It’s been 25 years… how well do you remember arguably the greatest sports movie of all time? Sports movies are hard to get right. Many have tried to make them convincing, but often they fall short, whether due to unrealistic and inauthentic playing scenes, and fail to land with the audience. Many of the movies […]

5 years ago

This might be our toughest edition of this quiz yet Absence makes the heart grow fonder, they say, so after a while without one of our trademark tricky non-capital city quizzes, we’ve decided to bring it back with a bang. We say bang, in this instance, as in our opinion as quizmasters, it’s one of […]

5 years ago

One to add to your watch list this month Without wanting to rub it in or anything, we’re going to be spending a lot of time at home for the next month and probably beyond, so the more stuff we have to keep us entertained, the better. Netflix have stepped up in that regard with […]

5 years ago

“All I want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have.” Outgoing US President Donald Trump pressured the leading election official in Georgia to “find” enough votes to swing the result in his favour in the state, a leaked audio recording obtained by the Washington […]

5 years ago

Big news on the Covid-19 vaccine front. A Covid-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech will be rolled out across the UK from next week after it was officially authorised by the UK government. In a statement on Wednesday morning, Matt Hancock said the vaccine will be made available from next week and that the […]

5 years ago

Trump continued to claim there was “massive fraud” in the recent election and refused to confirm he would attend Joe Biden’s inauguration as US president. Donald Trump has said he will leave the White House if Joe Biden’s victory is certified by the US Electoral College next month. Trump’s admission was yet another signal he […]

5 years ago

All round to Mrs. Brown’s for Christmas If there’s been a TV show as divisive as Mrs. Brown’s Boys since the turn of the millennium, then we haven’t heard of it. It’s not to everyone’s tastes, but then again, it regularly tops the most-watched lists in the UK and Ireland. Almost seven million people watched […]

5 years ago

Trump has told his team “to do what needs to be done” Donald Trump appears to be finally set to concede defeat in the US presidential election, having given the go-ahead for the transition of power to president-elect Joe Biden. As part of his ongoing refusal to accept that he had lost the election, Trump […]

5 years ago

Some are obvious, some more obscure, but how well do you know the show everyone’s talking about? Whether you’re an ardent monarchist, have a passing interest in The Royal Family or couldn’t think of anything you could care less about, chances are you’re aware that the fourth season of The Crown has just been released […]

5 years ago

An edited version of the song will be played on the station instead, while the original version will still be played on BBC Radio 2. BBC Radio 1 has confirmed that it will not play the original version of ‘Fairytale of New York’, a Christmas song by The Pogues featuring Kirsty MacColl, on air this […]

5 years ago

John Taylor said he has withdrawn the reference as it “seems to have upset some people” A former Deputy Leader of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) has withdrawn his reference to US vice-president elect Kamala Harris as “the Indian” after he said it “seems to have upset some people”. John Taylor, who serves as a […]

5 years ago

After voting for someone he truly trusts – himself – Kanye is going to have to do it all over again in four years Rapper Kanye West appears to have conceded that his bid to become president of the United States in this year’s election is, shockingly, destined to come up short, before immediately launching […]

5 years ago

“You married the most, most, most, most, most genius man in the whole world, Kanye West.” Even in a year as crazy as 2020, with all that’s going on, Kim Kardashian West still possesses an almost unrivalled ability to provoke discussion worldwide via her social media feed. Days after revealing her private island birthday getaway […]

5 years ago

From November of next year, New Zealand will become the seventh country in the world where euthanasia is legal Euthanasia will soon become legal in New Zealand but cannabis will not after the preliminary results of two referendums were released on Friday. 65.2% of voters in New Zealand voted ‘Yes’ in favour of the End […]

5 years ago

Keep an eye on Joe Biden’s face when the current president mentions one of his most famous predecessors Donald Trump defended himself against accusations that he has contributed to racial tension and division in the United States by suggesting that no president in history has done more for the black community than he has, with […]

5 years ago

It’s Guinness alright, but not as you know it… Guinness has announced the launch of a new alcohol-free version of the famous drink, which will be called Guinness 0.0. The new drink comes with the slogan ‘The Guinness with everything, except alcohol’, and claims to boast the same “beautifully smooth taste, perfectly balanced flavour, and […]

5 years ago

Regarding treatment for Covid-19, the president said he planned to distribute “whatever the hell they gave me” to hospitals in the United States Donald Trump claimed to feel “so powerful” and “immune” to Covid-19 in his first public rally since he was released from hospital after a positive diagnosis of the virus. Speaking to large […]

5 years ago

“They might get sick. They may die. For political theatre. Commanded by Trump to put their lives at risk for theatre” An attending physician at Walter Reed Medical Center, where US president Donald Trump is currently receiving treatment after testing positive for Covid-19 last week, has described his greeting of supporters outside the hospital on […]

5 years ago

“Somebody’s got to do something about Antifa and the left” Donald Trump passed up on the opportunity to condemn white supremacists and militia groups during the first US presidential debate on Tuesday night, instead urging a well-known far right organisation “to stand back and stand by” and saying “somebody’s got to do something about ANTIFA […]

5 years ago

There have been over 33 million confirmed cases worldwide The global death toll from Covid-19 has now passed one million, according to live data from Johns Hopkins University. The milestone has been passed a little over nine months since the first recorded death from the virus on 9 January 2020 in Wuhan in China. The […]

5 years ago

The report claims that Trump paid just $750 in income taxes per year in the first two years of his presidency Donald Trump paid no income taxes in 10 of the 15 years before he became president of the United States and just $750 in income taxes per year in 2016 and 2017, the first […]

