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Gareth Stack
Gareth looks at Bebo, a social networking site that has become a craze in Irish colleges. He looks at how it became so popular and what keeps people coming back.
Kiesha Poiro
Keisha has an epiphany listening to Michael Stipe in her local Jamba Juice while buying a pretzel.
Sarah Byam
Sarah celebrates the freedom finding herself in her forties.
Mattie Lennon
After the announcement of government supports for them, Mattie Lennon explores the options open to the car driver who wants to convert to running on pure plant oil.
Gareth Byrne
A report from Weifang in Shandong Province, the 'Kite Capital of China' on their annual Fesitval of Kite Flying.
Ernest Engels
This weeek saw the 60th anniversary of the dropping of an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
Ernest says that, contrary to the evasions in the press, it was simply a war crime.
A.L Waller
A trilogy on the Rossport Shell Pipeline. Safety First?, Energise! and Les choses sont contre nous? Don't worry, the last one isn't all in French. It means 'Things Are Against Us'.
Jane Shortall
Jane left her life in Ireland behind her and moved to rural France. Here she details all the hoops graciously placed in front of her to ensure that she got a French welcome in her new home country.
Fluffy Dutton
Fluffy's Slot waxes on matters taxonomical this week, and we learn more than we expected about the tasseled art of the Burlesque.
Edward McGarr
A follow up letter to Noel Dempsey, Minister for Communications Marine and Natural Resources, regarding the Corrib gas field five Mayo men were jailed for protesting against.
Marcus Glynn
The first of his series of articles from around Europe, Marcus gives us the backpacker's view of Amsterdam.
Fergal Crehan
A review of the MGM v Grokster case, currently winding its way through the US Supreme Court. And if you think that it doesn't make any difference to you- think again.
Kevin O'Donnell
Irish Beer has started to multiply into a world of microbreweries and brew pubs. Kevin O'Donnell recommends the best of Irish microbeers.
William Kincaid
William looks back on his childhood in the 60s, growing up white and surrounded by casual hostility to black people.
Yael Wagner
Moving into her new home, Yael challenges herself to declutter her life
as she unpacks, following the tenets of Feng Shui. It turns out to be
harder than she expected.
Andrew
O'Baoill
Community and College radio stations are starting to find their feet in
the new digital age of broadcasting. But Andrew argues that as the forest
of jargon about podcasting, DAB multiplexing and software radios grows,
it will be the face to face networks of these stations that make sure
they thrive.
Mary Sheerin
Mary reflects on the irony of the old irish toast of good health, given
our increasingly unhealty relationship with alcohol.
Donal O'Driscoll
Far away, in Africa, Donal
sees firsthand the real good that the Church brings to people who need
help, and rediscovers his own faith in the face of that of the religious
who live according to their belief.
Keisha
Poiro
Watching Reality TV take a new, downward twist on her screen, Keisha realises
it won't be long before MTV comes calling to her door.
Mairead
Reid
From the lyrical to the offbeat, Mairead's photographs capture an essence
of Ireland.
Thom
Hickey
Thom feels the pain and pride of fatherhood as his son takes his first
step on the road to independance- a room of his own.
John
B. McCabe
John remembers the year that the modern world caught up with his house,
as his family finally took the electricity.
Jane
Shortall
Children to the left of her, Children to the right of her. But Jane is
happy to stay a Aunt.
Emma Pearson
Dragging her clothes out from behind the radiator, and trying to find
a pair of socks that haven't turned to toffee, Emma dreams of the perfect
capsule wardrobe.
Erik
Kaarla
As the people of Burlington seek safety from the cold, Erik considers
what price his country is paying to try to make itself feel safer.
Dearbhaile
Hanley
Far from most places, Dearbhaile stands in a Burmese school room, where
the teachers struggle to persuade their charges to come to class and reads
the nation's McKinsey-like Mission Statement.
Lorraine Reilly
Lorraine's luminous photographs of Burma and its people
Valerie Roche
Valerie struggles to achieve oblivion against a brain that refuses to
accept that there is a time and a place for deciding what it thinks of
Vanilla, and 2am is neither.
Tom Fox
Raising the tone from Paris, Tom gives us a French classic use for Escalopes of Veal.
Lelia Doolan
Not everyone is going to be able to tuck into the Christmas cake. But even coeliacs can enjoy this gluten (but not guilt) free chocolate cake.
Maurice
Byrne
Photographs of the Wicklow Hills in the cold clear light of winter.
Grainne
Dowling
Landscapes that talk to our unconscious, race memories of the wild.
Fred
Roe
Fred offers his own interpretation of the Californian unelection, and
what it could signal for the future of politics in the US.
Tim
Costello
More open than the Freemasons, more numerous than the Illuminati, your
local Dry Cleaners are nonetheless members of a global secret society.
Priscilla
Robinson
On her birthday, every year, Priscilla takes stock of all the terrible
disappointment she's had to face on all the other birthdays she's lived
through. And she also eats cake.
Clare
Taylor
A childhood game, and family history, suddenly break into Clare's everyday
world. She realises the opportunities offered by treating life as a magic
carpet ride outweigh the dangers.
James
Ryan
The second of two new collections, James exhibits his views of Tibet in
stark Black and White.
William
Kincaid
Wars have their own gravity, distorting our memories of why they happened,
and what their effects were. Despite fighting for the right to enslave
other human beings, the defenders of the Alamo are mythologised as heros
of freedom.William helps us to remember the real Alamo.
Paul Cherrington
A report from the Centre for Cliché Control on the efforts to contain
an outbreak of the dreaded IRT Virus.
Ros Campbell
The pupils may dread it, but the first day at school can make a new teacher
physically sick.
Daragh
O'Brien
Scientists have produced a list of jokes ranked from the funniest to the
worst in the world. But Daragh is more interested in why some cultures
are drawn to certain jokes more than others. And how it is that the Germans
emerged as the most easily amused nation on earth.
Priscilla Robinson
After being mistaken for Nana Mascouri, Priscilla tries to buy new glasses.
But as fashions have changed, so have the prices of her once shunned facewear.
Laura
Mackey
A flashback to dreary days, to the moment when Laura realised that caring
for a living meant death by boredom.
Fiona Brewer
Fiona has some tips for anyone caught short in Japan, in her survey
of the improvements the Japanese have made to the humble toilet.
Noël
O'Callaghan
New portraits and rich
landscapes on show in our Gallery
Louise
Geaney
Louise talks to Galway's first wedding planner about coping with requests
for everything from bagpipes to bouncy castles.
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