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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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