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Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:16:25 GMT

ECO-UNESCO AWARDS:The submission deadline for Eco-Unesco’s Young Environmentalist Awards is Friday February 26th. The awards encourage students to carry out an environmental project in their local area. Regional showcases will be held in March, with the final showcase and ceremony in May.

Catch the readers with snappy features

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:16:25 GMT

SCHOOLMAG COMPETITION:NOW THAT you’re finally putting all the pieces of the Schoolmag puzzle together, make sure that your features are working their hardest.

It's all part of the experience

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:16:25 GMT

MY TY WEEK:Niamh McNamee, St Mary’s Secondary School, Edenderry, Co Offaly

Konnichiwa to new languages

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:16:24 GMT

LEARNING JAPANESE AND CHINESE:TY students, bored with the same old language modules, are learning tongue-twisting tongues from the far east, writesPETER McGUIRE

'I hope Haiti can get on its feet but it will take time'

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:16:24 GMT

TY TALK:Loreto High School, Beaufort, Rathfarnham, Co Dublin: Aoife Sheridan (16), Ailbhe Kelly (16), Ciara ONeill (16) and Eleanor McLoughlin (16)

On a foreign mission

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:16:24 GMT

Fancy a different kind of summer holiday? Students are volunteering to go abroad and help make a real difference, writesPETER McGUIRE

The Cantata Singers

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:16:24 GMT

St Ann’s Church, Dublin: Bach – Cantatas 62, 61, 60, 36.

Finding a way to look anew

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:16:24 GMT

VISUAL ART:TWO FINE SOLO exhibitions currently running in Dublin are representative of a significant strand of contemporary art and, more specifically, painting. The two artists, both fairly young, are Ciarán Murphy, at the Douglas Hyde Gallery, and Damien Flood, at Green on Red. It’s not that their work is of a piece: they are each following distinct, separate lines of enquiry. But both show paintings, mainly quite small in scale and sparing of colour, with an approach to subject matter that is at once allusive and ambiguous. And as images per se, what they do could be described as fragmentary and oblique.

Is abstinence-based sex education the best choice for our teens?

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:16:24 GMT

Controversial religious programmes from the US are finding their equivalents here, writesFIONOLA MEREDITH

Can students give without the gargle?

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:16:24 GMT

No afternoon drinking, Gardai patrolling the campus and leg waxing for charity. UCC has tried to reinvent rag week, but is it working?BRIAN O’CONNELLreports

Breaking out of Baltimore

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:16:24 GMT

Their new album is causing such a stir that it has been tipped to ‘do a Fleet Foxes’, but hard-working duo Beach House are too grounded to get carried away with the hype, writesLAUREN MURPHY

Don't blame parents for cyber-psychological bullying

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:28:27 GMT

GIVE ME A BREAK:THE PLAYGROUND of the internet sometimes causes our children distress, and we don’t need Microsoft, the National Centre for Technology in Education, the Garda Síochána, the PSNI and the Minister for Education and Science Batt O’Keeffe to tell us that, as they did yesterday.

Tinney, Hastings

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:39:19 GMT

NCH, Dublin

Collins, Cór na nÓg

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:39:19 GMT

NCH, Dublin

Lalo Schifrin

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:39:19 GMT

NCH, Dublin

Haunted

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:39:19 GMT

Gaiety Theatre, Dublin

La burqa ag buaireamh na Fraince

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:39:19 GMT

BEOCHEIST:IS SCÉAL é atá ar bhéal gach duine sa Fhrainc le roinnt seachtaine anuas scéal an burqa. An ceart do rialtas Sarkozy dlí a thabhairt isteach a chuirfeadh cosc ar mhná an chaille iomlán, an burqa nó an niqab, a chaitheamh sa láthair phoiblí?

At home in an alpha-male world

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:39:19 GMT

Starting out as a theatre director, Rachel O’Riordan worried her ballet background might work against her, but in fact it makes her style distinctive, writesJANE COYLE

Limerick:'Worse now than before'

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:39:19 GMT

Limerick’s regeneration project is in jeopardy due to a scarcity of public funding and locals in the city’s most disadvantaged estates are becoming disillusioned, writesJAMIE SMYTHSocial Affairs Correspondent

Reviews

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:58:32 GMT

Irish Timeswriters review a number of recent events in the arts world

North stages opera revamp

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:58:32 GMT

The latest reshaping of opera companies, this time in Northern Ireland, fuels the transformation of this art form here

A right Freudian carry on

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:58:32 GMT

Arts: The debut feature by Cork director Margaret Corkery, with its elements of the Oedipus complex, borrows from Europe’s master directors but also nods towards Carry On films

Where skeletons rattle the saints and scholars

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:29:08 GMT

VISUAL ARTS: NEVAN LAHART introduces his exhibition,A Lively Start to a Dead End, at the RHA with a cautionary note. Most press releases for art events, he suggests, make “references to the references that can be found in the work”. Rather than, that is to say, to the work. So you go to the exhibition and find yourself dealing not with the promised bundle of references but with the fact of the work itself, “and the rest is up to you”. So Lahart doesn’t give us any references, nor any name-checks of fashionable theorists, just an indication of what we needn’t expect to find: “Understanding, meaning or a new lifestyle choice.”

