Standing proudly on the corner of George’s Street, Gay Spar has served as a highlight for many a night out in Dublin.  For many of us, weekend galivanting around the city centre seems like a distant memory. Are the things we love still there? Do the streets still look the same? If you’re like me, […]

5 years ago

After more than a year of cooking for ourselves, surely I’m not the only one who has exhausted their culinary skills? Having to think of a dinner to make every. single. day has kinda taken it’s toll at this stage, and I’ve reverted back to the absolute basics. So I’ve tapped out for Easter Dinner, […]

5 years ago

Dublin remains the county with the highest rate of people staying local in order to combat the spread of Covid-19, according to new data. The Central Statistics Office (CSO) has been releasing the data on a weekly basis, with the capital perennially the most Covid-19 restriction-compliant county, owing to ‘its urbanised nature and access to […]

5 years ago

Dublin city’s skyline was the guest of honour in a new Tourism Ireland video which saw the sky above the Samuel Beckett Bridge lit up by a stunning light display in honour of St Patrick’s Day.  Organised by the St Patrick’s Festival and Tourism Ireland in celebration of our national holiday, the display lit up […]

5 years ago

Dublin Airport has an important public service announcement for people ahead of St Patrick’s Day tomorrow – taking to social media to remind people of the proper pronunciation of our national holiday. Reposting a message they first shared seven years ago, it rings as true now as it did back then. Trending on social media […]

5 years ago

Very few of us have seen the inside of Croke Park in the past year or so but after last night, that’s not the case for our cousins across the pond. Picture This appeared on the other Late Late Show last night, that is the one that’s hosted by James Corden over in the States. […]

5 years ago

‘People queued for six hours and had five minutes with us.’ As Ireland becomes more and more of a hot spot for international TV and movie makers to make their projects, as well as the film-makers here becoming more prolific and garnering more and more international attention, it stands to reason that all of these […]

5 years ago

Such was the success of the first Allta bakery pop-up that the team has decided to make it a weekly thing.  Transforming the Allta restaurant on Setanta Place into a pop-up bakery – the team’s first foray into the world of baked goods – the idea proved to be so popular that they’ve decided to […]

5 years ago

Mother’s Day falls this Sunday and though we hardly need an occasion to celebrate our lovely mams, it’s still an excuse to show them how much they mean to us. From my experience, most Irish mammies hate a fuss – maintaining that a nice cuppa will suffice – but marking the day with a food […]

5 years ago

A psychotherapist has called for “creative ways to lift the mood” such as live music and poetry readings in parks. With Ireland set to remain under Level 5 Covid-19 restrictions until early April at least, psychotherapist Stephanie Regan feels that live public performances as well things like projected art on buildings and fireworks could go […]

5 years ago

Designing your own socks is one way to pass an evening.  I thought I was ‘bored in the house, in the house bored’ back in March, but that doesn’t even cut it for how I’m feeling these days. Several weeks into our third lockdown of recent months and I’ve pretty much exhausted all avenues in […]

5 years ago

Dublin drivers are being asked to keep an eye out for frogs on the road as their migration season approaches. The Dublin 18 Scenery Appreciation Facebook page posted a video this week of hundreds of frags gathered in a pond, writing: “Amazing spectacle at local Rathmicheal Woods today, hundreds of frogs gathering in the pond. […]

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