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# geography - Sunday 6 September, 2020
# geography - Thursday 25 June, 2020
# geography - Monday 25 February, 2019
# Junior Cert
# Junior Cert
'The importance hasn't gone away': Calls for geography to be brought back as core subject
Geography was removed as a core subject from the Junior Cert last year.
# geography - Sunday 13 May, 2018
# Kilauea
# Kilauea
Hawaii's Big Island is bracing for a potential volcanic explosion
A total of 17 fissures in the earth have been identified.
# geography - Friday 11 August, 2017
# Dramatic Impact
# Dramatic Impact
Climate change behind dramatic shift in timing of Irish floods, study finds
Winter floods are now occurring the east of Ireland earlier towards autumn than they did 20 years ago.
# geography - Monday 7 August, 2017
# Quiz
From The Daily Edge
# Quiz
Only True Irish Geography Buffs Will Get Over 80% In This Quiz
Get out your Folens Geography textbook for this.
# geography - Saturday 10 June, 2017
# Never Too Old
# Never Too Old
This 73-year-old student is doing the Leaving Cert this week
Denis North is taking the English and Geography exams at Kennedy College, New Ross.
# geography - Friday 17 February, 2017
# Under The Sea
# Under The Sea
Welcome to Zealandia: Scientists reveal 'Earth's hidden continent'
They want the landmass recognised as a continent.
# geography - Monday 31 October, 2016
# Clintz'n'grikes
From The Daily Edge
# Clintz'n'grikes
12 memories you'll only have if you studied Leaving Cert Geography
Damn. That Karst landscape.
# geography - Wednesday 1 June, 2016
# Quiz
From The Daily Edge
# geography - Tuesday 22 December, 2015
# Geography Test
From The Daily Edge
# geography - Monday 14 September, 2015
# Eruption
# Eruption
Tourists warned to stay away after Japan's biggest volcano blows its top
Ash has been spewed for thousands of metres above Mount Anso.
# geography - Saturday 27 June, 2015
# The Principality Of Tides
# The Principality Of Tides
PHOTOS: Welcome to Sealand, the bizarre 'micronation' off the coast of England
The Principality of Sealand has its own currency, flag, and royal family.
# geography - Thursday 25 June, 2015
# Bleedin' Gorgeous
# Bleedin' Gorgeous
Dublin Bay is now a UNESCO reserve alongside some of the most beautiful places on Earth
The bay is now a UNESCO Biosphere reserves.
# geography - Sunday 14 June, 2015
# The Knowledge
# The Knowledge
Quiz: How well do you know your way around Dublin?
Do you know your Red Line from your Green Line?
# geography - Friday 5 June, 2015
# Geog On
From The42
# Geog On
The42's extra tough Leaving Cert Geography quiz
You know your igneous from your sedimentary, so here’s some amps for you to examine.
# geography - Saturday 21 March, 2015
# Mother Nature
# Mother Nature
A 'supertide' has turned this French monastery into an island
It’s usually linked by a narrow causeway. Not today.
# geography - Sunday 25 January, 2015
# Quiz
From The Daily Edge
# geography - Sunday 4 January, 2015
QUIZ: Can you tell these countries from the air?
Time to recall all that geography you learned in the two weeks before the Leaving Cert!
# geography - Wednesday 29 October, 2014
# Harassment
# Harassment
Opinion: Street harassment influences how women experience the world
In terms of social geography, street harassment changes the way women experience and use public spaces – it is made smaller, it is limited.
# geography - Saturday 6 September, 2014
# Quiz
From The Daily Edge
# Quiz
How Well Do You Actually Know Ireland?
Do you know your way around? Take this quiz to find out…
# geography - Saturday 21 June, 2014
# High Noon
# High Noon
So we all know today is the longest day of the year. But exactly how long?
Technically the darkest it gets is very dark twilight.
# geography - Friday 6 June, 2014
# Clints And Grikes
From The Daily Edge
# Clints And Grikes
6 things everyone remembers from Geography in secondary school
Karst landscapes forever.
# geography - Thursday 27 March, 2014
# Boobies
From The Daily Edge
# geography - Tuesday 25 March, 2014
# Washington State
# Washington State
Fatal US mudslide: Five questions families want answered
The number of people missing has fluctuated wildly from 18 to 176.
# geography - Wednesday 25 December, 2013
# No Peig We Promise
From The Daily Edge
# No Peig We Promise
The Annual Bumper Secondary School Christmas Test
Gather the family. No fighting!
# geography - Wednesday 4 December, 2013
# I Feel The Earth Move
# I Feel The Earth Move
Magnitude 2.6 earthquake off Cork coast rattles doors and confuses locals
The Irish National Seismic Network says that earthquakes around Ireland are usually at a magnitude of about 1.5 or 1.8 so this is definitely more significant.
# geography - Friday 8 November, 2013
# The Smarts
From The Daily Edge
# The Smarts
5-year-old knows more about Geography than you ever will
Watch and marvel at your lack of knowledge
# geography - Monday 9 September, 2013
# That's Rank
From The Daily Edge
# That's Rank
18 countries that are #1 in an unexpected way
Who are the tallest nation? Who sends you all that spam? Who grows the most potatoes?!
# geography - Sunday 28 July, 2013
# Location Fail
From The42
# Location Fail
Boxer makes critical error by giving a big shout-out to the wrong city
‘San Diego… I mean, San Antonio.’
# geography - Thursday 13 June, 2013
# School Daze
From The Daily Edge
# School Daze
Lady Gaga and horse burgers: Junior and Leaving Cert examiners having the craic
Lady Gaga on the business paper, horse burgers in the French exam. Gas Al
# geography - Sunday 27 January, 2013
# Weather
# Weather
Study: Heat from cities 'affects weather thousands of miles away'
Newly-published research could explain why some regions in the Northern Hemisphere have warmer winters than expected.
# geography - Wednesday 26 December, 2012
# Quiz Time
# Quiz Time
It's the bumper secondary school Christmas test!
What does AC/DC stand for? Who discovered the double helix? Do you know?
# geography - Wednesday 19 December, 2012
# If You Know...
From The Daily Edge
# If You Know...
If you know Dublin (or Cork), you'll know these things...
A Twitter geography test.
# geography - Sunday 9 September, 2012
# Oral History
# Oral History
River Shannon gets storytelling project
Arts project wants people to relate their tales of Ireland’s longest river and its effect on their lives.
# geography - Thursday 14 July, 2011
# Geography
From The42
# Geography
After a sluggish first round, where do TV commentators think he's from?
The Holywood man is back in the clubhouse with a one over par 71. So where does that leave him?
# geography - Friday 10 June, 2011
# State Exams
# State Exams
Day 3: Exam students tackle Geography and Maths papers
Students in the Leaving and Junior Cert will both face papers on Maths and Geography today ahead of a welcomed weekend.
# 9 At 9
# 9 At 9
The 9 at 9: Friday
Nine things you need to know by 9am: New ministers from north and south of the border meet for the first time today; more protests on the way in Syria, and the unthinkable…a Father Ted rip off.
# geography - Saturday 21 May, 2011
# geography - Thursday 12 August, 2010
# Your Say
# Your Say
Twitty Fit over BBC's British Isles 'slur'
Microbloggers fall out over whether Ireland is a ‘British Isle’. What do you think?