
Adele has cancelled two Wembley shows
The singer may have performed her final gig.
9 years ago

Rory Cashin
Entertainment Editor at JOE.ie. Professional lover of all things movies, TV, games, music, books, food, travel, tech and ..... did I say movies?

Adele has cancelled two Wembley shows
The singer may have performed her final gig.
9 years ago

Be prepared for a mixed bag of weather this weekend
“Rain, rain, go away…”
9 years ago

The reason why Tinder isn’t helping you find love… or the shift
So alone. So very, very alone…
9 years ago

A wine from Lidl has just won a major world-wide award
Very swanky.
9 years ago

Tonight’s line-up on Graham Norton should have us in stitches
There will be A LOT of funny people on Graham’s couch… First up, we’ve got both Steve Carrell and Kristen Wiig, the individual stars of The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Bridesmaids, who have teamed up to provide their voice talents to the upcoming Despicable Me 3. Anyone remembers their … uhm … unique chemistry in Anchorman […]
9 years ago

The Gogglebox Cavan twins have their own travel series on YouTube
Welcome to The Tully Twins tour
9 years ago

Busting the myths of hot drinks and cold showers in hot weather
It’s too damned hot! We’ve already given you some tips on how to get a cooler night’s sleep on a particularly hot night, but what about during the day when your core temperature is through the roof. We all usually run for cold showers and ice-cold drinks in these times of sweaty pandemics, but this […]
9 years ago

This compilation video of Robert Pattinson proves he hated Twilight
No more Edward Cullen, then?
9 years ago

Netflix has a new comedy… and the early reviews are incredibly promising
We’ll add it to the list, so.
9 years ago

This How I Met Your Mother star wasn’t happy with the show’s ending
If you didn’t manage to catch the end up of the nine-season sit-com that ended back in March 2014, then be warned, spoilers ahead! Attempting to fill the void left behind by Friends, How I Met Your Mother did the whole back-and-forth between platonic-and-sexual relationships between a group of tightly-knit friends pretty much exactly as Friends […]
9 years ago

Richard Hammond ‘air-lifted to hospital’ following car-crash
Former Top Gear co-host Richard Hammond has reportedly been air-lifted to a hospital following a car-crash in the Swiss mountains. Hammond was filming for his new show The Grand Tour when the incident took place. According to local sources, Hammond was driving a white Rimac Concept One electric sports car on a road that was closed […]
9 years ago

Tonight’s Graham Norton line-up is eclectic, to say the least
They’re covering all of the bases… It’s Friday, which can only mean one thing – Graham time. Tonight, we’ve got Oscar-winning actress Rachel Weisz, who will be taking her place on the red couch to promote her new psycho-sexual drama-thriller My Cousin Rachel, in which she plays the titular character, which must’ve been handy enough for […]
9 years ago

This handy video recaps all 4 seasons of OITNB in 4 minutes
All thirteen episodes of Season 5 of Orange Is The New Black are available on Netflix right now… No, wait, come back! Before you devote your entire day/night/weekend to binge watching the award-winning prison-set dramedy, Netflix have gifted us a little visual reminder of the highlights of the first four seasons. Truth be told, despite […]
9 years ago

Ariana Grande’s team say ‘benefit concert will go ahead with greater purpose’
‘Today we stand together.’ The One Love Manchester benefit concert is due to take place tonight, but following the horrific events in London, it was called into question whether or not the event would still go ahead. However, Ariana Grande’s manager Scooter Braun took to Twitter to release a short statement, saying that all of […]
9 years ago

These are the 10 best Netflix original movies you can watch right now
We all have a favourite Netflix Original Show, but lately it’s been making a lot of very impressive noise in the movie department, too. Just this week the streaming service got a standing ovation for its forward-thinking environmentally-friendly thriller, as well as making something that genuinely has the words “Adam Sandler” and “Oscar Buzz” in the same sentence. […]
9 years ago

A US TV host called himself the n-word live on air and people are not happy
In the long list of people we really thought would have known better, we would’ve thought Bill Maher would be right up there… In the same week that other famous TV hosts have been publicly fired for their poorly chosen jokes, the US talk show host hasn’t so much pushed that particular envelope as pushed […]
9 years ago

You might be in for a LONG wait for the last season of Game of Thrones
It’s hard work being a Game of Thrones fan. We’ve all been very excited about the imminent arrival of the penultimate season, but once that’s over, it could be a few winters before we get the next one… Ever since the trailer dropped for Season 7, we’ve all been dissecting it for every single little […]
9 years ago

Sorted: all four seasons of House Of Cards in 5 Minutes Or Less
Welcome to 5 Minutes Or Less, a script breakdown for the only the biggest blockbusters, giving you hundreds of millions of dollars worth of explosive big screen action in less than 300 seconds worth of reading or your money back. (You didn’t pay for this, so there’s nothing to refund here.) In this edition, buckle […]
9 years ago

