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9 | Media | 01:24, 21 September 2008 (UTC) | |||||
10 | Music | ... that a recent live performance of "The Robots" by Kraftwerk was disrupted by a curtain that refused to close? 05:19, 22 September 2008 (UTC) | |||||
11-13 | Media | Bertie, Haughey and their production company, 12:06, 7 November 2008 (UTC) | |||||
14 | Sport | ... that the German company Jako threatened to sue the Football Association of Ireland when referee Anthony Buttimer refused to allow Sligo Rovers to wear their kit in a League of Ireland match? 12:20, 29 November 2008 (UTC) | |||||
15 | Media | 00:10, 21 December 2008 (UTC) | |||||
16 | Dance | ... that Irish ballerina Monica Loughman, aged 14, was the first Westerner to dance for the State Theatre of Opera and Ballet in Perm, Russia? 00:55, 23 December 2008 (UTC) | |||||
17 | Media | ... that the Irish quiz show series Brendan O'Carroll's Hot Milk and Pepper was named after a constipation cure? 16:12, 23 December 2008 (UTC) | |||||
18 | Writing | ... that Irish writer Edna O'Brien made her screen debut as an extra in an adaptation of her novel, Wild Decembers? 19:25, 23 December 2008 (UTC) | |||||
19 | Law | ... that celebrity solicitor Gerald Kean was featured in a number of Sunday newspapers when he bought a jet for his wife? 21:45, 24 December 2008 (UTC) | |||||
20 | Media | 21:45, 24 December 2008 (UTC) | |||||
21 | Music | 06:05, 26 December 2008 (UTC) | |||||
22 | Media/Entertainment | ... that presenter Pat Kenny tore up two tickets for The Late Late Toy Show live on air in 2008? 06:05, 26 December 2008 (UTC) | |||||
23 | Media | 14:10, 26 December 2008 (UTC) | |||||
24 | Music | — | |||||
25 | Media | 21:15, 29 December 2008 (UTC) | |||||
26 | Finance | ... that a controversy over hidden loans led to the resignation of three executives from Anglo Irish Bank within twenty-four hours in December 2008? 15:30, 30 December 2008 (UTC) | |||||
27 | Law | ... that following the death of Brian Rossiter, his father took High Court action (Four Courts pictured) against An Garda Síochána? 21:44, 30 December 2008 (UTC) | 5,400 - 77th most viewed in December 2008 | ||||
28 | Media | 13:00, 2 January 2009 (UTC) | |||||
29 | Music | (between 11:35 and 19:13) 5 January 2009 (UTC) | |||||
30 | Media | 16:21, 7 January 2009 (UTC) | |||||
31 | Media | 17:52, 15 January 2009 (UTC) | |||||
32 | Media | 11:04, 16 January 2009 (UTC) | 239 | ||||
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47 | Media | 05:30, 17 January 2009 (UTC) | |||||
48 | Finance | ... that on 22 October 2008, 15,000 members of the "grey army" descended on Ireland's government buildings to protest the proposed abolition of their previously guaranteed free health treatment? 18:30, 18 January 2009 (UTC) | |||||
49 | Media | ... that a November 2008 appearance by a dance troupe called Satanic Sluts, featuring the granddaughter of actor Andrew Sachs, on The Late Late Show led to a significant number of complaints? 13:00, 19 January 2009 (UTC) | |||||
50 | Media | 02:00, 22 January 2009 (UTC) | |||||
51 | Media | 15:40, 28 January 2009 (UTC) | |||||
52 | Media | 01:48, 2 February 2009 (UTC) | |||||
53 | Media | 19:24, 2 February 2009 (UTC) | 240 | ||||
54 | Media | 01:16, 3 February 2009 (UTC) | |||||
55 | Entertainment | 20:56, 5 February 2009 (UTC) | |||||
56 | Media | Steve Carson, 13:40, 8 February 2009 (UTC) | |||||
57 | Music | 05:08, 9 February 2009 (UTC) | |||||
58 | Media | 21:48, 10 February 2009 (UTC) | |||||
59 | Media | 21:32, 11 February 2009 (UTC) | |||||
60 | Music | ... that Irish singer Lisa Hannigan did the needlework for the cover of her debut album, Sea Sew? 15:24, 12 February 2009 (UTC) | |||||
