Can we save the world from overtourism?
When Portueguese nobleman Bartolomeu Dias sailed around the Cape of Good Hope for the first time in 1488, he opened up a trade route...
Perhaps its time to stop banging on about breastfeeding..
I’m currently sitting in a cafe beside a sea of breastfeeding mums, chatting away to each other, enjoying precious bonding time with their babies.
It’s...
The right to free speech can never be gender neutral
Under the banner of "inclusivity", the patients have been allowed to run the asylum - also known as California's elite Berkeley University.
The birthplace of...
Women’s football will never be ‘better than men’s’ while posturing feminists...
'The Women's World Cup is a roaring success. It's exactly like the men's World Cup," said no one - well maybe a few feminists...
Meet the Irish woman trying to preserve the environment
Laura Kehoe is studying links between Europe and deforestation in Latin America
Laura Kehoe is passionate about the natural world. In the name of conservation,...
I love Ireland for the craic, but does the glass always...
It appears, that despite puritans on Instagram posting photos of themselves working out and being smug- Irish females overwhelmingly just like to just get...
LE BALLON ROUGE Why the kids are the VIPs of this...
Premiering this year at the Cannes Film Festival, Le Ballon Rouge children's area offers some welcome respite for parents and kids. Why didn't they...
Action not just words vital to save Brazil’s rainforests
Action not just words vital to save Brazil’s rainforests
One-sixth of the carbon footprint of EU diets is directly
Thu, May 9, 2019, 01:00
Barbara McCarthy
In 2011...
A moment of clarity’ on trying to quit smoking by accident
Link to original article in The Irish Times here
I gave up cigarettes by accident. It coincided – give or take a few weeks –...
Chocolate is racist- whatever next?
Read original article here
You can't help but throw your head back and laugh. This was the week chocolate was racist.
Whatever next? Bobby Brown? Coffee?...
Why haven’t we cashed in on Valentines Day?
St Valentine, the patron saint of love was executed hideously in Rome in the 3rd century.
His crime — secretly marrying couples in a time...
Forget the backstop as Ireland unites on field of dreams
link to original article in Irish Independent
In these heady times of peak Brexit hysteria, and Cuban Missile Crisis panic, you'd think it is impossible...
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