Robert Hendrick has won Ireland’s latest medal at the Youth Olympics
RISING CANOE STAR Robert Hendrick has won silver at the Youth Olympics in Nanjing. The 16-year-old was beaten into second place by just eight-tenths of a second in the C1 Obstacle Slalom final earlier today. Lucas Roisin of France won gold in a time of 1 ...
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To be in with a chance to win simply buy a copy of this week and next week’s Irish Post, collect the two ‘WIN A TRIP TO IRELAND’ coupons and post your entry form to us here at The Irish Post. Coupons 1 and 2 will be printed in The Irish Post ...
Northern Ireland Open: Hoey paired with Edfors at Galgorm
Michael Hoey will have three-time European Tour winner Johan Edfors for company over the opening two days of the Northern Ireland Open Challenge. A strong field will tee up in the European Challenge Tour event at Galgorm Castle but Hoey and Edfors are the ...
Mommsen to lead Scotland in Ireland
CRICKET SCOTLAND - August 27, 2014 - The 13-man squad to face Ireland in three One Day matches in Malahide next month (September 8,10,12) has been announced. Preston Mommsen will lead Scotland in the fixtures after recovering from a broken finger, which ...
Tourism Ireland Welcomes 9.9% Growth in Overseas Visitors
Commenting on recently released CSO figures for the first seven months of 2014, Niall Gibbons, CEO of Tourism Ireland, said: “The CSO figures are very strong – confirming growth of +9.9% in overseas visitors to Ireland for the January to July period ...
Mrs. Brown’s Boys funnyman Brendan O’Carroll is next on Who Do You Think You Are? ( UK )
Mrs. Brown’s Boys star, Irish comedian Brendan O’Carroll is the next celebrity to get the Who Do You Think You Are? treatment tomorrow night. Brendan now lives in Florida, but still calls Dublin home. Brendan has heard from family members that his grandfather was shot during the Irish War of Indepen ...
Sun-Stained Afternoons (and Yoga) at Nelson the Seagull, in Vancouver
Remember life before the Internet? Long afternoons loitering outdoors, indoors, and over extended meals, when it felt like there was just more time available. Three siblings from South Africa were looking to re-create that feeling when they opened Nelson the Seagull, in Gastown, Vancouver. "We wante ...
What Wayward #1 Teaches Us About The Way We See The World
Wayward is the new comic by Jim Zubkavich, Steve Cummings and John Rauch, out today from Image Comics. And it may be a Buffy wannabe, a story of teenage women fighting supernatural creatures hiding beneath the streets of Tokyo, and one coming to grips with what may be a supernatural legacy of powers ...
What’s Your Writing Regime?
It’s the last week of the school holidays and as much as I’ve enjoyed spending every day with my mini me I’ll be the first to admit I’m looking forward to getting back to my writing routine as occupying the little ones for nine weeks is pretty demanding – especially when there’s a pile of projects b ...
Holland Conference
We recently went to the Holland bible conference in Zwolle with our family. It was so fun to see all our old friends again, and of course make new ones. But I must admit the drive was.... let's just say it wasn't very fun. I do believe our trip from Rijeka to Zwolle took approximately 14 hours. That ...
Wednesday: Greenock for Glasgow
I made today a gym free rest day as during yesterday's training I found my legs felt quite fatigued quite early. It's amazing how much time on a cruise is spent climbing stairs - which is absolutely knackering after a while, and had my calves aching for the first couple of days. In the afternoon we ...
Winding Roads and Waterfalls
I have never been to a waterfall. I suppose I have seen some small waterfalls that rush along creeks, and I’ve been to the great Niagara Falls, but never have I been able to swim immediately up to the falls and run my arms through the powerful flow of falling water. Melissa and Lena (from the Bed an ...
News: Northern Ireland arts braced for 5% cuts
Companies core-funded by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland are preparing themselves for a proposed 5% in-year cut following reductions to the funding body’s budget, which theatres claim could be “enormously damaging”. This follows an announcement by Northern Ireland’s finance minister Simon Hamil ...
Keegan appeals controversial red card
Mayo’s Lee Keegan has appealed the red card he received in the first half of last Sunday’s All-Ireland SFC semi-final [url=http://www.breakingnews.ie/sport/gaa/mayo-head-for-replay-against-kingdom-despite-amazing-comeback-640048.html]draw with Kerry[/url].
What are we doing with our time?
Its Monday, I’m (almost) on my way home from work. It’s a normal day, go home, wash dishes, make dinner, feed and bath the kids and be in bed by eight. Sustaining our physical health (and mostly trying to preserve our mental health) and conserve the cleanliness of the home we are living in. During l ...
