Not what we expected to be hearing this Sunday morning, but there you go. Actress and comedian Amy Schumer has come out in support of Longford’s Maura Higgins – who is a contestant on Love Island – and described her as her “homie”. The Hollywood star is a huge fan of the reality TV series […]
Brilliant news! An Irish family facing deportation from Australia because their son has cystic fibrosis have been allowed to stay. Anthony and Christine Hyde, and their three-year-old son Darragh, who has cystic fibrosis, were granted a ministerial intervention on Friday, after their pending deportation caused outrage across the country. The last minute intervention from Australia’s […]
Gardaí confirmed the news. Gardaí have opened a murder investigation into the death of a two-year-old girl in Cork. The post mortem of the girl who died at Cork University Hospital on Friday morning has been completed by Deputy State Pathologist Dr. Margot Bolster. Gardaí will not be releasing the results for operational reasons but […]
Just like people, some birds can be dicks… The public have been urged to be wary of aggressive birds during the warm summer months as calls to deal with seagulls and pest birds have increased by 86% in the first half of this year. July is a part of a seagull’s nesting season, when the […]
Hugely promising. A cure for baldness could be within sight after scientists created hair that grows through the skin using human stem cells. Researchers in the United States said they had refined a method which allowed them to grow hair through the skin of mice using dermal papilla cells derived from human pluripotent stem cells. The […]
Think before you selfie… Selfies have killed five times more people than shark attacks, a study in India has found. Between October 2011 and November 2017, at least 259 people died taking selfies around the globe, compared to just 50 people killed by sharks in the same period, according to India’s Journal of Family Medicine and […]
Well done to all involved. Bantry in Cork is the overall winner of Ireland’s Best Kept Town competition 2019. The results of this year’s competition were announced at an awards ceremony in Farmleigh House in Dublin. Ireland’s Best Kept Town is an all-island competition in which some of the best towns in the SuperValu TidyTowns […]
Thoughts? College Green in Dublin is set to be be pedestrianised on a trial basis for three Sundays this summer. Dublin City Council has announced the area will be closed to traffic on 21 July, 28 July and 4 August. It’s understood a number of family -riendly events will be organised in the city centre […]
Nightmare. An Air Canada passenger said she was left terrified after waking up alone on a pitch black, locked plane. Tiffani Adams said she fell asleep on the short 90-minute flight from Quebec to Toronto but awoke to to find herself on an empty plane. She then said she tried to call her friend, but her battery had died. Adams […]
Very hot air from Africa is being pulled across Europe. A heatwave is expected to bring temperatures as high as 40 degrees Celsius to parts of Europe next week. Temperatures in cities from Spain to Germany are expected to exceed 32C and could potentially climb to more than 38C or even 40C in the hottest […]
A brilliant idea. A grocery shop in Vancouver has gone to great lengths in designing plastic bags with embarrassing slogans to discourage its customers from using single-use plastics. Customers who don’t bring their own bags to the East West Market in Vancouver will instead have to carry their grocery home in bags reading “Wart Ointment Wholesale” or […]
Staying in tonight? There’s no Late Late Show this week as it breaks for the summer so there’s only one port of call if you’re staying at home in front of the TV as far as the chat show options are concerned. Over on The Graham Norton Show, there’s a typically great line-up to help start […]