A new report by the Economic and Social Research Institute is warning people that the gap between Dublin and the rest of the country will continue to increase if current trends continue.  This would mean additional housing and more travel demand along with longer commutes in the capital. They state that by the year 2040 – if […]

9 years ago

BoyleSports has confirmed that a Dublin punter collected a nice lump sum from the Euromillions draw on Tuesday night, without actually doing the Lotto.  The dubliner, pocketed a massive €165,000 (and his fiver back, of course) after they decided to put down a €5 Lotto bet on the Euromillions in a bookmakers.  The anonymous punter […]

9 years ago

On Saturday we brought you the news that Phil Penny, one of the stars of the Irish reality television show, ‘Tallafornia’ would be going on First Dates Ireland.  However, before the show has even aired, poor old Philly has made headlines after comments said to his date about her… ‘hoop’. <span id=”selection-marker-1″ class=”redactor-selection-marker”></span> If the video [&hellip;]

9 years ago

The less we say about renting in Dublin, the better. Trying to find the ideal place to rent is NEXT TO NEAR IMPOSSIBLE without pumping a lot of your wages into it each week/month.  Well, this spoof Dublin movie trailer – created by Newscheck with David Atkinson – follows the adventures of Laura, a girl from outside [&hellip;]

9 years ago

Okay, try and keep up but we’ve got to warn you, it’s harder than it seems.  Paul Stenson, owner of The Charleville Lodge Hotel and The White Moose Café, recently received a message from someone who claimed they “work as a social media influencer” with “over 87,000 YouTube subscribers as well as 76,000 Instagram followers” who wanted to give [&hellip;]

9 years ago

The Irish Independent is reporting that The Red Cow Inn has been fined €2,000 after selling cigarettes to a minor during an undercover test purchase.  T & S Taverns t/a Red Cow Inn was prosecuted at Dublin District Court on Monday after the HSE had sent an environmental health inspector and a 15-year-old test buyer to [&hellip;]

9 years ago

WARNING: We apologise in advance but this article is going to make you very hungry. Ireland’s first nationwide burger competition, ‘BurgerFest 2018’, kicks off today, 22nd January and runs until January 28th.  The competition is in association with Ballymaloe Relish and the main point of the festival is to figure out who really makes Ireland’s [&hellip;]

9 years ago

Dublin man, Paul Grimes, has been hailed a hero in Australia after he helped save a man who was drowning in Melbourne.  The Dubliner was out for dinner when he heard cries for help coming from the nearby Yarra River. The Herald Sun is reporting that a man in his 50s fell off the pier [&hellip;]

9 years ago

Irish Rail have confirmed that services through Harmonstown have been suspended following a “tragic incident.” Commuters have been told to expect “significant delays” to services. The incident was reported shortly after 1pm on Irish Rail’s Twitter page and Emergency services are currently attending the scene.  In a statement on their site, Irish Rail said: “DART services are [&hellip;]

9 years ago

A competition watchdog belonging to the state is watching over waste companies in Dublin as there is a “threat of a cartel” in operation. The Sunday Independent revealed that the The Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) had confirmed that the examination was under way. Recordings of a waste company staff member stating that firms are ‘calling’ [&hellip;]

9 years ago

Gardaí are currently investigating two robberies that were carried out on individual bookmakers in the northside of Dublin on Sunday, 21st January.  The Irish Independent is reporting that a Ladbrokes office in the Racecourse Shopping Centre was robbed at around 11am. One person was armed with a knife while the other smashed the glass at the [&hellip;]

9 years ago

The Irish Times is reporting that Gardaí are setting up a major security operation in West Dublin after a shooting at the weekend. Major security operations will be put in place for the funeral of Derek Coakley-Hutch who was shot dead near Cloverhill Prison at the weekend. As well as this, Gardaí will be looking [&hellip;]

