One of the most famous locations in the west of Ireland is about to get a new look. Fáilte Ireland has announced plans to redevelop the Galway City museum in a project that will cost €10.2 million in total and completely transform the Spanish Arch district in the city of the Tribes. The National Tourism […]

6 years ago

Tastier than a Coleen Rooney/Rebekah Vardy Twitter beef. Sunday wouldn’t be Sunday for a lot of Irish people unless there’s a roast dinner involved and the hunt is on to find which establishments in Ireland are different gravy compared to their competitors. Multiple pubs and hotels in all four provinces have been nominated for Ireland’s […]

6 years ago

Familiar with any of these places? 10 Irish businesses were served with closure orders for breaches of food safety legislation in September, according to the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI). The food businesses were issued with closure orders for breaches of food safety legislation, pursuant to the FSAI Act, 1998 and the EC (Official […]

6 years ago

“We need change and we feel like it’s our duty to help that happen in Ireland.” A couple from Meath say they are considering leaving Ireland as a result of abuse they have been subjected to after appearing in an ad campaign for Lidl. Fiona Ryan and her fiancé Jonathan Mathis, a mixed-race couple from […]

6 years ago

A local man plans on renting an expensive car to drive around Inishannon to fool people into thinking he’s the winner! The winner of the €5,325,592 jackpot from Saturday night’s National Lottery draw has not yet revealed themselves and may not even know about their life-changing victory. The winning ticket, a QuickPick, was sold in […]

6 years ago

Cryptosporidium can cause serious gastrointestinal illness, particularly in young children and the elderly. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has served notice of an increase in detections of cryptosporidium in public water supplies in Ireland. According to the Drinking Water Quality in Public Supplies Report 2018 released this week, there were detections of cryptosporidium in 25 public […]

6 years ago

The affected businesses are located in Monaghan, Cork, Kilkenny, Galway and Dublin. Six Irish businesses were served with closure orders for breaches of food safety legislation in August, according to the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI). The food businesses were issued with closure orders for breaches of food safety legislation, pursuant to the FSAI […]

6 years ago

Traditionally, festival campsites on the Monday after Electric Picnic have not made for a pleasant sight. Electric Picnic organisers say there has been a “wonderful improvement” in relation to the number of discarded tents at festival campsites compared to previous years. The state of the campsites has cast something of a sour note on the […]

6 years ago

One of the seven wonders of the world is under serious threat. The outlook for Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, a World Heritage Site and one of the seven wonders of the world, has been downgraded from “poor” to “very poor” in a report by the Australian government. Every five years, the Great Barrier Reef Marine […]

6 years ago

This would certainly make a splash on the landscape of Ireland’s capital city. Dublin City Council has opened consultation on a proposed white-water rafting centre in Dublin’s city centre. Consultation on the proposed facility reopened earlier this month after an initial proposal in January of this year fell by the wayside a few months later, […]

6 years ago

And they would have gotten away with it too, if it wasn’t for that pesky cough. In September 2001, Charles Ingram, a former British Army Major, won the maximum prize of £1 million on the wildly popular quiz show, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, becoming only the third person in the history of the […]

6 years ago

The perfect Christmas present for the Picture This fan in your life. Having become the fastest act ever to sell out the INEC Killarney in 2017, Picture This have been confirmed as the first band to perform at the newly rebranded The Gleneagle INEC Arena days before Christmas. The Kildare natives will perform in the […]

6 years ago

In the event of a no-deal Brexit, UK driving licences will not be valid in Ireland after 31 October. The Road Safety Authority (RSA) has confirmed that anyone living in Ireland who holds a UK (including   Northern Ireland) driving licence must exchange it for an Irish driving licence, before 31 October 2019, in the […]

6 years ago

More than 50 clubs throughout Ireland are already on board. The family of the late Laura Brennan are asking sports clubs throughout Ireland to consider wearing a HPV vaccine logo on their jerseys or training gear in advance of all first-year boys and girls being offered the lifesaving HPV vaccine from September 2019. The jersey […]

7 years ago

The price changes come into effect immediately. Netflix has confirmed that it is implementing price changes in a number of European countries, including Ireland, from today, 20 June. In a statement, the company said that it is increasing the price of Standard and Premium plans to reflect the improvements it is continually making to the […]

7 years ago

Handsome by name, delicious by nature. Handsome Burger has fought off tasty competition from 500 burger outlets throughout the country to claim the title as the best burger in Ireland in 2019. Obviously motivated by a second-placed finish in last year’s edition of the competition, a sizzling performance from Handsome Burger saw it jump to […]

