“This could happen to another family.” The sister of Ruth Maguire has called for a safety barrier to be introduced at the Carlingford pier where the mother-of-three was found. Ruth passed away while attending a hen party in Co Louth last month. Her body was discovered some hours after she was reported missing. Her family […]

8 years ago

We don’t know what to believe anymore. Does it even matter? Probably not, no – and yet for some reason everybody’s all hyped up about where (and less about when, somehow) Meghan Markle will give birth. Will it be in the Lindo Wing? Will it be a different Wing? Will it be a blow up […]

8 years ago

A massive congrats to all involved. Jamie Dornan and Amelia Warner have welcomed their third child, a baby girl. Singer and actor Amelia confirmed the news on Mother’s Day sharing a photo of three pairs of children’s shoes – one of which actively belongs to a newborn. “So proud of these three glorious girls,” she […]

8 years ago

“The increase in the uptake rate is a testament to Laura, her bravery, her courage and her kindness.” Simon Harris has said that Ireland will eradicate cervical cancer within a generation in honour of Laura Brennan. The Minister for Health paid tribute to the late HPV vaccine campaigner this weekend following her funeral in Co […]

8 years ago

A 61-year-old woman has given birth to her own granddaughter after acting as a surrogate for her son. Cecile Eledge said that if she was healthy enough to undergo IVF treatment so her son Matthew and his partner Elliot could become parents, she wanted to. After doctors deemed that she was fit to carry a […]

8 years ago

“It hit us like a ton of bricks.” Alex Jones has said that she hosted an episode of The One Show just one hour after finding out she had had a miscarriage. The TV presenter discovered she was pregnant for a second time in 2017, a few months after the birth of her first child, […]

8 years ago

Her vile nature knows no bounds. Here listen, we know alright. During the week, we gave the delightful information that Maya and Jacob were finally going to get caught together by David. It seemed like hope was on the horizon, that the creepy teacher would finally get her comeuppance, that this painful storyline would finally […]

8 years ago

The ongoing investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann could be abandoned as funding runs out. The £12 million operation led by Scotland Yard is reportedly producing no new leads with detectives rarely visiting the Portuguese resort where Madeleine vanished in 2007. The investigation around her disappearance, named Operation Grange, was scaled back considerably in […]

8 years ago

“For anyone feeling alone today.” Malin Andersson has shared an important post on Mother’s Day to any mothers and daughters who might be struggling with bereavement or loss. The former Love Island contestant’s baby daughter died at the beginning of this year when she was just four weeks old. Baby Consy had been born seven seeks premature […]

8 years ago

“Feeling strong and beautiful today.” Amy Schumer is pregnant. Like, really pregnant. Like, she’s got severe hyperemesis and has been throwing up for pretty much the past six months of her life and she deserves a medal for getting up in the morning. She also deserves a medal for taking an underwear pregnancy selfie following her […]

8 years ago

“I just didn’t speak up. I don’t blame anyone else for that.” Louise Redknapp has said that she found it easy to blame Jamie for issues in their relationship, but that she wishes she hadn’t. The singer said that before their split, she had been struggling with her self-esteem ahead of the relaunch of her […]

8 years ago

A woman has given birth to twins 26 days after giving birth to her first child. Bangladeshi woman Arifa Sultana welcomed her premature son in February of this year. Less than a month later she was rushed to hospital with stomach pains, where she later gave birth to two more children. Doctors failed to notice […]

8 years ago

Drinking one bottle of wine per week as the same lifetime cancer risk as smoking 10 cigarettes. A new UK study estimates that consuming one 750ml bottle of wine per week increases the likelihood of developing cancer even in non-smokers. It said that if 2,000 non-smoking men and women drank one bottle a wine a […]

8 years ago

Spoiler: it’s a girl. Stacey Solomon announced that she and Joe Swash were expecting their first child together a month or so back. Or rather, Joe announced it and Stacey simply followed afterwards confirming that the news is, in fact, true. The pair have discussed a good few things since it became apparently that Stacey […]

8 years ago

“Hugely disappointing.” The number of people homeless in Ireland has passed 10,000 for the first time. New figures released by the Department of Housing show that 10,264 people were accessing emergency accommodation in February 2019. This is an increase of 277 people since January. Minister for Housing Eoghan Murphy has called the new figures “hugely disappointing.” […]

8 years ago

There’s something in the water at Maine Medical Centre. Nine pregnant nurses working in the same hospital are all expecting their babies around the same time. The staff at US hospital, Maine Medical Centre, discovered their pregnancy trend recently when nurse Erin Grenier started wondering if something was  “really was in the air” at the […]

8 years ago

A stunning light exhibition installed in Dublin will encourage people to sign up for this year’s Darkness Into Light. The Festival of Light, currently lighting up Dundrum Town Centre, will tomorrow become a means of encouraging many shoppers to get involved in Pieta House’s flagship event for raising suicide awareness and reducing the stigma around […]

