Category: Current Affairs
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High heels, big problems?
Dolapo Agunbiade takes us on a surrealist journey through time and pictures to explore the correlation between the height of heels and economic downturns
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Podcast: Covid-19 abroad – how Germany dealt with the pandemic
Johannes Thom speaks to James Molloy about Covid-19 in one of Europe’s mega-powers: Germany
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Covid-19 abroad: Brazil setting the wrong kind of records amid deadly second wave
A year after its president Jair Bolsonaro wrote Covid-19 off as ‘just a little flu’, Brazil is logging record daily death figures while its healthcare system faces collapse. Maria Lombardini in Rio de Janeiro tells Colm McGuirk about the last year
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Hedging our bets in lockdown
Online gambling is a hit in the pandemic. David Doyle investigates Ireland’s relationship with the bookies in lockdown
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Eating out(side)
James Molloy artfully interprets how takeaway culture has changed in Dublin during the pandemic
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Covid-19 Abroad: how the pandemic has impacted the college experience in the US
From her college dorm room in Connecticut, Ella McGettigan talks about returning home to an abandoned New York at the beginning of the pandemic, and how Trump’s attitude towards the virus contributed to the massive death toll
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Rage against the greenwashing machine
Speaking with Feasta representative Caroline Whyte, Jake Hurley explores how large corporations attempt to absolve themselves of environmental responsibility
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It’s about bloody time
To mark International Women’s Day, Dolapo Agunbiade discusses the period poverty progress being made in the first world
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Same ocean, different boat: The rural-urban lockdown divide
With no end in sight for Covid restrictions, Niamh Alexander takes a look at how different our experiences of lockdown can be
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Covid-19 abroad: The US and the impact of the pandemic from coast to coast
As America surpasses the grim landmark of 500,000 Covid-19 deaths, Liam Daly gets a glimpse at what life is like on the east and west coasts
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