Gone are the days when music festivals had a few greasy chipper vans to provide sustenance for the thousands of revellers. Nowadays, there’s almost as many food stalls as bands playing – and there’s no better festival for food lovers than Electric Picnic. So here’s your helpful nudge towards 10 must-visit stalls at this year’s […]

9 years ago

Your baby wipes are packed. Your cans are on ice. Your tent pitching practice in the back garden went swimmingly. You’ve checked the weather forecast seven hundred and eighty four times. Last thing’s last – who are you going to see at this year’s Electric Picnic? Don’t mind Florence, Blur, Sam Smith etc – you […]

9 years ago

McDonald’s was served a bit of a smackdown this week, when it was forced to remove the word ‘artisan’ from promotional material surrounding the McMór. And now, the Food Safety Authority of Ireland – who put in place the regulations surrounding such terminology earlier this summer – has been praised by none other than Grub […]

9 years ago

I guess I’ve been lucky in life. I mean, I firmly believe you carve your own way through these things, and a busy bee stands out 99% of the time – but you also need a little luck to meet the right person or to be in the right place when an opportunity arises. Catering […]

9 years ago

Picture the scene. It’s a Saturday morning, you need coffee, but – because you’re a total yuccie – you ain’t got no cash to hand. In fact, you don’t even have a coin section in your wallet – this is the 21st Century, after all, and the whole idea of trading precious metals in exchange […]

9 years ago

This December, the whole world is counting down to a very special moment in the calendar; an arrival that’s been predicted and awaited for generations, and one that will bring together this divided world in peaceful harmony. That’s right – it’s the new Star Wars movie (ahh, you see what I did there in a […]

9 years ago

Well this looks pretty amazing. The Dead – the closing short story in James Joyce’s Dubliners, and one of the most incredible pieces of literature based around the city – has been adapted into an opera, which is set to run for five nights in the Project Arts Centre. The story, which follows Gabriel Conroy […]

9 years ago

Are you the type who likes to have their Christmas shopping out of the way by the time the first week in December has ended? If so, you are a better person than me – and I shall quietly resent you as I scurry around Dundrum on Christmas Eve, trying in vain to work out […]

9 years ago

We’ve all walked past the Millennium Tower in Grand Canal Dock, and wondered – if even for a second – what it might be like to live up on the top floor. You don’t need to see pics to know that it probably boasts one of the finest views the city has to offer, and […]

9 years ago

We had an absolutely cracking night at the Morrison last night for the Dublin’s Finest awards – a full house, the cream of the Dublin food and drinks industry in attendance, and richly deserved offers for the very the best that our city has to offer. We’ll have more pics over the course of the […]

9 years ago

It’s no Black Friday, but sure look. It’ll do nicely all the same. Cyber Monday is here – and given the shitty weather, and the fact that we’re going to spend so much money on OTHER people this year, we figured it was a good time to make some irresponsible impulse buys. Do it. LG […]

9 years ago

John Lewis, you just got outdone. Massively. This ad for German retailer Edeka features an old man (but of course) whose family just keep on coming up with excuses not to spend Christmas with him – only to realise when it’s too late that they probably should have been a bit more time with him. […]

9 years ago

You’re probably reading this on a train or a bus – but you know something? You could still be in bed right now. These apartments in The Marker might set you back €5k a month, but their location is absolutely bang on for the vast numbers of people who work in the Silicon Docks, the […]

9 years ago

Rain is grim. And Mondays are grim. These are two hard, cold indisputable facts. Thus, mathematically, rain x Monday = a level of grim that the human soul quite simply can’t handle. The Met Éireann forecast for Dublin puts it rather mildly: Monday morning will be wet with persistent or heavy rain for a time […]

9 years ago

Categories don’t come much more hotly contested than this. But we felt it was finally time we took on one of the most contentious discussion topics of all when it comes to food in Dublin: where’s the best place to get a pizza? So here, as voted by the Lovin Dublin team (and completely separate […]

9 years ago

“I get a lot of letters from strangers; mostly nice, occasionally hateful,” writes Panti Bliss on her latest Facebook post and tweet. “This one is a little harder to classify.” Hate mail – and indeed, the moving messages of hope – have become staples of social media output for the Queen of Ireland, providing a […]

9 years ago

We’ll just leave this here. Absolutely fucking marvellous stuff.

