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Summer's here, and with it comes one of the most anticipated events of the social and style calendar, the 2015 Discover Ireland Dublin Horse Show at the RDS.

The Dublin Horse show takes place this August, and with Dundrum Town Centre stepping in as the sponsor of Ladies Day on August 6th, it looks set to be a very stylish day out indeed.

Ladies Day at the Dublin Horse Show is one of the longest-running and most prestigious style outings in the country, and this year's event will be no different.

The judging panel for the 'Dundrum Town Centre Best Dressed Lady' this year are model Pippa O'Connor and  Irish Independent Fashion Editor Bairbre Power. With a prize package worth €10,000 on offer, the competition is bound to be fierce, so make sure you're looking fabulous.

Other prizes on the day include ‘Great Lengths Most Creative Hat’, ‘HP Most Colourful Outfit’, ‘Longines Elegance is an Attitude’ and 'Louis Copeland Best Dressed Man.'

To celebrate this exciting collaboration even more exciting, Dundrum Town Centre and SHEmazing! have teamed up to give one lucky reader the chance to win passes for Ladies Day for you plus three friends.

To win, simply head over to our Facebook page.

For more info on Ladies Day, see www.dundrum.ie or www.dublinhorseshow.com.

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Peter Andre has spilled (some of) the beans about his wedding day that took place last weekend.

The 42-year-old groom made the announcement saying, “I’m so delighted to tell you all that yes, Ems and I tied the knot at the weekend!”

As we previously mentioned, Mr Andre’s impromptu nuptials took many of us by surprise as the couple had previously said that they weren’t planning on getting married for another year.

Speaking to new! magazine, Peter gushed about his new wife saying, “Ems looked absolutely beautiful.”

The wedding took place in one of the UK’s grandest Georgian houses, Mamhead House. The property, which is worth over €13million, is the perfect wedding venue with an Italian-style sunken garden and terrace.

The wedding is believed to have been a stunningly elegant affair with the bride, 25-year-old Emily MacDonagh wearing a classic bridal gown with laced sleeves.

The affair sounds just a tad different to Mr Andre’s 2005 wedding to Katie Price which included a pink wedding gown and a Cinderella style carriage.

Peter and Emily have an 18-month-old daughter together, Amelia. It is believed that Peter’s oldest two children from his previous marriage acted as the flower girl and pageboy in the ceremony.

The Mysterious Girl singer is also reported to have provided his own entertainment, serenading his new bride and audience with a number of songs.

 

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A source told The Sun that “Peter wants to make it a really personal affair. The song is very poignant and means a lot to him.” They also said that he was planning “to perform some more uplifting tracks to get everyone in the mood to party.”

And with a €700,000 magazine deal with OK! we are already dying to see the photos of the gorgeous day. 

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Earlier today, as you may have heard, Ireland introduced an official postcode system. Lucky us! We got there eventually.

The system, which has been almost a decade in the making, has cost the country an awful lot of money. In fact, Eircode is reported to have set the nation back €27m.

That’s a lot of new shoes, just saying.

Ireland is one of the last developed countries in the world to adopt the postcode system (oopsies). It is hoped that for those living in rural ares, the introduction of the Eircode system will make it easier for your postman or a courier service to find your house. Hopefully.

Under the new system, your seven digit code is broken into two parts. The first part is the location identifiers and the second four are the unique codes assigned to every property.

It sound quite straightforward and we reckon the good people of this nation wouldn’t have much hassle with the new system.

That does not seem to be the case according to the Twitter users of Ireland. The hashtag #eircode has been trending across the country since earlier today.

Many users are taking to social media to voice their confusion, surprise, disgust, and of course there’s the usual few who can’t help but make a joke of the whole ordeal. 

Oh dear.

You had one job Eircode, just one. 

 

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Charlotte Crosby, star of MTV reality show Geordie Shore, and soon to be a published author made an appearance on the Lorraine show this morning.

While she was supposed to be there to talk about her new book Me, Me, Me, things took a bit of a turn for the awkward when Lorraine grilled the 25-year old about one of her more embarrassing personal issues.

Wetting the bed.

Charlotte has never been one to kept quiet about this particular issue, much to the entertainment of many of her loyal viewers.

