Deborah Ryan

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Scrambled eggs on toast with hot sauce

This article is for when you’re staring, desolate, into your cupboard or the aisle of a supermarket after a long day of lectures (or short day, depend(...)

It’s important to get a varied diet that is rich in different nutrients.
Brain food: how to boost brain function

It sometimes seems that we students try our best to isolate and destroy as many brain cells as possible during the three or four years of showing up t(...)

The Cranberries, Game of Thrones, 10 Good Friday traditions

Thirty years ago in Limerick city, brothers Noel and Mike Hogan, and drummer Fergal Lawlor, auditioned a young singer from Ballybricken called Dolores(...)

Deborah Ryan’s Homemade posh beans on toast

As a general rule, I’m always late. If you ask to meet me at a certain time, I will be delayed. I will always return books to the library when they ar(...)

Lentil Dahl. Photograph: Debrorah Ryan
Deborah Ryan’s Lentil Dahl

I’m going to be honest here and say that I hate batch cooking. Look, I get it, it’s cheaper and you make multiple meals that save you a few hours of c(...)

Grad Week: Soft skills, CVs, job interviews

It was Grad Week at The Irish Times this week. We examined topics ranging from the jump from academia to the working world to what it is that graduate(...)

Make sure you have multiple pieces of cutlery – you don’t want to wash a fork every time you need one. Photograph: iStock
The Student Digestive: Insider tips for cheap student eats

‘It is a truth universally acknowledged that a new student moving to college will never be in possession of enough freezer space.’ Welcome to colleg(...)

US first lady Melania Trump walks from her to her motorcade wearing a Zara design jacket with the phrase “I Really Don’t Care. Do U?”. Photograph: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters
Melania Trump, improve your memory, five guys review, student accommodation

Jacket chaos: Who was the intended audience for Melania Trump’s ‘don’t care’ coat?: The First Lady often seems to use her clothes as a private diary, (...)