An interesting development to say the least. An IVF clinic has introduced a service that allows patients to find egg donors that look as much like them as possible. Ovobank‘s facial recognition software uses selfies of prospective mothers to match those undergoing IVF treatment with donors who have similar facial features. According to the Spanish […]

8 years ago

Coronation Street fans were left upset after David Platt made homophobic comments to Billy the vicar. David was working on community service with another offender when Billy entered and told them they weren’t painting the wall correctly. The offender says” “We all know what you’re after,” to which David responds “My back’s staying firmly against […]

8 years ago

Khloe Kardashian has hit out at a fan after they criticised her baby’s appearance. The new mum discovered a tweet tagging her saying that her daughter, True, was “not cute at all.” Khloe responded to the tweet, which has since been deleted, saying that calling somebody else’s child “not cute” was disgusting. She wrote: “What […]

8 years ago

Fair. Football fans have been experiencing their fair share of extreme reactions to the World Cup. Some of them have been over tweeting every match and losing all of their followers. Others have been videoing themselves shouting loudly (Ross Kemp). And then others have been drinking copious amounts of alcohol and passing out in lifts […]

8 years ago

Michael Bublé has explained how his attitude towards performing has changed since his son’s cancer diagnosis. The singer said that he now has a clarity that was missing before and that he is able to “find joy” in music again. Speaking ahead of his Croke Park show in Dublin this weekend, Bublé said: “Perspective is an […]

8 years ago

A woman has explained why she decided to get sterilised at 31-years-old. Gwynn MacKellen has said that she never wanted to have children due to climate change. So, to ensure that she never could, she opted to undergo a sterilisation procedure. Speaking to Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield on This Morning this week, MacKellen said that […]

8 years ago

A stage school has defended their decision to host a Love Island themed kids party. Lisa McKechnie, who formed the Fever Pitch School of Performing Arts group for children in Bellshill, Scotland, has faced criticism from some parents who believed hosting a Love Island party for minors was “sexualising” children.  The Daily Standard reported that […]

8 years ago

Holly Willoughby has said that she wants another baby while walking through a maternity ward. The presenter was taking a trip through the ward at Queen Charlotte’s and Chelsea Hospital today with Phillip Schofield when she said she wanted to “do it all again.”  Then Phillip told her not to. And that was it. The conversation […]

8 years ago

Sean Tully is about to become homeless in an upcoming Coronation Street storyline. In scenes that will air next week, Sean will find himself sleeping rough after Fiz kicks him out of her house. He later sets up a tent he’s stolen from a bin and sets it up in a car park, sleeping there […]

8 years ago

A man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering six-year-old Alesha MacPhail. Scotish police made the arrest this evening following a nationwide plea for information about MacPhail’s death. The body of the six-year-old was discovered in a woodland area in the Isle of Bute on Monday. She had been reported missing from her grandmother’s house […]

8 years ago

Fair. Coronation Street producers have made a lot of shit happen over the past few decades. They killed Mike Baldwin. They caused that tram to crash into the street and kill everyone. They made Roy Cropper do a dive roll over a fence. Harrowing stuff. However, the latest stunt the producers have pulled is the […]

8 years ago

Get the towels ready because you’re going in the sea, lads. In case you were blissfully unaware, we’re currently in the midst of the most intense heatwave Ireland has seen in years. It’s killing grass, it’s causing sweat, and it’s basically making all water obsolete. Fairly intense. Another thing the heatwave is also doing is […]

8 years ago

Ah, god. There are plenty of things you wouldn’t want your daughter to bring to school for show and tell. Your bank card is one. The remote control is another. Both necessary things for living. Both not really interesting enough to bring to a show and tell on their own. Another thing that you probably […]

8 years ago

Katie Price has addressed the rumours that she is the ‘celebrity mum’ who had her children taken away from her. The former glamour model took to Instagram earlier today to say that she wasn’t the mother who had her children taken into care due to alleged neglect. During an Instagram Live, she said: “I’d like […]

8 years ago

Bless. Last week, Aoibhin Garrihy announced that she had given birth to a daughter, baby Hanorah. The actress and her husband, John Burke, welcomed their child on June 27 and announced the news with an adorable Instagram post reading “already daddy’s little girl.” Bless. https://www.instagram.com/p/BkinTlFHVsa/?hl=en&taken-by=aoibhingarrihy Since then, Aoibhin has shared a photo of sisters Doireann […]

8 years ago

A “celebrity mum” has had her two children taken away and put into foster care after claims of neglect. The mother, who cannot be named for legal reasons, has allegedly been neglecting her children while focusing on her own “glitzy” lifestyle. She is also alleged to have assaulted one of her children in public. The […]

