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Today I bring you the story of Carl and Gerty Cori – particularly Gerty, one of many notable 20th-century female scientists who were poorly treated in their profession (American Chemical Society Commemorative Booklet 2004). Carl and Gerty were husband and…

Even when Interpol slapped a “Red Notice” on Sean McGovern, the Irish career criminal hiding out in Dubai was probably not too concerned. That Red Notice came about because the DPP in Ireland directed that McGovern, Daniel Kinahan’s closest and…

“We can’t keep talking about it,” said John O’Shea this week when he was asked for the 476th time how this Irish team might have fared if it had Declan Rice in midfield. Or Jack Grealish out wide. He was,…

In the later years of his life, the American designer and inventor Buckminster Fuller often told a story about a painful period in his early 30s. It was 1927, and he was out of work; he was depressed and drinking…