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# comedy - Tuesday 7 July, 2015
Amy Schumer has apologised for this 'racist' joke from two years ago
The comedian posted a note to social media explaining her position.
# comedy - Friday 19 June, 2015
The Hardy Bucks is coming back - with some familiar faces from Fair City and Love/Hate
The boys are going to be involved in “a Mayo love triangle”.
# comedy - Wednesday 10 June, 2015
# comedy - Tuesday 9 June, 2015
We asked the Vodafone Comedy Festival booker about the number of female acts on its line-up
“I am constantly thinking about balance. Gender balance is important.”
# comedy - Sunday 31 May, 2015
The internet just keeps getting weirder... check out this story of a girl and her schoolbag
Meet Genevieve and her Jansport.
# comedy - Tuesday 26 May, 2015
The BBC has axed Never Mind the Buzzcocks after 18 years on TV
Some suggested it was past its prime.
# comedy - Monday 25 May, 2015
Actress and mother of Ben Stiller, Anne Meara, dies aged 85
She passed away on Saturday, the cause of death has not been confirmed.
# comedy - Thursday 21 May, 2015
David Letterman officially retired last night, and got all his celeb mates to make fun of him
Tina Fey, Jim Carrey, Jerry Seinfeld… Literally everyone who has ever been famous for being funny.
Melissa McCarthy brilliantly confronted a reviewer who said she looked 'hideous'
“Would you do that to a man? If John C Reilly played a really broken-down character and looked terrible?”
# comedy - Wednesday 20 May, 2015
Cork comedian Maeve Higgins appears on cult US show
Higgins popped up in a sketch on Amy Schumer’s TV show last night.
# comedy - Thursday 14 May, 2015
Here's why Amy Schumer should be your new favourite comedian
Meet the woman behind ALL those great sketches you’re seeing lately.
# comedy - Monday 27 April, 2015
This Father Ted writer is not one bit happy with RTE
Graham Linehan has had a massive pop at the national broadcaster on Twitter…
RTÉ has responded to Graham Linehan's Twitter assault
The Father Ted writer called the broadcaster “a joke”.
# comedy - Wednesday 8 April, 2015
"Stand-up is king - nothing comes close to it" - a quick chat with comedian Alison Spittle
On dream gigs, comedy moving online and how the audience is a little like a family with an PlayStation…
The Interview has been parachuted into North Korea
Kim Jong-Un probably isn’t a fan of Seth Rogen.
# comedy - Friday 6 March, 2015
Here's why you should binge-watch Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt this weekend
Written by Tina Fey, the comedy is streaming on Netflix from today.
# comedy - Wednesday 4 March, 2015
Emails from annoyed viewers abroad led to RTÉ's new international player
The RTÉ fans wanted to know why they couldn’t watch their favourite shows on the existing player.
# comedy - Saturday 28 February, 2015
Take a break - and watch Dermot Morgan's spot-on impressions of Dunphy, Michael Noonan and Michael D
Some of Morgan’s comedy still remains remarkably topical – 17 years after his death.
# comedy - Monday 23 February, 2015
People are very mad that Joan Rivers was left off the Oscars In Memoriam reel
The comedian, who was long associated with the Oscars red carpet, died in September of last year.
# comedy - Friday 20 February, 2015
The final ever episode of Two and a Half Men aired and it was bonkers
Even more so than you would expect.
Parks & Rec writer and creator of 'humblebrag' Harris Wittels dies of suspected overdose
The 30-year-old passed away yesterday.
# comedy - Wednesday 11 February, 2015
My six days working as a clown at a refugee camp in Rwanda
It doesn’t matter where in the world they are, all children need excitement, fun and laughter.
# comedy - Tuesday 27 January, 2015
9 reasons why Louis CK is the greatest thing in comedy
His latest comedy special is set to drop today on his website.
# comedy - Thursday 22 January, 2015
The Walshes was cancelled, and Graham Linehan is pretty mad
The BBC decided to axe the show after only three episodes.
# comedy - Tuesday 20 January, 2015
Channel 4 comedy Catastrophe is about to be your new favourite show - here's why
Get ready to hit “series record”.
# comedy - Monday 19 January, 2015
Opinion: Are we being overly sensitive about C4's Famine sitcom?
The Famine itself wasn’t funny, but a comedy based in that era might be.
# comedy - Saturday 17 January, 2015
8 hilarious stand-up comedy specials you can watch on Netflix Ireland
Get thee to Netflix, comedy fans.
No joke, a group called CRAIC protested in London today against C4's Famine sitcom
Only a handful turned up outside Channel 4 mind.
# comedy - Thursday 15 January, 2015
Heavily pregnant Irish woman does stand up comedy and completely rocks it
The miracle of life makes great comedy, as it turns out.
# comedy - Friday 2 January, 2015
Channel 4's proposed sitcom about The Famine called 'insulting' and 'ignorant'
But the Irish-produced series – called Hungry – has been defended by other comedians.
# comedy - Saturday 29 November, 2014
Tommy Tiernan recalls the time he got the Roy Keane 'scowl'
The Irish comedian once suffered the wrath of the Ireland assistant boss.
# comedy - Friday 21 November, 2014
The Savage Eye's 'foul mouthed children' did not break broadcasting rules
One complainant said the series should be called ‘The Savage Mouth’.
# comedy - Thursday 20 November, 2014
Arsenal stars' fake family members star in strange but funny mockumentary
Meet Darren Oxlade-Chamberlain, Kenny Wilshere and Trudy Mertesacker.
# comedy - Friday 7 November, 2014
The internet just got obsessed with this insane 12-minute sitcom parody
Too many cooks (too many cooks) / Too many cooks (too many cooks) ~repeat forever~
Who is Dapper Laughs, and why are so many people angry with him?
Everything you need to know, and some you don’t want to.
# comedy - Wednesday 5 November, 2014
This is why so many A-listers want to appear on Funny or Die
Funny or Die CEO Dick Glover explains how it manages to get so many comedians, actors and public figures to appear on its comedy videos.
# comedy - Monday 3 November, 2014
Confused about your new-found love of Taylor Swift? SNL has the solution
This spoof commercial for ‘Swiftamine’ is GOLD.
# comedy - Saturday 11 October, 2014
Foil, Arms & Hog sketch epitomises that life ruining post-festival fear
That moment you realise there’s no baby wipes left. *faints*
# comedy - Tuesday 23 September, 2014
Damo and Ivor's return was so popular in Ireland, it trended on Twitter worldwide
People REALLY like Damo and Ivor.
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Poll: Should self-driving cars be legally allowed on Irish roads?
SELF-DRIVING CARS could be coming to Irish roads.
The government is set to consider a proposal today to allow self-driving cars to be tested on public roads.
RTÉ News reports that the legislation will aim to change the law so that self-driving cars can legally be tested in Ireland on public roads.
There have been concerns about any potential use of self-driving cars. While it could be years before self-driving cars are a common sight in the country, legal experts have been discussing issues around criminal liability in relation to autonomous vehicles.
But what do you think? Should self-driving cars be legally allowed on Irish roads?
Poll Results:
No (4775)
Yes (4695)
I don't know (471)
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