8 years ago

Devastating. During last night’s episode of Coronation Street, Jack Webster was diagnosed with sepsis. The youngster had been under the care of sister Sophie when he fell and grazed his knee. A rare reaction to an infection meant that Jack contracted sepsis and was left in intensive care. Towards the end of the episode, Jack’s […]

8 years ago

Busy Philipps has received backlash for saying that her daughter was separated from her on a flight. The mum claimed that her nine-year-old was rerouted on a different flight after their original flight was cancelled. She called out Delta Air Lines on Twitter, saying: “Hey @Delta! Thanks for cancelling my flight and then rerouting us […]

8 years ago

Thousands of Irish couples will no longer need to travel to Spain for IVF treatment. A new programme will mean that many Irish patients choosing to undergo IVF will no longer have to travel for treatment using anonymous donated eggs. Fertility centre, Institut Marquès, is one of the first to allow people to remotely carry […]

8 years ago

Meghan Markle is great at lots of things. She’s decent at wearing clothes, she seems like a lovely person, and she picked a very good husband. Fair play to her, like. There’s also another thing that people are fairly convinced that Meghan’s going to be great at – being a mother. We know, where are […]

8 years ago

Intense. If you’ve ever watched an episode of Coronation Street, you’ll be more than aware that a fair amount of dramatic stuff has happened over the past few months. Pat Phelan finally met his grizzly death, David Platt dealt with the trauma of being raped, and Bethany Platt testified against her abuser. It’s been fairly […]

8 years ago

A mum has showed the massive difference between taking a postpartum photo when you’re posing and taking a postpartum photo when you’re not posing. And, like most photos taken when you’re posing and not posing, they look pretty different. Shocking, we know. Former Australian Big Brother contestant, Krystal Hipwell, posted a side-by-side photo of herself […]

8 years ago

A mum has been slammed for asking if she was upper class because of all the things her children own. … And the fact that she’s got a mortgage-less house worth €1,00,000 but that’s besides the point. The unnamed mum took to parenting forum Mumsnet to ask whether users thought she was upper class because […]

8 years ago

You’d almost try anything. Stretch marks are almost a given when it comes to the female body. Whether you’re pregnant or not, it’s fairly likely that you’ll end up with a few of them over the course of your life. They’re normal, they’re common, and they’re pretty much fine if you don’t mind them being […]

8 years ago

Ever used a belly mask? No? Us either. We didn’t even know they existed until right this second but now that we do we absolutely need to get our hands on one. If you, like us, hadn’t a clue what a belly mask was, it’s basically a face mask but for a pregnant belly. The […]

8 years ago

Tom Cruise is doing whatever he can to try and see his daughter Suri for the first time in five years. The Mission Impossible actor hasn’t spent time with his daughter in half a decade due to his commitment to Scientology, but according to reports he’s ready to stop doing what they tell him. A […]

8 years ago

137 more children became homeless in Ireland over the course of a month. New figures have shown an increase in the number of homeless people in emergency accommodation, bringing the total number up to 9,846. This is a two percent increase for May compared to April. Figures released by homeless charity Inner City Helping Homeless […]

8 years ago

‘Just be nice.’

8 years ago

She’s raising money for cancer research.

8 years ago

Brigitte Nielson has shared the first picture of her newborn baby girl. The 54-year-old gave birth to baby Frida last week, confirming to People magazine that it had been “a long road, and so worth it.” Yesterday, Nielson shared a photo of her new daughter saying that she was “our true love.” https://www.instagram.com/p/BkjNnSeHVQz/?utm_source=ig_embed The actor, […]

8 years ago

Adorable. If you were to go ahead and say that some people obsess over literally every single thing Princess Charlotte does, you wouldn’t be wrong. Because they do. They obsess over what she wears, they obsess over what she says, and they even obsess over the fact that she likes to read.  Now, however, people […]

8 years ago

Same-sex couples are to be allowed to register both of their name on their child’s birth certificate. Minister for Health Simon Harris sought approval yesterday to introduce legislation allowing both parents to be recognised as such on their child’s birth cert. This comes after an anomaly meant that some parental rights for same-sex couples were […]

8 years ago

Chances are you might be feeling totally fine about your child starting school. You’re excited, you’ve got your camera ready, and you can’t wait to send them off. But you could also be slightly apprehensive though, and that’s OK too. It’s a big change in every parent’s and child’s life, after all. So, in order […]

8 years ago

A five-year-old Irish boy has been injured in a hit-and-run in Spain. The boy is currently in intensive care in hospital after being hit by a car on a zebra crossing in Salou, north of Tarragona. The incident occurred on Monday night. The Irish Mirror reports that the driver was drunk when he hit the […]

