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I have been faithless for the entirety of my adulthood. As a teenager growing up in the Parkhead tradition, I carried Catholicism like a banner, believing in God because he was our god, the Irish god, something that our postcolonial…

Fury at the homogenisation of Dublin City only grows more intense. It’s increasingly difficult to ignore the old town slowly metamorphosing into a soulless shell, more a commercial district than a city, fewer residents on its streets, no…

My dad died last April and everything I thought I understood about grief has proven wrong. I have lost relatives and friends, but nothing prepared me for the realisation that I will ll never hear his voice again. Yet, losing a parent is the…

The corporate model is failing. That’s according to millennials, whose support for large companies took a nosedive over the last few years. Today, politicians on both sides of the aisle believe governments should behave and be run like…

The most important thing that stuck with me from my study of linguistics is that words have a price. We have free speech; you have the option to say whatever you like. But whatever you do say has its consequences. You pay that price by…

The average life expectancy in the U.S. is declining. This loss of life isn't attributable to a war or a frightening new plague, either. However, people are dying off more quickly, and it isn't only the elderly. Millennials with…

If someone said to you that you could rent a room in central Dublin for €250 a month you would probably be torn between snapping their hand off and looking around to try and find the catch. Well this is what Elder Home Share is offering.…

Do you love to check your reflection when walking past a storefront? Do you prep and primp in front of the mirror each time you visit the restroom? Perhaps you're one of many who over-plucked your eyebrows or picked at pimples until they…

Mindfulness, like the words epic, literally and freedom, is on the verge of meaning nothing at all. Well-meaning overuse and misunderstandings about its origin abound, and we’re all a little diminished by the loss. The word hasn’t been in…

It seems that everyone is talking about CBD oil lately, especially about its health benefits for the human mind and body. You have probably already seen at least one person using CBD to fight chronic conditions, such as pain or anxiety, for…