61 | Music | ... that Irish musicians Lisa Hannigan and Damien Rice dueted on "Unplayed Piano", a Burmese protest song that charted in the UK and was praised by The Independent as "a twinkly and beautiful thing"? 11:23, 14 February 2009 (UTC) | |||||
62 | Education/Politics | ... that the Irish student group Free Education for Everyone has blockaded prominent politicians in protests over tuition? 01:58, 15 February 2009 (UTC) | 241 | ||||
63 | Media | 08:38, 15 February 2009 (UTC) | |||||
64 | Music | Lisa Hannigan discography, 01:33, 17 February 2009 (UTC) | |||||
65 | Geography | ... that in January 2009, Mark Pollock became the first blind person to reach the South Pole? 13:52, 17 February 2009 (UTC) | |||||
66 | Finance | 2008–2009 Irish banking crisis, 11:05, 25 February 2009 (UTC) | |||||
67 | Finance | ... that, upon hearing they were to be laid off, 100 Waterford Crystal workers occupied the plant, accompanied by a Sinn Féin politician? 05:34, 3 March 2009 (UTC) | 242 | ||||
68 | Media | On the Street Where You Live, 10:56, 17 March 2009 (UTC) | |||||
69 | Law | ... that the Irish TV series Garda ar Lár focused on an incident which preceded Minister for Defence Paddy Donegan's "thundering disgrace" remarks and President Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh's resignation? 17:03, 17 March 2009 (UTC) | |||||
70 | Entertainment | ... that the annual Skyfest fireworks display was held at the Rock of Cashel (pictured in 1986) in County Tipperary in 2008, the first time it was held outside Dublin? 23:07, 17 March 2009 (UTC) | |||||
71 | Music | Shots, 23:07, 17 March 2009 (UTC) | |||||
72-77 | All begun apart from "The Cake Sale" |
... that Ireland's 2008 Meteor Awards featured a duet between Sinéad O'Connor and Mick Pyro and a performance by Gary Lightbody and Lisa Hannigan (pictured) of the song "Some Surprise", taken from the self-titled album of The Cake Sale which was organised by former Bell X1 member Brian Crosby? 05:07, 18 March 2009 (UTC) | X5 |
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78 | Entertainment | 05:07, 18 March 2009 (UTC) | |||||
79 | Music | Ritual, 14:54, 19 March 2009 (UTC) | |||||
80-81 | Music | "Floating", The Monkeys in the Zoo Have More Fun Than Me, 09:44, 20 March 2009 (UTC) | |||||
82 | Music | ... that Phil Lynott was featured in a lunar ecliptic children's fairy tale which has been criticised by internet trolls? 03:31, 2 April 2009 (UTC) | 243 | ||||
83 | Media/Sport | ... that Irish rugby union commentator Ryle Nugent has worn sheepskin gloves whilst clinging to his microphone "for dear life"? 20:32, 14 April 2009 (UTC) | |||||
84 | Finance/Politics | ... that The Independent's reaction to Ireland's recent emergency budget included a cartoon of the country's Taoiseach measuring a dead tiger? 18:49, 18 April 2009 (UTC) | |||||
85 | Media/Politics | One to One, 15:32, 19 April 2009 (UTC) | |||||
86 | Media | 05:08, 20 April 2009 (UTC) | |||||
87-89 | Entertainment | 06:44, 1 May 2009 (UTC) | 244 | ||||
90-114 | Complimented | ... that Dunbrody Country House Hotel owner Kevin Dundon and Thornton's Restaurant owner Kevin Thornton of Heat also featured on Guerrilla Gourmet alongside Café Paradiso owner Denis Cotter, The Mustard Seed owner Dan Mullane and former Mint Restaurant proprietor Dylan McGrath, whose documentary The Pressure Cooker was criticised by Michelin star winning French restauranteur Patrick Guilbaud but has been praised by L'Ecrivain owner Derry Clarke, a judge alongside Sammy Leslie on the Adare produced Fáilte Towers whose co-presenter Bazil Ashmawy featured in the first season of Celebrity Bainisteoir, now in its second season and featuring Working Girls and Wonderwomen star Katherine Lynch and Miss Universe contender Andrea Roche? | (X25) |
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115 | Entertainment | 13:07, 21 May 2009 (UTC) | |||||
