One of the first things Críona Ní Dhálaigh tells me when I meet her in the Mansion House is that she’s not a massive fan of the title ‘Lord Mayor’. People ask me, “Shouldn’t you be called the Lady Mayoress?” But no, Lord Mayor is the official title. Lady Mayoress is the title of the […]

10 years ago

The bicycles go by in twos and threes – but there’s no dance in Billy Brennan’s barn tonight. Just a growing congregation of Dublin’s underground bike racers. The meeting point is the Wolfe Tone statue at the corner of St Stephen’s Green, it’s a rainy evening and the numbers are slowly growing as the couriers […]

10 years ago

For many, marshmallows are just something you put in your hot chocolate when you’re feeling especially bold… but these bad boys are a feckin’ game changer. Delish Melish (fantastic name) was the brainchild of Dublin woman Derval Mellett, whose marshmallows have been tricked out to be unbelievable and filling treats in their own right, with […]

10 years ago

With the homeless crisis gripping the country, Christmas is set to be a hard time for many people who have found themselves living on the streets. However, this initiative by a Dublin volunteer group aims to spread hope among the less fortunate this year. Having officially formed in the last month, Hope In The Darkness […]

10 years ago

If you’re deathly afraid of rats, scroll no further. You’ve been warned. A horrifyingly large rat has been discovered in a New York and a picture of the creature was circulating on Facebook yesterday. From nose to tail, the rodent was estimated to be four foot long. Plus, it had none of the charm of […]

10 years ago

In the run up to the festive season, a new survey has revealed who is more likely to be generous with their Christmas presents… and who’s most likely to be a miser. Conducted by the gift website Gettingpersonal.co.uk, the study suggests that these are the names of the most and least generous people. Most Generous […]

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Ah here. The Garda Síochana Twitter account is a great corner of the social media site and yesterday they shared a picture of a disqualified driver driving their way to their court appearance. Disqualified driver drove to his court appearance this morning!In custody&car detained #optrivium pic.twitter.com/cPkBj5liKV — An Garda Síochána (@GardaTraffic) November 23, 2015 How […]

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This is pretty funny in fairness. With the American Music Awards taking place last night, Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy from The Muppets appeared in this piss take version of Adele’s ‘Hello’. The spoof was a promo for their new television series The Muppets, which is a behind-the-scenes mockumentary. Think The Office, but y’know, […]

10 years ago

So this actually happened. One postman was left extremely perplexed after being given the task to deliver a letter to a graveyard to inform the ‘occupant’ that they had better register with Electric Ireland if they were going to stay connected. Yeah. Dan Devan told Broadsheet.ie what he’d come across last Saturday, Met a distressed […]

10 years ago

No one talks trash quite like Conor McGregor. Ahead of their hotly anticipated UFC title unification match next month, GB MediaMMA has put together this supercut of every insult Conor McGregor has given to José Aldo. And Jaysus, does he have some mouth on him. We’ll find out on December 12 if all this winding […]

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Pat Kenny spent a night on the streets of Dublin this weekend to meet our city’s homeless and the people who are trying to help them. Kenny wanted to find out how someone can end up on the streets, where he expected to find desperation but instead found a kind of camaraderie. Watch the video […]

10 years ago

This is a pretty accurate account of what it’s like to call one of the lads for the craic. In the latest upload from Shane’s Brilliant Channel, we see some typical phone bantering played out between two mates. The two manage to discuss love, life, and even discontent through an extremely limited vocabulary. It really […]

10 years ago

Well we always knew that wine in a can targeted specifically at men would eventually become a reality… actually, no, we really didn’t. Anyway, it exists now. Targeted at the lucrative ‘bro’ demographic, MANCAN is a Californian company that makes drinking wine manly (at last!) by putting it a can. Its slogan is: “Crack one […]

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Fans of Will Ferrell’s classic festive film, here’s some wonderful news for you: there will be an Elf-themed Christmas party in the Light House this December 4. The party will include a screening of the movie and cocktails will be served. Attendees are encouraged to come dressed as their favourite character from the 2003 classic […]

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This might just be the future of burgers. Invented by the chef Ernesto Uchimura of LA restaurant Plan Check, the ‘ketchup leather’ is a square of hard ketchup that melts once it comes into contact with a hot burger. Uchimura created these slices because he was fed up with ketchup spoiling his burger buns by […]

10 years ago

Now you know it’s Christmas, because Dublin’s most festive house has just switched on its lights. Affectionately known as the ‘Christmas House’, it’s an annual tradition for this home on Bath Avenue in Sandymount to transform into an OTT luminous tribute to the season of goodwill, with its fairy lights, reindeer, and glowing Santa Clauses […]

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This is just brilliant. Adele filmed this prank for an hour-long spectacular with Graham Norton to mark the release of her new album ’25’. The pop star attended an audition with nine Adele impersonators at Wimbledon Theatre, where she went incognito with prosthetics and used the alias Jenny. Over the course of the video, the […]