9 years ago

We don’t want to be responsible for causing a panic… but there’s a human snowglobe outside the Gaiety right now. It’s been set up by Littlewoods Ireland – we’re guessing something to do with Black Friday – and it lets you get inside a snowglobe, while being serenaded by a choir who are presumably there […]

9 years ago

Christmas can be a bit of a strug if you’re into the whole fitness thing. Not only do you have to face broken routines, gym closures, endless nights out and temptation at every turn – but you also have to deal with some serious nutritional issues, as mammy’s gravy-soaked leftovers replace your carefully prepped stir-fries, […]

9 years ago

Halloween may have come and gone – but that hasn’t stopped this Dublin restaurant from going full-on freaky in their bid to promote their festive lineup. We can’t be sure what it is about The Unicorn‘s tweet, and the beautiful if slightly disturbing animated video loop that comes with it. Is it the eyes that […]

9 years ago

If you regularly walk down the canal, you may have spotted a pretty cosy-looking spot across the water just to the east of the Baggot Street bridge, next door to Milano’s. Well that place is called Angelina’s, it’s a sister restaurant of Sophie’s at The Dean – and we went down to check it out […]

9 years ago

Let’s get one thing out of the way: no, The Jar will not serve drinks in jam jars. Despite being owned and run by the same crew behind The Bath – which was largely responsible for introducing that fad to the Irish drinks market, before it became the most clichéd and infuriating thing of all […]

9 years ago

The people of Dublin have spent quite some time obsessing over the game-changing doughnuts at Aungier Danger since it opened last month – and with good reason. The queues out the door, and the annoying tendency for their stock to be sold out before you even got anywhere close to the top, certainly kicked off […]

9 years ago

Last month, An Bord Pleanála gave permission for a McDonald’s drive-thru restaurant to open in the Blacklion Centre in Greystones. The decision has proven controversial in the area, not least because it’s located close to three schools – and because it came in the immediate wake of the Government’s stated intention to ban fast-food restaurants […]

9 years ago

Ah, the passive-aggressive note – preferred language of millions of disgruntled, peeved and all-round dickish housemates the world over. There truly is a very special art to nailing down these notes – and so we’ve had a snoop around, like a nosey flatmate ‘looking for a phone charger’ inside your room while you’re back at […]

9 years ago

It’s been an emotionally gruelling 48 hours. Wondering what the hell just happened, why it happened, who did it and why they did it, and whether it’s all going to happen again – the questions and the points of uncertainty are absolutely endless, and it’s very easy to become overwhelmed by it all. Step forward […]

9 years ago

This is the big one. Tonight, we take on Bosnia and Herzegovina in the first of two play-off legs – hoping that a solid performance (and maybe a sneaky away goal) will secure secure us a place at next summer’s European Championships in France. With every place in town sure to be packed for the […]

9 years ago

As most football fans know, the 2016 edition of Football Manager is released on Friday. And Cabinteely FC, who play in the League of Ireland First Division, have turned the impending release into an absolutely marvellous piece of marketing during the close season – by challenging fans to win the Premier Division as the club, […]

9 years ago

Clear your schedules – a three-day craft market will take place in the Backyard section of the Bernard Shaw from November 27-29, in association with Bodytonic, feature a cracking lineup of “specially selected designers and craftspeople”. The Bernard Shaw Backyard will be completely transformed for the event, which will feature a full schedule of live […]

9 years ago

I don’t believe gender imbalance is fundamentally ingrained in Irish theatre. After all, our national theatre was founded by a woman and a man (Lady Gregory and WB Yeats) in a theatre building bought and managed by a woman (Annie Horniman). Women artists, members of the Abbey company, were actively involved in both the 1916 […]

9 years ago

Dublin is by no means perfect – but one thing we’ve really got right in the last decade is our city bikes scheme. Smattered nicely across the city, readily available wherever you are and – despite some congestion issues at rush hour – a reliable way to get from one part of the city to […]

9 years ago

Who cares that we don’t even have John Lewis in Ireland? Their Christmas ads have become staples of the festive season, being made with an artistic flair that really makes us not care whether or not they’re trying to just sell stuff. And their 2015 effort has just upped the ante altogether – providing a […]

9 years ago

Commuters rejoice – the Irish Rail strike has been called off! In a very dramatic last-minute agreement, it was agreed in the early hours of this morning that the action would be called off – despite confirmation to the travelling public last night that it would go ahead – and the matter will now be […]

9 years ago

So bear with us for a bit, because the details here are pretty sketchy. But there’s something called the ‘Chamber of the Curious’ coming to Dublin later on this month… and it looks pretty damn intriguing, even if we can’t really decipher much info of the rather cryptic info we were sent about it. For […]

