The numbers are in and it looks as if JK Rowling has defied her critics in the best way possible – by increasing her book sales. Her books have been a “lockdown hit” according to publisher Bloomsbury, and their sales have pushed revenues at the children’s division of the group up more than a quarter in the […]
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As The Guardian UK runs a whole series on being childfree, I wonder where they’ve put all the articles that make the case for having kids. Of course there are many reasons for choosing not to have a baby, but somehow we live in a world where that opinion seems more educated and high-minded than the choice to […]
Born in 1550, Aodh Mór Ó Néill (Hugh O’Neill) came from a line of the and the successors to the Chief’s of the O’Neills. He was the second son of Feardorcha Ó Néill and grandson of Conn O’Neill, the first Earl of Tyrne. At the age of nine he became a ward of Giles Hovenden, […]
Dubbed “deaths of despair”, opioid deaths are a significant reason why the life expectancy of Americans is falling. In 2017, the rate of drug overdose deaths (21.7 per 100,000) had increased to 3.6 times the rate in 1999. The demographic of America’s opioid epidemic is non-Hispanic white Americans, Native Americans and the working class, and […]
India is about to overtake China as the world’s most populous country (if it hasn’t already done so). With around 1.4 billion people and a population density of nearly 400 people per kilometre, one often associates population explosion with Indian demographics. Indeed, the sight of India in the 1960s was one of the major influences […]
The report on abortion presented by the Department of Health may have informed us that 6,666 terminations were carried out in Ireland last year (plus 375 in Britain), but aside from that, it is abysmally and purposely poor in terms of information given. It does not include typical data to allow us to analyse what groups are […]
____________________________________________________________ Note from Editor: In recent days, Thomas Byrne TD has denied many of the allegations made in this piece, as reported here. However, given that Mr. Byrne is a member of the Government, and that these allegations are being levelled, credibly, by a long-term associate of his, and given that they go directly to […]
Turkey is a young country with a quickly growing population. Nearly a quarter of Turkey’s 84 million people are children, below the age of 15, while less than 9 per cent are elderly (over the age of 65). Turkey’s population is also a quickly growing one: in the last fifty years it has nearly trebled […]
The second round of the Polish Presidential Elections which occurred on the 12th of July will, without doubt, make it to history books in Poland. Record high turnout during the campaign rallies held by both candidates, filled with hundreds of people; queues to vote in which some had to wait for 2 hours to cast […]
The problem with economic downturns is that all the bills tend to come due at once. When banks see one portion of their loan book fail, they send out the debt collectors to make good and this adds pressure to an already pressured situation. Something similar happens in politics. “Never let a good crisis go […]
As of a 2018 OECD report, Ireland ranks 4th out of 36 OECD countries and 3rd out of 27 EU countries for reading literacy among 15-year olds. But for how long? According to the OECD’s 2018 PISA Report (Programme for International Student Assessment). Ireland ranks 4th out of 36 other OECD countries and 3rd out […]