116 | Entertainment | 14:21, 25 May 2009 (UTC) | |||||
117 | Media/Politics | The Week in Politics, 09:56, 7 June 2009 | 245 | ||||
118 | Education | ... that a schoolbag is the only known trace of 13 year-old Irish schoolboy Philip Cairns, who disappeared in October 1986? 21:56, 8 June 2009 (UTC) | 6,600 | ||||
119 | Media | The Marian Finucane Show, 09:56, 9 June 2009 (UTC) | |||||
120 | Media | ... that one of Mooney's Blue Tits laid six eggs in the gardens of Irish President Mary McAleese? 17:28, 10 June 2009 (UTC) | |||||
121 | Photography | ... that Hugo Jaeger's personal collection of photographs includes colour shots of Adolf Hitler on a cruise in 1939 and of the Nazi leader attending a Christmas party in 1941? 23:28, 11 June 2009 (UTC) | 6,500 | ||||
122 | Media | 17:28, 13 June 2009 (UTC) | |||||
123-124 | Music | Note: Begun only one of the two, 08:35, 16 June 2009 (UTC) | |||||
125 | Media | ... that Irish journalist Richard Downes secretly entered Zimbabwe disguised as a tourist to film an undercover report for the BBC's Newsnight during the 2008 Zimbabwean presidential election? 20:35, 16 June 2009 (UTC) | |||||
126 | Acting | ... that actress Charlene McKenna was pleased that her full-frontal nude scene in the television series Raw attracted few complaints? 14:35, 17 June 2009 (UTC) | 12,600 | ||||
127 | Media | Rachael English, 14:35, 19 June 2009 (UTC) | |||||
128 | Media | ... that The Meaning of Life series featured filmmaker Neil Jordan's account of having met his dead father on an aeroplane? 14:35, 20 June 2009 (UTC) | |||||
129 | Media | Cathal Mac Coille, 02:35, 21 June 2009 (UTC) | |||||
130 | Media | Mary Wilson, 20:35, 21 June 2009 (UTC) | |||||
131 | Music | 20:35, 21 June 2009 (UTC) | |||||
132 | Media | ... that John Murray, presenter of Ireland's most popular radio show, once worked as a deputy press secretary for the Irish government? 02:35, 22 June 2009 (UTC) | |||||
133 | Politics | ... that the June 2009 state funeral of Omar Bongo (pictured) was attended by 40 heads of state, including representatives from France, Spain and the President of the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe? 14:35, 22 June 2009 (UTC) | |||||
134 | Media | 20:35, 22 June 2009 (UTC) | |||||
135 | Music | 20:35, 25 June 2009 | |||||
136 | Music | 20:35, 26 June 2009 (UTC) | 15,400 | ||||
137 | Crime | ... that members of a thief network, named "Pink Panthers" by Interpol, have stolen millions of dollars worth of jewels by driving limousines through a window, escaping on a speedboat and cross-dressing? 20:35, 30 June 2009 (UTC) | 11,300 | ||||
138 | Acting | ... that Domhnall Gleeson, son of Brendan and cast as Bill Weasley in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, has also played a randy young farmer who falls in love with a call girl? 17:56, 19 July 2009 (UTC) | 246 | ||||
139 | Film | 02:14, 3 August 2009 (UTC) | 247 | ||||
140 | Geography | ... that on Reek Sunday, in a tradition of the past 1,500 years, thousands of people from across the world have embarked on an annual national pilgrimage up Croagh Patrick, some barefoot? 20:14, 3 August 2009 (UTC) | |||||
141 | Media | ... that Pure Mule upset "a lot of people" and caused a politician to comment on the "ticking time bomb" of teenage sex, cocaine and sexual promiscuity in rural Ireland? 14:14, 9 August 2009 (UTC) | |||||
142 | Media | ... that in December 1998 the host of The Gay Byrne Show, a favourite of Kenmare housewives, was greeted by a surprise audience which included the President and Taoiseach? 14:14, 10 August 2009 (UTC) | |||||
143 | Music | 08:14, 12 August 2009 (UTC) | |||||
144 | Music | 02:14, 14 August 2009 (UTC) | |||||
145 | Music | 02:14, 14 August 2009 (UTC) | |||||
146 | Music | 20:14, 14 August 2009 (UTC) | |||||
