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A bed, a bathroom and an empty bank account
Nothing is safe unless you have money to burn at this stage. Read more…
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A shortage of horsepower
Undocumented horses and ponies cost the State €4.5 million a year Read more…
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Teaching on a prayer
[dropcap]I[/dropcap]t’s strange looking back on religion classes during the junior cycle. Classes were considered somewhat of a farce by fellow students, a class where you could sit back and relax and not worry about the Read more…
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Young people pave the streets of tomorrow
Students are causing quite the political storm worldwide Read more…
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15 years, nine months, and 25 days
[dropcap]A[/dropcap] 15-year-old girl gives birth, alone, beside a holy statue in a church yard.
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Pope Francis to visit a changed Ireland
[dropcap]P[/dropcap]ope Francis is scheduled to come to Ireland for the World Meeting of Families in August 2018. However, he is coming to a country that is very different to the ‘catholic Ireland’ that the last Read more…
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50 years after Martin Luther King’s death, we are still fighting for his dream
[dropcap]On[/dropcap] the 4th of April 1968, Martin Luther King Junior was fatally shot in his motel room in the depths of Tennessee.
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Light sabers light up children’s ward
<dropcap>T</dropcap>he capacity to show kindness is perhaps what defines goodness: for one young man who battled brain cancer, this capacity allows him to give back to the hospital ward that treated him in a novel Read more…
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DCU paves way for autism inclusion; let this be a watershed
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he crowds obligatory rise to feet, accompanied by enthusiastic applause bore reverence and respect for President Higgins, as he exited the Seamus Heaney Theatre on March 22nd. As patron of the autism charity AsIAm, it was Read more…
Student Life
45,000 waiting for driving test date
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]here are currently 45,000 people waiting for a driving test date in Ireland. Although the RSA waiting time target is 10 weeks maximum, Buncrana and Gorey see average waiting times of 19.3 weeks and 18.4 Read more…
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Could Cambridge influence the 8th?
[dropcap]W[/dropcap]hen social media drives the agenda of campaigns to support worthwhile charities, like the ‘no make up selfie’ for cancer, or the ‘ice bucket challenge’ for ALS, the reaction from the masses is generally one Read more…
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Temporarily out of service
[dropcap]O[/dropcap]n March 2nd, as temperatures fell and images of snowmen and igloos filled news-feeds, the video of a JCB digger pulling the roof off of a South Dublin Lidl supermarket stood starkly in contrast. Later, Read more…
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A healthy fear of dying
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]here are two things you can be sure of in this lifetime; you are born, and you die, and while it’s not easy talking about death, there are occasions when the taboo seems a consistent Read more…
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Procrastination – avoidance at its best
[dropcap]P[/dropcap]rocrastination. A fifteen letter word that’s almost as difficult to spell as it is to overcome. Everybody experiences it, but the major impact it can have is often overlooked. Procrastination is “the act of putting Read more…
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Where words fail, music speaks
[dropcap]How[/dropcap] do you comfort a child who has received impossible news? Sometimes words are not enough, but music is, according to Gráinne Hope, founder of Kids’ Classics, a non-profit organisation which brings professional music into Read more…
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Storm Emma: Assessing the cause of Europe’s peculiar weather spasm
[dropcap]A[/dropcap]s the slabs of hard snow on the ground melt away, so do Ireland’s memories of the peculiar March whiteout – some good, some not so much, and one in particular involving a stolen digger Read more…
Inspirations
Giving while living – the sharing billionaire
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he rhyme says sharing is caring, but billionaire Chuck Feeney exemplifies the concept: “I cannot think of a more personally rewarding and appropriate use of wealth than to give while one is living,” Feeney says. Read more…
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Snow one gets left behind
[dropcap]H[/dropcap]er name was Emma, and though she came as a shock for Ireland , delivering snow and curtailing progress, she will be remembered by many, as the storm that let us out to play.
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Bridging the gender pay gap – start with childcare.
[dropcap]G[/dropcap]ender pay gaps do little to address equality, and according to a Fianna Fáil Senator progress will not be made in Ireland until the current childcare crisis is addressed.
Health
Cancer does not have to be deadly
[dropcap]F[/dropcap]ear. That’s all that Máire can recall. It seeped into her veins, into her mind and into her soul. On the day that Máire was diagnosed with breast cancer, all she heard was the dreaded Read more…
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Time to head south on the Inca trail
[dropcap]F[/dropcap]or some people the idea of backpacking and students represents a tacky idealism of Thai full-moon parties, fluorescent revellers and the proverbial buckets of whiskey. And, while there can be no denying the allure of Read more…
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You drive me crazy
[dropcap]S[/dropcap]now covers pockmarked roads, a crunchy backdrop to a husky crescendo promising ‘We won’t have to drive too far, close to the border and into the city.’ A conjuring of prose and clever song lyrics, Read more…
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From Russia with love
“[dropcap]H[/dropcap]uddled in a corner, my brother and I fiddled with the radio until we caught the signal of an American radio station. ‘We’re coming to save you,’ the presenter would say, in Lithuanian. But they Read more…
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Vegan food sprouting up at DCU
[dropcap]Veganism[/dropcap] may be the new trend, and a lifestyle synonymous with Generation Z, but with limited options at the best of times, students have struggled in the past to find the right foods to match Read more…
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Waltons – Then the music ended
[dropcap]W[/dropcap]hen the South Great Georges Street branch of music retailer Waltons closed on Monday 19th, after almost thirty years in business, the move hit some particularly close to home. “Personally, I feel pretty disappointed” former Read more…