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‘I was a machine gunner, guarding high value assets, such as the US president’
- Working Abroad
- February 15, 2018, 14:00
Working Abroad Q&A: Each week, Irish Times Abroad meets an Irish person working in an interesting job overseas. Here, Robert Keogh shares his(...)

We are not a shining example of how best to protect the planet
- Innovation
- February 15, 2018, 06:27
Is the world ever going to get on top of global carbon dioxide releases? One despairs when you see those images of giant smoke stacks with what looks (...)

False tsunami alert on US east coast prompts official investigation
- US
- February 6, 2018, 16:04
The US national weather service said on Tuesday it was investigating how incorrect alerts were broadcast to mobile phones warning residents of coasta(...)

A rare celestial event will grace the skies on Wednesday when a blue moon and lunar eclipse combine with the moon being at its closest point to Earth,(...)

Tsunami warning issued for Alaska and Canada after earthquake
- World
- January 23, 2018, 10:31
Alaska and parts of western Canada braced for a possible tsunami on Tuesday after a magnitude-7.9 earthquake struck the Gulf of Alaska, sparking evacu(...)

The government of Hawaii did not have reasonable safeguards in place that would have prevented the transmission of a false alert about an imminent mis(...)

Hawaii false alarm triggered after wrong button was pushed
- World
- January 13, 2018
The US military’s Pacific command said on Saturday there was no ballistic missile threat to Hawaii after a message was sent in error to Hawaii residen(...)

Celestial object ‘not an alien spacecraft’, say Irish scientists
- Irish News
- December 18, 2017, 22:52
For almost two months, scientists wondered were they on the verge of the greatest discovery in human history. A strange-looking object shaped like a(...)

Pregnant surfing: ‘I also only did small, friendly waves’
- Fitness
- December 18, 2017, 05:30
General practitioner Katie McAnena didn’t have any reason to question the “extreme caution” approach taken by medicine to pregnancy when she was a stu(...)

Dublin on National Geographic ‘Places to Visit in 2018’ list
- Ireland
- November 28, 2017, 13:00
Dublin has been included in National Geographic Traveller magazine’s prestigious “2018 Best of the World” list. It is one of 21 cities to feature on t(...)