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Still A Man's World

IT IS still common to see headlines announcing the first woman to occupy some important post or other. Asako Suzuki has just been appointed the first female board member at...

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Festivals

Dublin International Film Festival Tours To Its Namesakes In Ohio, Texas And Virginia

Dublin here, Dublin there! This year the Audi Dublin International Film Festival (ADIFF ) will tour its Irish shorts program to international locations that share the names...

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Hollywood

Hozier Donates Song Proceeds To Domestic Abuse Charities

Irish singer/songwriter Hozier is donating the proceeds of his new single, Cherry Wine, to a series of international domestic abuse charity organisations which provide supp...

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Kaleidoscope

Kaleidoscope - Book Lovers’ Books

For bibliophiles, books about book lovers offer an additional thrill…of belonging to a special community that lives its own universe of words.

The idea o...

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Festivals

The Cork Film Festival Launches Its Diamond Jubilee

It hardly seems possible, but the Cork Film Festival really has been going since the 1950s. Keeping heads above water involved quite a bit of struggle in the early days, bu...

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Gender

Ireland Passes Law Allowing Trans People To Choose Their Legal Gender

Transgender people in Ireland have won legal recognition of their status after a law was passed allowing them to change their legal gender with no medical or state interven...

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Sustainable Development

India reduces hunger, moves up 8 ranks in global index

In a pat on the back for the erstwhile UPA Government’s flagship programmes, the Global Hunger Index 2014 (GHI) has noted a significant improvement in the levels of h...

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Environment

130 women leaders steal the limelight at UN climate show

With women and girls on the frontline of climate change, women leaders representing 54 nations met in New York to call on global leaders gathered for Ban Ki-moon?s climate ...

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Hollywood

One Direction Star Niall Horan Hosts Celebrity Charity Football

One Direction’s Niall Horan was joined by band mates Harry Styles, Liam Payne and Louis Tomlinson, and a host of celebrities for the Niall Horan Charity Football Chal...

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Comedy needs more female writers, says Veep’s Armando Iannucci

Julia Louis-Dreyfus’s heels may clatter down the corridors of power in the American sitcom Veep – now back for a second season – but her gender is not the...

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