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The Sun
a day ago
- The Sun
ChatGPT DOWN as ‘thousands' of baffled OpenAI users ‘unable to access chatbot' in mysterious outage
CHAT GPT is down, as thousands of users report being unable to access the site. Downdetector has received over 500 complaints over the past hour that the AI chatbot is mysteriously not working. Earlier this month, thousands were left unable to use the chatbot after it was down for hours, leaving users with a mysterious error message. The error message read: "A network error occurred. "Please check your connection and try again. If this issue persists please contact us through our help center at
The Sun
a day ago
- Entertainment
- The Sun
Furious Love Island fans ‘complaining to Ofcom' over boy's ‘disgusting, gross and disrespectful' bedroom behaviour
LOVE Island fans have vowed to complain to Ofcom in their droves in a bid to get a "gross" Islander axed from the show. Viewers of the ITV2 dating show were left disgusted by 23-year-old Ben Holborough after he laid into his villa partner Yasmin and claimed that none of the guys in the villa fancied her and he never had any intentions of pursuing anything with her. 3 3 The pair came to blows with Ben brutally going after Yasmin and delivered one shock comment after another. Ben told Yasmin that he had never been interested in pursuing a connection with her and that he had never "rated her". This came just one day after he got very close with her in the bedroom. The couple confirmed they enjoyed kisses during some steamy bedroom action in which Yasmin seductively whispered to him: "You don't get this with a nice girl." Now, fans have been left horrified by Ben's sudden switch and his bedroom antics with Yasmin before claiming he never was into her. Demanding that he be pulled from the villa, one fan said on Reddit: "No problem him not being into her but he basically just used her for whatever needs he needed seeing to that night in the bedroom, so gross and disrespectful." Another agreed as they echoed: "I found Bens behaviour to be very triggering. "Nothing wrong with not being into Yasmin but why did he go in on her and get aggressive. "He's incredibly toxic with his mentality and words. Nobody should be spoken to like this it was completely overreacted." A third went on to write: "Honestly I don't think I've ever heard a man speak worse to a woman on this show!!!" Love Island fans convinced couple secretly had sex after steamy bed scenes at night As a fourth penned: "We all need to complain to ofcom via their online form about Ben. "Call me sensitive but it was really uncomfortable watching Ben speak to Yasmin in that way especially since she did absolutely nothing to deserve that?" Ben sparked outrage on last night's show as he rowed with Yasmin Pettet, 24, and cruelly slammed her. In a brutal put down, he told her: "You're lucky Shea even picked you. To be fair, I think you're lucky you're even in here now to be fair. "No one rated you when you were in here let's say. You've only come out your shell because you're in a couple with me." As she walked away, Ben shouted to the rest of the villa: "Eh, she's made content for the next three weeks lads." Love Island 2025 full lineup Harry Cooksley: A 30-year-old footballer with charm to spare. Shakira Khan: A 22-year-old Manchester-based model, ready to turn heads. Megan Moore: A payroll specialist from Southampton, looking for someone tall and stylish. Alima Gagigo: International business graduate with brains and ambition. Tommy Bradley: A gym enthusiast with a big heart. Helena Ford: A Londoner with celebrity connections, aiming to find someone funny or Northern. Ben Holbrough: A model ready to make waves. Megan Clarke: An Irish actress already drawing comparisons to Maura Higgins. Dejon Noel-Williams: A personal trainer and semi-pro footballer, following in his footballer father's footsteps. Aaron Buckett: A towering 6'5' personal trainer. Conor Phillips: A 25-year-old Irish rugby pro. Antonia Laites: Love Island's first bombshell revealed as sexy Las Vegas pool party waitress. Yasmin Pettet: The 24-year-old bombshell hails from London and works as a commercial banking executive. Emily Moran: Bombshell Welsh brunette from the same town as Love Island 2024 alumni Nicole Samuel. Remell Mullins: Boasts over 18million likes and 500k followers on TikTok thanks to his sizzling body transformation videos. Harrison Solomon: Pro footballer and model entering Love Island 2025 as a bombshell. Giorgio Russo: The 30-year-old will be spending his summer in the sun, potentially his sister Alessia's successful tournament at the Euros in Switzerland. Departures: Kyle Ashman: Axed after an arrest over a machete attack emerged. He was released with no further action taken and denies any wrongdoing. Sophie Lee: A model and motivational speaker who has overcome adversity after suffering life-changing burns in an accident. Blu Chegini: A boxer with striking model looks, seeking love in the villa. Malisha Jordan: A teaching assistant from Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, who entered Love Island 2025 as a bombshell. Shea Mannings: Works as a scaffolder day-to-day and plays semi-pro football on the side. Caprice Alexandra: The 26-year-old bombshell owns a nursery in Romford. Poppy Harrison: The bombshell broke up with her boyfriend after finding out she would be in the villa Will Means: The fourth fittest farmer in the UK according to Farmers' Weekly in 2023 entered the villa as a bombshell 3
Irish Times
a day ago
- Politics
- Irish Times
Ciara Kelly and Shane Coleman excel at jaded on-air grumbling