9 years ago

We’re a nation of tea guzzlers and coffee sippers and you know what, we’re fecking proud of it too.  So much tea and coffee has been consumed over the years that we’d hate to think how much money we’ve actually spent on it.  But what if there was a way of getting cheaper teas and [&hellip;]

9 years ago

The promotion for the announcement of UFC 223’s headliner makes the whole Conor McGregor title stripping saga all the more confusing.  Although UFC president Dana White confirmed that actions are being put in place to strip McGregor of his lightweight belt, the information regarding UFC 223 could state otherwise.  Tony Ferguson will fight Khabib Nurmagomedov [&hellip;]

9 years ago

One of the world’s largest air services providers, dnata, has opened a brand new flight catering facility at Dublin Airport. dnata, who are part of the Emirates Group, has 61 other catering locations worldwide. According to Irish Travel Trade News, the new facility – which has an industrial-sized kitchen, food prep and assembly areas, together with [&hellip;]

9 years ago

A military operation takes place on Friday at the GPO where the banqueting hall will form into a party for 240 homeless people. According to RTÉ, the Defence Forces are attempting to break a 22-minute record for transforming the area, usually used to conduct postal business, into a full on partying dance hall on the evening [&hellip;]

9 years ago

Earlier in the week, we told you about a Dublin gang made up of young men who were terrorising locals. The Irish Sun has revealed that this gang calls themselves ‘The Pesties’ and are allegedly of African origin.  They have been terrorising people prominently in the west and north of Dublin, carrying out vicious assaults on [&hellip;]

9 years ago

The Irish Independent is reporting that a vigilante group in the north of the country have caught a man who intended to have sex with a minor.  The man – who travelled from Dublin to Belfast – had sent the boy a number of messages but the child was in fact an ‘adult decoy’ set [&hellip;]

9 years ago

Gardaí are currently investigating a bomb scare in Ballyfermot. The bomb was left under a car at a house on Landen Road, Ballyfermot on Wednesday night shortly after 11pm. The device was located, removed and the scene was sealed off. A spokesperson from the Garda Press Office told Lovin Dublin that:  “The device was first discovered [&hellip;]

9 years ago

An Bord Pleanála has stated that the Tivoli Theatre in Dublin’s Liberties is to be demolished but only after the developer preserves the graffiti there. The area is one of the best-known sites for street art in Dublin. The Journal is reporting that the theatre will be replaced by a five-storey, 289-bed ‘aparthotel’ but the appeals [&hellip;]

9 years ago

A retired Dublin landscaper who is caring full time for his elderly father could not believe his luck when he won €21,000 on a National Lottery online scratch card. Peter Galligan, from Artane, said the win will go a long way towards paying bills and helping him and his family care for their 84-year-old Dad. [&hellip;]

9 years ago

The Irish Independent is reporting that a French music teacher claimed €175,000  in social welfare and rented a Dublin penthouse apartment with its own private swimming pool in that time.  Court reporter Aoife Nic Ardghail states that 40-year-old Daniel Daudet got a false PPS number and claimed Back to Education and Rent Allowances up until 2015. Daudet [&hellip;]

9 years ago

A Rathfarnham route which is situated on the foothills of the Dublin Mountains could be out of action for up to one year. This news comes after illegal road works caused problems on the piece of track and led the council to close the Edmonstown Road between the Merry Ploughboy pub and Tibradden Road in November [&hellip;]

9 years ago

RTÉ weather presenter, Evelyn Cusack, has hit back at comments by a UK forecaster after he criticised our forecaster’s criteria for naming storms. You can do many things in this life, but one thing you cannot do, is tell us what we can or can’t name our storms. Some of the points he made were that [&hellip;]

9 years ago

The Times (subscription needed) is reporting that Gardaí have announced that the number of applications to track or bug suspects is rising in the capital. They were allowed to use technology to ‘snoop’ on 156 suspects who were under surveillance from July 2016-2017. The jump has been largely down to big operations against, and action being taken [&hellip;]