147 | Media | ... that Martina Navratilova is credited as a corpse in Single-Handed, a drama series in which the main character has sexual intercourse with his own sister? 04:00, 18 August 2009 (UTC) | |||||
148 | ... that John 3:7, once flung from a train window, made the news again in 2009 after going missing on a train? 22:00, 18 August 2009 (UTC) | 16,300 | |||||
149 | Media | 04:00, 19 August 2009 (UTC) | |||||
150 | Media | ... that Brazilian television presenter Wallace Souza has been accused of increasing the ratings of his show Canal Livre by hiring hitmen to kill five people? 22:00, 19 August 2009 (UTC) | |||||
151 | Media | — | |||||
152 | Media | 17:00, 20 August 2009 (UTC) | |||||
153 | Media | — | |||||
154 | Music | 17:07, 26 August 2009 (UTC) | |||||
155 | Music | ... that Giveamanakick's live performances involved gas masks and streamers and one of their albums was said to be "something akin to being battered round the head with a plank of wood for half an hour"? 23:14, 2 September 2009 (UTC) | 248 | ||||
156 | Crime | 17:21, 9 September 2009 (UTC) | 7,100 | ||||
157 | Crime | 12:28, 12 September 2009 (UTC) | |||||
158 | Entertainment | ... that a car-driving collie recently auditioned for the second series of The All Ireland Talent Show? 10:07, 20 September 2009 (UTC) | |||||
159 | Media | ... that the Sunday Independent claimed Ireland's Taoiseach Brian Cowen (pictured) was upset following his "mugging" on The Late Late Show? 04:07, 21 September 2009 (UTC) | |||||
160 | Sport | 16:07, 21 September 2009 (UTC) | |||||
161 | Writing | ... that one of Emmy Award-winning screenwriter Frank Deasy's last acts before dying led to a record number of applicants for organ donor cards? 16:07, 21 September 2009 (UTC) | |||||
162 | Entertainment | 20:21, 25 September 2009 (UTC) | 21,100 | ||||
163 | Entertainment | ... that "a whole entertainment ecosystem" involving donkeys and sheepdogs emerged from Alice O'Sullivan's victory in the 1959 Rose of Tralee pageant? 12:42, 26 September 2009 (UTC) | |||||
164 | Music | 20:42, 26 September 2009 (UTC) | |||||
165 | Crime/Finance | Du Jun, 04:42, 27 September 2009 (UTC) | |||||
166 | Sport | ... that with Kerry's victory in the 2009 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Tadhg Kennelly became the first person to win medals at the highest level of Australian rules and Gaelic football? 12:42, 27 September 2009 (UTC) | |||||
167 | Law | ... that Andy "The Bull" McSharry, who was jailed for banning hillwalkers from his land, compared his opponents to the Mafia and patrolled his farm on a quad? 12:42, 28 September 2009 (UTC) | |||||
168 | Agriculture | ... that Ireland's annual National Ploughing Championships is Europe's largest agricultural event? 04:42, 29 September 2009 (UTC) | |||||
169 | Finance | ... that bankers, airline executives, Academy Award-winning directors, Bob Geldof and a representative from Coca-Cola were among delegates who attended the Global Irish Economic Forum in September 2009? 04:42, 30 September 2009 (UTC) | |||||
170 | Media | Dearbhla Walsh, 04:42, 1 October 2009 (UTC) | 249 | ||||
171 | Crime | Micky McAvoy, 20:42, 1 October 2009 (UTC) | 13,600 | ||||
172 | Food | ... that women complained when celebrity chef Neven Maguire posed for a Food & Wine photo shoot alongside a bikini-wearing model and a plate of food? 12:28, 5 October 2009 (UTC) | |||||
173 | Music | 00:28, 8 October 2009 (UTC) | |||||
174 | ... that a benefit concert taking place in Dublin tonight will be broadcast live to an audience in Gaza City? 01:42, 17 October 2009 (UTC) | ||||||
175 | Politics | ... that Irish politician John O'Donoghue resigned as Ceann Comhairle over various expense claims, including a £1 charity donation to UNICEF? 18:00, 18 October 2009 (UTC) | |||||
