With so many sadly emigrating, Eamonn Fingleton is one Irish man who returned home recently after living in London, New York and Tokyo for many years. He is now a local in Dublin 4. Fingleton is a world-renowned author in […]
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I got married in a 5 star resort in the Caribbean. I’ve never hugged a tree in my life. And the thought of being nearly ten miles from the nearest flushed toilet left me with chills. So when my husband’s […]
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If you think science is boring you must have never visited the Science Gallery on Pearse Street. It is a public science center, ‘where art and science collide’. Exhibitions are represented by diverse fields of study from ìgeneral nerdinessî to […]
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In the 1970s newborn babies from Holles Street Maternity Hospital were brought to Westland Row Church for Christening before they left hospital, in case they died. A local lady Lena Redmond was a street trader at the time and Lena, […]
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I recently read a book called Shadow and Sun by Neil Campbell, the son of James Campbell, the minister of the old Presbyterian Church on the junction of Tritonville Road, Sandymount that was demolished back in 1999. The grounds of […]
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Sail Training Ireland are delighted to announce a series of sail training voyages on a variety of Tall Ships in 2013. The aim is to increase the number of tall ship sea voyages to and from the country. The opportunity […]
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Bret Easton Ellis started a storm in a queercup recently when he stated that openly gay actor Mat Bomer couldn’t play the lead in the planned movie adaptation of ‘50 Shades of Grey’. The American Psycho scribe, stated on twitter; […]
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Every parent would like to think that as they raise their children they impart enough knowledge and know how to allow them a relatively safe passage through life. But we all know that no matter how hard we try, we […]
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A new report by the Men’s Health Forum calls for a reduction in alcohol consumption and more stringent legislation concerning alcoholic policy in Ireland. ‘A Report on the All-Ireland Young Men and Suicide Project’ focuses on effective mental health work […]
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Ireland finished fourth in a Europe wide poll looking at the highest rate of suicide in young people. 500 people, across the age spectrum, took their own lives in 2011. But what can we do about it? According to Irish […]
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