Universal Class has over 500 online courses and I chose one from the Alternative Healthcare series called the Art of Breathing. Who would have thought that we would need lessons on how to breathe?! But as we get older we develop habits we didn’t even know we had, bad habits that are physical, mental and emotional.
Travel books that will give you serious wanderlust
Level 3 restrictions might make the world seem smaller but there are plenty of ways to scratch that travel itch without leaving your home. These books set around the world will tide you over until it's finally time to dust off your passport.
In a brutally honest and frank biography, Christy Dignam looks back at his remarkable life and his passion for music. He grew up in Finglas in North Dublin where his two passions were birds and music. In 1973 at the age of thirteen he saw David Bowie on Top of the Pops and knew he wanted to be a rock star.
On the afternoon of Friday, 3rd May 2019, an official Dublin City Council commemorative plaque unveiling took place at the site of Séamus Ennis’s boyhood home in Finglas, which was demolished during the 1960s.
Last week we looked at the death certificate for James McCormack and discovered that there was a discrepancy in his age. His death certificate stated that he was forty years of age in 1916 whereas five years earlier the 1911 census records his age as thirty years, which means that he would have been thirty five at the time of his death.
Tá sé céad bliain ó bhí Toghcháin áitiúla na bliana 1920 ar siúl, toghcháin a bhí ríthábhachtach maidir le stair rialtais áitiúil na hÉireann.
Chun na himeachtaí sin a cheiliúradh, agus ó tharla chomh tábhachtach agus a bhí siad maidir leis an gcoimhlint chun neamhspleáchas a bhaint amach, tá Cartlannaithe agus Bainisteoirí Taifead an Rialtais Áitiúil coimisiúnaithe ag an Roinn Tithíochta, Rialtais Áitiúil agus Oidhreachta chun foilseachán a chur i dtoll a chéile chun toghcháin áitiúla na bliana 1920 a chomóradh.
This year marks the centenary of the local elections of 1920 which were pivotal in the history of local government in Ireland.
To mark these events, and because of their significance for the struggle for independence, the Dept. of Housing, Local Government & Heritage recently commissioned a publication from the Local Government Archivists and Records Managers to commemorate the 1920 local elections.
Do you know anyone suffering with a mental health problem, someone in your family, neighbourhood or workplace. Maybe you have been stressed at a particular time in your life and needed help or were frightened, as someone you love presented as not being in their right mind. The truth is mental health problems are more common than we are prepared to admit.
As a young science fiction fan growing up in the 80s I had two main obsessions - the big budget Star Wars films, which I’d seen many times in the cinema, and the decidedly lower budgeted Doctor Who TV series on the BBC.