Police in the town of Halberstadt in Germany evacuated a gambling hall and brought in a bomb squad on Tuesday night following reports of a suspect device on the premises. The Guardian  report that a staff member at the casino heard a strange humming noise emanating from a bin, so police were called, clearing 90 […]

11 years ago

Dublin Airport Authority has today confirmed that it plans to build a second runway at Dublin airport. The 3,110 metre runway is going to be constructed 1.6km north of the existing runway and should be completed by 2020. The project is set to receive €320m investment from Dublin Airport. The announcement comes as passenger numbers for […]

11 years ago

This is BIZARRE.

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Intercom is an Irish company that manufacture software to improve businesses’ interactions with their customers, and they are to create at least 100 new jobs over the next year. RTÉ News report that the jobs are a result of the company securing $50m in new funding from venture capital firms and tech industry leaders. The company […]

11 years ago

Facebook is making some big changes. Facebook are going to be launching live video streaming to all users, allowing any Facebook account holder to livestream footage directly into their Newsfeed. It’s going to be a very interactive feature, with reactions like on a normal status (aka Love, Haha, Wow, Sad or Angry) and the reactions […]

11 years ago

The Times run a higher education ranking system that is well-known to be fairly accurate, so anyone who goes to these three universities should feel pretty pleased with themselves. Spotted over on JOE.ie, Dublin City University, NUI Maynooth and University of Limerick have all been granted a place in the top 150 young universities (that […]

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Erin Heatherton is a stunning model who used to be a Victoria’s Secret angel up until 2013, and she’s spoken about the effect her career has had on her body image. Unsurprisingly, it’s not positive. She told Motto  about the pressure she felt to lose weight a few years into her modelling career “My last two […]

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The three nominations for the post of Taoiseach have been defeated in the Dáil today. Ruth Coppinger of AAA/PBPA, Enda Kenny and Michéal Martin all failed in their efforts to be elected Taoiseach. RTÉ report that Kenny’s nomination was defeated by 80 to 51, Coppinger 108 to 10 and Martin lost by 95 to 43 […]

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Luas workers have escalated their pay dispute and are serving strike notice for six further days of strike action later this month. Employees had already been on strike for eight days with a further 48-hour stoppage scheduled for April 23-24. RTÉ report that SIPTU have served notice of industrial action on Luas company Transdev for […]

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Who among us described themselves as ‘indie’ when they were a teen? I can’t say I was immune, so this trend on Twitter has really spoken to me. There was a certain era of music that happened throughout the 2000s, characterised by curly haired white men and guitars, and bands like The Strokes, We Are […]

11 years ago

IKEA have put a recall in place for a children’s bat cape called LATTJO and are asking anyone who purchased it to return it to any Ikea store for a full refund. Reports came to the company’s attention that three children received marks and scratches on the neck while using the cape, which did not […]

11 years ago

This is just beautiful. As you may have heard, the youngest Kardashian sibling Rob has become engaged to Blac Chyna, a model and entrepreneur. Why is this news, you ask? Well, I will tell you. Blac Chyna is the ex-girlfriend of Tyga, who is currently the boyfriend of Rob’s half-sister Kylie Jenner. The Kardashian Klan […]

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Kerry Washington is one of Hollywood’s most in-demand actresses, and the star of one of Shonda Rhimes’ most successful shows Scandal, so she’s no stranger to being on the cover of magazines. However, one recent cover seems to have left the actress cold. She recently shot a spread for AdWeek and took to her Instagram […]

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Janet Jackson has announced the postponement of the next leg of her tour so she can start a family. The singer announced the news in a video uploaded to her Twitter account saying: “We’re in the second leg of the tour and there actually has been a sudden change. I thought it was important that […]

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A report released today by Europol has shown Irish young adults to be the biggest users of illegal psychoactive drugs in the entire European Union. The report, entitled The EU Drug Markets Report 2016 also showed increasing links between drug trafficking and other forms of crime including terrorism. They also found technological advances and readily […]

11 years ago

This is very upsetting

11 years ago

The number of people on trolleys in our hospitals is rising, according to Fergal Hickey, a consultant in emergency medicine at Sligo University Hospital. He spoke on RTÉ Radio’s Morning Ireland describing how patients are being forced to endure this ordeal every day. Hickey had spoken of a ‘brief improvement’ while people were focused on […]

11 years ago

Hilde Kate Lysiak is a nine-year-old news reporter who beat her local daily paper to the post by writing about a murder that occurred in her town of Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania. This ambitious young girl is the editor and publisher of Orange Street News, whose father is a former journalist for The New York Times,  giving her […]

11 years ago

This is brilliant. Facebook are to begin automatically describing photos to blind and visually impaired users of the social networking site. The Verge  reports the technology is called Automatic Alternative Text, that describes the content of photographs and was created by Facebook’s accessibility team. The team had already made small changes to improve accessibility including […]

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TD and member of Anti-Austerity Alliance/ People Before Profit Ruth Coppinger is set to make history tomorrow. The West Dublin TD will be the first woman ever nominated for the position of Taoiseach in the history of the state. The party is nominating Coppinger, a staunchly pro-choice and feminist politician, to represent the needs and […]

11 years ago

Queen B is notoriously difficult to pin down for an interview. The superstar remains something of an enigma, which is why the fact she granted Elle  an interview at all is a pretty big deal. She hadn’t done a proper in-depth interview in three years, so there was bound to be some interesting revelations included. […]

