A husband and wife went to the doctor to get tested for IVF treatment and discovered that they were actually biological twins. The couple, who remain anonymous, had been struggling to conceive a child and visited the clinic to undergo in vitro fertilisation treatment. Before the treatment could begin, their DNA was taken and tested. […]

9 years ago

As part of the annual Good Friday tradition, the Pope gave a candlelit speech to some 20,000 people at the Colosseum in Rome, and this year he focused his speech on the “shame” of humanity today. Covering topics from the abuse scandal within the church to the deaths caused by forced migration in Europe, Pope […]

9 years ago

There are two types of people in the world: those who already know how great Mystery Science Theatre 3000 is, and those about to find out how great Mystery Science Theatre 3000 is. The “new” show was actually already been around for ten seasons since it began way back in 1988, finding homes on the […]

9 years ago

Imagine you’re a tourist on holiday in Dublin today. You arrive in Temple Bar, the party capital of the party capital of Ireland, the country known – for better or worse – for enjoying a tipple every now and then. But everything is shut! Has there been some kind of mandatory evacuation you weren’t informed […]

9 years ago

If you’re single in 2017, you’re probably more than well aware of how tough it is out there. Despite the internet opening up the entire world for dating opportunities, all it really seems to do is open up more opportunities for people to express their disinterest. There’s a special place in hell for people who […]

9 years ago

Last night there was a segment on Six-One News that people are still talking about this morning. If you missed it first time round you can get the full story here, but basically a farmer in Kerry is offering €2,000 to anyone with information that might help locate his 60 missing sheep. While that isn’t […]

9 years ago

In case you didn’t know, La La Land was a bit of a hit. It won a shed-load of Oscars and is currently en route to half a billion at the worldwide box office, which is a lot considering that everyone considered the musical genre to be pretty much dead and buried. But if anyone […]

9 years ago

Let me tell you a story… Years ago, I went to Florida with my family and we went around and visited pretty much all of the theme parks going. In one of them, myself and my sister sat up the very front of the roller coaster, and when we reached the precipice, our bit of […]

9 years ago

We’ve all been there. You’re too tired / lazy / sick / hungover to make any food, so you order some take away. But that tiredness / laziness / sickness / hungoverness will have multiplied in the few minutes it takes for the food to get to your house, and the dilemma arrives: Just how […]

9 years ago

A new bill has been presented to the Upper House that would change a 90-year-old law. The Good Friday alcohol sales ban would be lifted if the bill were to be passed, which many people took to Facebook and Twitter to celebrate. However, not everyone has found it to be such great news. Colin Neill from […]

9 years ago

When it started, Big Little Lies seemed like just another chick-lit show. In much the same vein as Desperate Housewives, it had beautiful women all full of secrets, living in dream homes you don’t see outside of the richest of suburbs, and the whole thing has pinned together with “Whodunnit?” murder mystery. Even the promotional […]

9 years ago

Ah, Graham. You do miss him when he’s gone, don’t you? Last night his couch was so overflowing with talent that he had to bring them out in shifts. First he had Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman to promote their new crime caper Going In Style. Then Jack Whitehall and Gemma Whelan arrived to talk about […]

9 years ago

For the last 90 years, only those who happen to be on a train, on a boat, in the theatre or staying in a hotel in Ireland would be lucky enough to enjoy alcohol on Good Friday. Since the restriction was put in place in 1927, there has been that mad dash on Holy Thursday […]

9 years ago

Remember when the Fast And The Furious movies were just about illegal drag races? It didn’t take very long for the series to spin out to an all-consuming blockbuster series that found itself levelling major metropolitan areas, but then solid structures were never going to be safe once you got The Rock, Vin Diesel and […]

9 years ago

In case you missed it, Article 50 was triggered on Wednesday. Today is Sunday, and people are already talking about war between the UK and a European ally. Gibraltar is one of Britain’s over-sees territories, found just off the coast of Spain. During the Brexit vote, the citizens of Gibraltar voted 96 percent in favour […]

