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Meteorite trail leads to Donegal, say astronomers

Monday February 08 2010

CO Donegal has emerged as the most likely landing area for the meteorite that crashed to earth last Wednesday evening.

Double jobbing lecturer to pick a pension

Sunday February 07 2010

THE enterprising lecturer who was double jobbing in colleges in Galway and Athlone will not, after all, qualify for two pensions.

Tom Healy

Sunday February 07 2010

BEFORE Tom Healy came along, the Irish Stock Exchange (ISE) was a sleepy place. Between 1973 and 1986 there were no new company listings, it was dependent on the London exchange and sold a limited range of shares.

I pity people with no spiritual element in their lives. Where life only consists of the material, it seems to me to be bleak and unimaginative

Saturday February 06 2010

On social networking sites, you can cut your links with a previous friend by formally 'unfriending' them. Andrew Madden, who was scandalously abused as a young altarboy by the paedophile priest Ivan Payne, has done something similar with the Catholic church by formally cutting his links with his baptismal faith on the Count Me Out website.

Kurt Cobain was helped by ADHD?

Thursday February 04 2010

Kurt Cobain, James Dean and Clark Gable shared a developmental disorder which helped their talents to flourish, it has been claimed.

There's life in the old blog yet, says WordPress founder

Thursday February 04 2010

BLOGGING is dead. Again. That's right, at least once a year the techno-hipsters weigh in with their thoughts and declare that the blog - be it personal, corporate or new media - is an ex-parrot and has ceased to be.

Child home care costs nine times less than hospital

Thursday February 04 2010

SEVERELY brain-damaged children who could be cared for at home with financial support are costing the State nine times more in hospital, according to an independent report.

Maths teaching does not add up

Wednesday February 03 2010

HOW many teachers have the ability to make maths-based subjects -- and higher maths itself -- more attractive to the student who may have an aptitude for the subject, but little enthusiasm?

Climate facts before fiction

Wednesday February 03 2010

A two-year-old claim that the great glaciers of the Himalayas will melt away by the year 2035, now proven to be false, has a special relevance in the comfortable environs of south Dublin, where a battle is raging over waste disposal.

Leaving Cert pupils drop maths to get 'soft' points

Wednesday February 03 2010

LEAVING Certificate students are picking 'soft' subjects at the expense of higher-level maths as a way of winning points for college entry.