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Armstrong wrong on dairy by Catherine Logan Frank Armstrong’s article ‘Contrary about Dairy [Village, June-July) contains numerous inaccuracies regarding dairy. Dairy foods play a significant and important role in a healthy, balanced diet and are included in dietary recommendations throughout the world. Inaccurate information and communications on dairy, or indeed any food/nutrient, may lead to […]
Heaney:going through the poetic motions Ireland’s timeless bard of farmyard, bogs and prehistory by Kevin Kiely After his death last year the Independent newspaper described Séamus Heaney as “probably the best-known poet in the world”. According to the BBC, at one time Heaney’s books made up two-thirds of the sales of living poets in the […]
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Sugar-free, wheat-free and dairy-free eating. Review by Frank Armstrong
By Ronan Lynch. Administration and ‘process’ not innovation drive Irish operation It’s been a bad twelve months for Google. It began with the growing awareness of Google’s tax avoidance, and continued with Google being forced to deny that it participated in the PRISM spying project. It also suffers ballooning costs and falling ad rates. So […]
‘When art is made easy, it’s made cheap’ RóisIn Waters Okay, I admit it – I’m a hipster. I’m the person you see with a polaroid camera slung around my neck on my way to pick up Howlin’ Wolf’s psychedelic album – on vinyl, of course. I belong to that group of people who […]
“the religiously deferential Philomena denies that she was coerced into signing away her child” At the glitzy Dublin premiere of Philomena there was marked discomfort in the Q & A emanating from some of the victims of institutional abuses as the normally boisterous Steve Coogan made every effort to be inoffensive in his efforts to […]