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Folk Frights Meet Family Trauma in Fréwaka

Aislinn Clarke follows up her 2018 found-footage tale The Devil's Doorway with a narrative chiller.

io9 Reviews Cheryl Eddy Apr 22

Bad News: Northern Brits and Irish Can Instantly Spot Your Fake Accents

People in the northern UK and Ireland are especially good at identifying fake accents compared to their southern compatriots.

Human History Isaac Schultz Nov 19

Apple CEO Tim Cook looks at new iPhone models following Apple's "It's Glowtime" event in Cupertino, California, September 9, 2024.

Apple Ordered to Pay $14 Billion in Back Taxes

The EU is ordering tech companies to pay billions while the U.S. talks about social media warning labels.

Tech News Matt Novak Sep 10

Irish Supreme Court Says Subway Bread Can’t Legally Be Called Bread Under Tax Law

Ireland’s Supreme Court has ruled that bread from the international fast food chain Subway can’t legally be called bread under Irish tax law. The problem? Subway’s bread simply has too much sugar and must be considered a “confectionary.” The ruling, first reported by Ireland’s Independent and available online through the Republic of Ireland’s Supreme Court…

Tech News Matt Novak Oct 1

Genome Analysis Points to Incest Among Ireland’s Prehistoric Rulers

Evidence of incest and inbreeding has been uncovered at an elite prehistoric Irish burial site, in a new paper that reads like a Game of Thrones subplot. New research published in Nature investigates the genetic profiles of 42 people from Ireland’s Neolithic period, along with two individuals from the preceding Mesolithic period. Dating back to…

Human History George Dvorsky Jun 17

Hurricane Lorenzo Blasts the Azores, Sets Its Sights on Ireland

Hurricane Lorenzo, the weirdest storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, struck the Azores on Wednesday and is forecast to continue its jaunt across the eastern Atlantic toward Ireland. It could make a rare landfall there with hurricane-force winds and crippling surf. The freak hurricane rapidly intensified into a Category 5 monster over the weekend, setting…

Earth Science Brian Kahn Oct 2

American Gods Had a Surprising Trick Up Its Sleeve

As American Gods’ second season has unfolded, the show’s focus on the humanity within its deities has intensified, and its interconnecting stories have become more grounded. For all the talk of war that’s dominated this season, it’s really the intimate character work that defined this portion of American Gods’ epic tale. With the season’s penultimate…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore Apr 22

Ireland Is Officially the First Country to Divest From Fossil Fuels

The Irish have beaten the rest of us to it. The Republic of Ireland is the first country in the world to move toward divesting from fossil fuels. The divestment process should be wrapped up in five years, per the Guardian. First, the move to divest has to pass through parliament, though. The lower house of…

Environmental Justice Yessenia Funes Jul 12

Google Joins Facebook in Banning All Ads Related to Ireland’s Big Abortion Vote

Ireland is less than two weeks out from a historic vote on its abortion referendum, and anti-choice groups have been trying to manipulate people online in order to sway their decision. And tech companies are just now restricting some of these efforts. Most recently, Google announced that it would suspend all ads related to the…

Tech News Melanie Ehrenkranz May 9

Microsoft Bails on Its Landmark Supreme Court Case After Passage of the CLOUD Act

In February, the US Supreme Court heard arguments in Microsoft’s case arguing that a domestic warrant does not necessarily have the power to compel it to turn over documents stored in overseas data centers. Now that a piece of sweeping surveillance legislation has become law, Microsoft admits that the case is dead. Microsoft’s case stems…

Tech News Rhett Jones Apr 5

Apparently Storms Can Push 600-Ton Boulders Around

On the rocky shores of a windswept island just west of Ireland, the 620-ton boulder looks almost at home. But careful analysis of its position over the last few years has revealed something odd: between the summers of 2013 and 2014, the boulder shifted a couple meters toward the sea. That discovery is causing scientists…

Earth Science Maddie Stone Jan 24

Trump Is Getting a Wall in Ireland to Protect his Golf Course from Reality

On Thursday, the Irish government approved a permit for a golf course owned by the Trump organization to build a sea wall to prevent erosion, and—at least in the original application—to protect against the risk of sea level rise and extreme weather due to climate change. Environmental groups have long been against the wall, and…

Conservation Ari Phillips Dec 22

Apple Begrudgingly Agrees to Pay Ireland Nearly $15 Billion in Back Taxes

Apple, whose CEO Tim Cook likes to talk a big game about how the tech industry should be more socially responsible while overseeing an international tax-avoidance regime that puts Scrooge McDuck’s gold-filled vault/swimming pool to shame, has agreed to repay Ireland $14.6 billion (around €13 billion) in unpaid taxes, the Wall Street Journal reported. In…

