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Dare to be well

Salt matters

Hannah Dare February, 2025

This month, I’ve gone deep into the world of salt — its history, where we source it, how it has shaped civilisations, and, of course, which are the best salts to use in our kitchen! Salt has influenced human civilisation for thousands of years, shaping trade, economies, and even wars. […]

Feel the heat with charumuri

Karen Austin February, 2025

Travelling in India is always an adventure. So much traffic – buses, trucks, cars, tuk tuks and scooters all rushing everywhere like a crazy dance. It takes awhile to acclimatise and realise that as long as we take a calculated risk when crossing the road we won’t be run over. […]

The failures of democracy

Kieran Doyle February, 2025

English reporter: What do you think of western civilisation Mr. Gandhi? Ghandi: I think it would be a very good idea. This famous anecdote is attributed to the great Indian independence leader, Mahatma Ghandi. Whether he actually uttered those words or not, the point is still valid. We live in […]

Future-proofing after the storm

Tina Pisco February, 2025

Last week Storm Eowyn caused massive destruction as it raced across the country. We braced ourselves and prepared for the worse. Memories of hurricane Ophelia, which devastated our trees and ripped the roof off the shed, made it difficult to sleep as the wind howled around the house. It was […]

The decline of the Irish language

Eugene Daly February, 2025

Eugene Daly looks at the factors that instigated the diminishment of our native tongue in Ireland. The mortal wounds of Gaelic Ireland were inflicted at the battle of Kinsale in 1601, but the death agony was prolonged for all of the seventeenth century and into the eighteenth and nineteenth in […]

Resolution dissolution

Tina Pisco January, 2025

It’s halfway through January so I expect that most of us are back to whatever it was we were doing before we promised ourselves to change. ‘New Year, New You’ is but a faint memory. In fact, by the time you read this you probably have seen the resolutions you […]

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