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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

Music | Zohra, the Afghan women’s orchestra

Pauric Keenan/April 20, 2017March 16, 2018

Hailing from a variety of towns and regions in Afghanistan, Zohra isn’t your average orchestra – in fact one would…

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Science

Investigation | Could the Antarctic ice sheet really collapse?

Johannes Sutter/March 28, 2017March 16, 2018

Antarctica is on the move. Enough ice to rise global sea level by almost sixty meters – nearly two hundred…

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Arts

Poetry | Home for the funeral

John O'Malley/March 5, 2017February 2, 2018

In memory of our friend Ciarán Duffy Reverting to type we talk as in the long ago Schoolboys meeting outside…

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Life

Insight | Misrepresented fundamentalism and the war on political correctness

Rob Barnes/March 3, 2017February 2, 2018

During the second and third US Presidential debates last year, the then Republican nominee and current President Donald Trump raised the…

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Life

Insight | No Country for Southern Men

Gerard Lynch/January 12, 2017June 14, 2018

As the famous Neil Sedaka number once extolled, breaking up is hard to do, especially when it comes to nation…

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Arts

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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Life

Insight | How the Irish government began its anti-traveller movement

Rob Barnes/December 6, 2016March 16, 2018

The recent burkini ban in France, and today’s announcement by Angela Merkel to support a partial ban on the burqa…

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Life

Opinion | Fidel Castro, megalomaniac with a heart

JP O'Malley/November 26, 2016February 2, 2018

Consensus today after Castro’s death will be predictably whittled down to soundbites. Some on the left see him as a…

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Science

Investigation | Are we looking for missing flight MH370 in the right place?

Jonathan Durgadoo/November 20, 2016March 16, 2018

The search for missing flight MH370 has so far been focused on a 120,000 square kilometre region south west of…

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Arts

Idea | Death of the joke, rise of the factoid

Danny Denton/November 15, 2016February 2, 2018

See: my uncle was once a contestant on Mastermind. Early eighties, height of The Troubles, and, believe it or believe…

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Life

Opinion | Elite origin of the Irish language revival is hindering learning

Ciarán Weafer/November 7, 2016March 15, 2018

On the 25 November 1892, when Douglas Hyde – he who later became the first president of the Irish Republic…

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Science

In-depth | Artificial Intelligence: the creative processor?

Gerard Lynch/November 1, 2016March 8, 2018

If AI machines can only learn from what has come before, how can they instigate a paradigm shift in creative…

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Science

Insight | What the ancient carbon dioxide record might mean for future climate change

Wide Orbits/October 31, 2016February 2, 2018

  A team co-led by UCD’s Prof. Jennifer McElwain have shown how deep-time reconstruction demonstrates that tropical forests can deeply…

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Life

Manifesto | Saving the lives of Europe’s stray dogs

Raisa Nissila/October 24, 2016February 2, 2018

In the spring of 2012 a couple of like-minded women and I registered an association called Kyproskoirat ry (Finnish for…

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Arts

Interview | Sir Richard J. Evans talks 19th century Europe

Wide Orbits/October 23, 2016February 2, 2018

Freelance journalist JP O’Malley caught up with British historian,
 Richard J Evans, in Waterstones Picadilly, in London, on Friday October…

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Life

Opinion | Preparing Ireland for climate change mitigation

Michael Keary/October 19, 2016February 2, 2018

There is a debate missing from Irish politics. Despite the now overwhelming scientific consensus about the causes and implications of…

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