The incident occurred shortly after midnight on the Swords Road. A man in his 20s has died after being struck by a heavy goods vehicle (HGV) in Dublin in the early hours of Friday morning. Gardaí are investigating a fatal hit and run incident between a HGV and a male pedestrian that occurred on the […]
The baby, named Saybie, was as light as an apple when she was born. The world’s smallest baby ever to survive has been released from hospital in San Diego as a healthy and happy infant, a little under five months after being born. San Diego’s Sharp Mary Birch Hospital for Women & Newborns, California’s largest […]
“Some of these premises have demonstrated a complete lack of concern for the health of both their customers and their staff who eat at or work in their establishments.” The observation of sewage and waste in a rear yard adjacent to refuse bins, thereby risking a transfer of faecal matter to the kitchen, was one […]
It’ll be mostly pleasant outdoors this weekend… but bring a jacket. Temperatures will drop to zero or below freezing for each of the next three nights, according to the Met Éireann forecast for the Bank Holiday weekend. Saturday night is set to be the coldest of the weekend, when temperatures will drop to lows of […]
One passenger is reported to have walked down the aisle of the plane offering a bottle of vodka for other passengers to drink from. Several fights are reported to have broken out amongst “disruptive” passengers, many of whom were travelling to the AMP Lost and Found Festival, on a Ryanair flight from Dublin to Malta […]
Lyra McKee’s death has been condemned as “a senseless act of violence”. The tragic death of Lyra McKee has been described as “disturbing”, “profoundly saddening” and as “a senseless act of violence” by the General Secretary of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ). McKee was shot dead following an outbreak of orchestrated violence in the Fanad […]
One of the most iconic hotels in the country has new ownership. Hoteliers Deirdre McGlone and Marc Gysling have decided to sell Harvey’s Point hotel in Donegal, voted the number one hotel in Ireland on TripAdvisor in six of the last seven years. The couple have decided to sell the hotel, located on the lakes […]
A sorting office for An Post in Limerick was evacuated on Friday morning. Gardaí say that a suspect parcel discovered in an An Post sorting office in Limerick appears to be “identical” (pending closer forensic and ballistic examination) to parcels discovered in London and Glasgow earlier this month. An Garda Síochána are currently investigating a […]
The average refund is $550 (NZ), which works out at well over €300. Are you one of the 40,000 or so Irish people that travelled all the way to New Zealand in recent years, particularly during the height of the recession? If so, and if you have since returned to Ireland, you could be due […]
High praise and thoroughly deserved too. Adare Manor is one of just five hotels around the globe shortlisted for the title of ‘Hotel of the Year’ in the ‘Best of the Best Awards 2018’ by Virtuoso, a network of the best luxury travel agencies worldwide. The Limerick hotel, which was reopened in November 2017 after […]
Well, he did cause the flight to be delayed so it was the least he could do. It wouldn’t be stretching things to say that, as an airline, Ryanair don’t often give things away for free, but there was good reason for customers on board a flight to Dublin from Liverpool to receive a little […]
“Your story is bollocks.” Ed Sheeran has hit out a journalist from The Sun newspaper over a story that claimed he had submitted plans for railings to be built outside his home in London “to keep out homeless people”. An article in The Sun claimed that Sheeran has submitted plans for five-foot railings outside his […]