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SHARE If you’ve been working from home for the past year and have had about enough of the view from your kitchen table, or would like to give your Zoom background a bit of a real-life boost, it may be time to take a “workation”. With much of the global workforce no longer tethered to an office, hotels around the world are offering long-term packages that allow you to mix work with leisure in a new and exotic location. Here are some of the places we’d like to decamp to: Time in paradise ...

WAKING NED DEVINE Is an Underrated Heist Movie Twitter 0 comments Waking Ned Devine is an undeniably delightful comedy. Set along the Irish coast in the fictional village of Tullymore, at the outset it looks like a fun buddy comedy about a pair of aging friends who spend their time playing the lottery, paling around at their local pub, and going for joyrides on a little motorbike. But there’s one very important caveat: the 1998 film is a actually heist movie.  In a way it’s a very underst...

Kilshannig is going green for St Patricks Day thanks to the efforts of the Scór group from the GAA club which will be offering a celebration of Irish culture. With the country facing its second lockdown on the national feast, the aim is to lift everyones spirits through Irish music, song and dance. Kilshannig GAA has always been a strong supporter of the importance of the cultural aspect of the GAA in Scor and has been prominent down the years in ensuring the club was well represented, accordi...

The group formed to make a safer Balbriggan and tackle crime and antisocial behaviour in the community has held its first meeting and planned the way forward for its work. The Safe Balbriggan Pillar Group, which was ratified last week by the Balbriggan Leadership Group, held its first meeting last week and agreed a high-level work programme with three primary elements. Those three elements are engaging with and supporting the towns young people, fostering community integration and creating safe...

San Angelo is just days away from the grand opening of Burlington Stores on Sunset Dr. The new location will be the 86th store opened in the Lone Star State.

3 March 2021 Anthony Hoete New Zealand turns Māori tradition inside out with Toto Whare, an internalised home made affordable by ‘rigorous shopping’ The plywood pavilion opens to both sky and harbour. Credit: Patrick Reynolds A recently returned ex-pat, I found myself at the New Zealand Institute of Architects’ Awards in the somewhat paradoxical position of acting as an international juror while being ‘indigenous’. Studying architecture in the late 80s, the concept of ‘Māori archi...

Cork couple’s cracking egg enterprise goes from strength to strength What started off with an ‘honesty box’, selling fresh eggs to passers-by in 2018, has been transformed into a major food supply business by Cork couple Michael and Carmen O’Sullivan, reveals CHRIS DUNNE Carmen and Michael O’Sullivan of Farmsy.ie Chris Dunne BANDON man Michael O’Sullivan has a nickname among the local kids, as he drives around in his van, delivering his free range fresh farm eggs door-to-door. “L...

It may have struggled in Australia but in the US Holey Moley remains a very big deal where ABC has renewed it the show for not one -but two- more seasons. Produced by Australia’s Eureka Productions, with Unanimous Media, the mini golf contest has performed well as summer fare (it airs for an hour a week), increasing ratings. “It certainly has had a lot of chatter, its ratings are up [last] year,” ABC exec Rob Mills said. “ Holey Moley has been one of our breakouts.” ABC also increase...

Huge cocaine seizure in Cork highlights Irelands fulcrum position in global drug gang investigations Journal.ie 19/02/2021 Niall OConnor © DPA PA Images The Maersk Nimes seen here in Hamburg Germany was at the centre of the Irish anti-drug gang operation. THE ATTEMPTED IMPORTATION of €12m worth of cocaine into Ireland yesterday is not the first time that drug gangs have used a weekly fruit shipment from Central America to move large quantities of narcotics into Europe.  ...

Daily Monitor Saturday February 13 2021 Summary Drugs and deaths. Daniel Kinahan has been named in the Irish courts as heading one of Europe’s most brutal drug gangs. He’s also been a personal adviser to world heavyweight champion Tyson Fury. The BBC’s Darragh MacIntyre investigates how a company Kinahan helped set up has become one of the most powerful in the sport Advertisement It was the Gypsy King himself who revealed it all in a near joyous social media post last June. “I’m just ...