As Dublin city centre becomes ever more devoted to accommodating the trophy buildings of Silicon Valley's trophy companies, we really need to talk. For more read here.
Maynooth University (MU) and Dundalk Institute of Technology (DkIT) are the latest education institutions to successfully complete quality checks known as the Cinnte cycle of reviews. For more read here.
The teenagers in Stranger Things are far too quick to blame the interdimensional shadow monster for what's gone wrong in their community of Hawkins, Indiana. For more read here.
An Australian student has been released after a week in detention in North Korea and is "safe and well", Australia's prime minister has said. Swedish diplomats had raised the case of Alek Sigley (29) with North Korean authorities in Pyongyang where Australia does not have an embassy. For more read here.
A long-lost interview with a young man claiming to be Banksy, the world's most famous anonymous street artist, has been found in a television company's vault. For more read here.
On June 11th, Anchal Jain, a medical student who had recently completed her exams at Trinity College, opened an email on her desktop. After months of preparing for the worst she was initially confused by the words that appeared on her screen. For more read here.
Titles such as Plink Plink Fizz, Sunny Days and No More Plastic Pitches might not mean much to many people. But for some who grew up in Cork during the 70s, 80s and 90s home-produced magazines such as these represented an expression of the underground counterculture that spawned from the punk movement. For more read here.
Christian Adams' cartoon in the London Evening Standard of July 2nd is but one in a series of recent cartoons which have offended public opinion because they are perceived to use negative stereotyping – in this instance, anti-Irish stereotyping. For more read here.
Tá an scoil-lá thart. Caitheann páistí Ghaelscoil Chnoc Liamhna cúpla nóiméad ag spraoí ach ansan preabann siad ar aire. Le gairm shlógaidh agus bualadh bos tugann an sensei (oide) le fios go bhfuil sé in am dóibh anois díriú isteach ar an chomhraic. Ar lean.
Trinity College Dublin has refused to reveal how much money is being donated by the Al Maktoum Foundation for the establishment of a new centre for Middle Eastern studies at the university. Read more here.
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