Netflix’s new dark comedy ‘Shimmer Lake’ is coming soon… and we’re excited!
“I’m giving this town a bath.” We’re taking a sneak peek at the brand new trailer for Shimmer Lake. Plot’s it all about? Isolated small-town America? Check. Darkly comic? Check. Bursts of sudden and intense violence? Check. A complicated plot filled with people who don’t seem to fully comprehend what’s going on? Check check check. To […]
9 years ago

This week’s weather will be our ultimate ‘what to wear’ test
It’ll be very “close”.
9 years ago

A man bought a ticket to the women-only screening of Wonder Woman
It is all kicking off online.
9 years ago

This music festival has plans to build its own beer pipeline
Priorities are in order here.
9 years ago

Airbnb has a new fantastic feature for one Irish county
Users of Airbnb are about to get access to a new feature which will improve their stay in Dublin. A new development by the company, simply titled Experiences, will allow visitors to get a look at the not-overly-tourist’y spots of the city that they otherwise may not have realised were there. Dublin is the 28th […]
9 years ago

What you can and can’t post about sex, violence and terrorism on Facebook
Freedom of speech doesn’t apply to every public platform, it turns out. Having got their hands on the guidelines provided to Facebook employees, The Guardian then gave a full breakdown on the findings, and found that Zuckerburg’s company are constantly attempting to clamp down on a tidal wave of sex, violence and terrorism related statuses. […]
9 years ago

Feeling hot, hot hot! Temperatures to soar this week across the country
A little poem in honour of Irish summers… Every week we break out the shorts, But then we’re told to bring out the umbrellas, All we want to do is play some outdoor sports, In the sunshine with the other ladies and fellas. This whole week we’ve been getting rained on, And we’ve […]
9 years ago

The Rock reveals his running mate for the 2020 US presidential election
“Before, I didn’t think I was qualified for the position. But now? I’m afraid I might be too qualified…” This latest season of Saturday Night Live has been one of the show’s most watched, and a lot of that is down to President Trump and his staff. They’ve helped fuel the really pale people who […]
9 years ago

A wall or a river? The internet is freaking out over this confusing pic
Remember the Dress? The Dress? Of course you do, and by the way, it was black and blue. That was able to be put to bed pretty quickly because all it took was someone to take an actual, non-flash photo of the dress and the world was righted back to it’s original axis. However, the […]
9 years ago

Impeachment doesn’t mean what we think, least of all for Donald Trump
Over the past few months, weeks, days, hours and practically minutes, we’ve seen countless headlines promising us that President Trump is getting closer and closer to being impeached. However, the impeachment process isn’t some magical re-do button that will reverse the last five months of his Presidency term and allow America to start anew, heading […]
9 years ago

Need some TLC? There is a cuddle party happening in Ireland today
Cuddles are great, and everyone loves cuddles, and anyone who doesn’t like cuddles clearly needs more cuddles. Anyone who has ever been in the deepest, darkest depths of a hangover will probably admit to Google searching for a escort service that caters exclusively to spooning, just to help get you through the worst of it. […]
9 years ago

Someone has created a chilli so hot that eating it could kill you
Have you ever heard of the Scoville Scale? No? Then let us enlighten you. Basically, the Scoville Scale is to spiciness what the Richter Scale is to earthquakes. But unlike the Richter Scale where the strength amplifies to the power of ten with each number – so a 5.0 earthquake is ten times more powerful […]
9 years ago

Two huge Trump stories have just broken
If we didn’t know any better, we’d almost think this was planned… Tonight, President Donald Trump began his first foreign trip as the leader of the free world, stopping off at Jeruselum, Vatican City, Brussels and Sicily. But his very first stop is in the city of Riyadh in Saudi Arabia, with a 12 hour […]
9 years ago

Netflix’s latest comedy is full of sass, spandex and some serious girl power
Netflix have had quite a successful run with their original comedies. On top of Orange Is The New Black (which, to be fair, is as much a comedy as it is a drama), there’s also been Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Grace & Frankie, Love, Master Of None, W/Bob & Dave, Lady Dynamite, Girlboss, Dear White People […]
9 years ago

Turns out porn has a negative effect on men… but not on women!
SEX! Okay, now that we have your attention, let’s talk about … PORN! We are not here to judge, and nor should anyone else be, as to what a grown-up person (or persons, again, no judgement) enjoying pornography. We’re all grown ups here (we assume, if not, go read something else on the site, like […]
9 years ago

Oh Bruce! This could be the worst movie trailer we’ve ever seen
We’re almost lost for words. And for a website, which needs words in order to exist, that is a very bad thing, so we’re just going to power on through… First of all, the basics: The movie is called Once Upon A Time In Venice, named after that town in California, not that city in Italy. […]
9 years ago

The Irish Eastenders spin-off Redwater kicks off tonight
We imagine everyone will be tuning in for this one. Tonight sees the first entry into the six-part mini-series drama (so we can’t go calling it a soap, we guess) Redwater, a spin-off from an Eastenders plot strand. Kat and Alfie arrive in the fictional Irish town of Redwater, in search of some answers to […]
9 years ago