9 years ago

This isn’t a solution to the fundamental problem of homelessness, but it’s certainly an excellent start. The Digital Hub – a campus in Dublin 8 that houses 90 digital start-up companies – is set to accommodate some 100 homeless people during this year’s cold winter nights, according to a report in today’s Irish Times. The […]

9 years ago

Tinder had a good run. It burst on to the scene in 2013, and was quickly feted as the future of its genre – leaving old-school contenders such as OKCupid and Plenty of Fish in the dust, with its mobile focus and its sheer simplicity. Its appeal was clear. In a world where online dating […]

9 years ago

This fog has been with us now for more than 24 hours – so we have no choice, really, but to concede that this is the end. And descending as it did on All Saints’ Day, this is as sure a sign as any that the dead are about to rise and claim the souls […]

9 years ago

It’s a well known fact that nothing brings more joy to life than clowns. Nothing. And so, let’s dispense with the scary, creepy elements of Halloween – and replace them with these wholesome, family-friendly photos of fun-filled jesters, whose sole aim is to bring joy to you and your loved ones. Enjoy! 1. This clown […]

9 years ago

We love Dublin Airport. Not only is it our gateway to the rest of the wonderful world, or the first place we see when we wearily touch down back in our beloved hometown – but it’s also got one of the best accounts on Instagram, that’s packed full of fantastic images from the past and […]

9 years ago

It might be Friday, but it sure is grim out there… so we figured you might need an extra bit of cheering up. Thankfully, though, our super-chic buddies at The Morrison are on hand to help us out – they’re offering you the chance to win festive afternoon tea for four people, in pretty much […]

9 years ago

Well, consider this one item ticked off your Christmas shopping list. Dublin: A View From Above is a collection of brand new images by Dennis Horgan, featuring 240 stunning pics of the city as you’ve never seen it before. And man oh man, are they bloody amazing. “Seen from the edge of an open aircraft […]

9 years ago

First Dates – aka the single greatest show on television – is coming to Ireland. The Channel 4 reality programme, which features couples meeting for the first time in a restaurant loaded up with cameras, will air on RTÉ Two in ‘early 2016’ – and more importantly for the nation’s single population, it’s open to […]

9 years ago

The idea of puppies and kittens falling into harm’s way over Halloween is a very serious one – and, let’s face it, one that most of us would rather ignore. So how do you get the message across to pet-owners to keep their pets locked up, without crossing into the realm of horrible scare tactics? […]

9 years ago

After a long absence, the wonderful Martin’s Life recently returned to our internets with a thought-provoking treatise on the Rugby World Cup. And guess what? It’s back already! This time, the family grapple with the technical intricacies of a Skype call to Australia. And, as usual, pretty much everything about it is perfect. READ NEXT: […]

9 years ago

Let’s be honest – it’s been a pretty crappy day for most of us. The weather’s been obnoxiously awful, the Bank Holiday is over and – worse – we have to deal with the fact that this is basically the last day off we’ll have until Christmas. Christmas. But if you think your day’s been […]

9 years ago

We all know that there’s a lot more to MMA than Conor McGregor – but much as we pay lip service to the hidden aspects of that world, very few of us actually get to see what it looks like. This seven-minute video documentary from Newstalk.com, produced by Luke Benson and Joseph Conroy, gives a […]

9 years ago

“Travel influences us a lot – particularly seeing new things and spaces.” Amen to that. As anyone who loves Dublin will tell you, some of the best inspiration for our improvement as a city can be gleaned from what other cities are doing – whether that’s up and coming food trends, speed-flatmating or inventive […]

9 years ago

Need a room? Need a roomie? Fancy completing this process in an hour over pints, rather than spending hours trawling through Daft? Then Find-A-Flatmate Drinks are for you! Following the roaring success of our first two sessions, we’ll be back at the Stag’s Head tomorrow, Wednesday, November 18, from 5.30pm – 7pm in The Stag’s […]

9 years ago

This is mind-blowingly, tear-inducingly brilliant. Recorded tonight in Brixton, Bowie’s hometown in London, where fans have gathered in tribute to the late star. Amazing.

9 years ago

It’s not unusual for an artist to leave this world like a supernova. Rather than slowly fading into darkness, their star burns perhaps more brightly than ever before; an explosive exit made up of tributes and quotations and artwork and Spotify searches and tweets and posts, all fuelled by a lifetime of creative genius, but […]

9 years ago