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A portrait of our league
Last March I embarked on a photographic quest to depict the essence of our much-derided domestic football league. Historical, sometimes dilapidated but always characteristic, League of Ireland clubs’ stadia still retain a quintessential flavour of the game in its simplest form, something that…
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Should cannabis be legalised in Ireland?
Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan – TD for Roscommon/South Leitrim – has put forward a private members bill in the Dáil for the decriminalisation of cannabis – similar to the line that many U.S states have taken in recent months. I took to the streets of Dublin…
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The Web Summit Dublin
The Web Summit officially opened today bright and early at 9am with found Paddy Cosgrave taking to the main stage. The day was split up between numerous stages in the RDS with some of the biggest names in tech talking about the industry,…
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Bram Stoker Festival in images/sound
Audio extract from ‘Dracula in the Cathedral’, Saturday 26 October 2013 in St Patrick’s cathedral, Dublin. Performance by Gerard Lee (Jonathan Harker) and Michael James Ford (Count Dracula). https://soundcloud.com/diarmaid-murray/dracula-audio
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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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“It’s not amateur anymore”: Colm Begley on Gaelic Football’s increasing professionalism
“An amateur game played at a professional level” was how Colm Begley described Gaelic football this week. “The gap has been closed” between GAA and AFL in recent seasons stated the former Brisbane Lions Rookie of the Year, speaking ahead of last weekends second International…
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Is a university degree worth more than an IT degree?
At the recent Global Irish Economic Forum, Glen Dimplex CEO Sean O’Driscoll stated that Ireland has “too many universities”. The University College Cork graduate believes that “We need to redefine the role of ITs. They should not be quasi-universities. ITs should be…
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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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Golden Discs Opens Its Doors Again
by Mike Coleman &Greg Synnott Irish music store Golden Discs has re-opened today in St Stephen’s Green Shopping Centre. They have re-opened their doors to the public again thanks to a successful year of expansion. This year they have opened stores in Cork,…
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