176 | ... that Asian women have been left traumatised and questioned by police investigating missing two-year-old Aisling Symes in New Zealand? 13:07, 24 October 2009 (UTC) | ||||||
177 | Music | ... that The Sunday Business Post praised Fight Like Apes frontwoman MayKay for her "long black hair and banshee wail"? 13:00, 31 October 2009 (UTC) | |||||
178 | Media | ... that half-Egyptian Bazil Ashmawy spent a night with ghostbusters in a haunted shopping centre and was hypnotised by witches to meet his ancestors for his TV show Baz's Culture Clash? 19:28, 31 October 2009 (UTC) | |||||
179 | Sport | ... that a fireworks display at Croke Park to a soundtrack compiled by U2 drummer Larry Mullen, Jr was one of the events held in honour of today's 125th anniversary of the GAA? 19:56, 1 November 2009 (UTC) | 250 | ||||
180 | Kidnapping of Sharon Commins and Hilda Kawuki, 19:56, 3 November 2009 (UTC) | ||||||
181 | Media | 01:56, 4 November 2009 (UTC) | |||||
182 | Sport | Breffni Park, 23:14, 7 November 2009 (UTC) | |||||
183 | Entertainment | ... that bandmates of Beverley O'Sullivan, recently killed in India, found out the true extent of her hearing difficulties when she developed a sore ear during a Westlife performance? 19:21, 15 November 2009 (UTC) | |||||
184 | Pat Quinn , 17:56, 5 December 2009 (UTC) | 251 | |||||
185 | Music | Daithí Ó Drónaí, 05:56, 6 December 2009 (UTC) | |||||
186 | Media | Tony Connelly, 03:28, 14 December 2009 (UTC) | |||||
187 | Crime | Reşadiye shooting, 19:42, 17 December 2009 (UTC) | |||||
188 | Finance/Politics | ... that the debate over the Irish budget, 2010, which contains the first cuts in social welfare since 1924, revealed that the word "fuck" is not unparliamentary language in Ireland? 03:42, 20 December 2009 (UTC) | |||||
189 | Media | Morning Ireland, 19:42, 24 December 2009 (UTC) | |||||
190 | Entertainment | 11:42, 25 December 2009 (UTC) | |||||
191 | ... that postman Michael Gallagher predicted that Ireland would experience a white Christmas in 2009? 19:42, 25 December 2009 (UTC) | ||||||
192-193 | Media | ... that Victoria and Shane Grow Their Own followed the attempts of Victoria Mary Clarke and Shane MacGowan as they grew their own vegetables in an allotment? 03:42, 26 December 2009 (UTC) | |||||
194 | Media | 00:00, 5 January 2010 (UTC) | Jan. | ||||
195 | Music | ... that Tales of Silversleeve, named ninth best album of the decade by The Irish Times, received its title after its creator neglected to wipe her runny nose? 18:00, 12 January 2010 (UTC) | |||||
196 | Film | ... that Irish film critic Michael Dwyer attended every Cannes Film Festival from 1982 until 2009, months before his death? 12:00, 13 January 2010 (UTC) | |||||
197 | Travel | ... that Slovakia recently sent explosives to Ireland on Danube Wings Flight V5 8230? 00:00, 14 January 2010 (UTC) | |||||
198 | Media | 12:00, 16 January 2010 (UTC) | |||||
199 | Music | Villagers, 06:00, 19 January 2010 (UTC) | |||||
200 | Music | Something Ilk, 18:00, 22 January 2010 (UTC) | |||||
201 | Crime | ... that one of the victims in a recent rare shooting in Habikino, Osaka Prefecture, Japan, was the gunman's mother-in-law? 18:00, 26 January 2010 (UTC) | |||||
202 | Media | ... that 2001's European of the Year Tommie Gorman's half hour interview with a central figure in the 2002 Roy Keane incident became the most viewed television programme of May 2002? 00:00, 27 January 2010 (UTC) | |||||
203 | Media | ... that a recent outbreak of "hat mania" surrounding RTÉ reporter Paul Cunningham's "woolly pancake" from "Pakistan's tribal areas" has led to a Facebook campaign for fans to gather in their own hats? 06:00, 27 January 2010 (UTC) | |||||
204 | Patrick Collison | Feb. | |||||
