British Navy
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Near death experience: The phenomenon of the mind ‘leaving’ the body
- Science
- September 17, 2020, 05:00
Near death experience (NDE) is precipitated by life-threatening experiences such as heart attack, blunt trauma, shock, asphyxia and so on. The phenome(...)

Pence warns voters ‘you will not be safe in Joe Biden’s America’
- US
- August 27, 2020
US vice-president Mike Pence weighed in on the violence unfolding in Wisconsin following the shooting of a black man on Sunday, as he accepted the Rep(...)

The towns of Banbridge, Dundalk and Wexford are the birthplaces of three of the legendary figures in the history of Arctic exploration – Francis Crozi(...)

The Waterford man who married Napoleon Bonaparte’s niece
- Abroad
- February 11, 2020, 07:00
On Christmas Eve 1796 a vast French fleet, the Expédition d’Irlande, lay off the Munster coastline awaiting a break in the winter blizzards. Their pla(...)

Shattered Bahamas counts cost of Hurricane Dorian’s destruction
- World
- September 7, 2019
As Erica Roberts clung to a tall mango tree, the winds and sea water churned up by Hurricane Dorian pounding her face, a single thought ran through he(...)

Dolls’ houses: it’s a small world at Fonsie Mealy Castlecomer sale
- Fine Art & Antiques
- July 20, 2019, 00:00
The forthcoming Chatsworth summer sale in Castlecomer, Co Kilkenny by Fonsie Mealy on July 23rd will offer a number of interesting lots. These include(...)

Meet Ireland’s first female master mariner
- People
- November 23, 2018, 06:00
Not so long ago, a British navy captain received an extraordinary reaction to a video he posted on Twitter in response to a jibe about “women drivers”(...)

Blue Peter: Celebrating 60 years of making good little Britons
- TV, Radio, Web
- October 17, 2018, 18:28
Here’s something to consider. If you had been born in the year that Blue Peter began, in 1958, you would currently be considering your retirement opti(...)

Riveting clash of styles as McGregor seeks to reconquer
- Other Sports
- October 6, 2018
The Ultimate Fighting Championship has changed a lot in its 25 years of existence, but one thing remains true – styles make fights, and Conor McGregor(...)

Butter days – An Irishman’s Diary on the Cork Butter Exchange and the world’s largest butter market
- Opinion
- May 15, 2018, 00:01
Long before and after the Famine, butter was a key ingredient in the economic life of Munster. Under the shadow of the iconic steeple of St Anne’s Chu(...)