by Paola Bassanese Moby Move app download? Tick. Registered your details? Tick. Added payment method? Tick. Then, just unlock your bike and go! Yes, it’s that simple to use a bike for hire in Athlone. …

Athlone is an ‘all-or-nothing’ kind of place: it’s either a matter of nothing ever happening, or everything happening at once. May, for example, is a month when absolutely everything happens in Athlone, in the heart of Ireland, often at exactly the same time on the same day. This, in many…

I started growing my own vegetables a whole year before the Covid-19 pandemic, well before it was fashionable. I moved from London to Ireland (because of Brexit) and found a house with a garden, as this was my plan all along. I knew immediately that I wanted to put the…

As a food and lifestyle writer, I am passionate about healthy eating — I don’t stuff my face with greasy or processed meals as a rule, because I choose to avoid added salt, sugar, preservatives etc in food as they are linked to the risk of developing high blood pressure…

What Is Self-Advocacy? Self-advocacy is defined as the act of representing yourself; in other words, speaking up for yourself and your interests to ensure your needs are met. Being able to speak up and push back is particularly important when receiving medical care: doctors, nurses and other staff are over-stretched…

YouTube Shorts seem to get a lot of exposure on the YouTube home page (what used to be the recommended videos) and the dedicated Shorts shelf. In a blatant move to compete against popular short form video aggregator TikTok, YouTube is pushing shorts to generate engagement and keep viewers on…