Travel : Pictures of Ireland
In this account, Italian black hole physicist and photographer Matteo Broccoli shares his words and images during a trip around…
Life
Orbits View | Tech’s Act of Contrition
At Web Summit 2018 in Lisbon, making amends is front and centre on the agenda The last few years have…
Orbits View | The Modern Kings of (Payment) Convenience
At this year’s MoneyConf in Dublin, Ireland, dozens of international speakers alluded to the idea that the culture of nations…
Environment | Campaign for Cleaner Oceans
Irish Musician and songwriter Conor O’Malley is back with his latest single ‘Oceans’ (see below), beginning a campaign for cleaning…
Travel | One Day in the Borderlands of Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil.
An Irishman ponders food and family history on a visit to three contrasting neighbouring countries in Latin America. Morning: Cuidad…
Language | Sorry for your Troubles : Hiberno-English and a history of euphemism.
In which the author gives out* about the Hiberno-English tendency towards euphemism *tabhairt amach (lit) to give out (fig) to complain about…
Health | Why are we not talking about fatal invasive fungal diseases?
Last summer, a UK-based hospital was forced to close its intensive care unit after 50 patients became infected with a highly drug-resistant…
Reflection | Out of the Mouths of Babes
I am neither a scientist nor a mathematician, preferring to understand the Cosmos through poetry. Einstein and Stephen Hawking baffle…
Music | Zohra, the Afghan women’s orchestra
Hailing from a variety of towns and regions in Afghanistan, Zohra isn’t your average orchestra – in fact one would…
Insight | Misrepresented fundamentalism and the war on political correctness
During the second and third US Presidential debates last year, the then Republican nominee and current President Donald Trump raised the…
Insight | No Country for Southern Men
As the famous Neil Sedaka number once extolled, breaking up is hard to do, especially when it comes to nation…
Insight | How the Irish government began its anti-traveller movement
The recent burkini ban in France, and today’s announcement by Angela Merkel to support a partial ban on the burqa…
Opinion | Fidel Castro, megalomaniac with a heart
Consensus today after Castro’s death will be predictably whittled down to soundbites. Some on the left see him as a…
Opinion | Elite origin of the Irish language revival is hindering learning
On the 25 November 1892, when Douglas Hyde – he who later became the first president of the Irish Republic…
Manifesto | Saving the lives of Europe’s stray dogs
In the spring of 2012 a couple of like-minded women and I registered an association called Kyproskoirat ry (Finnish for…
Opinion | Preparing Ireland for climate change mitigation
There is a debate missing from Irish politics. Despite the now overwhelming scientific consensus about the causes and implications of…