5 years ago

A 72-hour curfew, which applies between the hours of 9pm and 6.30am, is in place in Louisville and all of Jefferson County Two police officers were shot and injured during protests in Louisville in Kentucky on Wednesday night after it was decided by a grand jury that no officers would be charged for the killing […]

5 years ago

Packaging with the new brand name will be sold from next year Mars has revealed that the brand name and identity of its Uncle Ben’s rice products will be changed to Ben’s Original. The products will retain the orange colour and blue font of the existing packaging, but the current logo will be removed when […]

5 years ago

25 years old and still holds up amazingly well to this day The mid-1990s was a simpler time. There was no pandemic, no social media and The Simpsons was at the height of its powers, having not yet entered the terminal decline which is still ongoing to this day. In 1995, the show was so […]

5 years ago

Three minutes to name 11 cities We’re assuming most of you are at least vaguely familiar with the format of these geography quizzes by now so we’re not going to waste much time in getting down to business. For first timers, it’s pretty simple. We want you to list all of the capital cities in […]

5 years ago

‘He was a unique dude and we thank him for all times good, bad and in between. Peace on the boogie platform’

5 years ago

Very sad news Grant Imahara, the former co-host of the popular Discovery Channel show Mythbusters and star of The White Rabbit Project on Netflix, has died at the age of 49. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Imahara died of a brain aneurysm. Imahara, an electrical engineer and roboticist, replaced original Mythbusters cast member Scottie Chapman […]

6 years ago

Two women, who travelled to New Zealand from the UK via Australia, have tested positive for Covid-19 New Zealand has reported two new cases of Covid-19, the first cases in the country for 24 days. The New Zealand Health Ministry confirmed on Tuesday that two women from the same family, one in her 30s and […]

6 years ago

Regular Guinness drinkers will recognise the satisfied look on Jackman’s face afterwards As fans of the man himself and of The Greatest Showman won’t need reminding, Hugh Jackman is in Dublin this week for the latest stop on his world tour, titled The Man. The Music. The Show. Probably one of the most popular people […]

7 years ago

“They don’t want to be part of us anyway.” Ever since a ‘flextension’ was agreed last month, which extends the Brexit deadline until the end of October, the B word hasn’t dominated political conversation to anywhere near the extent it had for the first few months of this year. It hasn’t gone away entirely, of […]

7 years ago

You had us at Streets of Rage 2

7 years ago

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 […]

7 years ago

Of all the deaths in Game of Thrones, it was one of the toughest to take In the run-up to the final season of Game of Thrones, we’re revisiting some of the main moments and plotlines from the epic series to date. Here, Sean Bean, who played Ned Stark, revisits arguably the first REALLY shocking […]

7 years ago

The Premier League has clamped down on illegal streaming in a big way Three men operating a pirate streaming organisation have been jailed for a total of 17 years for defrauding the Premier League, some of the longest sentences ever issued for piracy-related crimes. Trading under the names Dreambox (unincorporated), Dreambox TV Limited, and Digital […]

7 years ago

This is quite something Bookmakers Paddy Power have come up with something of a left-field choice for their latest ambassador in Rhodri Giggs, perhaps best-known as the brother of Manchester United legend Ryan Giggs. It’s not exactly a secret that the pair don’t see eye to eye these days after a very high-profile falling out […]

7 years ago

‘I feel we’ll have to move to Ireland to give my children the life I want them to have.’ A caller to Jeremy Vine on 5 became emotional on Thursday when describing the impact that Brexit has had on her family and the wider implications it has had in Britain and beyond. The caller in question, […]

7 years ago

Up to 1,000 police officers from the UK are set to begin training for deployment in Northern Ireland in the event of a no-deal Brexit later this year

7 years ago

What exactly did he think would happen? Keeping in touch with your exes is a healthy and respectable thing to do. Keeping in touch with multiple ex-partners using a method of communication in which all of them can see what each other has to say, however, is something that’s not best advised. For some reason […]

7 years ago

They’re practically queuing up at this stage Following in the footsteps of his party colleague Anna Soubry, Conservative MP Phillip Lee has apologised for the behaviour of the party towards Ireland during the Brexit negotiations. Phillip Lee, the former justice minister who resigned his post earlier this year over the handling of the Brexit negotiations, […]

7 years ago

A photo of Ryanair cabin crew asleep on a floor in Malaga Airport after they failed to secure overnight accommodation was circulated widely in recent days. A video posted on the Ryanair Twitter account claims to “expose” a “fake” photograph of Ryanair cabin crew asleep on a floor in Malaga Airport after they failed to […]

7 years ago

“Feel the rhythm! Feel the rhyme! Get on up, its bobsled time!” Cool Runnings is one of the all-time classic family movies and the main characters – Derice, Sanka, Yul Brenner, Junior Bevill and Coach Irv Blitzer – struck a chord with audiences all over the world. 25 years ago today, we all chanted “Feel […]

7 years ago

Denis O’Connor is some man for one 83-year-old man. An 83-year-old man has been hailed as a “total hero” for his role in helping to foil an attempted armed robbery of a bookmakers in Ireland over the weekend. On Saturday, three men, reportedly armed with a shotgun and two hammers, attempted to stage a robbery […]

8 years ago

The current series of Big Brother, which starts on Channel 5 on Friday night, will be the last

8 years ago

A moment 65 years in the making

8 years ago

It’s not the one fans might be expecting, but it’s likely to be ridiculously popular all the same

8 years ago

A Brexodus is coming and it’s set to have a big impact on the jobs market in Ireland

8 years ago

His birthday was in July last year

8 years ago

“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 […]

8 years ago

Couldn’t log on to Tinder last night? You weren’t the only one

8 years ago

Police confirmed that they responded to an active shooter and urged the public to stay away from the area

8 years ago