205 | Sport | ... that Mick Higgins from New York played in the Cavan Gaelic football team which won the final of the 1947 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship at the Polo Grounds in New York? 00:00, 10 February 2010 (UTC) | |||||
206 | Diplomacy | ... that Pádraig MacKernan, who served as Ireland's Ambassador to both France and the United States, had a public falling out with Minister for Foreign Affairs David Andrews in 1998? 12:00, 11 February 2010 (UTC) | |||||
207 | Sport | ... that former RTÉ Gaelic Games Correspondent Jonathan Mullin previously guided Mayo Ladies' Gaelic football team to two All-Ireland Senior Championships and a National League title? 06:00, 18 February 2010 (UTC) | |||||
208 | Film | ... that director and writer Juanita Wilson spent time in "the most radioactive place on earth" while working on her debut Academy Award-nominated short film? 06:03, 21 February 2010 (UTC) | |||||
209 | Music | 12:00, 23 February 2010 (UTC) | |||||
210 | Writing | 06:00, 9 March 2010 (UTC) | Mar. | ||||
211 | ... that Jane Ní Dhulchaointigh invented Sugru, described as "the most exciting product since Sellotape or Blu-Tack"? 06:00, 9 March 2010 (UTC) | ||||||
212 | Entertainment | 00:00, 10 March 2010 (UTC) | |||||
213 | Law | ... that Justice Henry Barron, the first Jew appointed to the Supreme Court of Ireland, also granted Ireland's first divorce in the same year? 12:00, 13 March 2010 (UTC) | |||||
214 | Music | ... that Ryan Adams cited Irish singer-songwriter Adrian Crowley (pictured) in a 2005 Rolling Stone interview when asked "Who's the best songwriter that no one's heard of"? 12:00, 17 March 2010 (UTC) | 6,300 | ||||
215 | Music | Season of the Sparks, 12:00, 17 March 2010 (UTC) | |||||
216 | ... that the National Leprechaun Museum, the first museum dedicated to leprechauns (example pictured), is designed in a way that makes humans seem very small? 18:00, 17 March 2010 (UTC) | 15,500 | |||||
217 | Music | Long Distance Swimmer, 18:00, 17 March 2010 (UTC) | |||||
218 | Sport | ... that Pat Fanning, who died last weekend, was President of the Gaelic Athletic Association when the organisation repealed its ban on "foreign games"? 18:00, 17 March 2010 (UTC) | |||||
219 | Travel | ... that more than 25,000 people have applied to take part in the Dublin Bikes scheme? 00:00, 18 March 2010 (UTC) | |||||
220 | Fashion | ... that West Jewellers of Grafton Street, Dublin, had Queen Victoria's royal warrant to make her watches and she once bought two replicas of the Tara Brooch from the company? 00:00, 18 March 2010 (UTC) | |||||
221 | Media | 00:00, 23 March 2010 (UTC) | |||||
222 | Politics | Bertiespeak, 18:00, 1 April 2010 (UTC) | Apr. | 11,300 | |||
223 | ... that a landmark court ruling has allowed Limerick pubs to sell alcohol today for the first time on Good Friday? 18:00, 2 April 2010 (UTC) | ||||||
224 | Entertainment | ... that Electric Picnic 2010 is expected to feature Leftfield, Roxy Music, Public Image Ltd. and a rap duo who perform wearing plastic bags to cover their heads? 06:00, 6 April 2010 (UTC) | |||||
225 | Writing | ... that the Lost Man Booker Prize shortlist includes four dead people, one of whom would be "spinning in his grave" if his book won, and two living people, one of whom couldn't remember her own book's plot? 04:20, 12 April 2010 (UTC) | |||||
226 | Media | ... that three of Ireland's Greatest forty people are women and the rest are men? 06:00, 22 April 2010 (UTC) | 5,200 | ||||
227 | Entertainment | 06:00, 16 May 2010 (UTC) | May | ||||
228 | Mining | ... that a recent gas outburst at a colliery in China led to death, poisoning, suspensions, sackings and the disappearance of one person? 06:00, 23 May 2010 (UTC) | |||||
229 | Writing | ... that Stephen Gately's book The Tree of Seasons contains an introduction written by his husband describing his early life in one of "the poorest parts of Dublin City", "a place of civil unrest and terrorist activity"? 00:00, 25 May 2010 (UTC) | |||||
