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"Standing on Grattan Bridge in Dublin's city centre, it's 2km to either the Royal or the Grand Canal, Docklands or the Phoenix Park." Photo: Getty Images

4 steps to make Dublin a better walking city

Walking • 15 Jan

Made in Ireland (until 1990): Faber-Castell's Columbus pencils. Photo: product shot

The high cost of outsourcing manufacturing

Business • 14 Jan

"There are positives and negatives to both natural and synthetic fabrics" Photo: Getty Images

All you ever wanted to know about fabrics

Fashion • 13 Jan

"Frank Broome played for Shels from February to April 1955 and earned £5 per week, though a newspaper reported that it cost an additional £10 a week to fly him from Birmingham to Dublin and back home again". Photo: Aston Villa FC

The story of the Shelbourne player and Hitler's Nazis

History • 12 Jan

The vaccine, but what's actually inside that little vial? Photo: Getty Images

What's actually in the Covid-19 vaccine?

Vaccines • 11 Jan

"We have learned a lot about working from home during an emergency and what practices can help us, but we have also learned about its drawbacks". Photo: Getty Images

Is 2021 the year we finally say goodbye to the office?

Work and Careers • 05 Jan

"I walk and cycle most days, it's always an adventure, I know the risks, I love it and don't want to stop, my friends encourage me. The only people that want me to stop are family." Photo: Getty Images

Are we protecting older people to within an inch of their lives?

Health • 04 Jan

Who needs Die Hard when you have Mrs Brown?

What will the rest of Europe be watching on TV over Christmas?

Christmas • 17 Dec 20

"Let's face it, most of us don't even know what 'sustainable' means anymore". Photo: Getty Images

10 ways to become a sustainable fashion consumer

Fashion • 16 Dec 20

Christy Ring established himself as the greatest hurler of the modern age during a career that stretched over an astonishing 25 years

How Christy Ring became hurling's reluctant superstar

Christy Ring • 14 Dec 20

"One of the most iconic images of activism in sport": Tommie Smith and John Carlos on the podium at the 1968 Mexico Olympics

A short history of protests and activism in sport

Sport • 11 Dec 20

Will Dublin's Dessie Farrell be in the management game as long as Sean Boylan, Mickey Harte or Brian Cody?

How GAA managers have changed the landscape of the game

The town of Armero, Colombia after the eruption of Nevado del Ruiz in November 1985. Photo: Jacques Langevin/Sygma/Sygma via Getty Images

The second deadliest volcanic eruption of the 20th century

Natural Disasters • 07 Dec 20

Enough is Enough campaigners protest about the removal of services for people with disabilities during the Covid-19 pandemic

How we should mark International Day of People with Disabilities

Society • 02 Dec 20

"Although we currently treat this material as a waste product, it is, in fact, a rich source of a range of useful substances". Photo: Getty Images

How to turn shellfish waste into bioplastics

Marine • 26 Nov 20

"Where Ronaldo and Messi may attain all the superlatives the game has to offer, they do not yet command Maradona's iconic status or the literal religious devotion of grown men and women"

Diego Maradona: what makes a football icon?

Football • 25 Nov 20

"The past year has demonstrated how quickly infectious diseases can spread in an interconnected world"

How the movement of people has always spread infections

Coronavirus • 25 Nov 20

"The high prevalence of deficiency in this country is living proof that optimal vitamin D levels cannot be achieved through our low sunlight exposure and poor dietary intakes alone."

What we know about low Vitamin D levels and high Covid-19 rates

Vitamin D • 24 Nov 20

"The predictable arguments about the merits of cycling safety gear is a red herring"

How hi-vis clothes make us think that cycling is dangerous

Cycling • 24 Nov 20

"While our day to day routines and activities account for a certain number of steps anyway, a 10km daily target is hard to achieve even taking this into consideration" Photo: Getty Images

Step it up: is 10,000 really the magic number for steps in a day?

Walking • 23 Nov 20

"One of the biggest myths about wearing glasses is that it makes your eyes weaker". Photo: Getty Images

Does wearing glasses make your child's eyesight worse?

Health • 19 Nov 20

The front page of the Evening Herald on November 22nd 1920 with coverage of the Bloody Sunday events in Dublin. Photo: Hulton Archive/Getty Images

Debunking some of the myths around Bloody Sunday

Bloody Sunday 1920 • 18 Nov 20

"Customers purchase products which "feel" better than the alternatives, and are often unable to explain why." Photo: Getty Images

How to design products to make people feel happier

Science Week 2020 • 09 Nov 20

"Like all toxic relationships, Trump sets his sights on destroying people and his toxicity has spread like a pandemic across the world."

It's time to end our toxic relationship with Donald Trump

Donald Trump • 09 Nov 20

"Klmainham's very survival can be accredited to grassroots volunteers and persistent lobbying, not the State's conscious preservation and promotion of historical memory"

Why does Ireland have a problem preserving the past?

Ireland • 03 Nov 20

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