Latest news with #Dubliners
Irish Daily Mirror
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Irish Daily Mirror
Wayne Lineker reacts after Conor McGregor allegedly punches 'close pal' at club
Wayne Lineker has shared his 'disappointment' at Conor McGregor after the MMA fighter allegedly punched his 'close friend' earlier this week. McGregor is alleged to have been involved in an altercation at Pacha nightclub in Ibiza on Sunday night. The Sun released footage where McGregor is seemingly leaning over to speak to an unidentified man on the dance floor. The man hit by what looks like a punch falls to the ground shortly afterwards. Almost immediately, several people close to McGregor step in to separate him from other partygoers, reports the Mirror. In a now deleted post on social media, Wayne Lineker identified the man McGregor punched, sharing his disappointment about the Dubliners alleged behaviour. He said: "I've since deleted my post of Conor at ocean on Sunday.' Lineker had previously welcomed McGregor to his O-Beach Club but removed the picture of McGregor with Wayne's brother, Gary, which was captioned: "@thenotoriousmma the man is back." Speaking after the alleged altercation, Wayne wrote: 'To say I'm disappointed is an understatement... we at @obeachibiza @obeachdubai will always put our family first #wearefamily,' he added. McGregor, 36, has now updated his social media for the first time since the alleged incident. The Dubliner took to his social media accounts with several updates. On Wednesday evening, he shared on X - formerly known as Twitter - "You won't speak bad about my country and its people and that's ever. Vote McGregor." Later on, the 'Notorious' shared multiple photos of himself on Instagram, including one with a group of lads and another where he's seen beneath an image of Al Pacino from the iconic 1983 movie Scarface. Earlier in the week, McGregor was spotted on the party island alongside TV star Katie Price. Sporting a hat and shades, McGregor posed for a snap with Price and her mate Ryan Mira at O-Beach Club. McGregor and Price are not the first influx of celebrities that Lineker has welcomed to his day club over the years, with a number of A-listers making time to visit the wonderful white beds of Ocean Beach. Soccer brothers Jude and Jobe Bellingham were spotted relaxing with Lineker last month, as was former welterweight UFC champion Leon Edwards. Meanwhile, the likes of Jack Grealish, James Maddison, Ivan Toney and Declan Rice have all been spotted living it up at the open-air club in the past.
Dublin Live
2 days ago
- Climate
- Dublin Live
Dublin weather: Hottest day of the year pinpointed with 27C peaks on the way
Our community members are treated to special offers, promotions and adverts from us and our partners. You can check out at any time. More info The hottest day of the year so far has been pinpointed with 27C peaks on the way - and it will be this week. Friday is set to be the apex of the current spell of good weather, with temperatures set to get up to 27C in parts of the country. But colder air is set to roll in over the weekend to cool us back down, according to the boffins at Weather Alerts Ireland. They posted: "Warmer air will push in making those temperatures rise! As high as 27C by Friday! A good deal of sun is forecast between now and Friday also! "It does look likely though that cooler air from the Atlantic will push in over the weekend allowing those temperatures to drop back a fair bit. Some of the top temperatures based on tonights models: Wednesday: 24 or 25C Thursday: 26C Friday: 27C Saturday: 25-27C depends on model Sunday: 20C "These are subject to change a bit but a few very nice days coming up!" Dubliners waking up this morning can expect a dry and sunny day, with top temperatures of 21C. Tonight will also be dry and clear, with lows of 10C. And here is what the rest of the Met Eireann forecast looks like for this week: Thursday: Warm with long spells of sunshine tomorrow. Highest temperatures of 19 to 23 degrees. East to southeasterly winds will be mostly light or moderate. Thursday night: Very mild and close overnight with some showers possible in places. Otherwise, it will be dry with clear spells. Temperatures will not fall below 13 to 16 degrees in light to moderate southeasterly breezes. Friday: Plenty of dry conditions with sunny spells though some showers may occur in parts too. Very warm with highest temperatures of 19 to 26 degrees in light to moderate southeasterly or variable breezes. Saturday: A mix of cloud and sunny spells with a scattering of showers, and the chance of some heavy or thundery downpours feeding up from the south too. Highest temperatures of 19 to 23 degrees in light to moderate southerly or variable breezes. Sunday: A mix of cloud and sunny spells with a few showers likely. A bit fresher with highest temperatures of 16 to 21 degrees in moderate westerly breezes. Monday: Current indications suggest Monday will bring a mix of sunny spells and some occasional light rain with high's of 17 to 23 degrees in a moderate to fresh west to southwest breeze. Join our Dublin Live breaking news service on WhatsApp. Click this link to receive your daily dose of Dublin Live content. We also treat our community members to special offers, promotions, and adverts from us and our partners. If you don't like our community, you can check out any time you like. If you're curious, you can read our Privacy Notice. For all the latest news from Dublin and surrounding areas visit our homepage.
