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It might not have been loud enough to hear, but a subtle half-time whistle blew over the past week. Three months into the biggest behaviour change project Ireland has ever participated in, we discarded our jerseys and took a breather.…

The COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally shifted the way that Americans work, socialize, and generally go about their lives. Access to healthcare has been impacted by the pandemic as hospitals are dealing with huge numbers of cases across…

A few weeks ago, Twitter’s algorithm showed me one of the most circulated recipes of the lockdown. It’s a coffee recipe, made with instant coffee grounds, sugar, hot water and milk. If you spend time on social media, you’ve almost certainly…

It was the height of the Celtic Tiger and funds were tight. There was no way that I was going back to the bog for another summer so it was the building site for me. Mullingar was booming, but I wouldn’t get a sniff without a Safe Pass.…

If you could measure anxiety levels the way you do temperature, right now, the world would be hotter than the Sahara. The coronavirus pandemic has ushered in societal changes in unprecedented ways. Unemployment is soaring, people are…

In the interest of strengthening national solidarity and by extension inspire compliance to preventative public health measures, a narrative of ‘we are in this together’ pervades popular and political discourse surrounding Covid-19. Such…

At the start of the coronavirus pandemic, I lived my life like most other young gobshites. Thinking I was invincible. I wore gloves, and social distanced etc but still laboured under the mistaken belief that the coronavirus could only be…

Now is a time for lecturers to reflect “Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.” So claims the Old Man in The Road, Cormac McCarthy’s 2006 post-apocalyptic novel. Ireland in the time of COVID-19 has not yet reached the grey,…

Teaching younger generations in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, or STEM, is incredibly important. Getting younger people interested in STEM helps them to have increased earning potential should they obtain a…

COVID-19 has imposed a new way of living on many of us. With necessary restrictions on movement at a national and international level, normality is on temporarily hold and our pace of life reduced to a crawl. While unlike other disasters…