Lifestyle

Like many before him and after him, Charles Lever qualified as a medical doctor in early life but later forsook medicine for writing.

Walter Osbourne was born at 5 Castlewood Ave, Rathmines in Dublin in 1859 to a family that produced doctors and the occasional writer or painter.

Sometimes, when I’m wearing my lecturing hat, enthusiastic students ask me what’s the best thing about being a journalist.

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Introduced by Maeve Binchy, LifeStory is a unique book which has been created to enable Irish families, couples and individuals to begin the process of compiling and writing their own life histories.

The British NHS has handed over the keys of the Radcliffe Infirmary to Oxford University.

Sometimes it seems like everything is ‘made in China’, and now along with Gap jumpers, Nintendo Game Boys and every variety of plastic toy ever imagined, China is a major exporter of lips, breasts and other body parts amenable to aesthetic fillers.

What do you think when you think pink? Chances are, you immediately think something girlie and frivolous.

In just three short years in the late 1970s, punk provoked shock, cynicism and bafflement.

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