8 years ago

Fair enough. A mum has considered taking her teenage daughter’s room away from her because of how “disgusting” it is. The mum, known only as ‘DonthugmeImscared’ took to Mumsnet to give out about her daughter’s messy habits, saying that she wanted to give her bedroom to her son instead because he would actually appreciate it. […]

8 years ago

Gas. When a person dies in a soap, a couple of things tend to happen. Their heart stops beating, people are sad, and someone puts on a spread of little sandwiches and lots of whiskey. They also generally enter a stage of rigor mortis and their corpse stiffens, before their body begins the process of […]

8 years ago

The Health and Safety Authority has issued a statement about the maximum temperature allowed in the workplace. According to them, there is no maximum allowable temperature existing in current legislation, but they have warned employees and employers to apply “common sense.” The HSA has said they’ve received a lot of questions lately about workable conditions […]

8 years ago

A doctor is to be prosecuted over Spain’s ‘stolen babies’ scandal. Dr Eduardo Vela is accused of stealing a baby from an “unsuitable” mother in 1969 and giving her to another woman. He is the first doctor of many said to have taken babies from women between 1939 to 1975. Most of the women were thought […]

8 years ago

“He was a confused, messed up little boy.” Except he wasn’t a confused, messed up little boy because he’s still a confused, messed up big boy and there’s not really any sign of him slowing down any time soon. Last night in the Dale, the subject of Lachlan’s sexual assault of Alicia when he was […]

8 years ago

Amanda Holden has appealed for information on some “scumbags” who appeared to try to kidnap a child The TV presenter shared CCTV footage of two masked men getting off motorcycles driven by two more men and attempting to take a child from their mother. The video shows the woman running to the opposite side of […]

8 years ago

Dan Osbourne has responded to criticism left under a photo of his newborn girl. The new dad shared a photo of his daughter, Mia, last night following the birth of his and Jacqueline Jossa’s second child. On the photo, he wrote: “We chillingggg. I feel truly blessed! She is just perfect.” https://www.instagram.com/p/Bkdn5M0AZsd/?hl=en&taken-by=danosborneofficial Dan and Jacqueline married […]

8 years ago

Don’t be leaving them lying around, lads. It’s pretty hot outside, in case you didn’t know. And it being this shockingly hot means a lot of different things. First, it means that most people are delighted by how hot it is. Second, it means that people are absolutely not taking care of themselves because of […]

8 years ago

A man has been arrested in Kerry following the assault of a pregnant woman. The woman was beaten and hospitalised in Listowel over the weekend. The baby girl was stillborn some time later. The woman was 32 weeks’ pregnant at the time of the assault. RTE reports that Gardaí arrested a man in his 20s […]

8 years ago

Bless. Eva Longoria welcomed her newborn son, last week. The actor named him Santiago Enrique Bastón after he entered the world on June 19 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, weighing 6 lbs and 13 oz. Since then Eva has shared a few photos of her new son. One of them was a close shot showing […]

8 years ago

Cooking while also working a full-time job is hard. It’s even harder when you spend half your life on public transport sweating profusely and considering hopping on the JustEat app the second you get in the door. Minimal effort, maximum food. Divine. Except it’s not really when you don’t have any money and are forced […]

8 years ago

A woman has been jailed for poisoning her dinner guests because they insulted her cooking and complexion. Pradnya Survase was arrested by Indian police last Friday after allegedly causing the death of five people attending a feast hosted by a relative. Police have said the 23-year-old confessed to adding the snake poison to the food. […]

8 years ago

Danielle Lloyd has confirmed she will go abroad for gender assignment treatment for her next baby. The former Miss England has said that she really wants to have a baby girl and that she’s willing to go overseas to ensure that she does. She told OK! Magazine that she and fiancee Michael O’Neill are planning […]

8 years ago

A new programme is being launched to help Irish parents talk to their children about sex. The HSE’s Sexual Health and Crisis Pregnancy Programme is being introduced to help those parents who still find it difficult to speak to their kids about all things sexual health, well-being, and sexuality. Research conducted by the HSE showed that […]

8 years ago

A cheerleader is suing her squad claiming that her coach taped her skin back and called her “skinny-fat.” Angelina Rosa has said that her coach used duct tape to hold her skin back after threatening to cut her from the Houston Texans squad. She said the tape was used before a big game to make […]

8 years ago

Peter Andre has let his son Junior set up an Instagram account after previously saying he wouldn’t allow the youngster on social media. The Mysterious Girl singer has apparently given in and let 13-year-old Junior set up his own account, which is currently on private. Peter recently commented on one of his son’s photos saying […]

8 years ago