9 years ago

Remember when the entire world seemed to lose their collective mind at the arrival of the Cronut? Conflicting reports say it was created in either 1991 or 2008, but both of those times the product was called a ‘Dosant’ (terrible name), and it wasn’t really until 2013 when a New York City pastry chef made them, a […]

9 years ago

Your favourite new Netflix show is probably going to disappear at midnight. Showing that your favourite streaming service has a sense of humour, Netflix launched the premiere of the first episode of Netflix LIVE! today, and then promptly cancelled the rest of the series. You’ve probably noticed it on your feed today with the word […]

9 years ago

Should you find yourself sat in tonight… Here’s who you can expect to find joining Ryan on the show tonight at 9.30pm on RTE One. Author Joseph O’Connor pays tribute to the people who protect our coastlines with his new poem ‘Rescue 116’. Businessman Brian Lee will be talking about his healthy-food company Chopped. It’s not […]

9 years ago

What. A. Day. With the picketers from Bus Eireann showing up at 4am outside bus and train stations around the country, they’ve effectively brought all of Ireland to a standstill. The only form of public transport that wasn’t directly effected was the Luas, and even that experienced technical problems on the Green Line between Beechwood […]

9 years ago

As the industrial action continues with Bus Éireann, other transport services today will see some major fallout. In a statement by Iarnród Éireann, they have announced this morning that many of the major rail services today will be heavily effected or will be cancelled outright. This is due to secondary picketing at a large number of […]

9 years ago

Do you watch TV shows on your laptop or tablet or similar device? Then we’ve got some potentially bad news for you… According to sources at the Irish Independent, Communications Minister Denis Naughten is looking to expand on the definition of ‘TV licence’, which will include any devices above 11 inches that you watch content on. […]

9 years ago

Did you know that IMAX an acronym for Image Maximum? Well, now you do. And that’s not even the most interesting thing we’ve got to tell you about IMAX today. There is just one IMAX screen in all of Ireland, and that is in Cineworld Cinemas in Dublin, and on Saturday 8 April there is […]

9 years ago

“What’s your super power again?” “I’m rich.” We’re just has out first sneak peek at the brand new trailer for Justice League and it’s a good one. So what’s it about? In much the same way that Marvel built up to The Avengers, DC have done similarly by giving us Man Of Steel, Batman V Superman, […]

9 years ago

In December of 2007, 18-year-old Leanne Wolfe was found dead in her home by her sister, having overdosed on medication in order to commit suicide. Her family later discovered Leanne’s personal diaries and discovered that their daughter had been the victim of intense physical, verbal and psychological bullying for over three years. Leanne’s parents Colette […]

9 years ago

From Fair City to a galaxy far, far away… Ian Kenny, who viewers might know as being the big bad bully from hit Irish musical comedy Sing Street, or TJ in Fair City, has been cast in the latest spin-off from the Star Wars universe. According to Variety, Ian Kenny will be joining Donald Glover, Thandie […]

9 years ago

The Eurovision 2017 song contest is set to take place from May 11 to 13 in Ukraine, but the government has just confirmed that they have banned the Russian entry from entering the country. 27-year-old Julia Samoylova was all set to perform her country’s entry Flame Is Burning, when she discovered she would not be allowed […]

9 years ago

Particularly handy if you have a job interview approaching.

9 years ago

Disney are definitely thanking so many of us for being their guests this weekend… The $160 million live-action adaptation of Beauty & The Beast just opened to $170 million in the U.S. alone, with an additional $180 million worldwide, which means there have been a lot of broken records. First up, those numbers make it […]

9 years ago

There was a time about two years ago when all anybody could talk about was the Serial podcast. The first Serial was downloaded over a quarter of a billion times, and was a major part of the massive uptick in podcast consumption today. To this day, the case still rumbles on and people still argue […]

9 years ago

It was reported last night that rock and roll icon Chuck Berry had passed away at the age of 90. One of the most influential musicians to have ever existed, with songs such as “Johnny B. Goode”, “Sweet Sixteen” and “Maybellene” amongst others still played regularly to this day, his passing was met with a […]

