Having a car is all well and good, but having to shell out a shit load of cash every time you need to fill up the fuel tank is a wreck the head. Especially when fuel prices are completely different all over Dublin. Why can’t they all just agree on a fair price?  Well, thanks to pumps.ie […]

10 years ago

A while back we broke the exciting news that one of our favourite cafes was working on a brand new store in the lovely neighbourhood of Portobello. READ: One Of Our Favourite Coffee Shops Is Opening A Gorge New Place In The City Love Supreme, who have their original much loved stronghold in Stoneybatter, are […]

10 years ago

1. Seven Wood  A lifestyle and wellness company specialising in kitchenware and natural cosmetics, Seven Wood is ideal for the dreamer in your life who also appreciates the finer things.  Check out their dreamy pop-up on Dawson St. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Seven Wood (@sevenwoodlifestyle) on Feb 10, 2017 at 9:24am […]

10 years ago

Dublin is known to be a historic place of literature and culture: its towers have featured in Joycean novels and even the Grand Canal is forever remembered in Patrick Kavanagh’s poetry. So basically, it’s a pretty top-notch spot to host an International Literature Festival. This year’s fest is on from today until the 29th, and […]

10 years ago

Despite Dublin having an impressive number of restaurants and diverse cuisines, I usually find myself eating the same style of foods over and over and over again. Like, anything with creamy carbs is my go-to. Last night though, whether it was the freakishly mild weather or the fact that I had a huge pizza the […]

10 years ago

Did you know that today is National Banana Day? Well ya do now. And something very tasty and very banana-y is happening in the city centre today to celebrate the town going bananas and to raise funds for the purchase of new multisensory equipment at Temple Street Children’s Hospital.  Being promoted by fruit importers Fyffes, with support […]

10 years ago

There was a massive dog festival on in Merrion Square this weekend – ‘Pawsitivity’. The whole idea of the festival was to improve the well-being of all pets and their owners by helping them to achieve ‘Pawsitive Living’.  And that’s exactly why the whole event was totally free. There was a heap of amazing things to […]

10 years ago

Ireland’s rental crisis has seemingly reached peak levels, with the latest “trend” of landlords offering free rent in exchange for sexual favours. The Irish Times report that last week alone, there were 10 “sex for rent” ads posted on online sites Craigslist and Locanto. As the average monthly rent in south Dublin is a huge €1,868, […]

10 years ago

Ireland’s most well-known motorway, the M50 in Dublin, has been revealed as the location of the most car accidents in the county. In the past four years it has been the scene of almost 2,000 vehicle collisions,and suffers from eight hours of rush hour traffic a day – 7-10am, and 3-8pm. Yikes. According to figures released […]

10 years ago

Fidget spinners, a stress-relieving toy that helps distract the mind by helping you focus on the weighted spinner in your hand, are experiencing a huge surge in popularity. Some schools have even banned the toy, saying they’re a distraction, and we betcha there’s at least one person you know in work who either has one […]

10 years ago

Dublin Fire Brigade responded to the scene of a dramatic crash involving a van and a bridge in Blanchardstown late last night. The bridge, which measures eight feet, six inches, was too short to allow for the van to pass by, resulting in the incident. Dublin Fire Brigade took to Twitter and said: “Our Blanchardstown […]

10 years ago

If you’ve ever wandered around town on a Sunday morning in search of a welcoming place that serves brilliant coffee and artisan food then you should know that all you need to do is wander on a but further towards Grand Canal and visit one of the city’s prettiest Scandinavian-style cafes. Annie’s, which you’ll find […]

10 years ago

Dublin has plenty to offer when it comes to tasty treats, and it’s gotten to the stage where it’s almost too hard to decide where to eat out. Almost, but not quite.  We’ve put together a dream day of feasting in the city, that will take you from farm-fresh eggs in the morning to expertly blended cocktails […]

10 years ago

We can’t guarantee that the view from your car window will be as pleasing as the image above, but we can guarantee that there’s a Dublin Fire Brigade charity car wash taking place from Monday-Friday all next week. The good folk of DFB are helping to raise money for the Irish Cancer Society, and will […]

10 years ago

Childhood obesity in Ireland is a growing issue, what with kids’ obsession with Ipads and apps and basically just not wanting to leave the tech world. Not so with the incredibly fit Layla Rochfort, a six-year-old mini ninja who trains in Spartan Academy in Blanchardstown. Boxing? She can pack a strong punch. Push-ups, weightlifting, sprinting, […]

10 years ago

Pizza is one of the greatest food inventions ever created in the history of the world, I think we can all agree on that. Soft warm dough, gooey cheese and a whole heap of delicious toppings all combine to make our mouths drool and our bellies swell with happy little food babies. What’s harder to […]

10 years ago

If you’ve ever passed by the derelict Ormond Hotel along the quays then you’ll recognise that this building has been lying empty for oh, the past ten years or so. The building was bought in 2013 and planning permission was applied (and then denied) to demolish the Victorian hotel and replace it with a 170-bedroom, six-storey […]