11 years ago

WONDERFUL

11 years ago

Bitchface transcends cultural barriers

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Prime Minister of Iceland, Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson has resigned in the wake of the Panama Papers scandal. President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson cut short a visit to the US to deal with the crisis. The Guardian report that the Agriculture and Fisheries Minister Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson told a state broadcaster in Iceland that he would be replacing […]

11 years ago

Sometimes there are animal stories out there that are unusual and uplifting at the same time, and this is definitely one of them. A Janus cat is a feline which is born with two faces, named after the Roman god of the same name, and this cat even had two names because of it. He […]

11 years ago

The discriminatory laws put in place for LGBTQ citizens of North Carolina have resulted in a serious amount of backlash, from individuals to corporate entities. One such entity is online commerce giant PayPal that had announced plans to open a new global operations centre in Charlotte, NC, prior to the legislation being passed. It would […]

11 years ago

THE KITCHEN. THE BEAUTIFUL KITCHEN.

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The Abortion Rights Campaign (ARC) are calling for reform of Northern Ireland’s abortion laws and extension of the 1967 Abortion Act following yesterday’s sentencing of a woman who procured her own abortion in Northern Ireland by means of a pill. If this woman had lived in any other jurisdiction in the UK she would not […]

11 years ago

The dentist is a lot of people’s least favourite place. A lot of the time, this fear of the dentist stems from childhood, but one clinic in Illinois is trying to make it a more comfortable experience for little ones. The Dodo spoke to Paediatric Dentistry in Northbrook about Jojo, a trained comfort dog who […]

11 years ago

UPDATE: The Port Tunnel has reopened after a truck went on fire this evening. Emergency services attended the scene after the incident happened shorty after 6pm this evening. Both bores of the Dublin Port Tunnel are closed following an incident where part of a truck’s engine blew earlier this evening. The HGV ban remains in place. Temporary […]

11 years ago

Our mams would kill us

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PUPPIES EVERYWHERE

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The Panama Papers offshore tax scandal has been gripping news organisations from all over the world. It centres on thousands of leaked documents from Panama-based company Mossac Fonseca that reveal that a network of wealthy celebrities, politicians and public figures have been using their services to evade taxes, launder money and commit other dodgy dealings. […]

11 years ago

If you haven’t checked your car’s tyres in a while, do it now. The Road Safety Authority commissioned a study on the causes of fatal collisions on Irish roads, and an analysis of forensic collision investigations has shown faulty tyres to be accountable for 8% of 858 fatal crashes between 2008 and 2012. 111 lost […]

11 years ago

*shudder*

11 years ago

This is so handy.

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Yesterday Kesha shared a message on her Instagram account giving details of an alleged payout offered to her by Dr. Luke’s people if she apologised for making the abuse allegations against the producer. She wrote: “So. I got offered my freedom IF i were to lie.I would have to APOLOGIZE publicly and say that I never […]

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Singer Tulisa has been banned from driving for 15 months following an appearance at Highbury Corner magistrates court in London this morning. She pled guilty to a drink-driving charge following the incident in September 2015 when she crashed her Ferrari Spider into a Saab outside Southgate Tube station. Digital Spy report that the singer had […]

11 years ago

Massachusetts-based company Hubspot has announced plans to create 320 jobs over the next three years. The marketing software manufacturer currently houses its Europe, Middle East and Africa headquarters in Dublin. RTÉ News report that the new positions will be in sales, engineering, marketing and support services. The President of Hubspot said that the Dublin team […]

11 years ago

A Ryanair plane that was headed for Palma, Mallorca earlier today has returned to Manchester airport following the declaration of a mid-air emergency shortly after take-off. The Manchester Evening News report flight FR3445 began to circle in the air shortly after departing Manchester Airport, with a bird strike said to be the most likely caused […]

11 years ago

This is so lovely

11 years ago

Bless em.

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Corkwoman Dee Forbes, current head of the Discovery Channel in Europe is expected to be selected as the new Director General of RTÉ. The Irish Times report that the RTÉ board are meeting today to approve Forbes for the role. Noel Curran is the current director, and will be stepping down at the end of […]

11 years ago

Yesterday we brought you the news that both scheduled Little Mix concerts in Belfast were cancelled yesterday, but a rescheduled date has just been announced. There will be two concerts on July 2nd at the SSE Arena. Neil Walker, General Manager of the arena said: “Having explored all available options, we can confirm that the […]

11 years ago

Michaella McCollum, from Dungannon in Co. Tyrone has been released from prison in Peru. According to RTÉ, McCollum, who was jailed for smuggling cocaine from Lima to Madrid is being freed under new legislation that allows foreign prisoners to be released on the condition they have served a third of their prison sentence. A Peruvian […]

11 years ago

This is spectacular. April Fools’ day is basically over, (we hope) but popular pornography site PornHub has knocked it out of the park with their contribution to online tomfoolery. We don’t advise you to do this in work, but if you visit their site currently you’ll see it has undergone a bit of a makeover. […]

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Over the last few days since the latest iOS update, many people have complained of a bug causing battery drain, devices to lock up, and links to be completely broken and inaccessible. The updated version of iOS 9.3.1 is now available through the settings app on your iPhone or iPad, reports the Guardian. The problem was […]

11 years ago

Ah lads.

11 years ago

People were fuming.

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