Ellen Tannam is uncomfortable writing bios for things but here we are. She is a Dublin girlo whose pastimes includes petting every dog she sees, eating chicken nuggets and trying to guess who celebrity blind items are about. Her favourite emoji is the upside-down smiley face. She likes to write about popular culture, LGBTQ issues, feminism, technology, music and baby animals. Likes include chocolate and cacti. Dislikes - people who are rude to retail staff, cheese, and people telling her McDonald's is bad for her. She knows.
The three nominations for the post of Taoiseach have been defeated in the Dáil today. Ruth Coppinger of AAA/PBPA, Enda Kenny and Michéal Martin all failed in their efforts to be elected Taoiseach. RTÉ report that Kenny’s nomination was defeated by 80 to 51, Coppinger 108 to 10 and Martin lost by 95 to 43 […]
Luas workers have escalated their pay dispute and are serving strike notice for six further days of strike action later this month. Employees had already been on strike for eight days with a further 48-hour stoppage scheduled for April 23-24. RTÉ report that SIPTU have served notice of industrial action on Luas company Transdev for […]
Who among us described themselves as ‘indie’ when they were a teen? I can’t say I was immune, so this trend on Twitter has really spoken to me. There was a certain era of music that happened throughout the 2000s, characterised by curly haired white men and guitars, and bands like The Strokes, We Are […]
IKEA have put a recall in place for a children’s bat cape called LATTJO and are asking anyone who purchased it to return it to any Ikea store for a full refund. Reports came to the company’s attention that three children received marks and scratches on the neck while using the cape, which did not […]
This is just beautiful. As you may have heard, the youngest Kardashian sibling Rob has become engaged to Blac Chyna, a model and entrepreneur. Why is this news, you ask? Well, I will tell you. Blac Chyna is the ex-girlfriend of Tyga, who is currently the boyfriend of Rob’s half-sister Kylie Jenner. The Kardashian Klan […]
Kerry Washington is one of Hollywood’s most in-demand actresses, and the star of one of Shonda Rhimes’ most successful shows Scandal, so she’s no stranger to being on the cover of magazines. However, one recent cover seems to have left the actress cold. She recently shot a spread for AdWeek and took to her Instagram […]
Janet Jackson has announced the postponement of the next leg of her tour so she can start a family. The singer announced the news in a video uploaded to her Twitter account saying: “We’re in the second leg of the tour and there actually has been a sudden change. I thought it was important that […]
A report released today by Europol has shown Irish young adults to be the biggest users of illegal psychoactive drugs in the entire European Union. The report, entitled The EU Drug Markets Report 2016 also showed increasing links between drug trafficking and other forms of crime including terrorism. They also found technological advances and readily […]
The number of people on trolleys in our hospitals is rising, according to Fergal Hickey, a consultant in emergency medicine at Sligo University Hospital. He spoke on RTÉ Radio’s Morning Ireland describing how patients are being forced to endure this ordeal every day. Hickey had spoken of a ‘brief improvement’ while people were focused on […]
Hilde Kate Lysiak is a nine-year-old news reporter who beat her local daily paper to the post by writing about a murder that occurred in her town of Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania. This ambitious young girl is the editor and publisher of Orange Street News, whose father is a former journalist for The New York Times, giving her […]
This is brilliant. Facebook are to begin automatically describing photos to blind and visually impaired users of the social networking site. The Verge reports the technology is called Automatic Alternative Text, that describes the content of photographs and was created by Facebook’s accessibility team. The team had already made small changes to improve accessibility including […]