What a win! An Irish man who has won £10,000 a month for the next 30 years in the UK Lotto has quit his job to pursue his dream career as a scriptwriter. Dean Weymes, originally from Dublin, won £3.6 million (€3.9million) as part of the National Lottery’s ‘Set For Life’ jackpot prize. The quirk […]
Rain, rain, rain. Following on from a number of weather warnings issued over the past few days, Met Éireann has issued a further rainfall warning. The Status Yellow rainfall warning will affect Munster and Leinster and will be active from 7pm on Thursday (8 August) until 7am on Friday morning. Met Éireann has said that […]
Want to be on TV? Gogglebox Ireland returns to Virgin Media Television this autumn, and the show’s producers want you to light up the small screen. Series five of the hit reality show is looking for new faces – and their sofas – to join the country’s most opinionated TV fans. It’s a family affair […]
If you’ve never been, you need to go. Keem Bay on Achill Island has been listed among the best beaches in the world according to a new survey. Global travel site Big 7 Travel has released the official list of the 50 Best Beaches in the World for 2019, and Keem Bay has ranked at number […]
Take note. Financial technology company Revolut has warned users to be wary of fraudsters contacting people pretending to be working for Revolut. The scammers pretend to be Revolut support agents and attempt to get users to share their SMS login codes to gain access to their accounts. Revolut warned users that their platform is app […]
Check those tickets. A Lotto player in Cork has scooped €209,809 from last night’s draw. The player managed to match five numbers plus the bonus number to come ever so close to taking home the €7 million plus jackpot. The jackpot will now roll over to Wednesday’s draw and will be worth over €8 million. […]
NOPE! A woman in Waterford spent six days in hospital after she was bitten by a False Black Widow spider. Speaking on Deise Today with Damien Tiernan on WLR FM, Maria Condon explained how she was bitten three times by the spider and that she’d discovered a nest of them in her house. “I got bit […]
A big step. Instagram has announced it is running a test in Ireland that removes the total number of likes photos and video views in Feed, Permalink pages, and Profile. The platform announced the news on Wednesday, stating it wants users to concentrate on the photos and videos shared, rather than the amount of likes and […]
R&B singer R Kelly has been arrested on sex trafficking charges, according to American law officials. Kelly, 52, was taken in to custody on Thursday in Chicago by New York police detectives and investigators with the Department of Homeland Security, and is expected to be taken to New York City. In a short statement, US […]
Are you guilty of it? Or ever get the feeling that your other half isn’t as committed as you are? An Australian psychologist has described a new term which she says is happening in many relationships. Melanie Schilling, an Australian psychologist, believes that ‘micro-cheating’ involves seemingly trivial behaviours which suggest that someone is emotionally or […]
This is difficult viewing… Love Island viewers were left somewhat astounded by an unseen clip from this week after a few islanders showed some gaps in their geography knowledge. On Saturday’s Unseen Bits, Belle Hassan, Joanna Chimonides and Jourdan Riane were having a conversation about Anton Danyluk, which took a turn towards geography. Have a look below […]
May she rest in peace. The wife of former footballer Vinnie Jones has died in Los Angeles, his management have confirmed. Tanya Jones passed away at their home in Los Angeles following a long illness. A statement from Jones’s management said: “At 8.46am local time in Los Angeles on Saturday July 6, Vinnie Jones’s wife, […]