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‘Warm winters are a huge bonus and people really love the outdoor life here,’ says Eoghan Geoghegan
‘You never tire of looking at the Pacific Ocean on your doorstep’
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  • January 7, 2022, 04:58

Home to the famous Santa Monica Pier, palm-lined streets and Californian sunsets, Santa Monica has recently become known as “Silicon Beach” due to its(...)

Gemma Stafford: ‘I’d love to come back to Ireland and open an academy close to home in Wexford where people could learn to cook’
‘Los Angeles is a city of dreamers. If you have an idea, this is where you make it happen’
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  • December 10, 2021, 05:37

Chef, cookbook author and the host of an online baking show, Gemma Stafford says global lockdowns helped her business expand rapidly as the world disc(...)

Jason O’Mara: “When things go well all the other disappointments, setbacks and losses fade away. So we learn from the losses and celebrate the wins. That’s when it’s not just a sport it’s a lesson for life.” Photograph: Mchael Tullberg/Getty Images
My Sporting Passion: Rugby has given me more than I ever put into it
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  • April 20, 2021, 01:00

My introduction to rugby came as a child through my father. He brought me to several matches including a Leinster Schools Cup final involving Clongowe(...)

‘I hear the laughs of my biggest little girl barrelling down the slides at the campsite where I’ve taken my family to every year – apart from last year – since 2014.’Photograph: Getty Images
Oh the places we’ll go: My first trip after Covid

‘I remember the little mobile home a sun-kissed stroll away from the pool’  When the Covid dread threatens to overwhelm me in the dead of these d(...)

Tesla chief executive Elon Musk’s mission is to make Tesla more of a global player in markets such as Asia and Europe. File photograph: Getty
Tesla takes giant step toward blue-chip respectability

Tesla, Elon Musk’s 17-year-old upstart carmaker, took a giant step toward blue-chip respectability on Monday, getting named to one of the world’s most(...)

Model and actor Olivia Tracey: ‘Los Angeles can be brutal to get ahead so you reap what you sow.’ Photograph: Erin Manning
‘When you arrive in Los Angeles, you start at the beginning’
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  • November 13, 2020, 05:28

Model, actor and writer Olivia Tracey was enjoying a successful career in Ireland, but the dream of living in Los Angeles was an itch she had to scrat(...)

Democratic Presidential candidate Joe Biden removes his mask before speaking at the Chase Center in Wilmington, Delaware on Wednesday. Photograph: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images
US presidential election: Biden welcomes ‘clear’ lead after key battleground wins

Democrat Joe Biden said on Wednesday he was heading toward a victory over president Donald Trump in the US election after claiming the pivotal Midwest(...)

The Chieftains in 1971.
Claddagh Records agrees licensing deal with Universal

Claddagh Records has agreed to license a back catalogue that includes the Chieftains and Sean Ó Riada to music giant Universal. Founded by friends Ga(...)

Police officers outside Macy’s flagship store in Herald Square in midtown Manhattan after it had been ransacked by looters. Photograph: The New York Times
US retailers step up security and close stores after looting

US retailers are stepping up patrols by armed security guards and transferring merchandise to secure locations as widespread civil unrest sets back th(...)

Police officers speak to demonstrators in front of the police station in Detroit, Michigan. Photograph: Seth Herald/AFP via Getty Images
George Floyd death: Man shot and killed by law enforcement in Kentucky

A man has been shot and killed by law enforcement in Louisville, Kentucky during protests on Sunday night. It was unclear if he was protesting. Police(...)

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