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# Apps

Boost for new Irish music with Breaking Tunes app

Fresh Irish acts get iPhone platform – listeners can share their videos and music for free.

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Jan 24th 2011, 2:57 PM

# Golden Globes

Golden Globe winner Colin Firth 'might lose Oscar' over claims George VI was anti-Semitic

The King’s Speech is being accused in email circulating among Academy members of “glossing over” British monarch’s attitude towards Jews fleeing Nazi Germany.

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Jan 17th 2011, 7:21 PM

# Jack yeats

Pic exclusive: Two previously unseen Jack B Yeats works to go on show

Sligo arts centre achieves coup with first major exhibition of Yeats’s work in 30 years – including two works never before seen in public.

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Jan 17th 2011, 4:31 PM

# Pixel Perfect

Irishman makes art from terrible Facebook photos

Enda O’Donoghue is making waves worldwide, for his unusual art: he takes pixellated Facebook photos and makes them great.

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Jan 15th 2011, 11:51 AM

# JFK archive

From Cuban Missile Crisis to the First Lady's bedroom: JFK digital archive rocks

Massive tech project brings documents, photographs, recordings of telephone conversations and other artefacts relating to John F Kennedy to the online public.

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Jan 14th 2011, 12:20 PM

# Jedwardvision

Jedward among five acts shortlisted for Eurovision

They haven’t gone away you know… the Lucan lads will battle to represent Ireland at the Eurovision in Düsseldorf.

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Jan 13th 2011, 2:20 PM

# IFTAs

IFTA nominations: Where have all the actresses gone?

Irish film award body says female actors only get one ‘lead role’ category while male actors get two because there were “insufficient” submissions from women.

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Jan 11th 2011, 6:10 PM

# R.I.P.

Dick King-Smith, creator of ‘Babe’, dies at 88

The children’s author, best known for writing the books that spawned the Babe films, passes away at home.

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Jan 5th 2011, 6:47 PM

# R.I.P.

Hollywood veteran Pete Postlethwaite dies at 64

The star of In The Name of the Father, The Usual Suspects and Romeo + Juliet dies after a battle with cancer.

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Jan 3rd 2011, 11:04 AM

# Christmas Number One

No luck for Bandits as Cardle claims Irish top spot

The rubbery Limerick hip-hop duo will have to make do with second best: the X Factor champion is Number One for Christmas.

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Dec 24th 2010, 12:34 PM

# Oxegen 2011

Foo Fighters confirmed as Oxegen 2011 headliners

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Dec 13th 2010, 11:11 AM

# Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Putin: Action Man, fighter pilot... jazz singer

Vlad the Impaler isn’t your average prime minister. Oh no – he has a bit of a tune in him too.

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Dec 11th 2010, 4:13 PM

# Curse of Spiderman

The curse of Spider-man: Broadway show hits another snag

The concussion of an actress waiting backstage is just the latest in a string of injuries and disappointments for the most expensive show in Broadway history.

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Dec 10th 2010, 10:09 AM

# Coronation Street

Viewers call to check tram services after Corrie crash

Confused Coronation Street viewers call Metrolink to ask whether the Corrie tram crash caused any disruption to services.

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Dec 8th 2010, 3:19 PM

# Picasso

271 undocumented Picasso works found

A retired French electrician has revealed 271 previously unknown works by Pablo Picasso – saying that the artist gave them to him as gifts.

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Nov 29th 2010, 4:26 PM

# Irish book awards

Tubridy takes best newcomer prize at Irish Book Awards

Well-publicised JFK tome scoops prize as Booker-nominated novel Room takes Novel of the Year.

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Nov 26th 2010, 8:15 AM

# Spider-man

Bono feared Spider-Man musical wouldn't "get out the gate"

Delays, technical hitches and cast changes make it the “most expensive Broadway show” ever made but CBS’s 60 Minutes is giving Bono and Edge project a primetime TV boost this weekend.

520

Nov 25th 2010, 4:47 PM

# Susan Boyle

Does this make Susan Boyle bigger than Jesus too?

