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What do you see when you hear music? A user guide to synaesthesia

Synaesthesia is a mystery at the heart of art itself which binds different senses together through invisible threads

People in rural Irish towns feel safer knowing that their GP lives locally and provides regular, preventive and emergency healthcare to those in need

An Ceithearnach Caoilriabhach was a rule-breaking trickster in Early Modern Irish culture, a figure who caused chaos wherever he went

It's all down to the cocoa bean's supply chain and the journey which takes it from trees in equatorial areas to factories and shop shelves

The convergence of geology, climate, vegetation and human history allowed peat to accumulate on an extraordinary scale over thousands of years

Psychiatrists, psychologists and psychotherapists may work with similar problems but they do in vastly different ways

An Irish woman who has been dead for over 1,500 years continues to be a source of inspiration for much creativity

St Brigid may have led the way, but there were other powerful, inspiring and influential women who blazed a trail in Medieval Kildare

Medieval writer Cogitosus described Kildare as a 'vast and metropolitan city' thanks to the presence of the tomb of St Brigid

Here's the evidence which indicates that the Kildare woman was real - and why this is worth emphasising today