9 years ago

In what has to be one of the worst kept secrets / most obviously true rumours in some time, Ed Sheeran has just confirmed that he will be headlining Glastonbury later this year. Sheeran took to his Instagram account to film a little video to make the announcement while on stage in Zurich as part […]

9 years ago

There are plenty of ‘Castles On The Hill’ in this show… According to Enterainment Weekly, the showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss announced at the good news at the South by Southwest film festival this weekend. We wonder if they’ll get him to ‘Sing’? Or if he’ll die violently and we’ll get to see his […]

9 years ago

In terms of “weird things that happen between famous people”, this is certainly up there. Pamela Anderson writing a weird sometimes-rhyming, sometimes-not-rhyming poem in honour of Wikileaks found Julian Assange is now a thing that has happened. Although we probably shouldn’t be too surprised, as Anderson has actually visited Assange several times while we lives […]

9 years ago

Big budget blockbusters don’t need our help when it comes to getting attention. Not that we don’t love talking about amazing (and even not-so-amazing) blockbusters until you’re pleading with us to stop, but we’re always on the look out for that less-well-known movie that has the capacity to blow us away. In the last few […]

9 years ago

In the same episode that saw the return of Alec Baldwin as the Commander-In-Chief, the actual host of this week’s show was none other than Scarlett Johansson. While there were some genuinely great sketches throughout the episode, this one in which Scar-Jo plays Trump’s wife Ivanka is the one that has got everyone talking. From […]

9 years ago

Now that we’re finally getting some slightly better weather, now can be a good time to get a little bit more outdoorsy. At the start of 2017, I decided to start a #OneHikeAWeek resolution, and while bad weather and just general life-living has stopped me from sticking to it too strictly, I have done ten […]

9 years ago

If you haven’t seen it yet, then you’ve no longer got any excuse. Room was one of the best movies in 2016 and it’s finally getting shown on TV tonight. Nominated for four Oscars – including Best Picture, Best Director for Lenny Abrahamson, and Best Adapted Screenplay for Emma Donoghue who worked from her own […]

9 years ago

In a night filled to brim with talking points, one of the major ones was when last year’s Best Actress winner Brie Larson was presenting the award for Best Actor. When it was announced that Casey Affleck had won for his role in Manchester By The Sea, everyone noticed how Larson stood stock still behind […]

9 years ago

Which God did we please? Only a few days ago we were reporting that Steps were coming to Ireland (with support by The Vengaboys, no less!), and now this?? Their new single Scared Of The Dark is the first track from their upcoming album Tears On The Dancefloor, and for fans of Steps, we’ve got […]

9 years ago

A 42-year-old law lecturer at the Queensland University of Technology has been charged with pretending to be Justin Bieber online and soliciting explicit pictures of minors. According to NBC News, the man was first charged back in November 2016, but this week was officially charged with 931 child sex offences, including the possession of child porn. […]

9 years ago

Did you enjoy that big, bright, warm circle in the sky those last few days? Well… According to Met Eireann, while things are slowly turning away from what felt like an eternal winter, the emphasis really is on ‘slowly’. Today things are going to mostly mild, breezy and cloudy, but will remain mostly dry, with temperatures […]

9 years ago

A bus is driving around Ireland until Wednesday, helping women in need of advice on abortion issues. ROSA (Reproductive rights against Oppression, Sexism, and Austerity) is driving the #Bus4Repeal between Dublin, Cork, Galway and other stops along the way in support of the ongoing Repeal The 8th campaign. Rita Harrold, a ROSA spokesperson traveling on […]

9 years ago

Hailo has taken it’s last ride, as it becomes mytaxi as of this week. For anyone who uses the app on the regular and thinking they’re going to have to set up a whole new account on a whole new app, do not fret. Simply open the Hailo app and follow the simple instructions to […]

9 years ago

The 89th Academy Awards take place tonight.

9 years ago

Watching the trailer for Get Out is a perfect parallel to knowing how it got made. Things start off innocently enough, with a young couple played by Daniel Kaluuya and Allison Williams heading off on a weekend away so she can introduce her new boyfriend to her parents. On the drive up, an animal shoots […]

9 years ago