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Stream Solutions, Ireland's Apple experts are proud to be leading the way for the iPad for education and learning revolution, collaborating with many schools and colleges around the county.
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Set List
Such is the popularity of Dublin sisters Heathers, that even uber DJ David Guetta wants them to write a song for his new album.
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Food
For the truly hungry it's an aroma that's right up there with the smell of sausages frying on a camp fire.
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Sport
Twelve months ago almost to the day Bishopstown retained their senior status with a one point victory over Ballinhassig after extra-time in a replay, so it is some achievement that on Sunday they will play in their very first county senior final.
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Health & Beauty
Name: Valerie Turley Salon: DH1 I became a hairdresser because.
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The Licentiate
Punk becomes fashion
The Licentiate
Posted on 04/10/2012 by Sarah Waldron
It’s so odd how youth culture can so easily become commodified, pressed from a cry into the dark of capitalism into the oil which lubricates its machinations. If I sound like a wild conspiracy theorist, it’s probably because I am.
But seriously, it is odd how the things that are invented on the street, without the help of trend forecasters and clothing oligarchs, can go from being under the radar to tired, overprocessed and underappreciated within a matter of decades.Read more…
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A pocketful of problems
The Licentiate Posted on 27/09/2012 by Sarah Waldron
I had a singularly unpleasant experience today. It started like any other autumn day, with the promise of another sinus headache hanging in the air, drifting dangerously close to my nose and eye socket.
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An industry, not a hobby
The Licentiate Posted on 20/09/2012 by Sarah Waldron
On publication of this week’s week’s column, we will be approximately halfway through Fashion Month. Editors, stylists, buyers and celebrities go from New York to London to Milan to Paris, watching fashion shows and attempting to distill the essence of the next season.
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Dressing for motherhood
The Licentiate Posted on 13/09/2012 by Sarah Waldron
So, the battle is over, but the war has just begun. You’ve gone through pregnancy, you’ve given birth and enough time has passed for you to begin to regain some sense of equilibrium. Maybe you’re back at work.
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Mummy tummy
The Licentiate Posted on 06/09/2012 by Deirdre O'Shaughnessy
There are some things that the general public are just not told about pregnancy and labour. As a childless person, I am all too easily shocked by the perfectly natural occurrences that are par for the course.
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A lazy girl's guide to pregnancy dressing
The Licentiate Posted on 30/08/2012 by Sarah Waldron
Pregnancy can mean many things to many people. It’s a life-affirming (and life-giving) experience, an inconvenient result of a birth-control glitch, a terrifying and bewildering meander through a vagina that has been given such a drastic refurbishment that Kevin McCloud wants to film the third trimester and sunsequent birth for Grand Designs.
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Is your best friend remarkable?
The Licentiate Posted on 23/08/2012 by Sarah Waldron
Everyone should think that their best friend is remarkable. If you don’t, you may need a new one. If your best friendship hasn’t grown out of that adolescent stage of sniping, backstabbing and general resentment that happens in the course of every symbiotic female friendship, then you definitely need a new one - but you can’t have mine.
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Dress like a slut
The Licentiate Posted on 16/08/2012 by Sarah Waldron
You can’t go out looking like that. Why not? Well, someone might get the wrong idea. Your dress is too short. Your breasts are heaved out on display. That’s far too tight. Someone might think you’re a slut.
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The colour purple
The Licentiate Posted on 09/08/2012 by Brian Hayes Curtin
I’ve been watching a lot of documentaries lately. I’ve also been watching a lot of ‘30 Rock’, but that’s probably not relevant to this week’s column. I’ll stop right there and not talk about Liz Lemon’s lack of sartorial nous.
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Looking like you're asking for it
The Licentiate Posted on 02/08/2012 by Sarah Waldron
A funny thing happened to me on the way from the post office today.
Maybe that’s not the best way to start a story, but the rest of said story is sufficiently entertaining that the mediocre introduction can be forgiven.
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Dressing for the weather
The Licentiate Posted on 26/07/2012 by Sarah Waldron
It is hard to dress for Irish weather at the best of times. Every year I think that it’ll be the year I get to talk about swimwear and shorts, but it’s now reaching the end of July and the majority of the population still have yet to buy their first summer ‘99 (with extra Flake, please).
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An iconic anniversary
The Licentiate Posted on 19/07/2012 by Sarah Waldron
On Sunday 5 August, it will have been 50 years since the death of Marilyn Monroe. The actress was such an icon, had such a physical presence, could project a character so well that her costumes have become incredibly famous - more famous, perhaps than any other actresses.
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A fashion manifesto
The Licentiate Posted on 12/07/2012 by Sarah Waldron
In the past few weeks, I’ve been struggling with fashion. I’ve been wrestling with it instead of trying to engage with it meaningfully. Sometime fashion is just too damn hard to have a conversation with.
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Am I totally Clueless?
The Licentiate Posted on 05/07/2012 by Deirdre O'Shaughnessy
This evening, I flooped ( it’s one step up from ‘flopped’) down on the couch and settled in to watch one of my all-time favourite films. I wish that I could tell you it’s something epic and sweeping and vast, something that will punch you in the gut with the sheer force of emotion involved in watching it, something that makes you truly re-evaluate your life and makes you see the world in a totally different way.
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Packing your life away
The Licentiate Posted on 28/06/2012 by Sarah WaldronPacking your life into a suitcase is hard. Holiday packing it ain’t. You don’t need a couple of bikinis and caftans for a fortnight of sun, sand and vat or two of sangria. You need clothes for work, for after work, for weekends, for dates, for relaxing, for sleeping, for working out.
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