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So Long, And Thanks for All the Fish!

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Tomorrow, on January 16, the European Parliament will vote for or against the restoration of the 1998 ban on electric pulse fishing. For months, groups representing small-scale fishing fleets and environmental organisations across Europe have been sending letters to the…

Saving Lives Is Frowned Upon?

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Two years after the biggest spike in arrivals of migrants and refugees in Europe since World War II, the influx of people running from the Middle East and Africa seems to be slowing down. According to the International Organization for…

Bright Young Things

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Do you want to meet the first Irish person set to travel to outer space, the world greatest hacker, befriend a robot or learn how to CPR your dog? You can do all that at the BT Young Scientist and…

Gender Equality: Myth or Reality?

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Take a look at this impromptu list of achievements on gender equality: 1870 – Married Women’s Property Act allows women to keep their property. 1918 – Canadian and British women gain the right to vote. 1956 – Golda Meir, the…

Welcome to Ireland?

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More than 10,500 work permits were issued in 2017. This year, the Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation plans to loosen up visa regulations for “lower-skilled workers” in some sectors. In October, the number of unemployed was 246,900, in November…

The Planet is fine?

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Two years to the day after the Paris agreement was signed, over 50 world leaders and hundreds of ministers gather again in the capital of France. They will discuss concrete solutions to reduce global warming, and most importantly, to boost…

Keep Calm and Brexit On

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If the way the Brexit negotiations are handled is not one of the best examples of Murphy’s laws, then what is? “If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.” Yesterday, this “something” manifested in the form…

New development in the Brexit talks!

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According to Donald Tusk on Twitter several minutes ago, he and Theresa May are “getting closer to sufficient progress” to attack stage two talks in December. “Tell me why I like Mondays! Encouraged after my phone call with Taoiseach @campaignforleo…

Irreconcilable differences?

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The negotiations of the UK-EU divorce are still going on, but who gets custody of Northern Ireland? Although there have been no concrete developments in the UK-EU negotiations, there are rumours circulating that a draft with the Irish border solution…