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A Garda check point in Dublin on the first day of new Level 3 Covid-19 restrictions in the capital. Photo: Rollingnews.ie

Why county lockdowns won't work without changes in our behaviour

Ireland • 21 Sep

"Votes obviously matter when it comes to determining who wins a presidential election contest, but where you win those votes is also important"

The 10 swing states that will decide the US presidential election

US election 2020 • 04 Sep

"With more people wanting organic produce that is grown and distributed with a low carbon footprint, growing and raising urban food is slowly becoming an integral part of our towns and cities"

All you need to know about urban farming

Urban farming • 03 Sep

Brewing up a storm: 'storminess in Ireland has varied over decades, centuries and millennia, posing challenges to human populations and altering ecosystems' Photo: Met Eireann

Why have we seen so many storms in recent years?

Weather • 19 Aug

A cross-inscribed ogham stone in Dromkeare, Co.Kerry. Photo: CM Dixon/Print Collector/Getty Images

The 360 stones which show off the earliest writing in Ireland

History • 18 Aug

Hello there, are you looking for me?

5 reasons why greyhounds make great family pets

Dogs • 13 Aug

'My typical workday was at least 10/12-hour days and my family just got the leftovers, but they get my full self now'

'Every day feels like a Friday': family life during lockdown

Parenting • 14 Aug

How we deal with traumatic events

Podcast • 13 Aug

Charles Browne measures Tom Connelly on Inis Mór in 1892 while Alfred Haddon notes the data. Photo: courtesy of the Board of Trinity College Dublin

The head-hunter who measured Irishmen's skulls

History • 11 Aug

'If senior management, councillors and TDs made a genuine effort to understand what it is that the arts are providing to the community, they would have a greater appreciation of the value of it'

What are local authorities doing to help artists and the arts?

Culture • 10 Aug

'A recent study projected a global world population of 8.79 billion by 2100, considerably below previous UN estimates'

Are children going out of fashion?

Society • 05 Aug

'Initially, around 100 persons were cocooned in Irish prisons.'

How would you cope with cocooning in prison?

Coronavirus • 29 Jul

"The provision of a payment deferrals and reductions is a pragmatic response in light of the unprecedented breadth of the economic impact of the pandemic"

What's the legal effect of Covid-19 payment breaks on mortgages?

Mortgages • 27 Jul

Incoming: we can tell a lot about weather patterns from what happened before

What's the science behind the weather forecast?

Podcast • 23 Jul

"Expertise does not automatically go hand in hand with the ability to share one's knowledge"

Are you good at sharing what you know with your co-workers?

Work & careers • 22 Jul

Thomas Conneff: "in 1891, he reduced the American mile record to 4 minutes 21 seconds and ran it in 4 minutes 17.8 seconds two years later"

'The little Irish wonder': Ireland's greatest unknown athlete

Sport • 21 Jul

"The attention to privacy and data protection in the design of the tracker function is welcome, but it is the least we should expect"

Why have over a million Irish people downloaded the Covid-19 app?

Covid Tracker App • 20 Jul

"This conflict is often referred to as the 'seed wars', where parties argue over the IP protection afforded to the development of commercial agricultural seeds"

A question of food, human rights and intellectual property

Human Rights • 10 Jul

"Fears around how patents may affect healthcare provision for Covid-19 are arguably well-founded"

How patents will affect pandemic vaccines and treatments

Patents • 03 Jul

"We have a pretty good whistleblower protection law on paper, but the last few years have shown problems with it"

Can organisations be kept honest during the pandemic?

Whistleblowers • 19 hrs

From Booterstown to Burma: Laurence Carroll/U Dhammaloka (other five names not listed)

The Irish Buddhist who ended up on trial in Burma in 1911

History • 26 May

"The actual question posed to people by Amarach Research asked what they feel to be the case and not what they believe to be the case in relation to the pandemic."

The difference between feelings and beliefs around the pandemic

Sociology • 22 May

"Data for April 2020 showed that there are currently 1.3 million people in receipt of an unemployment related social welfare payment"

What's the psychological impact of pandemic-related unemployment?

Unemployment • 21 May

'It is the less densely populated and mainly rural border counties of Cavan and Monaghan that have been proportionally hardest hit'

What death notices tell us about the coronavirus across Ireland

Coronavirus • 07 May

"Robots will get into trouble"

Can you sue your robot?

technology • 01 May

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