Category: General
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Weaving in the years: Meeting Ireland’s fresh face in the fashion industry
Sarah Flynn talks to Mario Bowden about her determination to keep the traditional textile industry alive and sustainable
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Baseball Ireland: An American past-time becomes a new Irish tradition
Jessica Viola investigates the triumphs and threats that face baseball being played in Ireland
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Cleanup in Ireland’s dirtiest old town
As litter levels rise across Ireland, Colm McGuirk spends the morning with one of Dublin’s newest community cleanup projects
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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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A community of highflyers
Ireland is famed for its beautiful beaches and big waves. Izzy Rowley discovers some of the people making the most of it
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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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Podcast: Roisin Kiberd explores our Digital Dystopia in The Disconnect
Listen to Irish author Roisin Kiberd chat to Jake Hurley about her new book and why her relationship with the internet changed in 2016. Read on below for Jake Hurley’s thoughts on The Disconnect: A Personal Journey Through the Internet
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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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Unforgetting Odetta
In 1961 Dr Martin Luther King, Jr called her the “queen of American folk music” – 60 years later it’s time to recognise Odetta for the cultural icon she is
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