9 years ago

A 12-year-old Dublin boy, who was killed after he was thrown under a lorry on a public road, was riding on a sulky cart when the incident happened.  A sulky cart is a carriage that goes on the back of a horse that has two wheels and is tied around the horse.  The Irish Sun [&hellip;]

9 years ago

Gardaí in the capital have stopped a suspected gangland hit where they seized two loaded handguns. The Gardaí were targeting serious criminal activity when they discovered the weapons at a house in the North Inner City of Dublin on Friday.  In a statement on their website this morning, Gardaí stated that: “The Garda National Drugs and [&hellip;]

9 years ago

An Irish ‘social media influencer’ is being accused of misleading fans by announcing people she knows as winners of her competitions.  Terrie McEvoy – a Dublin born nurse who is currently working in Syndey – boasts the title of being one of the top 10 influencers in Ireland but the Instagram account @bullshitcallerouter, who has been [&hellip;]

9 years ago

A new report by Nevin Economic Research Institute has found that most individual wage earners in Ireland would not meet the necessary criteria to apply for a mortgage for a one-bed apartment anywhere in Dublin. The same report found that full-time minimum wage earners would have “little chance” of getting a mortgage for the same type [&hellip;]

9 years ago

Conor McGregor’s driving has gotten him into trouble with a grieving Irish mother who lost her six-year-old after he was hit by a car. In an Irish Sun exclusive – https://www.thesun.ie/news/205… – Roseann Brennan said that the UFC star needed to “cop on”, take responsibility on the road and not to record himself while driving.  Her complaint comes [&hellip;]

9 years ago

The Charleville Lodge Hotel and The White Moose Café’s owner, Paul Stenson, is no stranger to a small bit of controversy but the story about a ‘social media influencer’ asking to stay for free in his hotel in exchange for ‘exposure’ is surely one of his most noteworthy.  The emailer says they “work as a social [&hellip;]

9 years ago

Dublin City Council has been told that they need to act fast after a report, which was published back in 2015 saying that sexual harassment is a “significant threat” to women in public spaces, has seen no improvement on Dublin streets in almost three years.  The Times (subscription needed) is reporting that some of the recommendations in a [&hellip;]

9 years ago

A kind-hearted Dublin man, who struck gold after winning €50,000 on a National Lottery scratch card, surprised his best friend by telling him that they will split the prize down the middle.  Both men, who are in their 20’s and who work together, claimed their prize of €50,000 (€25,000 each) which was won on an All [&hellip;]

9 years ago

Planning permission for 927 new homes in Dublin have been refused by An Bord Pleanála. The fast-track approvals process were being sought by Viscount Securities who wanted a 10-year permission to build nearly 1,000 homes at a big site at Clay Farm on Ballyogan Road. There were 53 submissions made for the 365 houses and 562 apartments but [&hellip;]

9 years ago

Fear not if you thought that Bono’s performance at Shane McGowan’s party would be the last you’d see of him for a while in the capital. U2 have confirmed some European tour dates and thankfully, Dublin and Belfast are on the list. Live Nation and MCD have confirmed dates for the European leg of U2’s [&hellip;]

9 years ago

Shane McGowan turned 60-years-old on Christmas Day and had the biggest 60th party you will ever see in Dublin on Monday night.  Sinead O’Connor, Bono, Johnny Depp and a whole host of other stars were in attendance to wish the Irish music legend a big HB. Before you ask, yes, ‘Rainy Night In Soho’ and [&hellip;]

9 years ago

Boojum has confirmed that it will be opening yet another restaurant in Dublin but this time, however, there’s going to be a twist. Introducing ‘Turbo Boojum’.  The new store in Dublin will open in the IFSC and they hope that it will become the fastest burrito bar in Europe. What’s so different? Well, customers have the [&hellip;]

9 years ago

Dublin Fire Brigade has rescued two women from a blaze in their home on Glengarriff Parade in Phibsborough. Five units of Dublin Fire Brigade (DFB) including an ambulance arrived at the scene to find that there were people trapped inside the house.  The fire broke out at around 7:30am on Monday morning.  According to The Irish [&hellip;]