Lorraine, however, is obviously not one of them. When Charlotte was asked about her bed wetting problems she didn’t seem flustered in the slightest. She told Lorraine she thought it was a pretty “normal” thing by now. Right.

Things got a little icy when Lorraine responded by saying: “No it's not. It really isn’t. it’s not normal.”

Charlotte defended herself saying: “I agree that some people don’t like it, but a lot of people laugh at it and I don’t do it on purpose, it’s purely because it’s an accident.”

Saying that she’s a person that likes to live her life to the fullest, Charlotte clearly isn’t going to let a little bladder snafus get to her. She said she doesn’t care what most people think of her; As long as my friends and family still love us and accept us for who I am, that’s all that I care about.

Charlotte took to Twitter to shed some humour on the situation.

Her fans however, were not impressed with how Lorraine handled the interview. Many of them are now accusing Lorraine bullying the reality TV star.

They don’t seem pleased with how it all went down at all.

Lottie, meanwhile, also provided more insight into her lack of inhibitions when she said in the interview she wouldn’t mind giving birth on camera.

“I’d like to give birth on camera. I’d do everything, no limits, there’s none, the sky's the limit!”

Oh Charlotte, please don’t ever change who you are. You’re far too much fun to keep up with. 

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In an interview to mark his first day as an air ambulance pilot, Prince William has been talking family-life – and even hinted that he and Duchess Kate, 33, are already considering royal baby number three. 

Gushing that two-and-a-half month old Princess Charlotte has "been fantastic," and "a little joy of heaven," the Duke went on to say that having two children under two certainly has its challenges. 

"It is more responsibility looking after two little ones," the 33-year-old admitted. "Especially when George around. He's a little monkey!"

However, the second-in-line to the British throne also seems to be pretty content with his lot in life. 

"It's fantastic having such a little family; I'm so thrilled. Catherine is doing an amazing job as a mother; I'm very proud of her."

And when asked if it's difficult to leave them every morning when he goes to work, he diplomatically replied: "No more difficult than everyone else has to do."

Of course, with a girl and a boy on board, it would be understandably if the world's most famous royals decided to draw a line under their baby-making days.

Indeed, the interviewer suggested that in light on Charlotte's arrival in May, the decision to have a third child might now prove more difficult.

"We've only just had the second one!" Prince William said in response, before adding with a smile, "but you never know what's going to happen in the future."

Well, we reckon that Wills and Kate will absolutely be having more gorgeous babies over the next few years. And no, we can't wait!

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There is something about seeing a ticket inspector that makes you feeling guilty even when you have your ticket sitting comfortably in your pocket.

When you see that orange visor step on board there is a brief moment of panic when you think, “oh no, what if I HAVE lost it?”

While most of us wouldn’t dare to not buy a ticket on public transport (as it is exactly the same as stealing) a surprising amount of people do.

According to Journal.ie, Dublin Bus have revealed that approximately 90 people a week are caught paying the wrong or no fare on buses every week.

The team of Dublin Bus inspectors carry out random inspections on journeys, issuing €100 fines to those who have not paid their fares, or paid the incorrect amount. If the fine is paid within 21 days it is reduced to €50.

And when it comes to not paying their fares, some people REALLY chance their arm. One train commuter was caught in February using a ticket that had been expired for EIGHT months!

But, instead of charging the man the €100 fine per journey over that time period, they simply charged him the cost of each ticket… which amounted to €5,544! 

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Fans of Zayn Malik have gone into a frenzy on Twitter this afternoon after the former One Direction star appeared to turn on his biggest ally.

Since quitting One Direction back in March, there have been repeated rumours that Zayn has been quietly recording some solo tracks with the help of music producer Naughty Boy. 

However in recent weeks it's been reported that the singer might have chosen to work with another producer instead, something it seems has caused a LOT of drama between the pair.

Taking to social media this afternoon, Zayn tweeted directly at the famed producer, writing, "@NaughtyBoyMusic you fat joke stop pretending we're friends no one knows you."

Ouch. Minutes later he tweeted again, this time saying, "Someone learned how to upload a video… maybe now he should learn how to use logic ha you ain't shit but a faker."

Some fans have suggested that the producer may have prematurely uploaded part of the video of Zayn's cover track, No Type, but this has yet to be confiremd.

