Mary Ward
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NUI Galway student does the maths to win Mary Mulvihill Award
- Science
- May 20, 2020, 08:00
NUI Galway maths student James Hayes (17) is the 2020 winner of the Mary Mulvihill Award, the science media competition for third-level students. The(...)

Pioneering scientist and first road traffic fatality Mary Ward remembered
- Irish News
- September 2, 2019, 01:08
Mary Ward is chiefly remembered as being the unfortunate victim of Ireland’s first fatal road traffic incident, but in her lifetime she was a celebrat(...)

A new map of Ireland: Honouring some of our outstanding women
- People
- March 2, 2019, 06:00
On a tour of Ireland, one might easily ask: where are the women? There are statues to a few (we counted just five), a smattering of commemorative plaq(...)

Things are buzzing at Lyons in Kildare
- Food & Drink
- November 10, 2018, 06:00
It wasn’t just us humans that enjoyed the long, hot summer of 2018, it was good for the bee population too. So good that the first three hives introdu(...)

Plucking Up Courage – Frank McNally on the ‘White Feather’ campaign of the first World War
- Opinion
- October 18, 2018, 18:32
One of the youngest soldiers to fight in the first World War was an apprentice blacksmith from Leeds named Horace Iles. He was only 14 when the confli(...)

Three Loreto nuns receive awards for work in education, health
- Religion & Beliefs
- November 6, 2017, 17:18
It has been quite a year for Ireland’s Loreto sisters with three of them winning humanitarian awards on three continents. Last Saturday, Sr Orla Trea(...)

Holidays with a history
- Travel
- July 10, 2017, 12:33
If you want to try a slightly different tourist attraction on your holidays, why not explore one of the following museums dedicated to the history of (...)

The science of everyday things
- Sponsored
- November 10, 2016, 05:50
Just about anything you were ever curious about or want to know more about will be covered by Science Week 2016 which kicks off on Sunday. Everything (...)

Georgina Campbell Awards winners announced
- Food & Drink
- September 22, 2016, 14:35
The winners of Ireland’s longest-running food and hospitality awards were announced on Thursday, as the very best in Irish hospitality gathered at Bor(...)

Rules take in age and several medical conditions when assessing a driver’s ability
- Health & Family
- February 2, 2016, 01:00
Although the first automobile fatality in the world occurred in Ireland in 1869, traffic medicine is a relatively new specialism in this country. Mary(...)