It’s only a few weeks since Ireland made history by being the first country to approve gay marriage by popular vote. Today another milestone was reached with the first gay Engagement notice appearing in The Irish Times. Here’s the announcement as tweeted by one of the happy couple… Well I guess there’s no backing out…
A reef is big. Usually they’re hard to overlook but now Europe’s biggest honeycomb reef has turned up in Waterford. Until now the largest had been thought to be in Brittany. But it seems that was just an oversight and now the record books can be put straight. As part of the 2015 Biodiversity Week,…
Are there many ‘weird’ Irish Guys in Brussels? Apart from the MEPs? We can only hope not because one German Girl is desperately looking for one. So desperate is she to find him that she’s been sticking flyers around the city… Spotted in Brussels today. Some German girl is trying to track down ‘weird’ Irish…
Leaving a festival is mostly a chore; a big, slow moving, crush of people being given instructions over the loudspeaker. After the recent Foo Fighters concert in Slane this was the case at one exit with a Guard giving instructions. Then this happened! Good humour from the crowd – and great response from the Guard!
The Irish government has decided to remove all 1c and 2c coins from circulation in the country. Because a 1 cent coin costs 1.3cent to make the Central Bank loses on every one produced. The rate at which Ireland has been minting copper coins is three times more than the EU average but the requirement…
What’s your picture of a cinema? Lush seats and snacks? Maybe you thought a Drive-in was a bit exotic? The newest cinema in Dublin will probably surprise you! In August Mo’s Gaff will be the latest cinema to open in the city. Showing old movies it will be located in Montague Street in what is…
Irish parents have selected Morgan Freeman as their most popular choice to read bedtime stories to their children followed by Liam Neeson in second place. The survey was conducted as part of Bord Gáis Energy’s second annual Little Readers campaign which gives away thousands of free books to inspire a love of reading in young…
Richard Branson has said it would be “absolutely wrong” if IAG – the owner of British Airways – was allowed to buy Aer Lingus. The founder of Virgin Atlantic told the Daily Telegraph that UK competition authorities should look very closely at the proposed deal if it goes ahead. Aer Lingus has the third largest…
It’s been 10 years since they last released an album together. In that time Andrea married the son of Dermot Desmond – one of Irelands richest men – while Jim went bankrupt and started worrying about lizards controlling the world. But it’s hard to keep a good Dundalk family down and now one of Irelands…
It’s said that you get back many times what generosity you give out. And for a Tuam woman that has proven to be truer than she could ever have thought. 16 years ago Claire Fahy, then just 8 years old, along with her friends boxed up toys and clothes and sent them to Armenia. Though…
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