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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?

Life

Travel : Pictures of Ireland

Matteo Broccoli/February 12, 2020February 12, 2020

In this account, Italian black hole physicist and photographer Matteo Broccoli shares his words and images during a trip around…

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Arts

Poem | The Druid

Peter Doolan/January 6, 2019January 6, 2019

A druid in the wilderness he did proclaim Himself the very keeper of the dawn And be they high in…

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Arts

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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Life

Orbits View | Tech’s Act of Contrition

Wide Orbits/November 8, 2018November 13, 2018

At Web Summit 2018 in Lisbon, making amends is front and centre on the agenda The last few years have…

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Arts

Music | Loney Dear At The Workman’s Club

Gerard Lynch/July 3, 2018July 3, 2018

In the almost 10 years since this reviewer last encountered Emil Svanängen, the Jönköping-born talent behind the Loney Dear moniker,…

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Science

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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Life

Orbits View | The Modern Kings of (Payment) Convenience

Wide Orbits/June 14, 2018December 9, 2018

At this year’s MoneyConf in Dublin, Ireland, dozens of international speakers alluded to the idea that the culture of nations…

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Life

Environment | Campaign for Cleaner Oceans

Conor O'Malley/June 7, 2018June 14, 2018

Irish Musician and songwriter Conor O’Malley is back with his latest single ‘Oceans’ (see below), beginning a campaign for cleaning…

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Life

Travel | One Day in the Borderlands of Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil.

Gerard Lynch/April 19, 2018April 27, 2018

An Irishman ponders food and family history on a visit to three contrasting neighbouring countries in Latin America. Morning: Cuidad…

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Life

Language | Sorry for your Troubles : Hiberno-English and a history of euphemism.

Gerard Lynch/March 15, 2018April 19, 2018

In which the author gives out* about the Hiberno-English tendency towards euphemism *tabhairt amach (lit) to give out (fig) to complain about…

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Arts

Arts | How and why I wrote ‘I Dreamt I Was An Astronaut’

Jeremy Tuplin/February 1, 2018February 2, 2018

I feel that the second part of this two-part question is more difficult to answer. Leaving aside one’s own endless,…

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Life

Health | Why are we not talking about fatal invasive fungal diseases?

Karen O'Hanlon Cohrt/November 14, 2017March 16, 2018

Last summer, a UK-based hospital was forced to close its intensive care unit after 50 patients became infected with a highly drug-resistant…

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Science

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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Arts

Insight | Life as an Orchestrator

Daniel O'Neill/August 30, 2017February 2, 2018

As far back as I remember I’ve loved the different sounds of my favourite classical composers. Early on I became…

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Life

Reflection | Out of the Mouths of Babes

Norma MacMaster/June 26, 2017February 2, 2018

I am neither a scientist nor a mathematician, preferring to understand the Cosmos through poetry. Einstein and Stephen Hawking baffle…

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Science

Idea | Advocating for more science in public places

Rory Deegan/May 22, 2017February 2, 2018

What do we see when we look around a public place? On those rare occasions when we can carelessly observe…

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