It's a tried-and-trusted routine, one that has grown familiar to listeners down the years. The despairing observation that the country is going to the dogs, accompanied by a weary sigh and an invitation for those tuning in to share their views on the matter. In a week when Joe Duffy , that great conductor of complaints, exits the airwaves, radio aficionados of an Eeyore-ish disposition will be reassured that Newstalk Breakfast (weekdays) still serves as a reliable source for jaded grumbling. It's a tribute of sorts to Duffy that it takes two people to match his prowess in this department, with the morning show's presenters, Shane Coleman and Ciara Kelly, acting as a tag team when it comes to generating on-air glumness. On Monday Coleman gamely steps up, bemoaning the number of no-shows at driving tests as an example of Ireland's lack of civic pride. 'We're really selfish,' he laments. READ MORE His cohost suggests this may be a common trait elsewhere, too. 'It's probably all people,' Coleman concedes, 'but I think we're pretty high up that league.' Kelly, taking on the role of patriotic booster, points to the fabled generosity of Irish people, but Coleman is having none of it. 'I think we've zero sense of civic duty,' he concludes, in a headmasterly tone of disappointment rather than anger. Duffy may be retiring, but Coleman merely sounds resigned. In the Newstalk duo's defence, their show's template obliges one of them to adopt a half-empty stance during their daily riffs on topical subjects. Still, Coleman sounds authentically cheesed off at what he perceives as endemic gaming of the system here. In contrast, Kelly sounds fired up by Wednesday's news that Women's Aid last year received the highest number of domestic-abuse disclosures in its history. While rightly disturbed by the volume of abuse reports, she also sees the alarming increase as evidence of a shift in Irish society. 'I think what women are willing to accept and what women identify as abuse has changed,' says Kelly, adding that things such as pushing and shoving were minimised in the past, as was emotional abuse. Not that Coleman and Kelly are always huffing despondently or opining defiantly. For the most part they're busy with interviews and analysis of various stripes. So Tuesday's programme features the veteran PR consultant Terry Prone extolling the virtues of Botox and the former Israeli peace negotiator Daniel Levy analysing the Israel-Iran conflict: 'Israel is the most radicalising and destabilising force in the region.' Similarly, Wednesday has Coleman gleefully talking to the former Formula One engineer Bernie Collins about speedy cars, while Kelly hears Minister for Transport Darragh O'Brien discuss slow infrastructure projects. 'The pace of delivery is something we have to catch up with, and I believe we will,' says the Minister with the same Micawberish confidence he brought to the housing brief. At least someone on the show sounds optimistic, however irrationally. [ Formula One's Bernie Collins: 'People in the pub will say 'that's an unusual role for a girl'' Opens in new window ] Over on Liveline (RTÉ Radio 1, weekdays), the underlying mood is uncharacteristically celebratory, as Duffy spends his final week in the hot seat of the phone-in show. (This column goes to press before he broadcasts his farewell show, on Friday.) True, the host largely mutes his festive urges as he listens to callers recounting their collisions with e-scooters being driven on pavements, and even being punched by the drivers of said vehicles. The show must go on. But Duffy really hits his stride, albeit in emotive form, when he devotes Wednesday's programme to the devastating 1972 fire at the Noyeks timber showroom on Parnell Street in Dublin, which left eight people dead. Survivors and witnesses recall the tragedy, among them Geoff Peat, who weeps freely as he recalls his rescue efforts in the burning building. It's an often heart-wrenching item: one caller recounts the marks on windows where victims had thrown typewriters in an effort to escape the blaze. But the collective act of remembrance also seems to have an oddly cathartic effect on Duffy's contributors. Liveline has increasingly relied on nostalgic items in recent times – a sure-fire pointer to an older listenership – but in this case it's impossible not to be moved. The host appears in his element, too, his palpable sympathy notwithstanding. Meanwhile, callers offer their good wishes on Duffy's impending retirement. Mark, an Elvis impersonator, delivers a particularly memorable tribute. 'Liveline without Joe Duffy will be like Vegas without Elvis, the Vatican without the holy father, the Late Late without Gaybo.' The pernickety among us may note that The Late Late Show has been soldiering on without Gay Byrne for as long as Duffy has been hosting Liveline, but the point is well made. Joe will be a tough act to follow. Some other veteran broadcasters show no signs of slowing down. Pat Kenny (Newstalk, weekdays) remains a conspicuously vigorous presence behind the mic, throwing himself into topics great and small with equal alacrity. So while one expects him to be well briefed when discussing Nato conferences or interviewing Brendan Gleeson, it's gratifying to hear the host apply the same standards to less obviously engaging items, such as the labelling of food products. On Wednesday Kenny examines efforts in the European Parliament to restrict vegan and vegetarian food producers from using terms such as burger and sausage. Or, as Denis Drennan of the Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association puts it, 'hijacking or piggybacking on top of the names that are well established'. Drennan, whose stated target is multinational food companies, approvingly compares the move to regulations preventing plant-based juices being labelled as milk: 'I don't see any mammary glands on oats.' Kenny pushes back. 'Doesn't the use of language change?' he asks before examining the etymological origins of the hamburger in exacting detail. His guest sticks to his guns: 'We should put the correct label on the foods, so the consumer is well aware of what they're buying.' (By the same measure, meat might be accurately labelled 'dead animal'.) At the same time, Kenny gets caught up in the minutiae of his own ruminations to glorious effect, suggesting that offending terms such as veggie sausage could be replaced by, ahem, 'vegan cylinder'. As long as he's in this idiosyncratically inspired form, one hopes that Kenny will stick around for a long time yet. Moment of the Week Jonathan Healy, an experienced current-affairs presenter, is a natural guest host of The Hard Shoulder (Newstalk, weekdays), sounding comfortable when discussing the aftermath of the US bombing of Iran with the journalist Alistair Bunkall. So as reports emerge that Iran has retaliated by firing missiles at Qatar and Bahrain – the latter state later transpires not to have been targeted – it's surprising to hear the usually accomplished Healy make a basic error as he comments on the news: 'This is an Arab country attacking two other Arab countries.' His guest is too polite to point out that the Farsi-speaking descendants of the Persian empire are not, in fact, Arabs.
