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Watch: Obama hosts the Colbert Report

Obama once again swapped effectiveness for legend-ness last night by gatecrashing The Colbert Report and hosting the show himself. Obama played it straight for most of it, despite the frenzied cheering f...

Reporter gets under Russell Brands skin

A Channel 4 news reporter seemed to rub Russell Brand up the wrong way when giving him a short interview outside 10 Downing Street. Brand, famous for his Elizabethan rants, extremist views and shagging Katy ...

The definitive Christmas Jumper guide

Trend-setter Ryan Tubridy set the Christmas jumper bonanza in full swing this weekend by donning a range of of wonderful wooly jumpers on the Toy Show. Dublin and just about any area of Ireland with 12 pubs wit...

UCC Students win Smarter Planet Challenge again

A group of students from UCC have created a 'smart beehive' for the Smarter Planet Challenge, to track exactly what is happening inside the bee hives in an attempt to halt their worrying decline. The monitor...

James Bond swaps Aston Martin for a Fiat. Yes. A Fiat

James Bond is set to drive a Fiat in his next outing. Bond’s beloved Aston Martin got blown to pieces at the end of Skyfall (no ahem, spoilers), so the new film will begin with Daniel Craig being swindled to wi...

Spar Guy – The Full Story

The person at the center of the Spar Guy story, known only has Colm, has come out to set the story straight on what happened on Sunday morning in the store. Dublin man Colm posted on his Facebook page yester...

Katie Taylor for Taoiseach

Katie Taylor secured her fifth consecutive world title last night, amid calls for her to lead the country out of it’s current predicament. Taylor showed the tenacity and no-nonsense attitude in the ring that...

Enda Kenny to charge people for snow this Christmas

Fine Gael is to jump on the back of numerous projections that Ireland will have a white Christmas this year, by charging people for the snow. “We’re happy that Obama’s keeping all our illegal lads over there...

Football again proves it doesn’t discriminate

Football once again proved that it is the most tolerant and indiscriminate sport in the world this week. After offering convicted rapist Chad Evans a lucrative return to the game by his club Sheffield United, r...