A self-proclaimed nerd, Deputy Editor Cassie is obsessed with all things techy and digital. She studied Journalism and then Digital Technology Design and Innovation and is our go-to-girl for video content, design and home made gifs. Cassie is happiest when she’s behind a camera directing the rest of team into weird and wonderful situations (it’s in her contract that she can never appear in front). She’s passionate about social issues and empowering women and has worked with the team to develop Her Say. Cassie has a weakness for sausage rolls and tea which makes Her.ie the dream place to work.
Twitter is a trolls paradise. In fact, it’s highly unlikely that you can spend any time there without some smartarse offering their opinion where it’s not wanted. Slightly beneath trolling on the list of ‘annoying behaviours the world has adopted’ is mansplaining. So when a female astronaut tweeted an interesting fact about water in space […]
Samsung Galaxy Note 7 users are being urged to immediately stop using the handsets and hand them back as soon as possible. In a detrimental move for the company, the tech giant has been forced to recall the smartphones worldwide after several dozen of them caught fire. According to reports from Reuters, there are 2.5 million handsets […]
Barb was the unsung hero of Stranger Things. She won the heart of every viewer who waited with bated breath for her safe return. It obviously never came, due largely to the town’s out and out failure to investigate her disappearance. Poor neglected Barb. Barb’s story was fairly simple. In The Weirdo on Maple Street […]
This year’s show will be very different
A billboard ad for Griffith College has been refused by multiple advertising agencies. The ad slogan reads: People only take pride in jobs they love. One side of the poster appears to be peeling. “The message behind the campaign is that people should be in careers that they love,” a spokesperson from Griffith College told […]
Images of a couple strung out on heroin while a child watches from the back seat of a car have gone viral. The images were shared by the City of East Liverpool, Ohio, in an effort to highlight the reality of drug addiction. The police report states that office Officer Kevin Thompson spotted 47-year-old James Lee […]
There has been a lot of iPhone talk this week and poor Samsung have barely got a look in. That’s probably for the best as Samsung’s new feature has made a lot of users angry. Blogger Mel Wells took to Instagram to chat about the ‘beauty face’ filter which comes up as the default filter […]
We know how it is. When you’re out of school for awhile, your brain starts to relax and it doesn’t take long for you to forget the rules of letter land. Just how much have you forgotten? Test your knowledge with this grammar test designed for 9-year-olds.
A young woman who describes herself as having “literally zero romantic experience” has taken to reddit to ask users for advice. The woman is looking for insight into why she may be having problems with relationships. She writes: “I feel like people are going to blame two things for my extremely late blooming, so I’ll […]
Three months have passed since the horrendous shooting at Pulse nightclub, Orlando. On June 12, 2016, Omar Mateen, a 29-year-old security guard, killed 49 people and wounded 53 others in a hate crime inside the gay club. Tony Marrero was there that night and was shot in the back four times but miraculously survived. Tony […]
A same-sex couple in Kildare has been left feeling upset and ostracized following a grossly insensitive text from a church activist. Jacinta O’Donnell and Geraldine Flanagan shared their story on Kildare FM yesterday. The recently married couple said they have been involved in the St Michael’s church choir in Athy, Co Kildare, for years. They […]
Gardaí and the family of Lauren Larrissey have issued an appeal to help find the 16-year-old. Lauren was last seen on Friday, September 2nd. She was in the Clondalkin area. She is described as being around 5’5 tall, with long fair hair and blue eyes. When last seen she was wearing blue jeans, a grey jumper […]