Antigua Guatemala

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Aoife Monaghan in the British Virgin Islands, where she works as a dentist.
‘I’m so lucky to be in the Caribbean – a million miles from Derry Girls’
  • Work
  • May 29, 2020, 05:00

After attending Thornhill College in Derry, the school made famous by the Derry Girls, Aoife Monaghan moved to Glasgow to study dentistry in 2011. “I(...)

Robbie Byrne, Conor Walsh and Sam Duncan arrive back to Cobh after a transatlanic journey aboard the Tenacious sailing vessel. Photograph: Michael Mac Sweeney/Provision
Teenagers return to a very changed Ireland after a month at sea

A group of Irish teenagers has spoken of their surprise at returning to an Ireland in lockdown because of coronavirus pandemic after spending the last(...)

Clare Doherty: ‘Christmas on Waiheke is pretty special.’
Emigrant Christmases: ‘I miss home but I’ll whack on The Pogues and have a drink’

Thousands of Irish people around the world will be celebrating Christmas far from home. Many are finding ways to keep Irish festive season traditions (...)

“Imagine if most businesses didn’t accept cash. A digital footprint of your every move and whim in life would be left somewhere in the cloud.” Photograph: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg
Paying by card convenient, but it leaves a trail of personal data

If you have ever hired a car abroad, you may have experienced petrol station panic (PSP). This frightening condition is brought on by an inability to (...)

Marianne Jean-Baptiste: ‘I remember dressing up to go to Oxford Street because we were going to a big department store’
Marianne Jean-Baptiste: ‘The arts are something you have to do’

Marianne Jean-Baptiste is a laugh. I don’t suppose that will come as a huge surprise. In the 23 years since her Oscar-nominated turn in Mike Leigh’s (...)

Jason Holder of West Indies celebrates taking the catch to dismiss Moeen Ali of England during day four of the first Test at Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados, on Saturday. Photograph; Getty Images
England not able to escape with their dignity intact in the first Test

Amid the Sunday morning showers stunned Englishmen and women – players, coaches, fans and pundits – contemplated the debris after England’s thrashing (...)

‘It is more than a year since we moved back now. And I am in love with a new Ireland, the country of my birth, the country where a connection with the earth and with the air is woven into my DNA.’
Moving back to Ireland was one of the hardest things we’ve ever done
  • Abroad
  • December 30, 2018, 07:30

I am driving the school run. It is the most beautiful drive I have ever been on. That’s saying something. I have lived in southern France and driven t(...)

Anne Hughes, Phyl McDonald and Gabrielle Lowe. Phyl (94) is the oldest member of the Dún Laoghaire Active Retirement Association. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw
Quality of life rises with age, Dún Laoghaire retirement group hears

Ageing is the new cool as people’s quality of life increases as they grow older, a researcher told the Dún Laoghaire Active Retirement Association on (...)

Family and friends at the funeral of Erick Jeremias Rivas, one of the victims of the Fuego volcano eruption, at the cemetery of Alotenango, department of Sacatepequez, Guatemala, on Wednesday. Photograph: Santiago Billy/EPA
Search for volcano survivors suspended due to dangerous conditions

The search for survivors from deadly eruptions of Guatemala’s Fuego volcano was temporarily suspended on Thursday due to dangerous conditions for res(...)

Guatemala’s volcano Fuego erupts. Photograph: Getty
Guatemala volcano: Dozens killed as Volcan de Fuego erupts

A fiery volcanic eruption in Guatemala has sent lava flowing into rural communities, killing at least 25 people as rescuers struggled to reach people (...)

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