Although Naughty Boy himself has yet to respond, he did sound a bit cynical himself on Twitter just days ago when he wrote, "this 'music' business teaches you the tricks but never the truth . you know who you are." In a recent interview with the BBC Naughty Boy described Zayn as a "genuine friend"… but it seems things took a turn for the worst over the last few days.

 

Zayn's One Direction contract with Sony reportedly states that he cannot release any solo music for at least 12 months after quitting the band, so at the moment it's unclear what direction his solo work might take. However it has been strongly rumoured that the singer may have ditched Naughty Boy in favour of another producer, Sarah Stennett, who has worked with other big-name artists like Rita Ora, Ellie Goulding and Jessie J.

If those rumours are true, we can expect to see a lot more drama on Twitter over the next few months…

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With a little over a month to go until the first round of CAO offers become available, let’s take a look at the direction that the courses appear to be heading in.

With the analysis of the 2015 CAO applications already well underway, the first assumption is that the points for law and engineering are on the rise.

When the first round of offers come out on August 17th, students should expect engineering, technology, law, architecture and other construction-related courses to have risen from last year.

According to The Irish Times, the points for arts, science, social science and primary teaching are most likely going to stay at a similar level to 2014.

As the points for medicine dropped in 2014 because of the reconfiguration of the marking scheme for the Hpat test, there has been a small increase in the number of applications to the field this year. This could result in a small points increase this year. 

With the economy looking more stable, construction-related courses are not the only degrees gaining popularity again. Business courses remain prominent with applications up 2.3 percent on last year.

This could mean a 5-10 point increase for the most sought after business courses.

A huge drop has been seen in the number of applications for agriculture and horticulture courses. The number of students choosing them as their first-choice options are down by 19 percent from last year. 

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Any Ed Sheeran video is generally enough to make anyone’s Monday a little bit better.

When you add in King Nidge to the equation then things reach another level. Over the weekend the pair bumped into each other in London and couldn’t resist teasing fans with their antics.

Before we got totally excited altogether though, it turns out the pair were big fans of each other and Ed really wanted to hear Nidge speak in person.

One celebrity friendship we weren’t expecting this morning.

The duo were hanging out together between Ed’s sell-out Wembley Stadium concerts. Love/Hate star Tom Vaughan Lawlor pulled out his best Nidge character to get Ed giggling.

 

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"Alright man, here with the main man Ed, about to go out and watch him on the show, can't wait for it", the fictional crime boss tells us.

"Nidgey, I have a bone to pick with him", was mega-fan Ed’s response.

When Ed posted the video to his Instagram page though, his fans were a little confused.

"Yes it is English, it's a thick Dublin accent", one user had to explain to some non-Irish Ed Sheeran fans who were left a bit baffled by Tom’s accent.

Meanwhile, independent.ie reports that some fans of Ed’s were left less than impressed when their tickets to his concert almost didn’t arrive on time.

Some had bought their tickets at Christmas time and were left with a message from Get Me In, run by Ticketmaster, to say they would not be arriving.

Fans were offered refunds instead but many took to Twitter to voice they disappointment. One Irish user complained of having no ticket for the concert and having booked flights to London and accommodation for the gig. 

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The Republic of Ireland finally joined the 21st century today when we became one of the last developed countries in the world to adopt an official postcode system.

The Eircode system has been almost a decade in the making an has so far cost a whopping €27 million to roll out across 2.2 million homes and businesses across the Republic.

Here's all you need to know so far…

Why do we need Eircodes?
An Eircode is a unique postal identifier given to a house or building to make it easier to locate. This might not seem important if you live in a housing estate or have a numbered house, but if you live in a more rural area where your postman has to rely on your surname or townland to find your house, it will be a hugely helpful change.

Okay, and what does an Eircode look like?
Each Eircode is made up of seven characters,a mix of letters and numbers. The first three characters are based on your postal area (eg. North Dublin, West Cork) and are not unique. The last four, your Unique Identifier, apply only to your house or business. Here's the Eircode for Áras an Uachtaráin, if you fancy sending a letter to Michael D.

How do I find out mine? Do I need to apply?
Letters will be sent to each home or business over the next two weeks to let residents know what their Eircode is. The letter will also contain a pop-out card so that you can have your code handy at all times if you're likely to forget it. You do not need to apply or register, the code will come to you.