10 years ago

Have you ever been called a ‘Jackeen’?  To some peeps it simply means you’re a real Dub, a true-blue through and through, but to others it can be the one insulting word that causes them to go absolutely mental. There’s a few different meanings behind this typically Irish name; the Oxford English Dictionary defines it […]

10 years ago

Dublin Fire Brigade are busy bees, keeping the city under control 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. They respond to thousands of calls a week- a huge 139,000 call outs last year alone – and these peeps are experts in what they do. Prime example: They released this mental video of drone footage of […]

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If you’re travelling in or out of the city centre this morning from the northside, you miiiiight want to allow some extra time for your journey.  Traffic is expected to be absolutely hectic in areas around the Glasnevin location, due to Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles visiting Glasnevin Cemetery. A huge police operation is in effect from […]

10 years ago

Holy shit – the only thing in the world better than doughnuts is FREE doughnuts, everyone knows that. So if you’re craving a bit of a sugar fix today (and aren’t we all?), then you have got to get yourself down to the super shiny and new Revolution Bakery on Wicklow St. They’ve opened up their new […]

10 years ago

Festival makeup is one of our absolute faaaaave looks to create on our faces, and going insane with glitz and sparkles genuinely makes our hearts soar. I’d even go so far as to say it’s one of the best things about festival season? Sometimes though even the most contour-creative of us struggle with how to look […]

10 years ago

Dublin has its fair share of places to eat and drink for sure, but that still doesn’t stop us from getting giddily excited every time we hear of somewhere new. Even better is when it’s somewhere that we know and like that’s spreading its wings and bringing its fab food to other areas of the […]

10 years ago

Disney movies have been there for us ever since we were born and will probs still be there for us until our happy-ever-after warped souls leave the earth. We LOVE Disney okay?  So when we heard that there’s a special Disney character pub crawl in the city centre this Friday night we got pretty ecstatic. […]

10 years ago

The world was shook last year with all the deaths of legendary musicians such as David Bowie, George Michael, and of course – the artist known as Prince <3 So on Friday, April 21, a year to the day since we lost one of the most extraordinary artists, minds and musicians of all time, The Grand Social will throw [&hellip;]

10 years ago

Does anyone know a fella who honestly enjoys going clothes shopping for more than 45 minutes-ish?  In our experience, usually it all gets a bit too much hassle trekking around after a while, and they end up buying an entire outfit in one or two shops. Nothing wrong with that now, don’t get us wrong, [&hellip;]

10 years ago

What’s the one thing you eat when you’re hungry af but can’t be bothered to make real food? We’re betting it’s probz the classic cuisine of ‘Beans on Toast‘. Warm, filling, and completely effortless, there hasn’t been one time in our bean-eating lives that this combo has failed us.  You’ll be chuffed to know then [&hellip;]

10 years ago

A protest outside the Department of Health building on Hawkins Street drew large crowds with posters and banners expressing their outrage over plans for the new maternity hospital. People are shocked after it was announced during the week that the same order of nuns who ran the Magdalene Laundries are set to gain ‘sole ownership’ over [&hellip;]

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Are you full of wild and creative ideas? Do you have a vision for something that would make festival goers stop and say “WOW”?  If so then you might be just the kind of person that Forbidden Fruit festival organisers are looking for. They put a call out on their site for Irish creatives to [&hellip;]

10 years ago

If you’ve ever battled for a Dublin Bike at 8.30am on a weekday morning then we’re pretty sure you’ll be thrilled to hear that 15 new stations will be introduced. This will bring number of bicycle docking stations from 101 to 116, while 100 extra bikes are to be added to the total number of [&hellip;]

10 years ago

The coffee scene in Dublin has been thriving for quite a while now, with new places popping up all over the city like lovely little caffeinated flowers. With all those coffee shops however, it can often be tough to stand out from the crowd and do something truly unique that will catch people’s eye. This [&hellip;]

10 years ago

Gardai are investigating after a shot was fired at a home in Carpenterstown in West Dublin last night. The Irish Independent report that two men on a black scrambler motorbike approached a house in the Fernleigh Estate at 9.45pm. The man on the rear of the motorbike fired a shotgun at the home, damaging the front door.  [&hellip;]

10 years ago

A 13-year-old girl was mugged at knifepoint in a shocking incident on the Green line Luas last week. The Journal.ie reported that the girl was on her way home on the Luas after an outing in Dundrum with her friends when she was approached by a man and a woman who verbally abused her and [&hellip;]

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Thinking of staying in tonight with your duvet and some TV? Think again my gin loving gremlins. There’s a gorge Irish gin tasting on in Panti Bar tonight from 7pm and it’s too much of a good opportunity to pass up. Lemme repeat – GIN. TASTING. Poacher’s Premium Beverages from Wexford, who create yummy tonics that [&hellip;]

