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The senator on living alone, destigmatising homosexuality, and stepping down from politics

The rate of change in the last two centuries makes the past feel much further away than it actually is, which inclines us to fawn over the future, and either patronize the past or ignore it altogether.

A celebration for the 400th anniversary of the Wayside Cross will take place in Errill on Friday, evening  July 29. The Cross, known locally as the Monumen...

Portlaoises Medical Mile Reporter: Prof Henry OConnell Consultant Psychiatrist and Associate Clinical Professor (UL), and Triogue Community Mental Health Centre, Portlaoise 10 Apr 2021 );  ); Portlaoise is the county town of Laois and, with a current population of 22,000, one of the fastest growing towns in Ireland. Centrally located in the Irish midlands and within commuting distance of Dublin, Waterford and Limerick, Portlaoise has in recent years become increasingly cosmopolitan, with a ...

Studying the Whipping Boy Concept: Truth or Myth? The history of the whipping boys - although generally accepted as true - is largely clouded in mystery as scholars were unable to prove it for a very long time. The story of a whipping boy is certainly a story of injustice and mistreatment, and a great insight into the skewed social hierarchy of the early and late medieval period.     At the time, young boys from the upper echelons, be they kings, heirs, princes, highborn nobles, or monarch...