Dublin Live
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Dublin Live
he'd run inside his house if he was caught doing things'
Our community members are treated to special offers, promotions and adverts from us and our partners. You can check out at any time. More info Before he was teasing UFC rivals, a young Conor McGregor would unleash his mischievousness on his Crumlin neighbours, before running back into his house. McGregor, 36, grew up in south Dublin in an area known for its gangland violence and high crime rates with his mother, Margaret and father, Tony Known as 'the Notorious' throughout his time at UFC, McGregor has been frequently spotted driving his Lamborghini down the same areas he used to walk down as a youngster. But before he was behind the wheel of supercars, his neighbour still remembers McGregor's cheeky demeanour as a youngster. In an interview with the Irish Independent, before McGregor's lucrative bout against Floyd Mayweather in 2017, his former neighbour, Keith Carolan, said: "He was cheeky, there was no doubt about that. When he would do things he'd run inside and his mother Margaret would come out and defend him. "He was a little impish bloke. When I say cheeky I don't mean he'd give you backchat, he just had this cheeky grin. He'd say something, or do something, and he'd have this cheeky grin and then he'd go running. "He was a fast runner as well, you couldn't catch him. He was a normal young fella but he wasn't afraid to speak up for himself. He was brought up right by Margaret and Tony. He'd give you a bit of lip and then he'd run. "But sometimes he'd just do things for a laugh. You can see it sometimes still in him now. Every now and again when I see him interviewed on the tele you can sometimes see the young Conor comes out." The early education of "young Conor" largely took place in his local boxing club, where he was trained by two-time Olympian Phil Sutcliffe Sr.. Most of his fighting instincts, including the famous left-cross, which so brutally knocked out Jose Aldo at UFC 194 in 2015 to win him the featherweight championship, were honed under Sutcliffe Sr.. In the build-up to that bout, McGregor got into Aldo's head at every opportunity, whether it was on social media, in the press conferences or in other interviews. Dubliners will never forget the chaos between the pair at the Dublin Convention Centre. (Image: Zuffa LLC via Getty Images) McGregor strolled up to his rival's desk and stole his title away, prompting the Brazilian to charge at him before UFC president Dana White and security got involved. They were not able to stop the cheeky Crumlin native from taking the belt and shouting: "You're looking at the King." But while fighting fans and many within Dublin will only remember this side of McGregor, Carolan still remembers him as the cheeky youngster that grew up next door to him. (Image: AP) Carolan added: "When he's not brash and when he's not the swaggering Conor McGregor, you see the little young Conor come out. You see the little smile on his face, especially when he's dealing with his fiancee Dee, you see the little smile coming out. "Or in some of the programmes when you see he's at home with his mam and dad, you see the little look on his face that he used to give when he was a kid, the little look of, 'Oh I'm going to wind these up now.' He was a normal kid but they'd have their fights out there, you know the way kids have their fights and Conor would wind them all up."
