a […]

7 years ago

A solid nah from all involved. Noel Edmonds just entered the I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here jungle. He’s the highest paid contestant the ITV show has ever had on, after Harry Redknapp, who’s the second highest paid.  Unsurprisingly, the two lads have decided to stick together as Noel chose Harry as his […]

7 years ago

Jazzy, af. It’s officially Christmas party season and that means one thing and one thing only – the need to buy an excessive amount of party dresses that you will wear for one night and then instantly forget about for six months. Ah, to be young and have disposable income. Still though, Christmas is a […]

7 years ago

He’s not a secret though, lads. He just doesn’t exist.  If you’re at all familiar with the life and times of Anne Hegerty, you’ll be aware of a few things. One of those things is that she plays the role of the Governess on ITV’s The Chase. Another one of those things is that she was […]

7 years ago

Nah. Sorry, don’t believe it. When it comes to iconic Emmerdale couples, there are a few that spring to mind. There was Lisa and Zac, Cain and Moira and, of course, Paddy and Chas. The pair haven’t been together for their while lives, but they’ve been through a lot together – most recently the loss […]

7 years ago

Sound. Met Eireann have issued a status yellow rainfall weather warning for two counties. Cork and Waterford have been urged to be on alert as 33mm on rain is expected to hit the counties between early tomorrow morning and Saturday. The alert will be in place from 2am Friday (November 23) to 2am Saturday (November […]

7 years ago

An elderly couple have died in a suspected carbon monoxide poisoning in Kilkenny. The 83-year-old man and 77-year-old woman were discovered in their home just outside Kilkenny city by family members last night. Their bodies are thought to have been inside the Johnswell Road house for a few days. RTE reports that the nature of […]

7 years ago

Ryanair will add five new routes flying from Cork Airport next year. The new services will be available in summer 2019 and will serve routes across France, Spain, and Italy such as Barcelona Girona, Barcelona Reus, Bordeaux, Carcassonne and Milan Bergamo. They will also add new routes to Budapest, Malta, London Luton, Naples and Poznan. The […]

7 years ago

80 percent of youth workers in Ireland say that a lack of training has become challenging when it comes to young people with mental health issues. Almost all (96 percent) believe that mental training and education is necessary for youth worker staff members, with one respondent stating that they needed the “tools” to work with […]

7 years ago

“The easiest way to describe it is like a minefield.” *Warning: this story contains details of anorexia, compulsive eating, and ED treatments. Last year, Jess went for bone density scan. Tests like these aren’t usually offered to young people in Ireland, and her GP had to fight to get her one. Jess was diagnosed with […]

7 years ago

“I’ve started seeing a new guy and we recently started sleeping together.  “We’ve been having a good bit of anal sex, without protection, and even though it’s never been something I’d usually worry about, a couple of people have told me that I definitely should be using condoms.  “The guy has sort of flippantly told […]

7 years ago