If you're curious and want to find out your code today, check out the Eircode finder here.

Does every house or business have a code?
Around 2.2 million homes and business have been granted a code, and the government says this includes "generally all postal addresses that currently receive mail." However not every single home has a code just yet, and due to Irish placenames, some addresses are currently inaccurate or missing from the system.

If I don't include an Eircode on a letter will it still arrive?
Yes, the Eircode system is still optional. In fact, some multi-national courier firms like FedEx and DHL say they will not adopt the Eircode system because of its design. They say that the Eircode offers the longitude and latitude of a residence/business but that this information has been available in the postal system for many years.

Do I have to change my address?
No, all you need to do if you want to use the code is to add it onto the end of your address, after the county (or country if you're posting a letter home from abroad).

Any chance my Eircode might be something gas like B00B1E5?
No, sadly certain characters have been removed from the system or will not appear next to each other to avoid "visual or verbal confusion." Boooo.

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People have been using Botox not just for wrinkle prevention for a while now.

And the fact that Botox can be used to help prevent sweating in certain areas of your body is now being utilised by some women in order to achieve their best hair looks.

Yes, it is being reported that women are having Botox injected into their scalps in order to beat her dreaded hair frizz.

It’s called, being seriously here, the Blow-tox.

Blow-tox sessions includes having Botox injected into your scalp, around the face and neck area, and then having your usual blow dry done.

Sounds lovely, if you’re not afraid of needles.

When Botox is injected into the scalp it blocks the nerves the transfer messages to the sweat glands, so your hair becomes less frizzy and also won’t need to be washed as frequently.

Dr Sabika Karim told Mail Online about how the treatment “can stop the perspiration that spoils hair and looks so unappealing.”

Fourty-four-year old Michelle MacCormack said she was “so fed up of my daily hair struggles and its terrible condition”, so wanted to give the Botox treatment a chance.

And now she can’t get enough of it.

She says that four months on “it’s cut the amount of blow-drying I do by half. I still run straighteners over the top layer of hair, but only briefly. And the style stays sleek all day.”

Michelle now also only has to wash her hair twice a week. So her hair struggles are no more, lucky her.

While Blotox does sound like it could rid a lot of us of our hair woes and blow dry struggles, and cut back on the amount of heat styling we have to do, it does have a con, or two.

“I paid £400, which sounds a lot,” says Michelle. That’s €560, which is a lot Michelle. But hey, who doesn't want the chance to have Blake Lively's glossy mane?

Dr Zamani, who practises at the Cadogan Clinic in London’s fancy pants Sloane Square, also has said that Blow-tox is not without danger.

“There’s always a risk of neck weakness if you inject around the muscles that hold up your head.”

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Let's face it – her transformation has been pretty dramatic – not to mention hugely impressive.

After years of being taunted as the "fat, ugly Kardashian sister," Khloe is definitely in the best shape of her life. 

She's shed a load of weight for one, but she also looks incredibly fit, toned and healthy.

 

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And while the 31-year-old has previously opened up about her new-found love of exercise in the aftermath of the collapse of her marriage to Lamar Odom, she's now revealed her one, key diet secret.

Speaking to Sydney radio hosts Ryan Fitzgerald and Michael Wipfli on their breakfast show this morning, the reality TV star explained: "I made major cut-backs. I used to love soda, so I've cut out soda completely and I drink like ice tea or water."

She added: "I made that like a lifestyle change. If you do one thing a month and you cut something off little by little and then it just becomes a part of your life."

Khloe, who now seems to be dating another basketball pro – James Harden – also stated to say that she hates the word "diet".

"I don't believe in diets. I believe in lifestyle changes."

As for her fitspiration, she says she strives to be just like Beyonce, although when it comes to hair and makeup, she's surprisingly low-key.

In fact, Ms Kardashian says while she and her sisters have "hair and makeup people when we are filming," she definitely doesn't have a beauty team with her every day.

"I'm a pro at doing my own makeup but I do not know how to do my own hair," she said, explaining that her hair is too curly to manage on her own.

Still (and despite the fact she goes to the gym all the time), she makes one look last – wearing the same style for three days straight.

"I just won't wash my hair. I know how to fake it until I make it," she laughed.

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