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'I felt like a prisoner in direct provision but I’m free now'
- People
- November 23, 2016, 06:00
The day Aissa Sow moved into the direct provision centre in Newbridge, Co Kildare, she had just begun fasting for Ramadan. Exhausted by the move from (...)

Money walks: Ireland readies to go cashless, eventually
- Consumer
- November 14, 2016, 01:00
Earlier this month the Pricewatch desk decided to live without cash for a week. That is not to say we didn’t spend money (sadly, we did), but the plan(...)

‘Managed decline’ at institutes of technology
- Education
- November 4, 2016, 00:00
It’s the little things, says Susan Flannery. There’s the broken overhead projector. Or the photocopier which rarely seems to have paper. Or the slugg(...)

Japanese scientist wins Nobel prize for work on ‘self-eating’ cells
- World
- October 3, 2016, 11:19
Japan’s Yoshinori Ohsumi won the 2016 Nobel prize for medicine or physiology for his discovery of how cells break down and recycle their content, whic(...)

The Irish woman who makes the stars shine brighter
- Fashion
- July 9, 2016, 03:00
‘Embroidery has expanded beyond a needle and thread,” says Irish embroidery diva Laura Weber, creative director of the New York Embroidery Studio, a U(...)

Best shops in Ireland 2016: This is pop-up
- Best Shops
- June 25, 2016, 02:00
The pop-up shop is a retail concept that allows enterprising individuals to try their idea out to see how it might go down with the public before comm(...)

Institutes play key role in attracting local students to third level
- Education
- April 25, 2016, 01:00
Before the Institute of Technology in Blanchardstown arrived in 1999 there were pockets of the community where no school leavers went into higher edu(...)

TUI conference told contracts of 30 minutes duration on offer
- Irish News
- March 30, 2016, 16:10
Young teachers in some institutes of technology have received contracts offering them only half hour work per week, the TUI conference has been told. (...)

Shopping Spraoi: Tralee
- Life & Style
- March 25, 2016, 16:00
Tralee, which was founded by the Normans in 1216, is the Kingdom’s county town and has borne witness to numerous rebellions since then. The Earl of(...)

Dick Ahlstrom: Caretaker ministers must not deflect higher education
- Business
- March 7, 2016, 07:00
So here we sit 10 days after the election and the country is being run by a caretaker government. Our political staff are talking about Easter before (...)