7 years ago

Hallelujah! With umbrellas a regular sight and temperatures rarely reaching above the mid-teens, the summer of 2019 has been a damp squib so far, but things appear to be finally looking up. Conditions in recent weeks have been so dull and miserable that a forecast of what would normally be considered no more than decent […]

7 years ago

Warning: The images contained in this article are graphic and may cause upset. A woman from Waterford was given a lifetime ban on owning any dogs and ordered to pay €1,665 in costs after admitting to causing unnecessary suffering and failing to provide sufficient quantity of wholesome and uncontaminated drinking water to a German shepherd […]

7 years ago

Familiar with any of these places? Seven Irish businesses were served with closure orders for breaches of food safety legislation in May, according to the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI). The affected businesses are located in Limerick, Meath, Cavan and Dublin. The food businesses were issued with closure orders for breaches of food safety […]

7 years ago

Until now, Vodafone Ireland customers had the option to avail of a cut-price subscription to Spotify Premium as part of their payment plan. Vodafone Ireland customers who had been availing of a subscription to Spotify Premium at a reduced cost will have to pay an increased price for the service if they wish to […]

7 years ago

The incident occurred shortly after midnight on the Swords Road. A man in his 20s has died after being struck by a heavy goods vehicle (HGV) in Dublin in the early hours of Friday morning. Gardaí are investigating a fatal hit and run incident between a HGV and a male pedestrian that occurred on the […]

7 years ago

The baby, named Saybie, was as light as an apple when she was born. The world’s smallest baby ever to survive has been released from hospital in San Diego as a healthy and happy infant, a little under five months after being born. San Diego’s Sharp Mary Birch Hospital for Women & Newborns, California’s largest […]

7 years ago

“Some of these premises have demonstrated a complete lack of concern for the health of both their customers and their staff who eat at or work in their establishments.” The observation of sewage and waste in a rear yard adjacent to refuse bins, thereby risking a transfer of faecal matter to the kitchen, was one […]

7 years ago

It’ll be mostly pleasant outdoors this weekend… but bring a jacket. Temperatures will drop to zero or below freezing for each of the next three nights, according to the Met Éireann forecast for the Bank Holiday weekend. Saturday night is set to be the coldest of the weekend, when temperatures will drop to lows of […]

7 years ago

One passenger is reported to have walked down the aisle of the plane offering a bottle of vodka for other passengers to drink from. Several fights are reported to have broken out amongst “disruptive” passengers, many of whom were travelling to the AMP Lost and Found Festival, on a Ryanair flight from Dublin to Malta […]

7 years ago

Lyra McKee’s death has been condemned as “a senseless act of violence”. The tragic death of Lyra McKee has been described as “disturbing”, “profoundly saddening” and as “a senseless act of violence” by the General Secretary of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ). McKee was shot dead following an outbreak of orchestrated violence in the Fanad […]

7 years ago

One of the most iconic hotels in the country has new ownership. Hoteliers Deirdre McGlone and Marc Gysling have decided to sell Harvey’s Point hotel in Donegal, voted the number one hotel in Ireland on TripAdvisor in six of the last seven years. The couple have decided to sell the hotel, located on the lakes […]

7 years ago

A sorting office for An Post in Limerick was evacuated on Friday morning. Gardaí say that a suspect parcel discovered in an An Post sorting office in Limerick appears to be “identical” (pending closer forensic and ballistic examination) to parcels discovered in London and Glasgow earlier this month. An Garda Síochána are currently investigating a […]

7 years ago

The average refund is $550 (NZ), which works out at well over €300. Are you one of the 40,000 or so Irish people that travelled all the way to New Zealand in recent years, particularly during the height of the recession? If so, and if you have since returned to Ireland, you could be due […]

8 years ago

High praise and thoroughly deserved too. Adare Manor is one of just five hotels around the globe shortlisted for the title of ‘Hotel of the Year’ in the ‘Best of the Best Awards 2018’ by Virtuoso, a network of the best luxury travel agencies worldwide. The Limerick hotel, which was reopened in November 2017 after […]

8 years ago

Well, he did cause the flight to be delayed so it was the least he could do. It wouldn’t be stretching things to say that, as an airline, Ryanair don’t often give things away for free, but there was good reason for customers on board a flight to Dublin from Liverpool to receive a little […]