Hindustan Times
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Hindustan Times
Dublinwale: A tale of two readers
This is the story of two Dubliners. One is a professor, the other is an engineer. One is a former New Yorker, the other is an Irish native. Both share a passion for the same novel. James Joyce's Ulysses is contained into a single day, 16 June, and that date is celebrated worldwide as Bloomsday, named after the novel's hero—Mr. Bloom. To celebrate the city novel, this reporter is in Dublin for Bloomsday 2025, and the Delhiwale column briefly becomes Dublinwale. Sam Slote is among the world's most renowned Joyceans. He is a Professor in the School of English at Trinity College Dublin. His book Annotations to James Joyce's Ulysses is the most authoritative guide to understand the notoriously difficult novel. The wall-sized book rack in his office is crammed with the different translations of Ulysses, including Dutch, German, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Persian, Arabic, and Malayalam. John O'Connell is an electrical engineer working in Telecom, but also conducts walking tours to Joyce's Dublin. A volunteer at the James Joyce Tower and Museum, he often dresses up as Mr Bloom, complete with a hat and a fake moustache. He believes that Ulysses is Dublin's very own Sistine Chapel. This afternoon, Sam Slote is sitting in his office, working on his annotated book's next edition. More particularly, he is busy with some specific question of punctuation in episode 17. His tone is gracious and delves deeply—yet effortlessly—into the intricacies of the novel. This sort of precision and care for detail is essential to a scholar of Ulysses, where everything is likely to carry narrative and symbolic weight. This afternoon, John O'Connell is crossing the Grattan Bridge over the Liffey, leading a walking tour. In the Dublin rain, he's excitedly pointing at a building in front of which a minor character makes a fleeting appearance. This sort of precision and care for detail is essential to a guide of Ulysses, where every street corner possibly has a role to play. Sam Slote says that he read Joyce's final novel, Finnegans Wake, before the Ulysses. This is surprising because the world is full of Joyce fanatics who adore Ulysses and have read it many times, but just couldn't climb the heights of Finnegans, considered a super-difficult book. John O'Connell says that when he first read Ulysses, 'I didn't really get it then, but I knew there was a genius driving the bus.' On finishing the dreaded Finnegans Wake, he announced his accomplishment in an office meeting. The colleagues, he recalls, looked bemused. For his everyday use, Sam Slote carries a 1986 Gabler hardbound edition of Ulysses, published by Bodley Head, bearing a grey cover. For his everyday use, John O'Connell carries a 2000 hardbound reprinting of the 1986 Gabler edition of Ulysses, published by Bodley Head, bearing a green cover.
The Star
5 days ago
- Sport
- The Star
Bulls shut down, shut up in one-sided URC defeat to Leinster in Dublin final
Hindsight is a scurrilous science because it is easy to be a genius when you have it, yet when we saw how a Leinster team containing 12 British and Irish Lions obliterated the Bulls, you wonder why many South Africans thought the South Africans had a realistic chance in the URC final in Dublin. The Bulls were shut out, shut down and shut up by a Leinster team masquerading as the Ireland national team. And the Dubliners did it from the first minute. They smashed the Bulls back in every aspect of the game and 80 minutes later, the Bulls had not fashioned one single attacking movement comprising more than four phases. In short, they did not fire a shot in crumbling to an embarrassing 32-7 defeat, their third loss in URC finals in the last four years. It will be crushing for Jake White and his team — they lost to the Stormers in the first URC final, last year they failed to pitch up when favourites to the Glasgow Warriors in Pretoria, and now a humiliation in Dublin. And it will hurt the Bulls all the more that the chief architect of their destruction was former Springbok coach Jacques Nienaber. The Leinster defence completely smothered any Bulls' attempt to attack. To be fair to the Bulls, often the Leinster rush defence was palpably offsides. The Leinster centre Jordie Barrett repeatedly tackled man and ball way off side but referee Andrea Piardi and his touch judges did not pick him up. The astonishing fact, though, is that the Bulls were emasculated up front, which gave that rush defence a second or two out of the starting blocks because the Bulls spent the evening back pedaling from the forward exchanges. For seven months of the URC league phase, the Bulls' set piece went forward. Relentlessly. But when it mattered most, the Bulls forwards were neutralised. The callous might say they were neutered. Even the mighty Wilco Louw, who had been supreme all season, could not gain his customary advantage. The extenuating circumstance was that the Leinster pack, as a unit blasted through their Bulls opponents. There was a moment in the second half that summed it up — the Irishmen had won another scrum penalty and Louw's opponent, Andrew Porter, jumped about like a lunatic. Leinster had a plan for the scrums and they applied it magnificently. With zero front ball, the Bulls had nothing to offer. All of their plans remained on the team room blackboard. At 19-0 after 20 minutes they were history. No way can you start so badly overseas at a hostile venue and expect to win. With the Bulls' pack getting a bloody nose, there was no momentum to launch attacks. It was good night nurse way long before half-time. Ironically, the Bulls' best period of the game was a five minute period before half-time, but like the Sharks in the semi-final at Loftus Versfeld, the Bulls had little attacking know-how.
