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With workers struggling under significant and ongoing cost-of-living increases, Government has refused to open meaningful negotiations on public sector pay and conditions since the last Public Sector Agreement expired in June.

The rapid development of Artificial Intelligence has raised innumerable questions about environmental impact; about creativity, and about the kind of world we want to live in.

Tomorrow is Friday 13th. Unlucky for some. Not, this year, for me, as it marks World Radio Day, a chance to reflect on the history of the medium, and how it is being reshaped by new technologies.

“In my sack I carry three burdens” claimed Margaretta D’Arcy in her 2005 memoir, as she reflected on the strands of identity that have shaped her intertwined creative and political existence.

Galway parents have been reminded that national rules prohibit schools from requiring payments as part of the second-level admissions process.

As many of us drop children back to school this week, we have seen the pickets of Fórsa workers – secretarial and care-taking staff – who are demanding that they be treated like other school workers, especially access to a public service pension scheme.

Galway's St Patrick's Day parade has become, somewhat unexpectedly, one of the things I most look forward to in the year. Some of my earliest memories are of uninspiring parades in the dreary 1980s. I swear that one year it consisted only of flat-bed trucks, with nothing on them. Before Macnas imported a theatrical approach to street performance, the parade was often more obligation than entertainment.

Did you know that many Americans cannot locate the US on a world map? I recently had a video show up on my social media that proved just that, as an anonymous camera person asked seemingly random people to locate North Korea on a blank map, with several pointing to Canada, Europe, and even the USA.

“You’re a true believer, right?”