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Monday 5 June 2023 Dublin: 13°C

# New Year's Day

This year
2023
# New Years Babas
Ireland's first baby of 2023 born just minutes into the New Year
Here’s a roundup of some of the first newborns of 2023.
# essential viewing
16 great sports documentaries to stream on New Year's Day
‘Finding Jack Charlton’ and other gems.
All time
# New Year's Day
Carty a doubt as Connacht and Munster push on with prep for inter-pro
Both provinces have high player availability but will undergo further testing later this week.
# red underwear
Quiz: Are these New Year traditions real or fake?
You might be surprised. Maybe you won’t be.
# New Year's Day
Woman (47) found guilty of murdering her partner in drunken row in 2014
This is the last trial at the Central Criminal Court with an attending jury due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
# Brrrrrr
PHOTOS: These brave souls took to the sea for a New Year's Day swim
Hundreds braved the cold to take their annual New Year’s Day plunge today.
# evening fix
Here's What Happened Today: New Year's Day
A Nasa achievement, a number of terrorist-related incidents, and newborns made the first headlines of 2019.
# Your Say
Poll: Are you making any new year’s resolutions?
New year, new you?
# blow away the cobwebs
Planning to get out and about on the final weekend of 2018? The weather will be mostly settled and a bit dull
Unlike the year that preceded it.
# NYE
It's time we admit that it's impossible to actually have a great night out on New Year's Eve
It’s just science.
# new year's festival
Dublin New Year's Eve Festival: Aerial acrobats, a live concert and the Spire beaming into space
The details of the festival were announced this morning.
# Tallaght
'Too lenient': Dale Creighton's family criticises sentencing of his killers
The family was particularly unhappy with the number of years which were suspended by the judge.
# New Year's Day
Drunk Canadian pilot arrested after fainting in plane cockpit
The pilot was scheduled to fly 99 passengers and 6 crewmembers to Cancun this morning.
# Istanbul
Turkey search for terrorist who killed 39 during New Year celebrations
Irish citizens in Istanbul are advised “to remain very vigilant” and to avoid crowded areas, especially “those frequented by foreigners”.
# New Year's Day
Queen Elizabeth misses another church service due to 'heavy cold'
The Queen of England also missed the Christmas Day service – for the first time in 30 years.
# i'm trying to be a good sport
Mariah Carey had a lipsync malfunction of epic proportions in Times Square last night
Making Milli Vanilli look like amateurs.
# Busy Night
Dublin Fire Brigade has already attended 200 ambulance calls since the New Year
According to initial figures, Dublin Fire Brigade have responded to over 116,000 ambulance calls.
# flipped turned upside down
Every single episode of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air is being added to Irish Netflix
Fresh Prince in the gaff.
# the fear
This guy woke up in a nursing home after his New Year's night out
And now his story is going super viral.
# Ballinteer
Teenager (19) stabbed in Dublin New Year's attack
Investigating gardaí from Dundrum say he was involved in an altercation with another male.
# New Year
These San Diego twins were born in different years
“It’s very unusual and it’s very special.”
# new me
So many people messed up their inspirational New Year's Instagram posts
Morto.
# News Fix
Here’s What Happened Today: New Year's Day
A boil water notice, the father of a sick child speaks out and a drop in road deaths.
# Tragedy
CCTV footage important in GSOC investigation of Garda Sergeant
General Secretary of the AGSI, John Redmond, has also spoken positively of a meeting the group had with the Minister for Justice Frances Fitzgerald.
# contrast
Diego Costa on the differences between playing in England and Spain
The Chelsea striker says that opponents can get away with more in the Premier League.
# New Year's Day
8-year-old girl sexually assaulted while visiting her father in prison
She was found on a bathroom floor naked from the waist down and with a rope tied around her neck.
# the optimist
Heaslip insisting Leinster 'in a good space' as he narrows focus to Ulster threat
The Leinster captain is repeating mantras of positivity as Leinster aim to go back to winning ways.
# in a hoop
11 films guaranteed to soothe your New Year's hangover
Beige food for your brain.
# Belinda Pereira
Detectives appeal for info on 1996 murder of sex worker in Dublin
Gardaí believe people may have information relevant to their investigations.
# New Year's Day
Seven men and one woman arrested over death of 20-year-old on Tallaght footbridge
Dale Creighton, who was from Tallaght, died in Beaumont Hospital after being attacked on New Year’s Day.
# Tragedy
'Every parent's worst nightmare': Bereft parents condemn senseless violent attacks
Andrew Dolan was brutally attacked by three people outside a fast-food restaurant in 2011.
# Courts
Two more due in court over Dale Creighton death
The 20-year-old man died of injuries he received in a New Year’s Day attack on Thursday.
# Hoax
Here's how you can tell whether an image is real or fake
If an image looks too amazing to be true, chances are it probably is.
# bad internet
How a teen's Twitter joke went super-viral and sparked vicious abuse
And how she somehow turned it around.
# Courts
Man to appear before court over death of Dale Creighton
The 20-year-old died yesterday in hospital as a result of injuries sustained in an assault on New Year’s Day.
# Investigation
Man and woman due in court after serious assault in Tallaght
A 20-year-old man is in critical condition following the attack in the early hours of New Year’s Day.
# Analysis
6 talking points from the New Year's Day Premier League action
We assess Tottenham’s defeat of United and other topics of discussion sparked by today’s games.
# whatthefliuch
Gallery: It was wet out there today, very wet. Here's the pics to prove it
The east got the worst out if with high tides breaching sea walls along the coast.
# hello 2014
PICS: Here's how Ireland welcomed in 2014
How did you usher in the New Year?