If you’re going to bake, at least make it look like you know what you’re doing. These bits of kit will save you time, add the finishing touches and generally make everything you bake look awesome… not to mention impressing the hell out of anyone who walks into your kitchen. An assortment of cookie cutters […]

10 years ago

It doesn’t take a lot to make us happy – whether it’s waking up to no alarm on a Saturday morning, or chilling in Stephen’s Green on a sunny day. With World Happiness Day next Friday, this lovely video asks Dubliners of all ages and from all walks of life, what happiness means to them. […]

10 years ago

Don’t leave your fitness behind in the gym: plan your recovery as thoroughly as you plan your workout with these tips and tricks for what to do, eat and drink after a serious workout. Stretch Make time for cool-down stretching in your workout. It’s easily forgotten about if you don’t plan for it, but it’s […]

10 years ago

Every week, we bring you your cheat-sheet to tonight’s pub conversations – the hot topics that you just know are going to come up, and how you can bluff your way through them even if you haven’t been following the news (or the internet) too closely this week… The Obama Tantrum Kids are pesky sometimes, […]

10 years ago

It’s been a busy week with the Referendum! If you were you as caught up in it as we were, you probably had no time to browse the site? But, fret not! We like to keep our community up to date on what’s been going on, so we’ve put together a list of the ten […]

10 years ago

Wander through town on a Friday night and the streets are aglow with neon signs and a scurry of heels. Beyond the thoroughfare meanwhile, where Netflix and clicking kettles insulate nights in, jostling tends to be reserved to the couch: prizing a remote away from a flat mate or lunging into a bag of crisps. […]

10 years ago

So this is what I got myself into when I moved to Dublin from the United States last year. Once you’ve lived in any place for a while, you begin to forget that its quirks are all that quirky at all – and Dubliners are certainly no exception. But to the uninitiated, pretty much nothing […]

10 years ago

We know that life in Dublin can be overwhelming at times, so we’re helping you keep your stress in check. This week we’re looking at group events organised by the website Meet-Up, specifically ones designed to help you relax, so you can avoid the high blood pressure, weight gain and sleep difficulties that can arise […]

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It’s a well known rule in the game of love: the location you choose for the first date will make or break you. After all, it’s the first in a string of crappy decisions that your date will use to judge your potential – and one wrong move and you’re done for. So to prepare […]

10 years ago

Tired of having to develop relationships over time? Now you can speed the whole process up with these ‘speed friending‘ events that are currently taking Dublin by storm. Organised via the website Meet-Up, Dublin’s speed friending club boasts an incredible 1,897 members at present. The Speed Friending club’s page describes the event like this: Speed […]

10 years ago

A recently published book has listed a walking trail that runs through the Dublin Mountains as one of the world’s most scenic walking routes. Stretching from Shankill to Sean Walsh Memorial Park in Tallaght, the “strenuous” 43km Dublin Mountains Way is featured in the illustrated 1001 Walks You Must Experience Before You Die which has […]

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Fáilte Ireland will work with Google over the next three months to capture many of our country’s remotest and most beautiful spots which have not yet been photographed. The Irish tourism organisation will borrow the Google Trekker as part of the search engine behemoth’s ‘Trekker Loan Programme’ to capture Street View imagery in remote places […]

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