A meeting of the Citizens Assembly took place on Saturday the 15th at Dublin Castle where a decision was made to hold 4 meetings on the subject of restrictions set out by the constitution on abortion. After these meeting, a…
Fire crews were called out last night to tackle a blaze at a well-known pub in Tallaght. The Dublin Fire Brigade despatched five units from Tallaght, Dolphin’s Barn and Rathfarnham to the incident at The Cuckoos Nest on Greenhill Road…
Young men in Ireland are at an increasing risk of suicide, according to new research. The National Suicide Research Foundation, an independent organisation which aims to prevent suicide and self-harm, have published new figures showing the rise in rates of…
With each and every door that closes behind you, every “We’ll be in touch…”, every painfully slow bus back to your bunk-bed in the 16-person shared room at your hostel in the arse-end of Crumlin, a tiny piece of your…
Ireland has a long history and still keeps many traditions and habits. One of them is traditional Irish dance. Lots of Irish inhabitants are part of some dance school, association or group. They practice this Irish dance and enjoy the…
A small side entrance to a house is the gateway to possibly the best ice cream sundae you’ll find in Ireland. Scrumdiddly’s is home to 2,400 different combinations of toppings, ice cream and sauces which makes for a seriously decadent…
The Brazilian community in Dublin is one of the biggest foreign communities in the city, and by far the biggest collection of non-EU residents are from Brazil. There is a Facebook group for Dublin residents hailing from the South American…
75-year-old rock legend Bob Dylan was awarded The Nobel Prize “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition” Born in 1941, Robert Allen Zimmerman, who took the name Dylan from Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, began his…
Property website Daft has seen a 130% surge in searches for property sales following the announcement of the new government help-to-buy scheme, with the greatest spike in searches being from the Dublin area. The new initiative, aimed to help first…