This UK politician is royally pi**ed off at Ireland over the Eurovision
There have been all sorts of reactions to the last night’s Eurovision Song Contest. Yes, the most entertaining, least European singing contest (Hi, Australia!) in the world really is nothing more than the rhyming version of the Galactic Senate, with people voting for their neighbours and everyone being jealous of Sweden’s song-writing ability. We’ve already […]
9 years ago

The new Pirates Of The Caribbean movie is the second most expensive movie ever made
The fifth entry into the Pirates Of The Caribbean is set to dock in Irish cinemas on 26 May, and to say it comes with a bit of a hefty price-tag is an understatement. Johnny Depp returns in Salazar’s Revenge (previously titled Dead Men Tell No Tales) as Captain Jack Sparrow, rejoined by Geoffrey Rush […]
9 years ago

These are the CV skills that could result in being paid less
Looking for a new job is hard enough without having to question each and every thing you’ve stuck up on your C.V. It is always a good idea to get someone else to check over your resume before you send it in, the folks at Pay Scale have crunched the numbers, and found that the following […]
9 years ago

This Irish pop star has volunteered to represent us at Eurovision 2018
Once again, Ireland didn’t make it to the finals of the Eurovision. For a certain demographic, Ireland winning the Eurovision was just a thing that happened, and the rest of the competition was all about who managed to come second. But recently we’ve completely lost our musical edge, while Scandinavian countries have reclaimed their united […]
9 years ago

Jennifer Aniston description of a modern-day Friends episode is very depressing
Despite being off the air for 13 years, people are still a little crazy about Friends. Just last week there was a (now deleted) post on Facebook by a guy called David Scwimer (the misspelling should have been a dead give away that it was fake) that claimed that show would be returning this fall […]
9 years ago

Dublin is one of the world’s contract-killing capitals, a new documentary reveals
A brand new, six-part documentary airing on TV3 shows a different side to Ireland’s capital city. Featuring two of the most prominent specialists in the field of investigating contract killings, the documentary series Assassins is sure to be one of those programmes that absolutely everybody will be talking about the next day. According to those […]
9 years ago

This ingenious Heineken ad gets everything right THAT Pepsi ad got wrong
We won’t keep harping on about THAT Pepsi ad… The truth is it most likely came from a very good place, but was just so tone-deaf it went too far the wrong way. However, the new Worlds Apart campaign by Heineken shows how to tackle some very important issues in an intelligent, entertaining and truly […]
9 years ago

A sequel has just been confirmed for one of the top films of 2017
Spoiler alert! Director M. Night Shyamalan has confirmed that there’s to be a sequel for his hit film Split. He’s been teasing film fans with what he’s working on next, and he finally took to Twitter to confirm what we’d all been hoping for – a sequel to both Unbreakable and Split! If you’ve seen Split (or if […]
9 years ago

Your favourite shows could be MAJORLY delayed due to an impending Writer’s Strike
The next seasons of everything from The Walking Dead to Westworld could be put on indefinite hold as the writer’s of your favourite shows have voted in favour of strike action. You may recall the same thing happening about ten years ago when the writers voted to strike in order to get a (well-deserved) pay rise, […]
9 years ago

North Korea detains American citizen at Pyongyang airport
With tensions at an all time high, this couldn’t have happened at a worse time. While the North Korean government have been vocally reacting to Trump’s standing with the nation and continuing to test out their nuclear capabilities, this latest development may result in something of a tipping point. According to The Washington Post, the […]
9 years ago

The Great Scone Map shows how people pronounce ‘scone’ differently
Scone, or scone? As in rhymes with cone, or gone? There has been polls and votes and such over the years trying to get a general consensus, but apparently how you pronounce the word depends heavily on where you live. Did you even know there was a third way to pronounce it, that phonetically reads […]
9 years ago

Ryan Reynolds reacts to a fan getting Ryan Reynolds tattoo on his butt
Ryan Reynolds has a funny effect on people. Despite being rich and famous and really funny and really talented and being happily married to his beautiful wife and having a seemingly perfect life, we all still kinda love him and want to hang out with him and aren’t blinded by unspeakable jealously. Maybe it has […]
9 years ago

Planning a cosy night in? Here’s a list of the 5 Best and Worst Movies of 2017 so far
So we’re passed the 100 day mark in the year, somewhere between a quarter and a third through, so now is as good a time as any to look back on the movie year so far. We’ve had some massive box office success in the shape of Beauty & The Beast (over $1 billion and […]
9 years ago

Sweating over your Tinder profile pic? There’s a science to picking the perfect one
Whether you’re using Tinder, Plenty Of Fish, Grindr or what-have-you, the most important thing is to have a great pic in order to get any potential love interest’s attention. There are still – STILL! – some folk out there who are breaking some cardinal rules, such as don’t post headless torso pics of yourself, try […]
9 years ago

Massive man-hunt underway in Cleveland for Facebook live killer
Police in the American city of Cleveland are currently conducting a massive man-hunt for a man who allegedly recorded and posted the murder of a man on Facebook Live. 37-year-old Steve Stephens is reported to have shot dead a 74-year-old man and broadcast the crime on the social media streaming service. The victim has been […]
9 years ago