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Social Crime: A Social Solution Not A Punitive One

Too often we hear from the conservative elements of our society and media that the best way to deal with street crime is harsher sentences and more prisons, but wait has that worked anywhere? America is renowned for it’s no nonsense approach to crime, it is also renowned for highly organised and violent... 

New Year, New You – Time To Start A New Business?

May 2010 was a month of sheer delight and relief having finished my final exams, yet it also brought about the dreaded fear of ‘whats next?’. It was then that my job hunt began, but I’m not sure which was more disheartening; the rejection letters or not hearing any feedback at all. I went through... 

The Budget

Now the dreaded budget has passed us by, I feel that it was like a field full of land mines, every step you take their seems to be a explosion, in other words, we were hit more than once but we were lucky in a sense it could have been a lot worse than it was. After all, the government could of hit the... 

Never Stop Learning

I was speaking the other night about learning and what it means to me. I have always considered myself to be curious by nature so learning came naturally to me. When I was 9 months old, my mother had to strap me into the pram while my twin sister was not restrained. Apparently, I was always trying to... 

Is It Time To Abolish The Seanad?

We are currently experiencing what may turn out to be the worst dual financial and political crisis since the founding of the Irish republic. Like previous troubled times on this island, not only are we broke, but there does not appear to be an immediate way out, and our younger generations are beginning... 

The Protest

I along with maybe 1,500 to 2,000 people met up outside the Anglo Irish bank just off St Stephens green on Wednesday 28th of September to help raise awareness and possibly a voice, to the way the Irish Government are using the likes of you and me to pay off bills that we shouldn’t have to. We are... 

Convenience, Is The Price Too High?

How many people have you met who do not have a mobile phone, or who don’t use email? How frustrating is it when we lose or break our mobile phones? Imagine what our lives would be like if these luxuries were taken away from us. It would be difficult to argue that some of the advances in technology... 

A Fine Line Between Intimate And Social

Social media is a great way of networking. The many free tools at your disposal allow you to communicate with people in a very intimate way. While the beauty of blogging, the flair of Facebook, and the thrill of Twitter is that it’s very personal, users need to know where to draw the line. People ‘like’... 
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