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November 2017
November 25, 2017

Mobile Phone Power

The development of the mobile phone from its original concept of the phone locating the person not the place has been a great boon. No longer does the excuse that you are “out” when you were “in” apply! Unless you switch off, which is rather counterproductive, you are available. In its early days it was […]

November 18, 2017

Da Vinci’s Christ Portrait

Christie’s New York salesroom was amazed this week by flurry of bids over a 19-minute period culminating with a record sale price of €450,000,000. The same painting fetched as little as €10,000 in 2005! At an exhibition in 2011 it was valued at €127.5 million so this week’s figure had been somewhat anticipated. The main […]

November 11, 2017

War no More

On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918 World War 1 officially ended. The date was declared a national holiday in many nations, and coincides with Remembrance Day in the UK and Veterans Day in the USA. It is part of the UK tradition to wear a poppy, reminiscent […]

November 4, 2017

Able to be Heard

You may have missed noticing the removal from office of former UCD Students’ Union president Katie Ascough this week. She is a pro-life advocate in the debate around the 8th Amendment to our Constitution which currently preserves the equal right to life of both mother and un-born child. So what did Katie do that was […]

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