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Tech | New Adventures in WiFi – A Guinness Record Attempt

Environment | Campaign for Cleaner Oceans

Investigation | Could the Antarctic ice sheet really collapse?

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Story | Incognito

Conor Purcell/December 9, 2018December 12, 2018

I thought of being propelled towards a new existence, somewhere, a fresh state rather than a new place. For an…

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Tech | New Adventures in WiFi – A Guinness Record Attempt

Conor Purcell/July 2, 2018December 9, 2018

On Wednesday June 6th a team of Irish engineers set a new record for a maritime broadband transmission, aiming to…

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Study | How certain plants survive mass extinction events

Conor Purcell/October 12, 2017February 2, 2018

We often read about Earth’s mass extinction events and how they wiped out vast numbers of animal species, leaving survivors…

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Music | Ireland’s greatest ever punk track?

Conor Purcell/December 15, 2016February 2, 2018

Between 2002 and 2009 a band unknown in most circles blistered through the Irish underground scene with riotous gigs and…

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Music | Katie Kim live in Dublin’s Unitarian Church

Conor Purcell/October 18, 2016February 2, 2018

The soft light throws forty foot shadows along the interior church wall. Window glass reflects the orange hue. But otherwise,…

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Life

The Lost Brother | Uncovering a family past

Conor Purcell/October 6, 2016February 2, 2018

The long history of Irish emigration to the United States is mixed. In 1928 two of my grandmother’s brothers left…

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