Guides, stories and insights for internationals building a new life abroad.
The number of school-aged children, in Ireland, engaged in drinking, smoking and using cannabis has gone down in the 1998-2014 period, says ‘Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC’s)’ new study. According to a new report called HBSC Ireland Trends Report 1998-2014, 8% of Irish children in the age group 10-17 years admitted to smoking in […]
Eleven Filipino soldiers were killed and eight others injured in the “friendly fire” incident in the embattled city of Marawi on Wednesday. The reports of militants linked to the Islamic State, engaging in street battles with the Army, leaving more than 100 people dead, surfaced over last week. It was sparked by the attempted capture of […]
A total of 250 new jobs have been announced by the professional services firm, Grant Thornton in Dublin. The firm provides financial advisory and accounting services and majority of its new placements will be in its new centre of excellence. All positions are permanent and recruitment is set to be concluded within the next 18 […]
The PolskaÉire Festival-2017, celebrating the spirit of Irish-Polish friendship, was launched on May 26 in Gorey, North County Wexford, and is on from May 27 to June 4. This festival is a nationwide celebration of the Irish-Polish friendship and culture with more than 100 events — from sports to literature, from family events to music and […]
An amendment to inheritance laws, proposed by a Law Reform Commission Report, could allow parents to cut children out of their will. If the law changes, children who are unhappy with how they are provided for in a parent’s will can still bring a challenge in the courts. However, it will become more difficult for […]
Yes, you heard it right. This upcoming international school in South Dublin will probably be the most expensive one in Dublin. With annual fees of €20,000 a year for second-level day pupils, the school will open on Sept 2018 for about 800 students and its premises will be based in the €20 million office block […]
The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, is seeking to ban a black feminist festival, Nyansapo Festival, in the city on the grounds of it being discriminatory. Hidalgo said that the festival, which dubbed itself as an event rooted in black feminism, excludes white people. Hidalgo condemned the festival and tweeted: “I am asking for this […]
As per the new figures revealed by the Department of Housing there are now a record number of people, more than 7,600, listed as being homeless, while some are being directed to ask to sleep in Garda Stations due to lack of emergency accommodation. The numbers also showed that more than 2,700 of these are […]
For the second year in a row, Dublin airport has been shortlisted in the ACI (Airport Council International) Europe Best Airports Awards. Dublin Airport had won the Inaugural Accessible Airport Award last year and have been nominated again for the ACI’s Accessible Airport Award, second year in a row. Dublin Airport has been nominated alongside […]
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