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Nov 18th 2010, 7:57 PM

# Letting It Be

Apple's big iTunes' announcement: the Beatles now online

The Fab Four ends decades of abstaining from having its catalogue available for download. …Is that it?

920

Nov 16th 2010, 4:24 PM

# Overblown

Did they really say that?: Top 5 outlandish celebrity claims

Twink could have been a neurosurgeon! Sienna Miller believes smoking is fine! Eamon Dunphy invented the Lotto?!

2.7k

Nov 15th 2010, 9:37 PM

# Remembrance

Second cross-border service held

A second cross-border remembrance service will be held on Sunday.

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Nov 14th 2010, 1:58 PM

# Religion

In pictures: Tens of thousands of pilgrims flock to Mecca

Over 2.5 million people are expected to visit the religious site by Sunday morning.

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Nov 13th 2010, 1:57 PM

# Nice

Chinese vase found in house clearance nets €50m

Brother and sister “had no idea” 18th century porcelain piece owned by late uncle would break auction record.

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Nov 12th 2010, 12:15 PM

# RTÉ

RTÉ names former TV boss as new director-general

Noel Curran, who left RTÉ in May to work privately, will succeed Cathal Goan as the head of the national broadcaster.

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Nov 9th 2010, 2:43 PM

# Artwork

Bank of Ireland to donate 12 works to IMMA

Mary Hanafin welcomes BoI’s move, saying works will not be lost to public view after all.

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Nov 5th 2010, 3:18 PM

# Photography

Slideshow: Irish photographers are picture perfect winners

Five portraits included in prestigious London’s National Portrait Gallery show.

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Nov 5th 2010, 12:47 PM

# All Saints Day

Top 10: Weird Patron Saints

It’s All Saints Day – so how better to mark November 1 than with a selection of lesser-known patron saints?

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Nov 1st 2010, 4:40 PM

# Stephen Fry

Stephen Fry melts down, quits Twitter (again)

1.9 million followers can expect to see a less less conversation after the actor comes under fire.

1.6k

Nov 1st 2010, 11:40 AM

# Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga professes undying love... for Jameson

The oddball American songstress tells The O2 she loves the Irish whiskey – and takes a tour of the distillery afterward.

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Oct 28th 2010, 4:06 PM

# Media

Blasphemy law pushes Ireland from first to tenth in press index

The 2010 Reporters Without Borders Press Freedom Index sees several EU countries fall, including Ireland.

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Oct 27th 2010, 9:08 AM

# Holy Cow!

An answer to the question tormenting theologists...

Is Homer really a Catholic?

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Oct 22nd 2010, 10:19 AM

# Doodle

Oscar Wilde's birthday commemorated with Google doodle

Google celebrate Oscar Wilde’s 156th birthday with new doodle on homepage.

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Oct 16th 2010, 11:30 AM

# Christmas Number One

Could 273 seconds of silence become the Christmas number 1?

A Facebook campaign seeks to make John Cage’s seminal 4’33″ – a piece composed of silence’ – a festive chart-topper.

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Oct 15th 2010, 2:08 PM

# World Record

Meet Khagendra Thapa Magar: the world's newest smallest man

A 2-foot-2 Nepalese teenager is officially recognised by the Guinness World Records as the world’s smallest man.

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Oct 14th 2010, 1:42 PM

# Booker

Howard Jacobson takes the Man Booker Prize

British author beats Ireland’s Emma Donoghue to take prestigious literary award.

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Oct 12th 2010, 10:15 PM

# Nobels

Vargas Llosa beats all others to the Nobel punch

Esteemed author Mario who once had fisticuffs with fellow South American writing star, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, wins Nobel Prize for Literature.

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Oct 7th 2010, 2:09 PM

# The Commitments

7 ‘deadly’ things you may not know about The Commitments

While we wait for tickets to go on sale to the reunion gigs of The Commitments stars, TheJournal.ie has been occupying itself with identifying famous nipples, name changes and cardboard cutouts in the original film.

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Oct 7th 2010, 12:58 PM