The Irish Independent is reporting that Irish power couple Brian O’Driscoll and Amy Huberman have been given the green light to do up their almost €2m dream family home. The building, which is situated in Dublin 6, will include a new extension to the side and rear of their home in Rathmines. As well as […]

8 years ago

A Dubliner has took the time out to write a very strongly worded and passionate letter to Minister For Housing, Eoghan Murphy. Eva Short is from the same constituency that Murphy represents and admits that this is something that she has never done before. She explains that the housing crisis is reaching its peak and […]

8 years ago

Gardaí are investigating what they believe to be the discovery of part of a human ear in Dublin’s City Centre. The suspected human ear was discovered just before 10am in a set of Dublin 8 flats on Wednesday morning. Detectives are currently at the scene where the area has been sealed off and Gardaí say […]

8 years ago

Bloggers Unveiled, an Instagram page that became synonymous with calling out bloggers who were allegedly lying to their followers about images and products has released a statement. This comes after weeks of speculation about the identity of the person behind the page. A girl called Ramona Tracey told The Times on Sunday that she was […]

8 years ago

This Dublin two-bedroom in Bride Street was so diabolical that the advertisement for the place was eventually taken down on all sites that it was on. The Irish Sun said that an hour after chatting to the people who put up the ad, it was taken offline. The advertisement was on Daft.ie, Property.ie and Rent.ie […]

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Oh yes. Give us a dirty chicken fillet roll on both Bank Holiday Saturday, Sunday and Monday and we’ll feel a small bit better about blowing half our wages on double vodka red bulls. Give us that bread-based beauty and for a few minutes, we’ll forget about ‘The Fear’ and the fact that the last […]

8 years ago

On the latest addition of ‘find me the most expensive and smallest apartment in Dublin to rent’, our journey takes us to Ranelagh where a one bedroom apartment is being advertised for a ridiculous amount of money. The bedroom at 37 Charleston Road in Dublin 6 contains bunk-beds and is described in the advertisement as […]

8 years ago

A married man claiming to be in North Dublin has set up a Tinder account and has took pictures with his top off, while a baby’s moses basket is in the background. The man known as ‘P’, says he is 42 and living in North Dublin area, and states in his bio that: “Married, home […]

8 years ago

On Monday, we experienced our first spell of rain in a very long time. We’ve been exposed to massive heat and high temperatures for so long now that we kind of began to forget what rain felt and looked like. That soon changed when we got soaked on our way into work. The roads have […]

8 years ago

Gardaí are currently trying to find two young criminals who started an arson attack at a North Dublin shop while staff and customers were inside. The attack took place on Saturday morning in Santry at a Spar shop on the Shanowen Road. As a result, the shop has been closed for a number of day […]

8 years ago

It’s one of the first shops that shouts out at you as you walk down the very famous and very busy Grafton Street and it’s about to get a makeover inside. The Irish Times is reporting that McDonald’s will get rid of its coffee-house style McCafé brand from its Dublin location. The McCafé will be […]

8 years ago

On a scale of 1-10, how excited are you ahead of tonight’s Love Island final? After weeks and weeks of drama, coupling, re-coupling, kissing and fighting, it all comes down to tonight where Jack and Dani, Kaz and Josh, Wes and Megan and Laura and Paul face off against each other for a cool €50,000. […]

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Hundreds of people were rushed out of Dublin’s IKEA store after high pitched alarms started going off. The incident took place at around 1pm on Saturday afternoon and shoppers were forced to leave as staff dealt with what they described as an “unknown technical issue”. Jonathan Schnittger was one of the many shoppers who was […]

8 years ago

If you’re heading out for a few scoops over the weekend, you need to keep your eyes peeled incase you run into these two characters. Russell Brand is in Dublin to film a new children’s movie called ‘Four Kids and It’ which, you’ll probably remember, is the reason that Cheryl was in the capital earlier […]

8 years ago

“If you’re looking for a ride, I’ve the horse”… inside the back of my van. When it comes to animal safety, the Rubberbandits had it spot on by leaving their horse outside while they stormed a wedding on Thomas Street in Limerick. But this Dublin driver got arrested after Gardaí discovered what they described as […]

8 years ago

A ten-year-old Dublin schoolboy who died after eating a McDonald’s Peri Peri Chicken Wrap was found to have a passed away after a fatal allergic reaction. An inquest heard on Thursday that ten minutes after eating the wrap, the boy’s face and lips began to swell up and was pronounced dead in hospital later that […]

