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AS YOU PROBABLY know, tomorrow is International Women’s Day. What better way to celebrate than by bopping to tunes made by some of Ireland’s most talented women? We decided to make a playlist with ...

“This assurance by the Chinese authorities that post-market animal testing is now not normal practice is an enormous step in the right direction and most welcome,” CFI Chief Executive Michele Thew ...

What are you talking about? It’s just Billy Roll, friend of primary school lunch boxes everywhere! Are you trying to imply that Billy Roll, this smiling face of meat and additives, is creepy? Well, he ...

~swoon~ OVER THE LAST year, Sky Arts have been running an international competition to find the Portrait Artist of the Year. And last night, the results were announced. Belfast man Gareth Reid was ...

Dublin isn’t even in the top 50… THINK THAT €5.50 pint in a Dublin bar is expensive? Be glad you don’t live in Tokyo – a bottle of beer will set you back more than $10 (about €7.50). ECA International ...

You purchased cherry tomatoes, feta cheese and water. I’m the lady that let you ahead of me in the queue and we exchanged a few words. I wish I’d had the courage to find out if you were single without ...

DEATH MASKS of the rich and famous in bygone centuries were traditionally made by creating a mould over a person’s face after their death and using that mould to make plaster or wax masks. These masks ...

Source: katemycarisyellow 6. Vegan chocolate and aubergine cake , Cornucopia This has to be one of the tastiest vegan-friendly options for chocolate cake in the city. Source: mjkearney 7. Chocolate ...

EVERYONE KNOWS THAT the most important part of any teenage disco is the slow song at the end. The one you spent the entire evening planning for. Then there was that awkward foot-shuffling dance. And ...

* Health warning: there’s no easy way to measure the top bestselling books of all time, especially since copies of religious books like the Bible are often given away free, and it’s impossible to tell ...

Source: RTÉ/BBC BRENDAN O’CARROLL WAS on The Graham Norton Show last night, ahead of this year’s release of Mrs Brown D’Movie. And it turned out a surprisingly large number of British people had never ...