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.
TD and member of Anti-Austerity Alliance/ People Before Profit Ruth Coppinger is set to make history tomorrow. The West Dublin TD will be the first woman ever nominated for the position of Taoiseach in the history of the state. The party is nominating Coppinger, a staunchly pro-choice and feminist politician, to represent the needs and […]
Queen B is notoriously difficult to pin down for an interview. The superstar remains something of an enigma, which is why the fact she granted Elle an interview at all is a pretty big deal. She hadn’t done a proper in-depth interview in three years, so there was bound to be some interesting revelations included. […]
Bitchface transcends cultural barriers
Prime Minister of Iceland, Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson has resigned in the wake of the Panama Papers scandal. President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson cut short a visit to the US to deal with the crisis. The Guardian report that the Agriculture and Fisheries Minister Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson told a state broadcaster in Iceland that he would be replacing […]
Sometimes there are animal stories out there that are unusual and uplifting at the same time, and this is definitely one of them. A Janus cat is a feline which is born with two faces, named after the Roman god of the same name, and this cat even had two names because of it. He […]
The discriminatory laws put in place for LGBTQ citizens of North Carolina have resulted in a serious amount of backlash, from individuals to corporate entities. One such entity is online commerce giant PayPal that had announced plans to open a new global operations centre in Charlotte, NC, prior to the legislation being passed. It would […]
THE KITCHEN. THE BEAUTIFUL KITCHEN.
The Abortion Rights Campaign (ARC) are calling for reform of Northern Ireland’s abortion laws and extension of the 1967 Abortion Act following yesterday’s sentencing of a woman who procured her own abortion in Northern Ireland by means of a pill. If this woman had lived in any other jurisdiction in the UK she would not […]
The dentist is a lot of people’s least favourite place. A lot of the time, this fear of the dentist stems from childhood, but one clinic in Illinois is trying to make it a more comfortable experience for little ones. The Dodo spoke to Paediatric Dentistry in Northbrook about Jojo, a trained comfort dog who […]
UPDATE: The Port Tunnel has reopened after a truck went on fire this evening. Emergency services attended the scene after the incident happened shorty after 6pm this evening. Both bores of the Dublin Port Tunnel are closed following an incident where part of a truck’s engine blew earlier this evening. The HGV ban remains in place. Temporary […]