10 years ago

If you’re anything like us then your teenage years in Dublin were spent hanging around Central Bank in skinny jeans with a huge studded belt and tiny little colourful bows clipped into your neon hair. So prepare for your inner teen to get very excited at the news that emo band extraordinaire, Paramore, have announced a gig [&hellip;]

10 years ago

Have you ever crossed over the train tracks to get to the other platform? Ever just been like “ah sure feck it, I’ll be across in ten seconds”? Well we can guarantee you won’t ever do it again after watching this terrifying footage taken in Kilbarrack station which shows a man escape with his life with [&hellip;]

10 years ago

Dublin Fire Brigade had an exceptionally busy Easter weekend and it today their emergency ambulance service is flying around all over the city. They announced at 12.20pm that they have received a mindblowing 47 emergency 999 calls in their control room since 8am this morning. That’s over 10 calls an hour. Since 8am our control room has received [&hellip;]

10 years ago

Holy hell. Has the carb lord really come down from his doughy heaven to shower us with an edible glory like no other? You bet. Two of our favourite things have been combined into one calorific delight and we’re not worthy – we are not worthy. Pizza? Yes. Pasta? Yaaaas. BOTH? o.m.g. The Big Blue [&hellip;]

10 years ago

It’s been announced by The Irish Times that ownership of the new €300 million State-funded National Maternity Hospital will be given to a religious order, The Sisters Of Charity. The very same religious organisation has been historically known for running Magdalene laundries around Ireland, and has so far failed to provide its share of funds [&hellip;]

10 years ago

How was your Bank Holiday weekend hmm? Pretty chill, few chocolate binges, nothing too out there we’d imagine. Unless you’re TCD student Jack Doyle, who threw some absolutely mad shapes on Saturday night on the dancefloor of heroes: the upstairs of Dublin Bus. Those metal poles, the whacky pattern of the seats – those flashing! florescent lights – [&hellip;]

10 years ago

Dublin Fire Brigade were called to the scene of a very distressing incident yesterday afternoon involving a giant yellow container and a person. A unit from Rathfarnham station was called out to free someone after the person realised they had locked themselves in. Awkward. Our Rathfarnham fire engine has freed a person from a container [&hellip;]

10 years ago

Dublin Fire Brigade are absolute troopers. They rescue cats from the Liffey, people from second storey windows, and extinguish blazes all over the city. This weekend they really worked their asses off. First thing Saturday morning they sent three engines to a multi-car collision on the N4. Then a quick whiparound to Finglas where a male was [&hellip;]

10 years ago

Brunch has officially taken over our weekends, and pretty much our lives, but sometimes it all feels a little bit… Same-y y’know? If you’re looking for a real treat yo’self way to spend a lazy Sunday in a way you wouldn’t usually, then you’ll be absolutely smitten with the The Shelbourne’s legendary Sunday Jazz Brunch. Almost as much [&hellip;]

10 years ago

Dublin youngsters are renowned for having the absolute craic, anywhere, at any time, and now the world of Twitter is finding this out. A gas video of three jokers in Ballyfermot who were having a pretty feckin’ great Good Friday has gone viral, with almost 12,000 retweets. The clip was posted by Peter McFadden and [&hellip;]

10 years ago

We can practically smell the fear from half of Dublin this morning as news is spreading that Coppers dancefloor and its dark corners may no longer be a safe place for secret shifts. “What happens in Coppers, stays in Coppers” will apparently not quite be the case anymore… And tbh we’re shitting it. The Dublin [&hellip;]

10 years ago

A very touching, and very important ‘coffee party’ is taking place this Saturday in legendary coffee shop First Draft Coffee. You may remember that the Dublin barista community held fundraising events last year to raise much needed money for the medical treatments for their fellow barista, Rashel Winn, who was battling cancer. Sadly, Rashel passed [&hellip;]

10 years ago

Although a positive move was made today in the pausing of the Bus Eireann strike, Dublin Bus could still strike if a ruling by the Labour Court is rejected by their colleagues at Bus Eireann. Dublin Bus workers were balloted on Monday and Tuesday by SIPTU and a final count of the votes revealed that [&hellip;]

10 years ago

A motorcyclist in his 30s has died following a collision early this morning when his vehicle struck a wall. The man was treated by emergency services at the scene but died shortly after. The incident happened at 7.50am, according to Sunday World, on Terenure Road East heading in the direction of Terenure. Gardai have appealed for witnesses [&hellip;]

10 years ago

Ed Sheeran mania is sweeping the city, and people are going a little mad. So mad in fact, that Asian ‘junk food’ restaurant Bread and Bones are offering 20% off the bill from their full menu if you just so happen to have one very important thing in common with Ed. Yep – today is [&hellip;]

10 years ago

People always say that 5k runs are “fun runs” but lets call it out once and for all – they’re lying, runs are NOT very fun. This is what I’ve always thought anyway (please, do not judge my slowly moving, unfit self) but then we heard about this hilarious Sumo Suit run that is taking [&hellip;]

10 years ago