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  • Image by Sacca via Flickr Having grown up with the internet at my fingertips, perhaps I have developed a cynical eye – a digitally fuelled distrust, when it comes to the marriage of wealth and poverty. Last week, news of Kate Perry’s appointment as the newest Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF got me thinking about this paradigm…

  • Make no mistake, I’m not the most health conscious person around when it comes to food. I eat what I like and tend to avoid what I don’t. But with obesity affecting more people than ever before, especially children, there are fewer and fewer reasons left to justify bad diets. Sadly, even the most prudent…

  • Ciaran D’Arcy has a bone to pick. Read on as he outlines 10 ways to ‘endear’ yourself at your local bar. 1. Remember to order your drinks one at a time, they love running backwards and forwards as it keeps them fit. 2. When ordering a round, please make sure you don’t know what you…

  • According to the National Transport Authority’s (NTA) quarterly figures, less than 5% of Dublin Bus services have been more than five minutes late for scheduled departure times between January 2012 and May 2013. On its website the NTA, which publishes performance reports on all public sector transport under its remit, officially states that “Dublin Bus…

  • Sport is rife with corruption and bet fixing “happens more than it is reported”. That is the opinion of Irish sports betting journalist Wayne Bailey. Wayne, who writes a sports betting column for the Irish Independent, said that the betting industry is becoming the scapegoat for an issues that goes beyond the industry’s control. “I…

  • Ireland is unlikely to have statutory regulations on cosmetic procedures in place by the end of the year, despite the Department of Health identifying cosmetic surgery as “one of their priority areas”. Although earlier reports stated that the Department of Health aimed to have legislative proposals ready for the Health Minister’s consideration by the end…