9 years ago

The Irish Sun is reporting that gangs of young men are terrorising locals and targeting taxi drivers in Dublin.  They are mostly prominent in North Dublin but are starting to increase throughout the city. They have been behind a number of vicious assaults and robberies as well as threatening a number of Gardaí’s lives over the [&hellip;]

9 years ago

Local agents are predicting that property values will rise by 8% in Dublin and 7.5% throughout Ireland in the coming year. This news comes after figures for the Q4 Real Estate Agents (REA) Average House Price Index were released on Monday. While prices in the capital’s postcode areas have risen by 12.5% in 2017 and stand at €438,000, [&hellip;]

9 years ago

Paul Crute, principal of Ireland’s most expensive school, was on the Sean O’Rourke show on Thursday morning to talk more about the school which he described as “ground-breaking.” The Nord Anglia school will be situated in Sandyford and will offer the International Baccalaureate – a high quality and international education program – to both Irish and global students. “The [&hellip;]

9 years ago

Commuters in Dublin can expect to be stopping and starting a lot on Monday morning as two early morning collisions are causing massive delays on the M50. AA Roadwatch is reporting that there was a collision at the bottom of the slip road from the N7 Naas Rd inbound to the M50 southbound that is [&hellip;]

9 years ago

The Irish Examiner is reporting that a new Dublin Bus service that connects customers from Finglas to the Luas Green Line at Broombridge could be able for use from as early as March.  Calls for this link have been talked about for a long period of time but the National Transport Authority and Dublin Bus [&hellip;]

9 years ago

Sean Hughes – an up and coming talented teenage musician from Finglas – has died suddenly after falling ill. Hughes’ mother described her son as “larger than life” who was also “wise beyond his years.” He went into the GP with a chest infection and bad cough and passed away suddenly on Friday 12th January.  The 15-year-old’s [&hellip;]

9 years ago

The Independent is reporting that a woman has died in Empire Bar on Main Street, Swords on Friday night. Gardaí are currently investigating the matter after the 25-year-old passed away while socialising before midnight on Friday 12th January. It is being said that she may have suffered from an underlying medical condition. Emergency services were [&hellip;]

9 years ago

In September 2015, 23-year-old Lauren Johnson died from a blood clot and associated hemorrhage in the brain at Beaumont Hospital. It was determined that the blood clot was caused by the medication which had been prescribed for acne.  Her mother Sandra from Swords, has told The Irish Independent that women are not aware enough about the dangers [&hellip;]

9 years ago

The Irish Times has conducted surveys with all TD’s and senators and has asked them how they would vote in a referendum to repeal the eight amendment.  The question asked was: Should the 8th Amendment to the Constitution be repealed? Their responses were broken down into three answers: yes, no and undeclared.  Here’s how all of [&hellip;]

9 years ago

The Irish Times has revealed that building Dublin apartments higher has the potential to make their prices considerably lower. That’s according to one of Dublin’s biggest builders who have said that prices have the potential to drop by 20% if their buildings are taller. Michael Stanley, the chief executive of Cairn Homes, believes that these [&hellip;]

9 years ago

People are being urged to get the flu vaccines as a new ‘Japanese Flu’ is feared to be spreading around the country. This flu follows in the footsteps of the deadly ‘Aussie Flu’ and getting the vaccine will protect you from the respective ‘Aussie’, ‘Japanese’ and ‘Swine’ Flu. A spokesperson from the HSE told Lovin Dublin [&hellip;]

9 years ago

Gardaí have announced that major roadworks have commenced on the M7 Motorway and will last until 2020.  Gardaí are appealing to all motorists to be vigilant and obey temporary speed limits in place. Currently, there is a 60km speed limit in place between Junction 9 and Junction 10 but as work goes on, the road layout [&hellip;]

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