Of all the gifts you will ever give your child, few are given as reluctantly as a phone. We will buy them consoles or tablets, or just about any internet-enabled device other than a phone.
When Catherine Connolly visited the Fleadh Cheoil in Wexford earlier this month, she was the only presidential candidate in the field. The Independent TD met many people at what is one of the country’s foremost cultural festivals, among them young people who she said “inspired” her.
As an eager medical student, I requested a large bundle of patient charts for a research audit I was doing on breast cancer surgery. I asked the senior doctor I was working with, where was the best place to keep the charts until I had finished extracting the information I needed.
News this week of a forthcoming memoir from Mike Joyce, former drummer of The Smiths, could not have landed at a more perfect moment for publicity purposes.
What next for managers? Pay them officially, as opposed to the under-the-counter deals, which apply in many counties.
A clutch of Irish firms previously used to raised billions of dollars for Russian entities including a state-owned bank and the country’s railroad system were compulsorily struck off the company register here this week.
A US court has dismissed a fraud lawsuit in which $6.3m (€5.4m) in damages was sought from Irish technology company Sedicii Innovations Limited and its founder and CEO Rob Leslie.
The company contracted to roll out the State’s national broadband plan has continued paying out millions of euro worth of dividends to its shareholders.
At least 19 people have been killed in another Russian drone and missile swarm attack on Ukraine. The offices of the European Union and the British Council were struck, along with a five-storey block of flats destroyed in Kyiv. Lots and lots of outrage. So what?
The kids may have gone back to school and the sun might have taken a bit of a sabbatical, but that doesn’t mean that it’s time to start decking the halls with boughs of holly. There was a time when the countdown to Christmas started tentatively after Halloween, but increasingly, year after year it seems to get earlier and earlier.
Don’t mind me over here – I’m just marking myself safe from the Summer of 2025. Yes, I’ve just about survived, although my sanity might just say otherwise.
The UK, France and Germany have announced plans to revive UN-backed sanctions on Iran over fears the country is developing nuclear weapons.
There is a risk of school closures the longer an indefinite strike by over 2,000 secretaries and caretakers continues, principals’ representatives have warned.
The Walsh Tiny House
There’s a word for that moment when you’re desperately close to an orgasm, but then the urge suddenly disappears for reasons you can’t explain. It’s called ‘the arousal gap’ and it’s much more common than you think.
Imagine a crowded beach in Amity, a boy on a lilo, a fin coming, and no da-dum. Or Superman taking off in an aural vacuum. Or Darth Vader making an entrance without his ominous fanfare. The music of John Williams has coloured a staggering number of seminal cultural moments over the last 50-odd years, and the films of Steven Spielberg are inconceivable without his honeying influence.
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