Like it or not, it’s time to get excited for Halloween. Now, you may be thinking it’s a little early yet to be thinking about pumpkin patches but given that several spots have already started selling tickets, and even have sold out dates on their hands, we think this is the exact right time. And […]
According to reports from The Irish Times, RTE and more, the Japanese company behind the Sylvanian Families toy line has dropped its high-profile lawsuit against a Kildare woman whose soap-opera-style videos of the cutesy figurines turned into a viral sensation. Epoch Company Ltd., which first launched Sylvanian Families in 1985 and sells them in the […]
How did an edit to CMAT’s song blow up into a BBC controversy? “It was not my decision to have the Irish language edited out of the first-ever play of EURO-COUNTRY on radio,” CMAT said on social media this week. This was the clip that launched 1000 TikToks. The edit shook the BBC to its […]
You truly are taking your life in your hands these days, cycling around the city.
I mean, it should be relatively easy to hop on your bike to get from A to B, right?
Wrong, wrong, so very wrong. Here are some of the startling realisations you have when you wheeling around Dublin's fair city...
1. Buses will make you feel like you are about to die
You're a tiny person on two little wheels, they're a ginormous hunk of metal moving at speed pushing you ever closer to the kerb.
2. Hills are the devil
Particularly the sneaky ones that take you by surprise with crippling, burning pain in your calves.
3. Cycle lanes are the dream, but there just ain't enough of them
Soon. Or so they tell us.
4. Actually, scratch that – cycle lanes are all fun and games until someone double parks
5. This crossing at Leeson Street Bridge wants you to die