Adding fuel to the fire

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:29:08 GMT

Arts: Should Gradam Ceoil, TG4’s annual traditional music awards ceremony, be given a shake-up?Siobhán Longthinks so

Letting the paisley pyjamas out of the bag

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 01:02:53 GMT

Too much intimacy can destroy a relationship – and a pair of thermal long johns can cause almost as much trouble

What makes a trial newsworthy?

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 01:02:53 GMT

Most trials that receive blanket media coverage, such as that of Eamonn Lillis, involve middle-class people who have committed violent crimes. Are we simply drawn to narratives that fit our everyday experience, or are darker impulses at play?

Your last chance to get 'Lost'

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:40:52 GMT

As the final series of ‘Lost’hits the box tonight, viewers fret over the winding down of that rare television animal – a full-blooded media event

And the winners of tonight's TG4 Gradam Ceoil awards are . . .

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:44:59 GMT

Traditional Musician of the Year:Seán McKiernan

Útamáil

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:44:59 GMT

CROBHINGNE:TÁ SIAD chugainn arís, na hútamálaithe. Ní útamáil go dtí iad. B’fhéidir nach cás le daoine beart nua an Rialtais chun súile an phobail a bhaint den phraiseach airgid, ach is sampla é den mhaorlathú maoth a thagann idir lá oibre ar fónamh agus lá cabaireachta gan dealramh.

Jo Bangles

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:44:59 GMT

Mill Studio, Dublin

Memory Deleted

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:44:59 GMT

Unfringed Festival, Limerick

Lang Lang (piano)

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:44:59 GMT

NCH, Dublin

A different teen flick

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:01:38 GMT

When a group of TY students decided to make a film about cultural diversity, they learnt a lot about their own community, writes PETER McGUIRE

Cameron vs Bigelow for Oscar gold

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:01:38 GMT

With a whopping nine nominations each for their films Avatarand The Hurt Locker, former husband and wife film directors James and Kathryn will be battling it out at the Oscars ceremony next month – and the Irish contingent will be holding its breath too

Outdated, unsuitable institutions

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:01:38 GMT

More than 4,000 disabled Irish people live in homes that most developed countries would have shut long ago. In some, residents are still medicated to control their behaviour, writes Chief Reporter CARL O’BRIEN

News Nuggets

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:28:46 GMT

A roundup of this week's Transition Times

Make sure your cover is the star

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:28:46 GMT

SCHOOLMAG COMPETITION:YOU’D BE surprised how many Schoolmag production teams leave the front page to the last minute. It’s the front door, the first impression, the tone setter, and yet year after year we get enthralling magazines fronted by dull, uninviting covers.

We're playing our part

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:28:46 GMT

Louise O’Connor,15, Rathdown School, Glenageary, Co Dublin

Preparing TY for the ER

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:28:46 GMT

ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND:Live operations, crime investigation, clinical trials: all in a day’s work for budding TY medical students

'Cutbacks are affecting the TY programme'

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:28:46 GMT

TY TALK:Our Lady’s Secondary School, Belmullet, Co Mayo

OSC, Resurgam/Duley

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:28:46 GMT

St Ann’s Church, Dublin: Bach — Cantatas 110, 132, 197, 50

Ugorski RTÉ NSO/Minczuk

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:28:46 GMT

NCH, Dublin: Osvaldo Golijov — Last Round; Barber — Violin Concerto; Mahler — Symphony No 1.

Tallaght Choral Society, RTÉCO/Armstrong

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:28:46 GMT

NCH, Dublin: Handel — Zadok the Priest; Water Music Suite No 2; Utrecht Jubilate. Mozart — Requiem

Dara Ó Briain

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:28:46 GMT

Vicar Street, Dublin

Temple Bar Tradfest

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:28:46 GMT

Temple Bar, Dublin

And the Oscar might go to . . .

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:28:46 GMT

A round-up of the nominees

All experts agree that community-based living the way forward

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:28:46 GMT

HOW THEY DO IT ABROAD:MOST WEALTHY western countries have been closing down institutions for people with disabilities for the past 40 years.

Salaries rise as funding falls

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:28:46 GMT

FUNDING ISSUES:TAXPAYERS GIVE more than €1.5 billion in funding to voluntary groups to provide services for people with disabilities. However, there is concern over the lack of transparency and accountability in how this money is spent by not-for-profit organisations.

'Disabled people are at the back of the queue. They don't have a voice'

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:28:46 GMT

CASE STUDY: GERALDINE DOLAN:AFTER A lifetime in institutional care, life is beginning to change for Geraldine Dolan.

