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Happy St. Patricks Day!  The people of Ireland thank you.  The voicing by Liam Neeson is a nice touch as well.   Credit to discoverireland via YouTube.

Children’s Medical Ventures, a Philips Healthcare business, announced that the company has issued a recall of all Gel-E Donut gel pillow and Squishon 2 gel cushion products due to potential mold contamination of the products.

For those hoping Queen Elizabeth would one day sit on the Iron Throne, we're gonna spoil you now and say not at the moment. But she did visit the 'Game of Thrones' studio in Belfast, Ireland, for a meet and greet with some of the cast and crew of HBO's hit fantasy drama, and to glare at the famous seat of Westeros.

In a sad but touching story, it's been revealed that Ed Sheeran was able to grant 15-year-old Triona Priestley's dying wish of being serenaded by 'The A-Team' singer just minutes before she passed away.

These days Halloween is all Naughty This and Sexy That, but the roots of our spookiest holiday's traditions—from pumpkins to trick-or-treating—run deep, their origins reaching back thousands of years to pre-Christian pagan festivals and superstitions. These quirky bits of trivia about the history of Halloween should help you better appreciate all the ghouls and witches wandering about (and your ho

A woman in Ireland just made it into the Guinness Book of World Records...by accident.

The fight is over for Dalton Dingus. In 2011, a little seven-year-old boy from Kentucky who was dying asked for only one thing that Christmas: to set the world record for receiving the most Christmas cards ever. That year I went out and bought tons of cards and brought them to work, told them what was going on and it was overwhelming how many people wanted to help and mention the deed to their ent

Every St. Patrick's day I wake up thinking about my Grandmother. She had such a huge impact on my life. Her parents immigrated to upstate New York in the mid 1800's from County Cork, Ireland. Nana, as we called her, was so proud to be Irish. As a young boy she taught me everything about her heritage, and I realized it was also an important part of my heritage.

Orange and black are Halloween colors because orange is associated with the Fall harvest and black is associated with darkness and death. Jack o’ Lanterns originated in Ireland where people placed candles in hollowed-out turnips to keep away spirits and ghosts on the Samhain holiday. Pu ... Read More ...