8 years ago

Ah, parental leave. It can be entirely great or completely non-existent, depending on what country you’re living in. And while some countries (American, we’re looking at you) have yet to realise that providing adequate maternity and paternity leave benefits both new parents as well as the country, the proof is in the stats. Figures compiled […]

8 years ago

Over 2,300 women are still waiting on their repeat smear test results. Quest, the laboratory used by cervical cancer screening programme CervicalCheck, has re-tested seven percent of repeat smears since almost 5,000 women were invited to have their results re-checked earlier this year. Just 200 results have been sent to women since this time. RTE […]

8 years ago

41 percent of Irish people still believe you should put something in a person’s mouth if you see them having a seizure. You shouldn’t though, because contrary to popular belief, it won’t actually help. Today, March 26, marks the International Day of Epilepsy Awareness or, as it is otherwise known, Purple Day. Last month, Epilepsy […]

8 years ago

Grim enough sitch. Rana died in Corrie last week. This we are all aware of. This we all know. She tragically passed just after marrying her one true love Kate Connor when the Underworld factory collapsed on her. She was even wearing her wedding dress. It was very dramatic. Kate is, understandably, considerably distraught by […]

8 years ago

C’mon David, get a grip. It’s been years since Emmerdale kicked off their Maya grooming Jacob storyline. Decades, even. Or at least that’s what it feels like when you’re sat there trying to unwind on a Monday evening and then all of a sudden you’re confronted with an adult woman coaxing a teenager into having […]

8 years ago

Four men were arrested after a 17-year-old girl’s body was discovered in a car at Belfast City Hospital. Tara Wright was found dead in a grey car on the hospital grounds early on Sunday morning. The PSNI believe that she had been involved in a single vehicle crash on the outskirts of the city. BBC […]

8 years ago

What was assumed to be a cyst was actually an unformed twin. A baby in South America was born with her own twin growing inside of her. The infant, welcomed to a mother in Colombia, was born in February of this year with her partially formed twin inside her abdomen. The unformed twin was still […]

8 years ago

New 3D ultrasounds of babies’ hearts could aid in the early detection of heart defects in the womb. The images, created and developed by scientists in the UK, are the first to clearly depict the growing heart as it beats in the womb. The new technology could help find out why some infants develop more […]

8 years ago

Ah, now. A few weeks back, it was confirmed that the one, the only, the breathtakingly iconic Lisa Dingle was going to be killed off in Emmerdale.  It was sad news for all involved, as fans learned that the Dale veteran had been diagnosed with a terminal heart condition as she asked her niece to […]

8 years ago

You couldn’t make it up, like. If there’s two things in this world that simply don’t mix, it’s an organised robbery and Corrie‘s Steve McDonald . The man is so bumbling, so unassuming, so non-threatening that he’d rock up somewhere with the intention of fleecing the place and end up having his iPhone nicked. It […]

8 years ago

“Laura sat over there not so long ago to tell us about her cervical cancer diagnosis…” Ryan Tubridy paid tribute to Laura Brennan on the Late Late Show last night, asking people to remember her dignity and bravery. The 26-year-old HPV vaccination campaigner passed away earlier this week after a two-year battle with cervical cancer. […]

8 years ago

“I hated my life. I did for a while, and now I love it.” Domestic abuse survivor Jessica Bowes has received much support online since her appearance on last night’s Late Late Show.  The mother-of-three joined Ryan in the studio to discuss her decision to waive anonymity after a vicious attack from the father of […]

8 years ago

“Suicide can happen to anyone at any time…” Tributes have been paid to Britain’s Got Talent semi-finalist Jack Saunders who was found dead last weekend. The 25-year-old, who was due to appear on the upcoming series of the talent show, died by suicide last week according to members of his family. Jack’s mother Sandra told […]

8 years ago

Sorry, now. Be honest – how many times in the past month have you turned on your hair straightener, straightened your hair, and then absolutely left the house without turning your straightener off? Was it once? Was it twice? Was it literally every single time you left the gaff because remembering to turn off devices […]

8 years ago

A former Coronation Street director has been sentenced after being found guilty of four child sex offences. Tim Dowd, who directed over 200 episodes of the ITV soap, attempted to groom what he thought was a 13-year-old girl during a police sting. The 66-year-old asked the ‘girl’ for explicit images during an online chat that […]

8 years ago

A man and a woman have died following a serious car accident in Dublin this morning. The accident, which involved two vehicles, took place this morning on the Drumcondra Road at the junction of Hollybank Road at around 6.30am. The drivers of both cars, a man in his 70s and a woman in her 30s, […]