Big steps for small dance companies

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:07:49 GMT

Independent Irish choreographers and dance companies are making a big impression on the world stage, writesMICHAEL SEAVER

United they stand

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:07:49 GMT

Brothers Movement are much more than just a repackaged Irish band. Hard graft and serious music have taken them in a whole new direction, writesTONY CLAYTON-LEA

Disabled, abused and neglected

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:07:49 GMT

In the first of a two-part series, Chief ReporterCARL O’BRIENreports on the uninspected and unregulated State-funded care of disabled people. It is fertile ground for abuse and neglect

'He did dirty things to me'

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:50:25 GMT

CASE STUDY: BRENDAN: BRENDAN doesn’t say much. When he does, his speech is slurred and difficult to understand. But he’s aware of everything that goes on around him.

'The abuse that happened in the past was horrendous'

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:50:25 GMT

INSTITUTION PROFILE:EIGHTEEN MEN have been investigated in connection with allegations of abuse against 21 children with intellectual disabilities at Brothers of Charity residential units in Galway over 33 years.

'I was branded a troublemaker. I felt my integrity was in tatters'

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:50:25 GMT

WHISTLE-BLOWER:BRIDIE COX worked as a nurse in the disability and mental health sector in the UK for 30 years, but when she returned home to Co Clare a few years ago to continue her work, she was shocked at the standard of care.

Gan meas, gan muinín

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:09:17 GMT

BEOCHEIST:THUG AN cor is deireanaí i gcúrsaí ó thuaidh breithiúnas clúiteach Chathail Uí Eochaidh faoin Tuaisceart chun cuimhne. “A failed political entity,” a thug sé ar an stáitín ó thuaidh ina chéad óráid mar cheannaire Fhianna Fáil agus ba dheacair easaontú leis an tuairim sin i 1979.

Decked

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:09:17 GMT

Theatre Upstairs @ The Plough, Dublin

Ensemble ICC

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:09:17 GMT

NCH, Dublin. Music by Alyson Barber, Ciarán Quirke, Richard Gill, Christopher Fox, DE McCarthy, Gráinne Mulvey, David Bremner, Laura Kilty, Ian McDonnell, Dylan Curran, Peter Moran

10 Dates With Mad Mary

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:09:17 GMT

Project Cube

The timeless allure of Chekhov

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:26:03 GMT

From modest beginnings, Anton Chekhov didn't expect his fame to last, yet as both a short story writer and a dramatist, born 150 years ago, he is one of the immortals, writes EILEEN BATTERSBY

AJ IBO/Huggett

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:38:56 GMT

National Gallery

Finghin Collins

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:38:56 GMT

NCH, Dublin

The Girl Who Forgot to Sing Badly

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:38:56 GMT

The Ark, Dublin

Ways of giving

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:43:21 GMT

From karaoke nights to sponsored swims, the disaster in Haiti has prompted a slew of creative fundraising ideas, writesSINÉAD GLEESON

Further into the west

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:43:21 GMT

The Abbey’s burgeoning presence in New York was apparent this week with the US premiere of its recent production of a Sam Shepard play writesBELINDA McKEON

Brace yourself for St Brigid

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:43:21 GMT

She’s our female patron saint yet St Patrick gets all the parades, but with her name coming back into favour maybe it’s time for St Brigid to shine, writesFIONA McCANN

'Salinger the writer died in 1965'

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:43:21 GMT

JD Salinger died yesterday, but his celebrated book ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ is an overrated work that took over the author’s life and sent him into seclusion, writesEILEEN BATTERSBY, Literary Correspondent

At the hairdressers like a pair of beached whales

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:09:47 GMT

When a hairwash in a Mullingar salon puts memories in your head

Giota páir

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:15:53 GMT

OIREANN SÉ don phobal go ndéanfaí comóradh ar dhaoine táscúla agus ar imeachtaí stairiúla de réir na mblianta cuimhneacháin a scuabann chugainn.

Natalie Merchant

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:15:53 GMT

Whelan’s, Dublin

Veronica Dunne competition final

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:15:53 GMT

NCH, Dublin

Rescue of a one-hit wonder

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:15:52 GMT

There’s more to Samuel Barber than a mournful Adagio for Strings, and his centenary should help restore an unfairly languishing reputation, writesARMINTA WALLACE

News Nuggets

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:33:11 GMT

NO FREEZE ON LEARNING:Earlier this month, snow closed many schools around the country. Students, delighted with time off but worried about missing exam time, issued a resounding cry of “mixed feelings!”

Let your pictures tell the story

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:33:11 GMT

SCHOOLMAG COMPETITION:TAKING fresh photographs, carefully chosen to complement your Schoolmag articles, will make a big difference to your mag.

Our site has really clicked

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:33:11 GMT

MY TY WEEK:Megan Dalton Rafferty (15), Presentation Secondary School, Ballyphenane, Co Cork