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The Mental Games We Play and Muay Thai
Combat sports have seen a change since the Karate Kid days. To many people, it is the third space that occupies one’s need for community in between work and home. Multiple studies show a positive link between combat sports and reduced stress in day-to-day life, with the key difference being the ‘flow state’ achieved in…
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“Lig Amach!” This command to the recruits, now fully trained and tested, in the square of Sarsfield Barracks, officially marked the ending of the 6-month training course. Tears, cheers and proud embraces followed as the 120th platoon trained under the 12th Infantry Battalion celebrated their graduation as fully part of the Irish Defence Forces…
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In January and February of 2026, the HSE and PSI began the rollout of a new service for community pharmacy across Ireland called the Common Conditions Service. This campaign was to enable community pharmacists to provide advice and offer expanded treatment options to patients for eight common conditions. The service broadened the scope of pharmacists’…
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Students receiving Government grants are still turning to charitable assistance to meet the costs of university, with the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul (SVP) reporting that its education bursaries support over 2,000 students. SVP said its Education and Training bursary fund had provided over €3 million towards expenses including books, laptops, course fees, travel,…
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Designing album covers for rock stars, having your work displayed at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and creating one of the most recognisable political posters of the 20th century is a dream career for any artist. For a kid from Glasnevin with no art degree or even art classes in school, this was…
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Upon descending the stairs of the International Centre for the Image, beneath Dublin’s Docklands, one can now experience the cosmos of “Rhi-Entry”, a new exhibition by Rhiannon Adam. Over 781 people have been to space. 28 have travelled to the moon. 12 men have set foot on its surface. Until November 2021, when Irish artist…
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A selection of Palestinian artworks, including some that were smuggled out of Gaza during the ongoing genocide, will go on display in Dublin next week. The Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) presents How to Work Together?, an exhibition from the Eltiqa collective, curated by the Question of Funding community. Speaking from Amsterdam, curator Yazan Khalili told…
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