We asked our readers to provide their worst flatsharing stories, for a chance to win a month’s rent. Check out Story #11 here – and see below for details on how to vote! “After living with one of my ex-housemates I thank God that I’m still alive. “It’s not that he was in any way […]

9 years ago

We asked our readers to provide their worst flatsharing stories, for a chance to win a month’s rent. Check out Story #10 here – and see below for details on how to vote! “I’ve been living in a house with four other people for two months; I refer to it as the tenement. “It’s-owner occupied, […]

9 years ago

We asked our readers to provide their worst flatsharing stories, for a chance to win a month’s rent. Check out Story #9 here – and see below for details on how to vote! “Once upon a time three Irish girls living in Boston used Craigslist to find a fourth roommate. “Enter [redacted], a Ukrainian scientist […]

9 years ago

We asked our readers to provide their worst flatsharing stories, for a chance to win a month’s rent. Check out Story #8 here – and see below for details on how to vote! “It was a Friday evening, and my flatmate was having some friends over for a few drinks – he was an aspiring […]

9 years ago

We asked our readers to provide their worst flatsharing stories, for a chance to win a month’s rent. Check out Story #7 here – and see below for details on how to vote! “We lived with a real tricky customer a couple of years back. “He used to lock himself in his bedroom and listen […]

9 years ago

We asked our readers to provide their worst flatsharing stories, for a chance to win a month’s rent. Check out Story #6 here – and see below for details on how to vote! “My housemate, who was on a bit of a rollover in San Diego, managed to pass out after a crate of alcopops […]

9 years ago

We asked our readers to provide their worst flatsharing stories, for a chance to win a month’s rent. Check out Story #5 here – and see below for details on how to vote! I moved into a house being the only female out of six guys, so you can only imagine the stuff i had […]

9 years ago

We asked our readers to provide their worst flatsharing stories, for a chance to win a month’s rent. Check out Story #4 here – and see below for details on how to vote! “During my college course I had to do work placement, and luckily I got a job in a bank in London during […]

9 years ago

We asked our readers to provide their worst flatsharing stories, for a chance to win a month’s rent. Check out Story #3 here – and see below for details on how to vote! “In 2013 I moved to Vancouver, Canada, on a university exchange program. The university chose a guy named Frederick and I to […]

9 years ago

We asked our readers to provide their worst flatsharing stories, for a chance to win a month’s rent. Check out Story #2 here – and see below for details on how to vote! “I lived in a house in Galway with a guy and I can categorically say that he was the absolute worst. “I’ve […]

9 years ago

We asked our readers to provide their worst flatsharing stories, for a chance to win a month’s rent. Check out Story #1 here – and see below for details on how to vote! “As I returned from a gig in the 3arena, my friend and I were greeted by my housemate pleasuring himself in the […]

9 years ago

Last week, we asked you to tell us your most bizarre, outlandish, batshit crazy stories about shared accommodation – and man, oh man, did you guys respond in earnest. But after a lot of work – and a lot of moans, groans, cringes and hoots in the Lovin Dublin offices – we’ve managed to whittle […]

9 years ago

If you’re in Dublin 8, and rely on a top-notch cup of coffee to kick off your week, then we have some bad news for you – The Fumbally will no longer open on Mondays from August onwards. According to a statement posted on the wall of the café today, the decision was based […]

9 years ago

It’s not been the best week for Dublin councillor Noel Rock. Last weekend, he was punched in the face in an attempted mugging while looking for a taxi – and today, he received a piece of hate mail that certainly ranks up there with the worst we’ve seen. This morning’s mailbag brings some colourful correspondence. […]

9 years ago

What do you want to see on the menu in Cleaver East in Temple Bar this September? The two options for the next #PornBurger have been revealed – and now, we’re offering you the exclusive chance to decide which GAA-themed feast we should see on the menu, as the football season reaches its crux. Better […]

9 years ago

Miss out on something good this week? Never fear. As always on a Sunday night, we’ve got you covered… 1. The Tipp-Top Premier County We’re all about Dublin, but every so often we hand over the keys of the site to a dissenting view – this week, Seán Kenehan gave us a couple of reasons […]

9 years ago

For a city that goes wild at the very utterance of its name by a visiting artist, you can just imagine how this went down. Ed Sheeran, Glen Hansard and Kodaline teamed up to perform The Auld Triangle to the 80,000-strong crowd in Croker last night. And, well, it was rather epic. READ: There Was […]

9 years ago

We’ve got that Friday feeling here in Lovin Dublin – and according to the pics we’ve been seeing on our hashtag today, so do all of you guys! Here are just give of the amazing pics we spotted today on #lovindublin – and for more of our best-of picks, just click here. Come in? View […]

