Category: Features
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Dublin Marathon in Pictures
Almost 14500 people ran in the Dublin marathon on Monday. The men’s race was won by Irishman Sean Hehir with a time of two hours, 18 minutes and 19 seconds with Dublin’s Maria McCambridge winning the women’s race in two hours, 38 minutes and 51…
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The Dublin Web Summit
The Dublin Web Summit hits Dublin again with the party kicking off tonight. Tomorrow we get down to business with everyone from tech, design, and start ups to advertising and music, pouring into the RDS from around the world. Now if you haven’t…
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Bastille grace Olympia stage
There’s something endearing about a band that repeatedly thanks the audience for coming out to see them. It’s a refreshing display of humility and gratitude in an industry that is becoming increasingly dominated by money. But as Bastille took to the Olympia stage…
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Reviving the spirit of 1913
As many of you will know, this year marks the hundredth anniversary of one of the seminal events in this country’s history- the 1913 Lockout. Centred around a dispute between employers and workers about the abhorrent living and working condition that affected one third of the…
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Gesaffelstein the Great
Gesaffelstein is a 28 year old Dark Techno DJ who, despite having a name more German-sounding than two Bratwursts in a pair of lederhosen, hails from Lyon in France. Well known to aficionados of Techno, Gesaffelstein is not quite yet a household name,…
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The city in Autumn
From the leaf filled paths of St Stephen’s Green to the hazy streets of the inner city – here is a collection of photographs showcasing Dublin in Autumn.
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The news we want you to read
It begs the question why a technology entrepreneur like Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of amazon.com, would be interested in gripping the controls of the flailing pages of the Washington Post. Bezos is a techie, graduating in 1986 with a degree in computer…
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Painting October Pink for cancer awareness
‘Real men wear pink’. This is the slogan of one of the biggest cancer awareness events in America, organised by the National Football League. ‘A Crucial Catch’ is the NFL’s annual event aimed to raise awareness throughout the country – and the globe- based on…
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Ireland’s 5 biggest drug busts
Last week, Gardaí seized over €100k worth of cannabis from a house in Galway (http://www.rte.ie/news/2013/1009/479382-cannabis-seizure/). While drug seizures may not be as shocking to Irish society as they used to be, there have been a surprising amount of them of late. I took…
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