What contraception do you use?
Interesting news… According to the Dublin Well Woman Clinic, more and more Irish women are opting for intrauterine devices (IUDs) and contraceptive implants instead of the pill. There is a smaller failure rate (because you don’t have to remember to...

New Irish Sounds: Peter Delaney
The name: Peter Delaney. The deal: Limerick-born songwriter, photographer and filmmaker Peter Delaney has been releasing music since 2007, when a ukulele-fuelled seven-tracker called Duck Egg Blue earned him support slots with Fionn Regan and The Swell Season. 2013 brings something new,...

SIZE MATTERS SHOCKER!
Well whaddya know… women prefer tall men with large penises. Now if only somebody would research how straight men feel about breasts… Although… I actually prefer shorter men. They are easier to tackle...

Record Store Day: The Best of Irish
So, here’s the thing. In trying to answer some questions about the modern music-buying community (are most of them online? how much do they spend? how can we get them to breed? etc. ), we’ve all been able to poke...

Vajacial anyone?
What! Apparently I am well-maintained modern woman. At least according to the Daily Fail. Vaginal facials or vajacials are apparently the latest craze to hit beauty salons. Hmmm… I am all for grooming. Whether you are a man or woman,...

Behind The Gig: Rams’ Pocket Radio
“Part of me thinks that music should be like that all the time…” – Peter McCauley Fresh from touring with pop rock colossus Snow Patrol, Lisburn multi-instrumentalist Rams’ Pocket Radio, AKA Peter McCauley, is juuuuust about ready to put the...

PORN HABITS
It’s not surprising that different people are turned on by different things. Using search data from a number of adult streaming sites, Porn MD has found we tend to prefer people who are share our nationality – Russians prefer Russian...

New Irish Sounds: Rob Kelly
The name: Rob Kelly. The deal: Wexford’s long-standing rap innovator with friends in very high places, Rob Kelly is already a decade into his career, but, after threatening to break into the mainstream a dozen or so times, the razor-sharp rapper...

Larry’s Penile implant
Hustler publisher Larry Flynt recently revealed that he is still sexually active at 70 years old thanks to a penile implant. “There’s a little reservoir in the bottom part of your stomach, and you trigger it with a button inside...

New Irish Sounds: Kevin Murphy
The name: Kevin Murphy (not to be confused with hundreds of other people called Kevin Murphy). The deal: A singer-songwriter from Cork with Jeff Buckley-sized lungs, a knack for writing heavy-hearted songs and something of a potty mouth, Kevin Murphy is...

Ladies, please yourself!
Just recently a California addiction centre claimed that ladies were ruining their relationships because of constant self-love. The centre, of course, claims to cure this masturbation ‘addiction’. Unless you are spending hours every day indulging yourself, this is unlikely. In...

Seven Days, Seven Sounds
A week is a long time in Irish music. The past seven days have brought film premieres (this), album announcements (this), festival updates (this), and the sad news that the future of one of Dublin’s most creative venues is in...

Sex ED for kids
Chicago is set to introduce a new sex education programme for all schools, including pre-schools. The policy from the Chicago Board of Education makes it mandatory that sex education be given in all grades. The youngest children will learn about...

New Irish Sounds: Faces
The name: Faces. The deal: a producer, hip hop lover and damn fine salesman (more on that later), 17-year-old beatmaker Faces operates as deep down as the Irish underground goes. There’s no Soundcloud page, no hype-generating Facebook profile, no Twitter account to...

Hey Penis Breath!
Isn’t nature wonderful? Scientists have discovered an organ in the mouth of bowhead whales that works pretty much like a penis. The organ has been named the Corpus Cavernosum Maxillaris, which doesn’t exactly trip off the tongue. And at around...

New Irish Sounds: mynameisjOhn
The name: mynameisjOhn, and don’t forget that capital O. The deal: A man from Clare who knows his way around a Kaoss pad. A DJ and beatmaker extraordinaire, the genre-fusing producer behind mynameisjOhn (real name John Lillis) has given us some...