10 years ago

We Irish are a particularly sarcastic breed, which is one of the many things you realise when you’re abroad. This love of verbal irony inevitably leads to miscommunications with other nationalities, which the latest video from Foil, Arms and Hog sums up pretty much perfectly. Check out the sketch above. To find more videos from […]

10 years ago

It appears the world’s fascination with the 2004 flick Mean Girls hasn’t faded yet, as a new interactive game inspired by the film has just been launched. Developed by Pocket Gems, the new game is an interactive story that allows you to play as a student at North Shore High in their senior year and […]

10 years ago

Skerries looks positively phenomenal in this tribute that was just uploaded to YouTube earlier today. Footage recorded from drones have made places like Dublin City and Howth Harbour look incredible in the past, and this video recorded by Mark Broderick manages the same feat with an aerial tour of north Dublin’s seaside village, with its […]

10 years ago

After receiving a lot of feedback from their users, Facebook has just starting testing a new tool to ease the pain caused by the ending of a relationship. The world’s biggest social networking site has just begun to trial new features that allows their users to more easily edit what they’ll see of their former […]

10 years ago

Cast your mind back to your childhood, when you used to measure time in sleeps, with this The Late Late Toy Show trailer. This promo for the festive TV programme features a bunch of cute kids sitting on a gigantic Christmas tree singing ‘Tonight You Belong To Me’, while Ryan Tubridy is pulled along in […]

10 years ago

The first trailer for A Monster Calls has just been released and it looks like it’s going to be something special. Based on the book of the same name, the story follows a 12-year-old named Conor (Lewis MacDougall) who’s struggling with the illness of his mother and being bullied at school. When he needs help […]

10 years ago

There will be major traffic delays this morning due to a major accident which took place in the Dublin Port Tunnel. A truck overturned in the north bore of the tunnel this morning and it has now been closed to north and southbound traffic. Port Tunnel Update Both north & south bore tunnels are closed […]

10 years ago

Storm Barney has arrived in Dublin today and it’s making the journey home from work today perilous. Met Éireann have issued an Orange Weather Warning, meaning the storm has the “capacity to impact significantly” on the people and places that are in the storm’s path. The Gardaí have already closed Trinity Street to traffic because […]

10 years ago

That massive Christmas tree we told you about has arrived in Dublin at last. The centrepiece of the city’s inaugural I BELIEVE Christmas village, the 50-foot tree was donated by the charity Coillte and delivered to The chq Building this morning at 11am. Inspired by the famous Christmas tree that’s erected every year at Rockefeller […]

10 years ago

Ireland’s win last night was enough to warm even the coldest of our nation’s hearts last night. Comedian Al Foran uploaded another brilliant impression video last night after Ireland’s victory over Bosnia, where Roy Keane and Martin O’Neill just can’t contain their joy over the result. Conor McGregor even shows up to offer his two […]

10 years ago

Emojis are central to text game these days. These funny little images are so useful in helping indicate the tone of a text with frowny faces, monkeys that are covering their eyes, and smiley-faced shits. While they can communicate so much, they’ve thus far had no way of indicating whether the texter was a hipster […]

10 years ago

A married couple in Enniscorthy in Wexford discovered last week that Irish Water had been sending their water bills to an address in Vietnam. The pensioners, named Alan and Patricia Jones, had only moved back to Ireland in recent years after they retired, having spent decades living in Australia and Malaysia. They made several attempts […]

10 years ago

A Tipperary woman has decided that she’s going to make special hampers for the homeless this Christmas and hand-deliver them, but she needs your help. With a homeless crisis currently gripping the nation, Therese Cullen decided she’d “make a real difference to those with so little this Christmas” by putting together these festive gift baskets […]

10 years ago

You deserve some Netflix tonight, with optional chill. It’s cold and dark outside and you’ve no plans to stray outdoors this evening, but maybe your poor tired brain isn’t up to watching something taxing like a documentary and your attention span isn’t long enough for a movie right now. If that’s the case, we’ve drawn […]

10 years ago

It would appear that nothing is sacred to Republic of Telly, as they’ve just ripped the piss out of this year’s John Lewis Christmas ad. This isn’t the first time the RTÉ’s comedy show has made fun of a heartwarming ad, last week they broke hearts everywhere with their take on the Vodafone lost pig […]

10 years ago

If you’re in need of a little food porn, here’s your daily fix: poutine egg rolls. The world has really taken to poutine this year (you can find it in Dublin at Taco Taco and Ireland got its first dedicated poutinerie in the last few months), but this latest food innovation has taken the decadent […]

10 years ago

Hundreds of people assembled outside the French Embassy in Dublin this morning to observe a minute’s silence for the victims of the Paris attacks. The solemn moment was observed across Europe this morning at 11am GMT. Dublin’s moment was lead by President Michael D Higgins and French Ambassador Jean-Pierre Thébault. La Marseillaise, then applause, after […]