Irish Times
3 days ago
- Business
- Irish Times
More than 100 complaints of excessive legal costs upheld by regulator
More than 100 complaints of excessive legal costs, most relating to family law and litigation costs, were upheld by the legal services regulator last year. A 14 per cent rise in complaints about legal practitioners to the regulator last year was largely due to a high volume of complaints by banks alleging failures by solicitors to comply with undertakings, the report of the Legal Services Regulatory Authority (LSRA) for 2024 also disclosed. Published on Thursday, the report said 143 of the more than 1,400 complaints finalised against legal practitioners last year were upheld, while more than 40 per cent were inadmissible. Of the complaints upheld by the regulator's complaints committee, 107 related to legal services and excessive costs, of which more than 60 per cent related to costs of litigation and family law. The remaining 36 of those upheld related to alleged misconduct. READ MORE Fifty-seven complaints of alleged misconduct were referred by the committee to the separate Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal because the authority cannot itself make findings of misconduct against legal practitioners. The LSRA has since 2020 received and investigated three types of complaints about solicitors and barristers – relating to alleged misconduct, inadequate legal services and excessive costs (overcharging). Some are mixed complaints and the vast number are against solicitors, reflecting the higher number of solicitors and their greater level of contact with clients. [ Judge criticises 'millionaire' legal costs and says losing litigants should be told lawyers' hourly rates Opens in new window ] It received 1,476 complaints last year, up 14 per cent on the 2023 figure, of which 1,410 related to solicitors and 66 to barristers. More than half, 762 (52 per cent), alleged misconduct only, 350 (24 per cent) alleged inadequate standards of legal services, mostly relating to litigation and conveyancing, and 23 (1 per cent) were from clients relating to excessive costs (overcharging). The remaining 341 complaints (23 per cent) were complaints on mixed grounds, of which 262 included an allegation of misconduct, 328 of inadequate services and 147 of excessive costs. Most complaints, 600 (41 per cent) concerned legal professionals practising in Co Dublin, 146 (10 per cent) related to Cork-based legal practitioners, 66 to Limerick and 53 to Kerry. Multiple complaints may be brought against an individual practitioner. Of the 1,474 complaints closed last year, 621 (41 per cent) were closed on inadmissibility grounds. A total of 143 complaints (10 per cent) were upheld and 182 (12 per cent) were not upheld. A further 324 complaints were resolved between the parties, including 62 with assistance of the LSRA's mediators. The LSRA made 18 successful applications to the High Court for orders to enforce its directions in complaints against legal practitioners. [ Inside the childcare courts: 'Making money from the misery of children - that's distasteful' Opens in new window ] The authority's chief executive Dr Brian Doherty said it was 'encouraging' more than one in five of all closed complaints were resolved between the parties, including with assistance of the regulator's complaints staff and trained mediators. While informal resolution may not be appropriate in every type of complaint, the evidence is that informal resolution 'can be a very effective and efficient way for both parties to work through their issues or disputes', he said. The report noted continued growth in 2024 in partnerships of solicitors seeking to operate as Limited Liability Partnerships (LLPs). A total of 26 LLPs were authorised by the LSRA during the year, bringing to 509 the number authorised since November 2019 when LLPs were introduced. The number of barristers continues to increase. A total of 3,071 barristers were on the Roll of Practising Barristers by the end of 2024, up 20 on the previous year. Of these, 2,134 were members of the Law Library and 937 were practising outside of the Law Library.
The Independent
4 days ago
- The Independent
Alcohol fuels 40% spike in parliament bullying claims
Parliament 's bullying and harassment watchdog reported a 40 per cent increase in complaints in the year to April. The Independent Complaints and Grievance Scheme (ICGS) investigated 69 cases, up from 47 the previous year, at a cost of almost £2 million. Most complaints involved bullying and harassment, with three relating to sexual misconduct, and four complaints were ultimately upheld. Alcohol was identified as a factor in nearly one out of every five complaints investigated, being notably prevalent in sexual misconduct cases. The ICGS acknowledged longer timescales for completing cases and committed to working to reduce these over the next 12 months.