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Happy anniversary, Netflix. It has been five years since Netflix launched profiles meaning Netflix became uniquely yours, personalised to you and your taste. You no longer had to see your roommate’s movie suggestions in your Top Picks or your little sister’s cartoons in your Continue Watching. Your profile features the best suggestions based on what […]

8 years ago

Do you fancy a very, very cheap getaway to the land of Wales? Sorry, we knew that was a stupid question but we had to ask it. Stena Line ferries are doing an insanely cheap offer of return tickets for as little as €6.50. Sure, it would be more expensive to get the train down […]

8 years ago

This Dublin Restaurant’s kind deed to the homeless is not going unnoticed. They are promising free food to the homeless every Monday and Tuesday in their Camden Street store. Passion4Food launched the initiative last week and the response to it has been absolutely immense. Passion4Food who are self described as selling the “best kebabs in […]

8 years ago

Ryanair’s Board have approved a plan to cut its Dublin based fleet from 30 to (at most) 24 aircraft for the winter 2018 season. These reductions have been driven by the rapid growth of Ryanair’s Polish charter airline, which is growing profitably in 2018. This move is combined with a down turn in forward bookings […]

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It’s a sad day for Dublin as Donut chain, Aungier Danger has announced that they will be officially closing. The chain took to Instagram on Tuesday to say that the rumours were true and said: “Donut lovers, we hate to be the bearer of bad tidings…but we’re officially hanging up the Apron. Full statement to […]

8 years ago

The housing crisis in Dublin has seen its fair share of shocking places where beds are situated beside cookers in kitchen or under stairs in the hallway and then a colossal price tag is put on them. Sadly though, it’s not even that much of a shock anymore to see that the pull-out couch in […]

8 years ago

Sure where would you be going with all that coinage when you’re standing there on the tracks in your “slim-fit, hand-fitted Hugo Boss suit”. Of course, you’d rather be sporting a few “crisp” €20 notes instead of having the 1s and 2s jingle-jangling in your pocket, it would leave any man or woman “none-too plussed”. […]

8 years ago

The body of an Irish man missing since 2009 has been found in France. According to the Missing Persons website, Paul Shine-Dixon from Finglas was heading from Amsterdam to Barcelona in May when he decided to get off the train at Perpignan for reasons that are still unknown. He was due to meet with someone […]

8 years ago

Beauty lovers are in for an absolute treat. Arnotts has announced that a brand new cosmetics store is opening in the Beauty Hall this week. According to their website, IT Cosmetics will be launching online and in-store on the 25th July. IT Cosmetics has over 1m followers on instagram and was founded Jamie Kern Lima […]

8 years ago

The promise of a Metro for Dublin which would run from Swords to Sandyford seems to be finally making proper headway. The building of the Metro has already caused some controversy, especially for Dublin club Na Fianna, and it looks as though it’ll cause some major disruption in the city when it goes ahead. Michael […]

8 years ago

Irish people were very annoyed with the front page of Friday morning’s UK version of The Irish Sun. In it, Varadkar was branded as an “air head” because of his comments on Brexit and the impact it would have on flying. People said that the piece gave way for anti-Irish comments and that the newspaper […]

8 years ago

Dubliners are being warned by the HSE to be extremely vigilant after it was confirmed that there had been two cases of measles in the capital. One set was diagnosed in an adult and the other was diagnosed in a child who had returned to the capital after being in Europe. Over 30 people have […]

8 years ago

The Lidl Store in Jobstown, Tallaght that had everybody talking around the worldwhen it was looted during Storm Emma, is finally set to reopen. The Lidl was broken into and looted before being absolutely demolished by a JCB and caused mayhem so bad that even the army were called in. Images and videos were being […]

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Ryanair has issued an apology to nearly 4,000 customers who have been affected by the pilot strike which is happening on Friday. There has been 24 flights cancelled between Ireland and UK on Friday as the pilot’s trade union refused to cancel their planned industrial action. Ryanair’s statement says that: “We apologise to these 4,000 […]

8 years ago

A plane which took off from Dublin Airport and was heading for New York was forced to do a u-turn back to the capital. The plane circled Bray before returning to the Airport due to fears that it had hit a bird during take off Norwegian Airlines confirmed Flight D81842 took off on Thursday morning […]

8 years ago

The Irish Times is reporting that a flight to Dublin Airport has been diverted to Shannon after it was forced to abort its landing on Thursday afternoon. The publication is reporting that a second aircraft aborted its landing shortly after. Passengers on the Aer Lingus flight EI 163 from London Heathrow were told that it […]

8 years ago

We were very surprised too to see that there was actually a house for less than €200K in Dublin that look quite homely and wouldn’t take 203 years to pay a mortgage back on. This place – which features on Perfect Property – has a back garden and an ensuite in its bathroom which is […]

