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A bus crashed into a lorry on the A9 motorway in South Germany on Monday morning. The accident took place near Stammbach in North Bavaria where the coach burst into flames after the collision. However, it is still not clear what caused the collision between two vehicles. There were 46 passengers and 2 drivers present […]
by Tatiana Kireeva
Donald Trump signed a new travel ban that will be in force in the next 90 days. The rules apply to people from 6 Muslim countries, namely Sudan, Iran, Libya, Syria, Somalia and Yemen, but even all refugees are under the ban from now. For citizens of affected countries, it is no longer possible […]
by Tatiana Kireeva
Cocoa boosts cognitive skills in humans: Study Researchers at the University of L’Aquila in Italy revealed that the consumption of cocoa flavanols has a beneficial effect on human cognition. Furthermore, they discovered that for women, eating cocoa after a night of total sleep deprivation actually counteracted the cognitive impairment (i.e. less accuracy in performing routine […]
by Neha Katoch
The Irish Potato Famine is a big part of Irish history. The Famine took more than 1 million lives of the Irish the population and forced more than 2 million to leave the country. Despite the evidence of event’s importance, there is no permanent exhibition on the subject in all of Ireland. But from the […]
by Tatiana Kireeva
The annual Trafficking in Persons Report, 2016 revealed figures related to human trafficking on Wednesday, which shows how Ireland lags behind when it comes to supporting the victims. The number of detected victims of trafficking in Ireland has gone up from 78 in 2015 to 95 in 2016. The victims included 39 Romanians, 19 Irish […]
by Neha Katoch
Inspirefest is a unique international festival of technology, science, design and the arts. The festival will take place from the 6th to the 8th of July at Bord Gáis Energy Theatre, Dublin, Ireland. Inspirefest is Europe’s leading sci-tech and Arts festival. It is unique in its diversity and inclusion at its heart. The festival returns […]
by Tatiana Kireeva
A team of Irish astronomers from the Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies led by Eamon O’Gorman captured an image of unprecedented detail of another star, called Betelgeuse. It was captured using the world’s largest radio telescope, the Atacama Large Millimetre/sub-millimetre Array or ALMA which consists of 66 radio antennas, in Chile. It is world’s largest […]
by Neha Katoch
Last Saturday, the 24th of June, Dublin, usually grey and rainy, changed its colour palette to a brighter rainbowlike one. Free sweets, bubbles flying, rainbow-flags and people in different funny costumes turned Dublin into a more peaceful and lively place, welcoming everybody to participate in its life. “To celebrate Pride Parade for us is to […]
by Tatiana Kireeva
School Portraits, an exhibition held and organized by Draíocht from the 24th of May to the 24th of June at Draíocht, displayed work of 4 artists who expressed themselves through different kinds of art form. The exhibition represented Irish school life through different times and even went deeper on student’s thoughts with a part Seen […]
by Tatiana Kireeva