8 years ago

“Your story is bollocks.” Ed Sheeran has hit out a journalist from The Sun newspaper over a story that claimed he had submitted plans for railings to be built outside his home in London “to keep out homeless people”. An article in The Sun claimed that Sheeran has submitted plans for five-foot railings outside his […]

8 years ago

Ed does have a special affinity with the place after all. Galway city, where Ed Sheeran once busked on the streets and penned a song with its name in the title, will host a festival in honour of the singer-songwriter next month. Ed will be performing in Pearse Stadium in Galway on 12 and 13 May […]

8 years ago

The parents of the child died in a car crash in 2013. A baby boy has been born in China to a surrogate mother more than four years after the death of his parents in a car crash. Although the baby boy was born in December, news of the birth is only being reported in […]

8 years ago

‘Ulster Rugby should be showing support to their players.’

8 years ago

Couldn’t log on to Tinder last night? You weren’t the only one. Tinder users around the globe were sent into a state of mild panic on Wednesday night after being prevented from logging on to the ridiculously popular dating app. Late on Wednesday night, a Tinder post on Twitter revealed that a technical issue was […]

8 years ago

He has since removed the Tweet.

8 years ago

Looks like a good’un!

8 years ago

No time to waste if you want to take advantage. Aer Lingus has launched an Easter sale with fares to multiple locations in the US and Canada, with prices starting at €159 one-way (including taxes, charges and fees). Aer Lingus passengers can avail of what the airline describes as its “lowest ever” Saver Fares to […]

8 years ago

You wouldn’t believe the amount of nudity in it. Despite the vast array of content, most Netflix users find themselves looking for something new to watch most of the time and if you’re currently counting yourself in that category, then have we got the new series for you. Recently added to the streaming service, a […]

8 years ago

A number of flights, however, have been cancelled due to the weather conditions. Passengers travelling to and from Dublin Airport on Sunday have been urged to contact their airline for the status of their respective flights after a number of scheduled flights were cancelled due to poor weather conditions. Runway operations were suspended for 40 […]

8 years ago

If you thought the Saoirse Ronan Aer Lingus sketch was bad, wait until you see this… A few months back when Saoirse Ronan was on the show, Saturday Night Live aired a sketch about Aer Lingus that attracted quite a lot of attention for all the wrong reasons. Portrayals of Ireland that are full of […]

8 years ago

Yes, that is big Donncha O’Callaghan you can see at the front of the aircraft. You can always expect a sizeable Irish contingent to make their presence felt in London on St. Patrick’s Day, but they’ll be there in even greater numbers this afternoon. We hardly need to tell you about a certain rugby match […]

8 years ago

“What do you mean ‘we can’t get on’?” Dermot Bannon is no Gordon Ramsay, but the show that we all know him from, Room to Improve, has a habit of bringing out the fiery side in those who feature in it. After all, if it makes Daniel O’Donnell angry, it could make anyone angry, right? […]

8 years ago

It was a tough slog but they got there in the end. Room to Improve fans were probably sure that the episode featuring Daniel and Majella O’Donnell from earlier this season wasn’t going to be topped, but nobody that tuned in will forget Sunday night’s episode in a hurry. This week, Dermot met Christine, an […]

8 years ago

“It now looks increasingly likely that Ireland will be impacted by one of the worst spells of wintry weather since 1982.” A weather forecaster in Offaly is predicting that Ireland will be hit by one of the worst spells of wintry weather seen in the country in 35 years next week. After Met Éireann issued […]

8 years ago

RTÉ confirmed the news on Thursday. RTÉ has announced that Joanne Cantwell will anchor The Sunday Game Live following Michael Lyster’s retirement at the end of the 2018 GAA Championship. It was confirmed earlier this week that Michael Lyster was leaving the flagship GAA programme after 34 years at the helm. An accomplished presenter across […]

8 years ago

Good to know!

8 years ago

Radio personality Colm Hayes also said he “never saw anything untoward happen” while in the company of Porter at the time. Former Today FM DJ Al Porter “categorically denies” allegations by a patient in a Dublin psychiatric hospital that Porter kissed and groped him during a hospital visit in 2015. In a statement to the […]

8 years ago

Kamprad died quietly in his sleep at his home in Sweden, the company announced. Ingvar Kamprad, the founder of the global furniture company IKEA, has died at the age of 91. The founder of IKEA and one of the greatest entrepreneurs of the 20th century, Ingvar Kamprad, has passed away at the age of 91. […]

8 years ago