8 years ago

Who among us can’t appreciate a bit of the Farrell? He’s talented, he’s a sound man, he starred in In Bruges with Brendan Gleeson which is the single most hysterical and also intensely upsetting movie of the 21st century. He’s got it all going for him – and as it turns out, so do we, […]

8 years ago

Sports ruin everything. Emmerdale is taking a considerable four day break this week meaning that viewers are going to have to wait until next Tuesday to find out what more inevitably creepy things are going to happen between groomer Maya and schoolboy Jacob. The saga hit a bit of a crescendo during last night’s episode […]

8 years ago

“They need to be literally ripped apart.” Last night, Coronation Street proved that love is indeed dead when they decided to brutally kill off one half of the show’s most iconic and glorious couples. Rana Habeed was tragically killed during Wednesday’s episode when the Underworld factory roof collapsed leaving her trapped. She and Kate Connor […]

8 years ago

“That should raise hope…” The authors who feature in the new Madeleine McCann documentary have explained why they think the missing girl is still alive. Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan, who appear in Netflix’s new docu-series The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann, have said that they think Madeleine was the victim of a “planned abduction.” Speaking […]

8 years ago

Fair, yeah. If you’re at all familiar with the royal family, you’ll know that Prince George and Prince Harry have beef – serious beef – and have done so for years. While everybody was swanning about giving out about the fact that Meagan and Kate seemingly hate each other even though they don’t and probably […]

8 years ago

Social media is awash with posts celebrating this year’s World Down Syndrome Day. Hashtags ‘ShareTheJourney’, ‘ICouldBe’, and ‘LeaveNoOneBehind’ have dominated Twitter and Facebook today as people across the country raise awareness for Down Syndrome and challenge misconceptions about those who have it. Many people have also opted to wear odd socks to mark the extra […]

8 years ago

“I’m positive as can be about what happened but it does damage you.” A survivor of domestic abuse will appear on tonight’s episode of First Dates Ireland to share her story. Sinead Connell Bianchi was attacked and beaten by her ex-partner Alan Brady during a two-hour assault in 2016. The mother-of-four suffered permanent ligament damage to […]

8 years ago

“You are unwanted in the Folketing Hall with your child.” A Danish politician was told to leave Parliament this week after bringing her baby daughter to work. Mette Abildgaard was asked to remove her daughter, Esther Marie, from the chambers on Tuesday when speaker Pia Kjaersgaard said her presence was “unwanted” with the child. Lawmaker Abildgaard said […]

8 years ago

Full-time working mothers are at least 40 percent more stressed, a study has found. W0men working at least forty hours a week with two children were found to have significantly higher stress levels than those who do not have kids. The findings, published in the British Sociological Association journal Sociology, showed that women with no children […]

8 years ago

Ah, Brad. Bradley Walsh is a sound lad. He’s funny, he’s a good actor, he’s the host of the country’s favourite daytime game show – The Chase.  Some would even go so far as to say that Bradley can do no wrong and that he is perfect in every single way. Not everyone says that […]

8 years ago

She got put on blast, man. Look lads, people have different tastes when it comes to wedding paraphernalia. Some people like giant dresses that you need the whole team to maintain as you walk down the aisle. Others like something a little more casual that actually screams high street bargain more than it does bride-to-be. […]

8 years ago

“In June 2017 our world was turned upside down.” A Dublin boy who has been diagnosed with a brain tumour for the second time is now seeking alternative treatments to improve his quality of life. Nine-year-old Nathan was first diagnosed with a cancerous tumour just under two years ago. He underwent surgery to save his […]

8 years ago

The family of Clodagh Hawe are set to meet with Garda Commissioner Drew Harris next week. Clodagh and her three sons, Liam, Niall, and Ryan, were murdered brutally by Alan Hawe in their Co Cavan home in 2016. An inquest into the murders stated that Alan had been suffering from depression that later progressed to “psychotic” […]

8 years ago

Go on the lads. Westlife are exciting. Westlife getting back together is exciting. And Westlife getting back together and recording an entire new album is absolutely exciting. A while back, the lads graced us all with their comeback single, Hello My Love and – thankfully – it was a banger.  Since then though, we’ve been […]

8 years ago

Hardly a surprise, this one. Think back to the year of your birth – what was the most popular name for boys? Was it Jack? It probably was. Now think back to about a decade ago – what was the most popular baby name for boys? Was it Jack again? It probably was, yeah. Jack […]

8 years ago

The twins are now four-years-old – and technically semi-identical. Doctors have discovered a set of twins who were born from one egg and two different sperm. The twins are one boy and one girl, who have identical DNA from their mother, but different DNA from their father. This is the second time that a pair […]

8 years ago

“They promise as teenagers that it’s not impacting on them, but obviously you know better as an adult.” Jeff Brazier has said that his sons continue to struggle with the death of their mother, Jade Goody. Jade passed away in 2009 after a short battle with cervical cancer. The reality star had received her terminal […]

8 years ago