Top Irish sporting official apologises after making ‘Black Dives Matter’ comment under BBC story about Raheem Sterling being fouled for England’s decisive penalty against Denmark Bernard O’Byrne commented ‘Black Dives Matter’ under a BBC article on Facebook about the penalty awarded to Sterling in Euros semi-final O’Byrne, who is now the head of Basketball Ireland, … Read more
Top Irish sporting official apologises after making ‘Black Dives Matter’ comment under BBC story about Raheem Sterling being fouled for England’s decisive penalty against Denmark Bernard O’Byrne commented ‘Black Dives Matter’ under a BBC article on Facebook about the penalty awarded to Sterling in Euros semi-final O’Byrne, who is now the head of Basketball Ireland, … Read more
JEFF PRESTRIDGE: We were right about insurance companies… loyalty really does matter By Jeff Prestridge for The Mail on Sunday Published: 22:28 BST, 29 May 2021 | Updated: 22:28 BST, 29 May 2021 It’s been a tortuous journey, but at long last the City regulator has acted to stop loyal customers being exploited by greedy … Read more
Jonathan Bate has penned a biography about John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Author reveals the writers had similarities including physical insecurities and growing up in a world at war.
Now that we have a lot of smart home devices available in the market, managing the ones that come from different manufacturers can be a pain. But it looks like we’ll soon get a new standard protocol that Google and other leading tech companies are developing and advocating for. At the Google I/O Conference, the … Read more
Black Lives Matter has condemned Israel’s ‘settler colonialism’ while declaring ‘solidarity with Palestinians’ in a statement on Twitter. The BLM movement said it would ‘continue to advocate for Palestinian liberation’ as it equated the conflict in Gaza to anti-police protests in the US. The tweet came as thousands of pro-Palestine protesters gathered across the US … Read more
On July 16, 1945, the US Army tested the first nuclear bomb at Trinity Site in New Mexico unbeknownst they would leave behind something that would one day help scientific research. Decades later this hidden treasure has been uncovered – a ‘quasicrystal, which is new form of matter that breaks the rules of classical crystalline … Read more
Dark matter, which is said to make up 85 percent of the universe, has eluded scientists for more than 50 years, but new research may have solved why. A team of American researchers hypothesize that our galaxy is filled with tiny particles with mass, known as dark photons, and traditional particle physics experiments are unable … Read more
We have not mentioned this here before but it is not too late when it comes to good news. The Project Connected Home over IP (Project CHIP) is now called MATTER. The new standard is introduced by the Connectivity Standards Alliance which is an organization of tech giants like Google, Samsung, Apple, and Amazon among … Read more
Day four and delirium has set in. I see fish in every shadowy corner of the River Findhorn — ghosts holding in the current. The water looks almost like the whisky made here in Scotland’s northeastern county of Moray, but it doesn’t have that dangerous glint. This is slick black tea, tannin-heavy and sickly. Closing … Read more