8 years ago

Gardaí have confirmed that a man has been charged for dangerous driving after a high-speed chase. The chase which happened in North Dublin involved a garda helicopter and a number of squad cars. Gardaí said that they stopped a car in Coolock on Wednesday evening and the man who is in his 30s has been […]

8 years ago

As if it wasn’t hard enough to leave Dundrum shopping centre already. It has gotten itself a brand new stand-alone store and quite frankly, we’re over the moon about it. 98FM is reporting that Rituals has announced that it will be opening a store in Dundrum in Autumn. The brand is famous for scented candles […]

8 years ago

We don’t mean to laugh at this but we can’t help but think about the pain every time the door opens. You know the pain of 5:30pm Dublin buses as much as we do. They’re going to be packed, you’re going to be up someone’s ass and someone’s going to be inside your bubble whether […]

8 years ago

You’ve probably spent many a good night in here bopping away to the tunes in a craic-filled environment that you’ll find hard to match anywhere else in the city. Well, the news that this popular Dublin nightclub was closing down brought tears to many eyes and the sight of it being torn down is going […]

8 years ago

We can’t think of a Dublin without late bars, nevermind thinking about a capital that closes its pub doors on the stroke of 10pm. Well, that could be the future for the next while as pubs may be forced to shut their doors because of the latest band of water restrictions. Irish Water has imposed […]

8 years ago

As part of ongoing joint investigations targeting drug importations, in the greater Dublin area, an Intelligence Led Operation was conducted by the Revenue’s Customs Service and the Garda National Drugs & Organised Crime Bureau. A van was stopped on Monday afternoon, the 17th July in Kilbarrack, Dublin. During this operation, a number of packages were […]

8 years ago

Gardaí have confirmed that a member of the force was injured when they accidentally pepper-sprayed themselves. The incident occured while they were after two Dublin men who they thought may have allegedly stolen goods in a nearby shop. One of the men resisted arrested and the other made an escape and during the fracas, Gardaí […]

8 years ago

As the days go by, it seems like Michael D Higgins is going to find it harder and harder to hold on to his Presidential seat. Last week it was announced that Sinn Féin had planned to run someone against Higgins while it was rumoured on Sunday that this famous face could face-off against Michael […]

8 years ago

Orla sent in a text to RTÉ 2FM’s morning show ‘Breakfast Republic’ on Monday morning in order to desperately find what could be the love of her life. The Rossie native, who lives in Dublin, was out drowning her sorrows following Roscommon’s defeat at the weekend when she came across a Clare man called John […]

8 years ago

I’ve never lost my phone or wallet. I’ve lost watches, shoes, I think one time my glasses went missing for a brief period in a nightclub but never my phone or wallet. I feel like if you have your phone and/or wallet, the rest is all just a bonus. But, it does happen. My friend […]

8 years ago

An “angry resident” who complained that children playing in this area of Dublin was bringing down the value of houses as well as showing that the parents didn’t care for the welfare and safety of the kids has received a response from one of the neighbours. Miriam Fitzpatrick was not involved in the writing of […]

8 years ago

Blake Lively was back in Dublin to continue the shooting of her new movie, ‘The Rhythm Section’. But, being honest, you’d have walked past the Gossip Girl star and wouldn’t think twice, she looked that different. Her and Jude Law were making splashes in the Dublin rain late on Sunday but the blonde bombshell swapped […]

8 years ago

The Journal has found that Dublin Bus drivers are having to urinate into bottles due to the lack of access to toilet facilities on their routes. A source within the National Bus and Rail Union told the publication that Dublin Bus had started to “crack the whip” among drivers who requested a toilet break. The […]

8 years ago

If you love your ice cream then you’ll know all about Scoop. What started off as an unknown shop in Ranelagh became a city centre hotspot for those who need their ice-cream fix. And they’re opening a brand new store on Monday. Monday 16th of July is International Ice Cream Day and to celebrate the […]

8 years ago

This Dublin Street has been flooded with rats lately and locals have had to take matters into their own hands in order to catch them. The rodents are coming in truck loads and there has been a handful of protests from locals because the matter is only getting worse. The block on Queen Street is […]

8 years ago

We’ve been waiting for an Dubliner to make a big entrance on the cobbles since Keith Duffy and it seems like we’ve finally gotten our man. Red Rock star Adam Weafer has landed a role on Coronation Street and told TV3’s Sunday AM:Live that he will star as Mr Fitzgerald who’s guest role will make […]

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