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2022
# lego
Experimental Lego cafe opens for adults in Dublin
Launched during World Mental Health Month, the cafe is a space where adults can experience all the mental health benefits that play can bring.
# no bricks
Lego to cease Russian operations 'indefinitely' with 81 stores impacted
The company had already halted deliveries to Russia in March following the invasion of Ukraine.
# Grafton Street
Lego is opening its first Irish store in Dublin this summer
The store will open in a Grafton Street unit previously occupied by Top Man.
All time
# brick by brick
China police smash $30 million fake Lego ring
The seized moulds included a Star Wars knock-off called Star Plan.
# Building Blocks
'There was a Lego set so I said I'd give it a try and I became obsessed with it'
Ireland wing Jacob Stockdale has discovered the perfect way to take his mind off the game.
# LEGO Bugatti
This life-size Bugatti Chiron is made out of Lego Technic
And it drives too!
# Building Blocks
What a Lego professor says Irish startups can learn from the toymaker's resurrection
David Robertson thinks firms shouldn’t be too quick to move away from their core products.
# Swede spot
What a Lego professor says Irish startups can learn from the toymaker's resurrection
David Robertson thinks firms shouldn’t be too quick to move away from their core products.
# bricking amazing
Lego is bringing out an unreal Skellig Michael set to tie in with the new Star Wars film
Irish 80s kids, all of your dreams have come true.
# Knocked Down
Lego announces 1,400 job losses following drop in revenue
The toy company announced it will cut 8% of its staff.
# Denmark
Lego boss (61) replaced 'because of his age'
Briton Bali Padda held the job for just eight months.
# Campaign
Lego stops advertising with the Daily Mail following 'Stop Funding Hate' campaign
The Stop Funding Hate campaign attempts to target advertisers in certain UK newspapers, agitating for them to withdraw their business.
# leg-o
A man waiting for a prosthetic leg has created an amazing Lego alternative
Marc Cronin lost his leg back in 2014 due to complications with diabetes.
# build it and they will come
After 50 years, Nelson's Pillar is returning to O'Connell Street - in a slightly different format
A Lego model of ‘the Pillar’ is on display in the GPO as part of a recreation of the post office during the 1916 Rising.
# createschool
WATCH: This amazing short film recreates the 1916 Easter Rising entirely with Lego
It’s very, very impressive.
# wonderful idea
Disabled kids can customise their prosthetic arms - thanks to this Lego-based invention
Kids can follow their imagination wherever it takes them – and build their arm into a digger or spaceship.
# Take a Break
Take a break and watch last year's films made from Lego
Lego makes it all look great.
# lego
This is the chicken nugget dispensing machine you've been waiting your entire life for
AND it’s made of Lego.
# Currency
Have any unwanted Lego? Here's how it can pay for sick children to be cared for
The Jack & Jill Children’s Foundation plan on selling the Lego to fund care for children with severe to profound disabilities.
# Panic stations
Lego will probably run out of bricks for Europe by Christmas
Won’t somebody think of the children?
# baby face
Lego has already introduced a royal baby Charlotte and it's freaking everyone out
We are through the looking glass now.
# lego finds a way
Someone has recreated Jurassic Park using €90k worth of Lego
It took three months but it’s absolutely brilliant.
# Everyday sexism
Lego published beauty tips for girls and parents are not one bit happy
*sighs*
# Building Blocks
Nevermind your Minecrafts, Lego is something that will be around forever
Children want a ‘real, physical experience’, according to Lego’s CEO.
# i love my brick
Someone has made a Lego strip club set and it's a certified childhood ruiner
So long, innocence.
# lego
Breathe a sigh of relief: that amazing Lego note from the 1970s appears to be legit
PHEW.
# design for life
How this Lego-like electronics system allows anyone to build DIY hardware
littleBits allows both kids and adults to build their own DIY devices and prototypes using electronic blocks.
# intricate
This LEGO masterpiece will whet your appetite ahead of Sunday's Manchester derby
The Top-5 City/United moments brick-by-brick.
# everything is not awesome
Here's the video that made LEGO kick Shell to the kerb
A Greenpeace campaign has led to the toy giant distancing itself from Shell.
# Building Blocks
Google is working on screens that connect together like Lego
If Google’s latest project becomes a reality, you could be able to assemble a giant seamless image from several smaller screens.
# Week in Web
Weird Wide Web: An apology to drag queens, a DOOM Lego masterpiece and helping you switch off
All of your essential tech and social media news for the week in one byte-sized portion.
# brick by brick
We now pronounce you Lego man and wife
From €1000 investment to 10,000 students – how couple’s startup Learn it built something from Lego.
# everything is awesome
Lego is now the world's biggest toymaker as kids choose bricks over Barbies
The Lego Movie helped propel the Danish company into the top spot.
# lego crazy
Chocolate Lego is now a delicious, delicious thing
Build the Lego house of your dreams. THEN EAT IT.
# girl legos
Lego makes female scientists playset... after getting told off by little girl
Charlotte Benjamin wanted ‘more Lego girls’. So Lego did just that.
# In bits
Mesmerising stop-motion building of The Simpsons Lego set
Almost as good as building it yourself.
# lego
Lego is a 'tool of Satan', warns Polish priest
Fr Slawomir Kostrzewa says a new line of Lego characters refer “directly to Satanism”.
# In bits
Genius jobseeker creates brilliant Lego CV
Take all of our jobs.
# Bricking it
7 incredible Lego artworks you need to see to believe
Everything about them is awesome.
# In bits
The blooper reel from The Lego Movie is deadly, of course
As if anything to do with Lego could ever be rubbish.