230-231 | Media | Death of Gerry Ryan, The Colm and Lucy Show, 12:00, 26 May 2010 (UTC) | |||||
232 | Writing | ... that Siobhán Parkinson recently became the first ever Laureate na nÓg? 00:00, 29 May 2010 (UTC) | |||||
233 | Theatre | Fred O'Donovan, 18:00, 29 May 2010 (UTC) | |||||
234 | Media | ... that President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva recently launched TV Brasil Internacional, a Portuguese language television station aimed at 49 African nations? 00:00, 4 June 2010 (UTC) | |||||
235 | Entertainment | 18:00, 4 June 2010 (UTC) | |||||
236 | Crime | 2010 Stavropol bomb blast, 06:00, 5 June 2010 (UTC) | |||||
237 | Academia | ... that Breandán Ó Buachalla was considered "the leading authority on Gaelic poetry and writing in early modern Ireland" and "one of the most prominent Irish language academics of his generation"? 12:00, 5 June 2010 (UTC) | |||||
238 | Horticulture | ... that the Bloom Festival in Dublin's Phoenix Park is twice as large as the UK's Chelsea Flower Show? 18:00, 13 June 2010 (UTC) | |||||
239 | Floribert Chebeya, 00:00, 14 June 2010 (UTC) | ||||||
240 | Sport | Adrian Freeman, 18:00, 20 June 2010 (UTC) | |||||
241 | Food | ... that Ireland's "Willy Wonka" provided confectionary for the 1953 coronation of Elizabeth II? 06:00, 21 June 2010 (UTC) | 6,200 | ||||
242-243 | Writing | ... that Gerbrand Bakker played a tape recording of 1994 Dutch Eurovision entry "Waar is de zon?" as he was given the 2010 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for The Twin? 12:00, 27 June 2010 (UTC) | |||||
244 | Medicine/Writing | ... that Bill Long was Ireland's longest surviving heart transplant patient? 18:00, 11 July 2010 (UTC) | |||||
245 | Law | ... that former Attorney General of Ireland Rory Brady successfully solved a dispute over land between broadcaster Pat Kenny and his neighbour? 12:00, 30 July 2010 (UTC) | |||||
246 | ... that Ireland recently experienced its highest number of fatalities in a single traffic collision? 00:00, 4 August 2010 (UTC) | 5,300 | |||||
247 | ... that during a fire at a nursing home in Nigel, South Africa, on August 1, 2010, a resident objected to being rescued as she was not properly dressed? 18:23, 16 August 2010 (UTC) | ||||||
248 | Sport | ... that the 2010 Leinster Senior Football Championship Final ended in violence when fans invaded the pitch and attacked the referee? 00:00, 17 August 2010 (UTC) | |||||
249 | Media | ... that Tony Blair was pelted with shoes and eggs the day after promoting his book on The Late Late Show in Dublin? 12:00, 22 September 2010 (UTC) | |||||
250 | Agriculture | ... that Triggs was once described as the "the fittest dog in Cheshire"? 12:00, 22 September 2010 (UTC) | |||||
251 | Media | ... that Vinnie Doyle, one of the longest-serving editors in the newspaper business in Ireland, was editor of the Irish Independent for 24 years? 00:00, 5 October 2010 (UTC) | Oct. | ||||
252 | Medicine | ... that Maurice Neligan was described as "the first superstar of Irish medicine"? 12:00, 17 October 2010 (UTC) | |||||
253 | Politics | A bespectacled Chinese man smiling. | 2010 Nobel Peace Prize, 12:00, 19 October 2010 (UTC) | ||||
254 | Education/Politics | 2010 student protest in Dublin, 00:00, 20 November 2010 (UTC) | Nov. | ||||
255 | Writing | ... that JFK in Ireland includes an account of a disagreement between John F. Kennedy and Éamon de Valera? 12:00, 25 November 2010 (UTC) | |||||
256 | Acting | ... that for 14 years Moira Hoey played a character on television considered "the quintessential Irish mammy"? 06:00, 28 November 2010 (UTC) | |||||
257 | Politics | Ireland – South Africa relations, 06:00, 5 December 2010 (UTC) | Dec. |