Guides, stories and insights for internationals building a new life abroad.
Australian rock band AC/DC has to postpone the rest of their US tour after singer Brian Johnson was warned he is going deaf. That is how it ends, when you are the noisiest band on the planet which concerts could not even be stopped by the sound of a nuclear bomb explosion. The band posted […]
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For The United Nations’ International Women’s Day today, we have a chart which shows where women have the best chances of being treated equally at work. It combines information on education, labour-force participation, salaries, child-care rates, maternity benefits, business-school students and numbers in senior jobs. Paternity rights are also included. Where new fathers take parental […]
by Seamus Holland
Former WTA Ratings leader Maria Sharapova has revealed she failed a drugs test at the Australian Open. It is as surprising as annoying. A few months ago it was discovered that Russian athletes were using forbidden substances and disregarded regulations. Now tennis? What more will sport supporters have to be ready for? The Russian […]
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They started in 2004, three years before the global crisis. Even though the economic situation in many European countries was better back then, the organisation called Social Entrepreneurs Ireland (SEI) had a lot to do anyway. Now, in the times of higher unemployment and governments cutting social help expenses, the role of social entrepreneurs is […]
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Our job usually steals about 9 hours a day from us. It is more than we sleep or spend with our family or friends. That’s why it is very important to make the workplace as comfortable as possible. Here are few ideas about how they could look in the future. “Employees want design options that […]
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There are only few countries in the world which didn’t have to fight for their independence. They are born under a lucky star but with thinner history books. In 1919, a war called the War of Independence began against the British forces in Ireland. The Irish Republican Army (IRA) wanted to force the British […]
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A screwed off doorknob or Picasso’s ‘stay-home-day’ – many big thinkers and artist are not only genius but also have rituals to gain space for creativity. Everyone could learn from this. You didn’t leave behind a painting like Picasso? Your writing isn’t quite as good as that of Hemingway? No reason to give up just […]
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A new exhibition about Irish history is now possible to view in one of the most interesting cultural locations in Dublin. It is about “the 1916 Rising” as well as the Irish migrational past. Pathos of distance “In early 2015, the National Gallery of Ireland invited Sarah Pierce to engage with the ESB CSIA in […]
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The ex prime Italian minister announced that he is becoming vegetarian. Corriere della sera underlined the similarity between him and other famous vegetarians like Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhi is well known as the leader of Indian independence, the inspirer of civil rights movement in his country and across the world. He is unofficially called the “Father […]
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