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'Floating hells': life on 19th century Ireland's convict ships

Irish convicts awaiting transportation to Australia two centuries ago were housed on ships moored at Cork and Dublin harbours

Dublin's Capel Street during last summer's pedestrianisation pilot. Photo: Cian Cinty/IrishCycle.com http://www.irishcycle.com

Walk this way: why Irish cities are giving way to pedestrians

Jack B. Yeats (1871-1957). The Post Car. Cuala Press hand-coloured print. © Estate of Jack B. Yeats, DACS London/IVARO Dublin, 2022

How Cuala Press created a sense of Irish national identity

'Given the influence of a Quiet Eye on performance, an obvious question is whether this pattern of gaze behaviour can be trained'. Photo: Cameron Spencer/Getty Images

Are the best penalty takers the ones with a Quiet Eye?

Outside the NATO HQ in Brussels: 'the consequences of Russia's challenge to the established European security order go beyond likely Finnish and Swedish NATO membership' Photo: Thomas Trutschel/ Photothek via Getty Images

How Finland and Sweden's NATO membership will reshape Europe

John Lavery's High Treason, Court of Criminal Appeal: The Trial of Sir Roger Casement 1916

The story behind the controversial painting of Roger Casement

'We are now in the midst of another hurling dynasty in the shape of Limerick.' Photo: tephen McCarthy/Sportsfile

Why all sporting dynasties must eventually come to an end

'High levels of consumption brings high levels of damaging carbon emissions'. Photo: Getty Images

Is advertising ready for a more sustainable era of consumerism?

Would you live on Mars with this lad?

Can we look forward to living in space?

Outgoing Chief Medical Officer Tony Holohan. Photo: Rolling News

How Tony Holohan TCD story raises questions over research funding

'Those who mourn drug-related deaths are not always supported in the same way as those who grieve a death by accident, or natural causes.'

Supports needed for Irish families mourning drug-related deaths

Russian President Vladimir Putin at Victory Day celebrations in Moscow yesterday. Photo: Getty Images

Victory Day can't mask how badly things are going for Putin

A collection of blood samples at a biobank project in Manchester. Photo: Sean Wilton/Bloomberg via Getty Images

What happens in a blood cancer biobank?

Dublin Port: 'the Irish Sea is currently projected to submerge the port by 2050 and place an existing 20,000 homes at risk.'

Why moving Dublin Port would be bad for the city

Kalush Orchestra representing Ukraine at Eurovision 2022 in Turin. Photo: Andres Putting/EBU

Why a Ukraine Eurovision win will not be a sympathy vote

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Is 10,000 steps in a day really the magic number for health benefits?

What's the story behind hurling's new yellow sliotar?

Ireland

A piece of Co Tipperary which will always remember the 44th president of the United States

10 commemoration ideas you won't forget in a hurry

'When people here would ask me my name, I knew I would have to repeat it, sometimes over and over again' Photo: Getty images

The problem with having a 'difficult' name in Ireland

Another lucrative day out at the Fourt Courts for the legal profession

Why are legal costs in Ireland so high?

Some of the crowd at a Donegal County Divisional League Division 1 Section B match between Kilcar and Killybegs at Towney Park in Kilcar in July 2020. Photo: Seb Daly/Sportsfile via Getty Images

'Pride of place': GAA clubs and the community around them

All you need to know about turf cutting

Eithne Pentony tees off in South Africa in 1932. Photo: Pentony Family Collection

The pioneering Irish woman golfer you've never heard of before

A man gestures to his family outside a train to Poland at Lviv railway station Photo: Getty Images

3 ways Irish communities can support Ukrainian refugees

Podcasts

John Lavery's High Treason, Court of Criminal Appeal: The Trial of Sir Roger Casement 1916

The story behind the controversial painting of Roger Casement

How did the Noble false widow spider become Ireland's and Britain's public enemy number one?

All you need to know about the Noble false widow spider

What's going on inside a child's brain?

Shannon airport in 1963: the Irish government dealt with requests for searches of Cuban and Eastern Bloc flights that landed at Shannon airport en route to Cuba during the missile crisis. Photo: Ponzini Family/ Getty Images

The spy who came to lunch: Ireland and Russia during the Cold War

Herbert Simms: between 1932 and 1948, he oversaw the design and construction of somewhere in the region of 17,000 dwellings in Dublin

How architect Herbert Simms transformed Dublin

Work & Careers

Farmers at a cattle aution Leinster Marts in Kilcullen, Co Kildare. Photo: Eamonn Farrell/ Rolling News

From costs to the weather, how stressed out are farmers?

Why women prefer male bosses

Work and careers

Sure look, the boot works. Photo: Getty Images

The utter hell of working for a visionary

Work and careers

'While it was previously thought that hiring based on network or familial ties was mainly altruistic, our research suggests otherwise'. Photo: Tim Gouw/ Unsplash

Why hiring friends and family might be good for business

Work and careers

'Co-workers at a similar professional level can be seen almost as

How your work colleagues affect your home life (and vice versa)

Nature

Our feathered friends: artist's reconstruction of the feathered pterosaur Tupandactylus, showing the feather types along the bottom of the headcrest. Image: Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences

How a new discovery solves ancient mystery about flying reptiles

Dancing in the moonlight: the badgers killed on Irish roads tend to be distracted non-local animals

'Dead badgers on roads get noticed'

'Frogs are a very key species in the food web'

Where have all the frogs gone?

A snow petrel chick nesting in Antarctica. Photo: Stephanie Prince

Meet the Irishwoman working with Antarctic seabirds

What's behind our growing interest in plants?

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High seas at Clontarf in north Dublin during Storm Barra in December 2021. Photo: David Doulas

Why sea levels are rising higher than expected in Dublin and Cork

Outgoing Chief Medical Officer Tony Holohan. Photo: Rolling News

How Tony Holohan TCD story raises questions over research funding

Groove is in the heart: just what exactly is rhythm?

A long way from Macroom: Major Bernard 'Monty' Montgomery watching his tanks at the Battle of El-Alamein in 1942. Photo: Pictures from History/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

The story behind Monty's Macroom Castle standoff with the IRA

'High levels of consumption brings high levels of damaging carbon emissions'. Photo: Getty Images

Is advertising ready for a more sustainable era of consumerism?

A collection of blood samples at a biobank project in Manchester. Photo: Sean Wilton/Bloomberg via Getty Images

What happens in a blood cancer biobank?