9 years ago

You’d be lying if you said that, every time you cross the Eastlink, a part of you doesn’t dream of audaciously jumping the gap like Keanu Reeves in Speed. The only difference between you and this 56-year-old guy in the Netherlands is that he actually decided to attempt it. And… well, it doesn’t end with […]

9 years ago

Know this junction on Leeson Street? The one that becomes like something out of the Hunger Games at rush hour every morning and evening? Yeah, it’s a bit of a mess – a hazard, in fact – and one that, on the face of it, shouldn’t be that difficult to sort out. We reached out […]

9 years ago

A team of scientists from Oxford University have proven what most of us suspected to be true: food tastes better when it’s eaten with heavier cutlery. The study, which involved 130 diners at an Edinburgh restaurant, showed customers were willing to pay 15% more for their food when they used high-quality knives and forks – […]

9 years ago

Lounging View this post on Instagram A post shared by @be_sasha on Jul 22, 2015 at 9:37am PDT A river runs through it A view from the bridge View this post on Instagram A post shared by Jo ? (@photosbyjo) on Jul 22, 2015 at 8:21am PDT Broodingly botanical View this post on Instagram A […]

9 years ago

This is quite literally a whole new angle on Dublin in the ‘rare auld times’. Released today by Associated Press, along with more than a million minutes of other archive footage, the film contains shots of a very new (and beautiful) Dublin airport, before tracking along the Liffey from Phoenix Park outwards, out to Poolbeg […]

9 years ago

Here’s the thing about smoking: if you don’t do it yourself, you tend to loathe it. This thought kept running through my head this morning on my walk to work, while I was wedged in the middle of a crowd at the Harcourt Terrace pedestrian crossing, behind some smoker in a suit. His exhaled fumes […]

9 years ago

Got eight minutes and 46 seconds to spare? Then check out this remake of Die Hard – called Try Hard – starring Simon Zebo and Patrick McDonnell (of Eoin McLove in Father Ted fame) battling it out to protect the Elverys consignment of Irish rugby jerseys. Yes it’s cringeworthy, and yes, there are several instances […]

9 years ago

We’re a bit obsessed with Nobó here at Lovin Dublin – and we’re definitely not the only ones. The dairy- and gluten-free treats have gone down a storm since their launch in 2012, proving beyond all doubt that you need bad ingredients to make things taste good. Having kicked off as a fairly elusive niche […]

9 years ago

Flatmates. The strug is all too real. Whether they’re obnoxiously noisy, freakishly quiet, oddly prudent or terrifyingly exhibitionist, we’ve all had one or two experiences with house-sharing that we’d rather forget. Until now! Win a month’s free rent We want to help you turn your long-suppressed memories into cold, hard cash – by paying you […]

9 years ago

What? The Falafel Wrap from Happy Food. Where? The Yoga Hub in Camden Place, which can be accessed either from Camden Street beside the Ladbrokes, or from Harcourt Street via the archway best known as ‘Coppers Alley’. Follow the yoga mats. Eat in/Take away? I get mine to go, but it’s a cracking place to […]

9 years ago

Allow us to break from our normal subject matter for a moment, to bring you news of the worst start to a press conference of all time. FIFA boss Sepp Blatter, who famously poked fun at Ireland for our attempts to enter the 2010 World Cup as a ’33rd team’, was staging his first conference […]

9 years ago

London Fire Brigade has apologised for tweeting that ‘thankfully no hipsters were injured’, after it tackled a blaze in a pop-up restaurant in Shoreditch. “Sorry if we caused any offence by using the term hipsters. Hope #Shoreditch businesses are back on their feet soon,” the organisation tweeted, after a number of users branded the initial […]

9 years ago

One of the best new additions to Dublin’s brunch scene, Taco Taco on Dame Court boasts a menu you want to keep coming back to until you’ve sampled every item. And that’s what we intend to do! This week, we’re turning our attention to that great Canadian wonderfood – poutine – and how the Taco […]

9 years ago

Not sure how we feel about this. The British pub chain JD Wetherspoon announced that it will open its fourth pub in the Republic of Ireland next week, located at The Old Borough in Swords. The new Wetherspoon outlet is on the site of an existing pub which closed in 2000, and the company has […]

9 years ago

Even when the clouds dominate the sky, you can’t help but look at this city and say a big, fat ‘wow’. Here are a couple of pics from today that remind us exactly why that is. Outfoxed View this post on Instagram A post shared by Elisa (@elisa.emonet) on Jul 16, 2015 at 9:01am PDT […]

