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One way to help stop floods? Don't let developers build on flood plains

That’s the advice of one Irish expert who has been analysing international floods.

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Jan 11th 2016, 6:05 AM

Well that's new - women are livetweeting their periods...

Of course they are. It’s all in aid of ‘normalising’ the experience.

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Jun 23rd 2015, 9:15 PM

The HSE divulged salary details of one of their employees to a person 'who asked for them'

There was a nearly 50% jump in data breaches notified to the data protection commissioner Helen Dixon in 2014.

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Jun 23rd 2015, 12:12 PM

This man has been taking a photo of everything he touches... for the last 11 years

It’s all a ‘lifelogging’ art experiment you see

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Feb 12th 2015, 8:30 PM