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"The bottom line is that there is no magic pill or a specific food guaranteed to bolster your immune system and protect you from the coronavirus"

Debunking the myths about food and the coronavirus

Coronavirus / 16 Mar

"Do remember to keep building in activity that really involves you and your child moving your whole body as this will give you heart health benefits as well as skill development benefits"

How to keep yourself and your kids active during the lockdown

Coronavirus / 20 Mar

Downpatrick: is St Patrick's body where it's supposed to be or somewhere else in the town?

CSI St Patrick: just where is the saint's body?

st patricks day / 11 Mar

The Leprechaun Brothers (AKA The Swedish Chef, Animal and Beaker) perform "Danny Boy"

From Elvis to The Muppets, the story of "Danny Boy"

st patricks day / 04 Mar

Teenagers who have committed motoring offences taking a road safety course in April 1975 Photo: Watford/Mirrorpix via Getty Images

Why your kids (or grandkids) will not drive cars in the future

Motors / 27 Feb

"Companies need to look at their complicity in real mental health issues". Photo: Getty Images

Do employers really care about staff mental health issues?

Work & careers / 19 Feb

"The applications of network science to crime fighting are even more remarkable and this relatively new field of research has proven to be very efficient in studying criminal systems"

How criminal gangs could be stopped by maths

"Our attempts to our professional network are most effective when we supplement online activities with face-to-face interactions"

How to use LinkedIn more effectively

Brainstorm / 23 Mar

Many people believe open-plan offices were devised by Satan in the deepest caverns of hell

How to design a better office

Offices / 24 Jan

"People often feel uncomfortable if others know their salary"

How much are you paid?

Salaries / 03 Mar

"Irish Gen Z-ers have expressed apprehensions about their ability to communicate face-to-face and develop functional relationships off-line"

Meet your new workmates: Generation Z's views on work and careers

Work & careers / 10 Jan

"If we don't move enough, we don't feel our best"

How to keep the kids active over the holidays

Health and Fitness / 19 Dec 19

Coming to your gaff next week

Why Ireland goes mad for turkey at Christmas

Farming / 17 Dec 19

Home for the Christmas with James Stewart, Donna Reed) and Karolyn Grimes

Why It's A Wonderful Life is still a winner today

Film / 12 Dec 19

"Pain is a subjective experience. No other person, and no test, can tell who is or is not in pain, or how severe the pain is."

Back pain: are you saying it's all in my head?

Health / 28 Nov 19

Lana Del Rey: "call her Doris Doomsday" Photo: Darren Gerrish/BFC/Getty Images

Songs for the end of the world: pop music and climate change

Climate Change / 22 Nov 19

Historical re-enactment of a surgeon operating on an archer who was wounded during an attack by the Mamluks on the monastery of the Order of the Hospitallers (1250-1291) in Acre in Israel. Photo: DeAgostini/ Getty Images

What was it like to go to the doctor in medieval Ireland?

Medicine / 14 Nov 19

"Music has the ability to move us and to transform our mood, depending on the individual and the context in which it is listened." Photo: Matt Cardy/Getty Images

Music still sounds better with you

Music / 08 Nov 19

"You will take about 40,000 steps during the marathon." Photo: Getty Images

What happens to your body when you run a marathon?

Marathon / 17 Dec 19

"The subjective nature of luxury now means that a vast array of brands have associated themselves to the luxury tagline". Photo by Dominika Zarzycka/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Just what does luxury mean in 2019?

Luxury / 23 Oct 19

Successful executives are often charismatic, confident and driven, characteristics sometimes linked to Antisocial Personality Disorder

My boss is a psychopath: why bad people get good jobs

Work & careers / 11 Oct 19

"The more times we expose ourselves to anxiety, the anxiety decreases"

What you need to know about anxiety, panic and worrying

Health / 13 Feb

"We inherited our emphasis on State secrecy from the British, but we enthusiastically embraced it"

Why does the State have so many secrets on its citizens?

Podcast / 06 Sep 19

"The organisms are not fussy about what gut they live in"

What happens when the drugs don't work?

Podcast / 30 Aug 19

"We've got really difficult social issues in Ireland which overlap with carbon reduction and climate change"

Is it time to give nuclear power a chance?

Podcast / 23 Aug 19

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