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The 15-year-old who died after giving birth at a grotto in Granard would have turned 50 in April

Farmers have nothing to fear - our job is to feed the world 2022-01-22

Opinion: we need to evolve our land policy 2022-01-01

Opinion: we need to evolve our land policy 2022-01-01

Writer Peter McKenna’s gangland drama ‘must be successful in the US’ or be axed

  A dog shattered my Olympic dream. A couple of weeks before the national swimming championships as I cycled home from school, he knocked me off my bike. At Barrington’s Hospital in Limerick the doctor squinted at the X-ray of my elbow, made doubtful noises and, taking no chances, plastered it. The 1956 Olympics would have to go ahead without the pleasure of my company. My mother smiled grimly, saying, “Forget swimming now and concentrate on your studies for your Inter Cert.” My...

Family farm evolution 2021-04-28

We often hear people telling us that the Leaving Cert was much harder in the past, but what were the exams actually like?  Over the last few years we have collected Leaving Cert and Junior/Inter Cert exams, so people can find out. We were sparked into action by a Twitter-based claim by a friend who claimed to have had studied differentiation and complex numbers for Inter Cert mathematics in the 1980s (spoiler: they hadnt). We have collected many of the STEM exam papers from 1925 to present da...

This is the first book I have written since my dad died," Ciara Geraghty says of her new book, the hugely entertaining Make Yourself at Home. "I wanted it to be joyful and uplifting. It served as such a great distraction to me, from the grief." Ciaras father Don died three years ago. "There was a lot of relief around his death, because hed had dementia for so many years, but also, youre still grieving," she says of the contradictory nature of losing someone to the degenerative disease. "I kind ...

This is the first book I have written since my dad died," Ciara Geraghty says of her new book, the hugely entertaining Make Yourself at Home. "I wanted it to be joyful and uplifting. It served as such a great distraction to me, from the grief."