10 years ago

Well this is just plain hilarious. When Shane O’Connor’s mother discovered a spider in their living room, she decided she’d take care of it with a kitchen utensil… but it proved more of a mental challenge than you might expect. Cue a bit of hyperventilating, some psyching up, and a whole lot of spatula-waving… READ […]

10 years ago

Across the world, there has been a massive show of solidarity with France in the wake of the last Friday’s tragic event and here’s a lovely example from an Irish teenager. A youth from Mayo, named Eamonn Maloney, made this video as a sign of Irish support for a mourning France, where the horrific terrorist […]

10 years ago

We know it’s Sunday and you’ve got The Fear with work tomorrow, but let’s raise those spirits with a bit of Christmas cheer. Hundreds turned out for the Dublin’s Christmas lighting ceremony this afternoon, an event which included live entertainment that led to a massive singalong to ‘White Christmas’. Grsfton Street is dreaming of a […]

10 years ago

The award-winning short film ‘Rockmount’ about an 11-year-old Roy Keane has just been uploaded to YouTube and it’s incredible. We meet a somber young Roy who’s short for his age, constantly frowning, and determined to make the starting line-up of his local club Rockmount. Check out the “character based comedy”, which won an IFTA for […]

10 years ago

Well this is fantastic. When his father was about to go on a trip to Las Vegas, Evan Griffin decided he’d give his dad a GoPro so he could record the holiday. But without any instruction on how to use it, his father ended up pointing the camera at himself the entire time… READ NEXT: […]

10 years ago

What really sets a hotel apart is its willingness to go that extra mile, meaning this hotel gets top marks. While booking his stay in Malone Lodge recently, Andy Gaffney was filling out his details, when he came upon the request section. Being a man of singular tastes, Andy entered the following. Presumably, he thought […]

10 years ago

What am I drinking? White tea with blackcurrant. Where am I drinking it? Joe’s Coffee, until recently known for being one of the in-house cafés in Arnott’s Department Store, but now also open on Montague St. One of the new breeds of small coffee shops that has as many coffee preparation products and equipment on […]

10 years ago

Sminky Shorts are back again and this time they’re trying to educate us about using the bathroom in space. The video, called When Astronauts Go Potty, was released to celebrate Science Week. Take a look at the video above, where you’ll learn about the difference between mass and Mass, bum hoovers, and what shooting stars […]

10 years ago

Dublin’s Convention Centre in the Docklands was lit in the colours of the French flag last night. This was done as a show of solidarity for the victims of Friday night’s tragic terrorist attack on Paris, a co-ordinated assault that included explosions and mass shootings at multiple points around the French capital. 128 were killed […]

10 years ago

Bad news has just arrived for Dublin with the announcement that we were not successful in our bid for the European Capital Of Culture 2020. The announcement was made this afternoon in Dublin Castle by a panel of nine adjudicators from across various European cultural bodies. Finding out who is European City of Culture 2020 […]

10 years ago

It wouldn’t be Christmas without Christmas markets, and I BELIEVE is Dublin’s latest offering in that department. Taking place at Custom House Quay, I BELIEVE is being billed as Ireland’s first winter food, drink, craft and horticulture festival. It also looks like it’s going to be a Christmas lover’s feckin’ paradise. We had a look […]

10 years ago

Kids today with their slang… These older ladies from the Big Knit group, who’ve raised €120,000 for Age Action to help the elderly stay warm during the harsh Irish winters over the past six years, have just appeared in this video from Innocent Drinks to discuss modern slang. Among the terms explored by the ladies […]

10 years ago

It’s Friday, so amplify the happy thoughts you’re already experiencing by thinking about Christmas. John Lewis released their superb Man On The Moon ad last week and the internet went crazy for it, but we have to say, the latest offering from Sainsbury’s may just be this year’s best Christmas ad. Their ad last year […]

10 years ago

Got your Christmas jumper yet? If not, you’re in luck: Penneys are now selling a limited edition range of The Late Late Toy Show Christmas jumpers. RTÉ have teamed up with Penneys to raise money for Temple Street Children’s University Hospital this holiday season with a selection of festive tops. Check them out below. Pic: […]

10 years ago

This video answers a question that you didn’t even know you asked: what would Mean Girls have been like if it was set in Ireland? Dopey B‘s Mean Garls parody takes footage from the classic high school movie and dubs it with Irish dialogue. In this version, Lindsay Lohan’s character is a pig farmer’s daughter […]

10 years ago

Well this is just plain lovely. Created by filmmaker Thomas Fitzgerald, this simple but gorgeous video shows Stephen’s Green as you’ve never seen it before. It kinda reminds us of Central Park in a Woody Allen movie; really stunning stuff. READ NEXT: This Video Shows You What An Irish Version Of Mean Girls Would Be […]

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