Tech News Tom McKay Dec 4

This Giant, Breathtaking Game of Thrones Tapestry Weaves Through the Entire Series

A campaign to promote Northern Ireland to Game of Thrones fans isn’t settling for guided tours and tacky souvenirs. Tourism Ireland has debuted its latest Game of Thrones tribute: a giant woven tapestry that highlights every episode in the series in meticulous detail. And with every new episode, the tapestry will grow… reaching 250 feet…

io9 Beth Elderkin Jul 19

Eerily Accurate Facial Reconstructions Are Allowing the Dead to Speak

Researchers at Liverpool John Moore’s University have reconstructed the face of a man who lived in Dublin some 500 years ago. Incredibly accurate reconstructions like this are providing archaeologists with new way of studying the past—while also allowing them to visualize some of the most forgotten figures in history. Known only as SK2, the remains…

Tech News George Dvorsky Jun 28

Lost Irish Beach Mysteriously Reappears After 33 Years

Weather’s a bitch. Back in 1984, a vicious storm stripped the sand off of a picturesque beach in northwest Ireland. And then, around Easter, a freak tide brought it all back. Locals seem thrilled. The town at the center of this Easter miracle is Dooagh on Achill Island in the County Mayo. When the Great…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes May 8

Human Poop Found in Coke Cans at Manufacturing Plant

File this story under shit you didn’t want to know. Police in Northern Ireland have opened an investigation to find out exactly how human feces found its way into a shipment of cans at a Coca-Cola bottling plant. https://gizmodo.com/we-spent-10-minutes-thinking-up-headlines-for-this-buck-1787440987 The soda behemoth told The Guardian that the poop-containing cans were discovered at the Hellenic Bottling Company…

Tech News Rhett Jones Mar 28

Houseboat Gifted to ‘Homeless Youth’ Washes Up Empty on Other Side of Atlantic

This weekend, a mysterious, tar-covered houseboat apparently built by a Canadian adventurer was discovered unoccupied on Irish beach—some 3,000 miles from where it was last seen. According to an Irish official, coast guard personnel initially mistook the strange watercraft for a travel trailer due to its odd shape and size. Once they pulled it ashore,…

Tech News Hudson Hongo Nov 14

Some Guy Found a Huge Chunk of 2,000-Year-Old Butter in a Bog and It’s Still Edible

A 2,000-year-old orb of butter weighing 22-pounds was recently discovered in Co Meath, Ireland. Ancient butter experts believe that it was once offering to the gods. It’s also “theoretically… still edible” according to Andy Halpin, one of the Irish National Museums’ assistant keepers. Not a chance, Andy! If the age of this dairy meteor or…

Tech News Avery Ellis Jun 13

Despite Tim Cook’s Trashtalking, Apple Will Pay Italy $348 Million in Back Taxes

Apple, like many other companies, is infamous for funneling money through its European headquarters in Ireland and benefitting from a lower tax rate. Well, Italy’s had enough of it, and Apple just agreed to pay the boot-shaped country $348 million in back taxes. Tim Cook must be pissed. Tim Cook must be pissed since earlier…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Dec 30

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Folk Frights Meet Family Trauma in Fréwaka

Bad News: Northern Brits and Irish Can Instantly Spot Your Fake Accents

Apple Ordered to Pay $14 Billion in Back Taxes

Irish Supreme Court Says Subway Bread Can’t Legally Be Called Bread Under Tax Law

Genome Analysis Points to Incest Among Ireland’s Prehistoric Rulers

Hurricane Lorenzo Blasts the Azores, Sets Its Sights on Ireland

American Gods Had a Surprising Trick Up Its Sleeve

Ireland Is Officially the First Country to Divest From Fossil Fuels

Google Joins Facebook in Banning All Ads Related to Ireland’s Big Abortion Vote

Microsoft Bails on Its Landmark Supreme Court Case After Passage of the CLOUD Act

Apparently Storms Can Push 600-Ton Boulders Around

Trump Is Getting a Wall in Ireland to Protect his Golf Course from Reality

Apple Begrudgingly Agrees to Pay Ireland Nearly $15 Billion in Back Taxes

This Giant, Breathtaking Game of Thrones Tapestry Weaves Through the Entire Series

Eerily Accurate Facial Reconstructions Are Allowing the Dead to Speak

Lost Irish Beach Mysteriously Reappears After 33 Years

Human Poop Found in Coke Cans at Manufacturing Plant

Houseboat Gifted to ‘Homeless Youth’ Washes Up Empty on Other Side of Atlantic

Some Guy Found a Huge Chunk of 2,000-Year-Old Butter in a Bog and It’s Still Edible

Despite Tim Cook’s Trashtalking, Apple Will Pay Italy $348 Million in Back Taxes

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