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Sunday 24 October 2021
A new report in The Lancet claims that parents can be guilty of ignoring “the harshness of real life”.
Put your phones away and live your life without the lens, writes Andrew McGinley.
Real life (well, in glamorous New York).
John Reidy reacted when he saw a woman going into a cardiac arrest.
However, John Lonergan said the graphic rape scene involving Fran was something of an exaggeration.
It features actors, a fake COBRA meeting and a Navy gunship.
Is there anything a shoebox CAN’T be used for?
Society has come on leaps and bounds but some words are yet to disappear. Queer, puff, faggot, unnatural and perverted…are all still hurled at men and women in today’s Ireland. Here are stories from seven members of the LBG community.
One MEP is proposing that all publications featuring airbrushed images should also carry mandatory labelling.
After living in Afghanistan, I got to see first-hand what the people of that country go through, writes Noel Scanlon, who says he wishes he could be more optimistic about the country’s future.
George Bush, Margaret Thatcher and Princess Diana are just some of the famous people to be immortalised on film, but is it ever possible to give a balanced portrayal of a person? Darren Mooney writes about the challenging world of the bioepic.
A storyline on today’s episode centres around a deadly gas boiler – and there are warnings as around 10,000 gas boilers were illegally installed in Ireland last year.
The foul-mouthed Ted is not the first toy to come to life on the big screen: here are a few of the favourites (and not so nice ones)
They may sounds like Ocean’s 14 to 22 sequels but these heists aren’t in the movies…they actually happened.
SHOPPERS HAVE BEEN warned not to wait until December to buy their Christmas reads amid a “perfect storm” of problems impacting supplies within the industry.
Several supply chain issues have affected businesses around the world this year, with shortages of freight containers and booming global consumer demand already impacting on supplies of certain products.
But booksellers are now reporting that Brexit-related shortages of warehouse staff and delivery drivers in the UK, where the vast majority of Irish-sold books come from, are leading to unpredictable delivery times for many titles.
So, today we want to know… Will you start your Christmas shopping early this year?
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