9 years ago

According to this slick little video from Prevention.com, coffee has a whole heap of positive effects on your body – including some that you almost definitely didn’t know about. We were thinking of a three-cup cutoff point. But hey. Let’s keep drinkin’! READ: 9 Things You Never Knew About The Effects Of Caffeine

9 years ago

News broke over the last 24 hours that One Direction’s Louis Tomlinson is reportedly set to be a dad, and the internet – somewhat predictably – went into meltdown. And naturally, as the Twitter chatter grew increasingly loud, the best and brightest in the world of marketing quickly hopped on the story. Which is, to […]

9 years ago

We’re taught from the age of about six that it’s plain good manners to offer up your seat on public transport when it’s required by someone old, disabled, pregnant or otherwise in need. And yet, some people just can’t seem to grasp this basic concept, and bury their head in their smartphones – or sit […]

9 years ago

Earlier in the week, we published this photo of the site where the Dundrum Town Centre now lies – and we could barely believe the change in the area in just a few short years. And now, we’ve got even more amazing pics from the area – all kindly shared with us by Peter Brennan, […]

9 years ago

Do you ever feel like you’re not getting due thanks for all your hard work? You break your back, do your best, keep smiling the whole way through – and every day, it feels like you’re just running to stay still? Yeah. We’ve all been there. But today, at least, the sound crew at Tropical […]

9 years ago

It’s one of the most rampant problems in Dublin, and one that’s stopping would-be cyclists everywhere from ditching the car. But bike theft is growing year on year – the best estimates place the annual figure at around 5,000, up from around 2,000 in the last six years – and it’s now at the point […]

9 years ago

In the spirit of Back to the Future Day, let’s take a look into Dublin’s past… This photo was taken in a Dublin suburb less than two decades ago in 1997, showing nothing but fields and a small supermarket in the background. And yet, you’d hardly know to look at it today that this is […]

9 years ago

“I don’t want to look like a weirdo. I’ll just go with the muumuu.” Words to live by indeed. And now, thanks to the wonder of crowdsourced design, you can indeed go with the muumuu. Designer Joe van Wettering has brought to life the design – from a classic Simpsons episode, in which Homer exploits […]

9 years ago

So long, shrapnel. The Central Bank of Ireland has finally made the decree we’ve all been waiting for, and announced its intention to withdraw 1c and 2c coins from circulation. It’s a move that will make our wallets lighter, our queues faster and our lives that little bit less pointless. But how will it work? […]

9 years ago

“It is the shadow of the country we hoped we’d left behind.” With a script that absolutely tears apart Ireland’s dated constitution, and urges us to break free from the Catholic legacy that keeps the country in the dark ages, this Amnesty International video is brought to life by the stunning voice of Liam Neeson. […]

9 years ago

You might have read this story last week about a banner outside Searsons of Baggot Street, featuring a mocked-up graphic of Paul O’Connell lifting the Webb Ellis Cup. We said at the time it was tempting fate – and sure enough, as things transpired, the Irish captain suffered a devastating injury during our win against […]

9 years ago

I know, we say every year that it’s getting earlier. And I know that, in reality, it never is – and the idea of ‘waiting until after Halloween’ is more of a fanciful fabrication than something that ever really happened. But still. There’s something about the sight of Christmas lights being put up as we […]

9 years ago

We said it last week. “You certainly don’t print it into a MASSIVE banner and put it on the front of your pub! That’s just asking for trouble.” Thanks a lot, Searsons. Thanks a fucking lot. READ: 23 Incredible Photographs That Remind Us Why We’ll Always Love Paul O’Connell

9 years ago

So it looks very much like Paul O’Connell has played his last game in a green shirt, with a hamstring injury set to rule him out for the remainder of his World Cup swansong. And while it’s gutting news, and certainly not how it was all supposed to end for this giant, it’s worth taking […]

9 years ago

Seven days in a week and you only get two off; I think we can all agree that’s obscene. But rather than complaining about it, we thought we’d help you make the most of your precious free time by suggesting a few things you can get up to this weekend that’ll only take you a […]

9 years ago

There’s a whole variety of reasons why tonight will never be forgotten in Irish footballing history. But among the best of them – Long’s goal, the panel’s response, an incredible debut for Darren Randolph – was the atmosphere in the Aviva tonight. It was one of the first times the roof was truly raised off […]

9 years ago

Despite that amazing result in Stuttgart earlier in the qualifiers, it seems most of us aren’t too hopeful about getting a result tonight against the mighty Germans. And you can hardly be surprised – O’Neill has opted to field a very strange-looking team, featuring the likes of Stephen Ward (who has only started one match […]

9 years ago