Forget about getting down on one knee at a U2 gig or while feeding the ducks in Stephen’s Green park.  You want your bae to say yes? You better step up your game…  An escape room in Dublin has just come up with a special idea for Valentine’s Day that’s gotta be one of the […]

8 years ago

George’s Arcade is one of the most interesting nooks in Dublin – packed with unique gifts, homeware, books and trinkets.  It might not be the first place you’d think to go for a sit-down meal, but at the Drury Street end (opposite the vintage shop) is one of the tastiest pizza restaurants I’ve tried in a long […]

8 years ago

Today marks the 60th anniversary of the 1958 Munich Air Disaster which claimed the lives of 23 people including eight Manchester United footballers. The tragedy occurred when a plane carrying the squad, management and a number of journalists stopped in the German city on the way home from Yugoslavia where United had just beaten Red […]

8 years ago

You know what’s a good way to break up your week? Inviting friends around to watch a movie over takeaway and wine. You what what’s a great way to break up your week? Inviting friends around to watch a movie over takeaway and wine that you didn’t pay for. Honestly, it’s our favourite way to bisect a seven-day stretch. […]

8 years ago

Have you found yourself striking out in Coppers no matter how hard you try? You see your friends getting the shift left, right and centre but you always seem to fall at the final hurdle and you lose the person in a sea of sweat and spilled drinks? Well, fear not people. Apparently there is […]

9 years ago

This week, the government finally announced that a referendum on the Eighth Amendment will be held before the end of May.  Twitter was alight with people expressing their joy, relief and gratitude to everyone who has campaigned so tirelessly to get us this far.  I felt happy, but down in the pit of my stomach I […]

9 years ago

Stop dreaming about getting fit and make it a reality this year… we’ll even help you out. We’ve teamed up with Club Vitae, which has 13 health and fitness clubs located throughout the country, to give one lucky member of our audience and one of their friends an entire year’s membership at any of their locations nationwide. […]

9 years ago

When you reach an age when you have young kids, or you’re just thinking about having them, you start to become curious about what’s best for them. If you look back on your childhood there are probably things you wished you had experienced that might have better prepared you for the world. Perhaps there are […]

9 years ago

Dublin blogger Suzanne Jackson has finally broken her silence amid controversy surrounding “untrue information” about her that was passed on to her friends and family.  In an statement, Jackson said that she needed to address the issues that had left her family so upset.  She began by saying: “I am a firm believer in remaining positive […]

9 years ago

Ah, remember those glory days when you could find an apartment in Dublin without selling a kidney on the black market to pay for your rent? Nah, us neither.  We’re all for lusting over the most beautiful property porn on the market (while knowing full well we’ll never afford it, the way our eyes glaze […]

9 years ago

Okay, try and keep up but we’ve got to warn you, it’s harder than it seems.  Paul Stenson, owner of The Charleville Lodge Hotel and The White Moose Café, recently received a message from someone who claimed they “work as a social media influencer” with “over 87,000 YouTube subscribers as well as 76,000 Instagram followers” who wanted to give […]

9 years ago

A competition watchdog belonging to the state is watching over waste companies in Dublin as there is a “threat of a cartel” in operation. The Sunday Independent revealed that the The Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) had confirmed that the examination was under way. Recordings of a waste company staff member stating that firms are ‘calling’ […]

9 years ago