Irish opera singer Veronica Dunne dies aged 93 Operatic community loses highly respected figure and ever-present artist for over 60 years
Mon, Apr 5, 2021, 20:32 Updated: Mon, Apr 5, 2021, 22:21
Veronica Dunne continued to teach at the Leinster School of Music and the Royal Irish Academy of Music and in 2014, aged 87, she was still teaching 39 hours a week. File photograph: The Irish Times
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Renowned Irish opera singer Veronica Dunne has died aged 93. She was a constant and highly respected, figure in Irish opera for more than 60 years, first as a soprano and later, and until recently, as a teacher.
At a webinar event on housing last month, the chief executive of Cairn Homes, Michael Stanley, produced what he described as a âmind-blowing statisticâ. It related to home ownership rates among 25 to 39-year-olds. Stanley noted that the percentage of this age cohort that owned their own homes had dropped from 22 per cent in 2011 to 16 per cent in 2016, according to the official census data, and that based on his companyâs own research it was now about 12 per cent. He described the trend as âextraordinary and very worryingâ.
It was an interesting fault line for the boss of one of the largest homebuilders in the State to pick up on. Home ownership has collapsed among adults of a prime working age â a reflection of surging house prices and a lost decade of wage growth since the financial crisis. Owning a property has become increasingly concentrated among older age cohorts. In 2016, 85 per cent of 65-year-olds owned their own homes, while just 14 per c
Bike theft surge: Angle grinders, muggings and break-ins Despite lockdowns, bicycles are being stolen at greater rate as more people take to cycling
Sat, Apr 3, 2021, 04:54
Some bike theft victims suspect their cases were never really investigated despite making reports to the Garda. A number of Garda sources accepted many cases were low priority because of other workloads. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw
When a thief moved in to steal an expensive Scott carbon fibre racing bike from Gary Cardiff, a human resources executive and mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter, it didn’t end well for him.
Cardiff (37) was cycling from his home in Dublin’s Inchicore out to Howth Head one day when he realised en route he had forgotten his pump and so he ventured into an East Wall supermarket to buy one.