“Remember years ago when people wore rubber bands with ‘What Would Jesus Do?’ written on them? A woman suffering domestic…
Last Sunday, 13th May 2018, members of DiEM25 met in Belfast. That same day, eleven women, from both sides of…
Andrew Lownie, author of The Mountbattens: Their Lives And Loves, has told the Belfast Telegraph that Mr Harris, a former…
This was Lyra McKee’s foreword to a collection of essays called ‘Paper Trailers’ – a series of personal reflections collated…
The Friday discussion was part of the three-day Greater Kansas City Peacebuilding Conference. The theme this year was “Human Rights:…
“Remember years ago when people wore rubber bands with ‘What Would Jesus Do?’ written on them? A woman suffering domestic violence has an invisible rubber band on her wrist constantly reminding her of all the possible consequences of her every action. ‘What would Jim do? What would Sean do? Or what would Bobby do? No…
Last Sunday, 13th May 2018, members of DiEM25 met in Belfast. That same day, eleven women, from both sides of the Irish border, travelled to England and Wales for an abortion that would have been illegal in Ireland. There was nothing unusual in that. It is an everyday occurrence. In 2016 just under 4,000 women…
“Remember years ago when people wore rubber bands with ‘What Would Jesus Do?’ written on them? A woman suffering domestic violence has an invisible rubber band on her wrist constantly reminding her of all the possible consequences of her every action. ‘What would Jim do? What would Sean do? Or what would Bobby do? No…
Last Sunday, 13th May 2018, members of DiEM25 met in Belfast. That same day, eleven women, from both sides of the Irish border, travelled to England and Wales for an abortion that would have been illegal in Ireland. There was nothing unusual in that. It is an everyday occurrence. In 2016 just under 4,000 women…
Abstract: Social networks are one of the most popular ways of communication in the world. Learning its wise use and knowing the alphabet is one of the fundamental steps to pursued, with greater tenacity in health, due to the risks and benefits that these powerful tools offer. Social media has become a powerful vehicle to…
“No problem can be solved from the same consciousness that created it. We must learn to see the world anew” A. Einstein In my last article, I wrote about the change of era we are experiencing and introduced the idea of leveraging our collective intelligence, to address the challenges we collectively face in this globalized world.…
Andrew Lownie, author of The Mountbattens: Their Lives And Loves, has told the Belfast Telegraph that Mr Harris, a former senior PSNI officer and liaison with MI5, had declined to disclose the intelligence. Lownie had wanted access to the files so that he could pursue his inquiries into the alleged trafficking of boys from London…
Ultra violet lit public toilets, designed to prevent drug users clearly seeing the veins in their arms to inject into, don’t work. Last Friday I went to a blinding and dazzling public ‘comfort station’ to find it locked. I left. I was worried that someone might need help so I returned. As I knocked on…
No Deal Doesn’t Mean a Clean Break Last Saturday, Frances O’Grady, General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), brought a stark message about Brexit to the crowded Factory Room in Belfast’s Metropolitan Arts Centre – the MAC. ‘No deal doesn’t mean a clean break. It’s not as if it’s going to be a short,…
Every year more and more patients use falsified medicines (FM), and this is not dreadful only for the pharmaceutical sector, but especially for the consumers. As a matter of fact, FM could have a wrong dosage – either too high or too low – or even can be made with toxic ingredients. According to the…
Abstract: Social networks are one of the most popular ways of communication in the world. Learning its wise use and knowing the alphabet is one of the fundamental steps to pursued, with greater tenacity in health, due to the risks and benefits that these powerful tools offer. Social media has become a powerful vehicle to…
The European Union member countries have renovated for five years the authorization for using the glyphosate, the most widely used herbicide, since years subject of concerns and worries. Years of criticism on the use of the chemical compound in agriculture, considered by many carcinogenic to humans. Even the International Agencies (like the European Food Safety Authority EFSA,…
This might sound funny, but going to a Coldplay concert led to my diagnoses of having achronic illness. If I could thank the band, I would. I had gone to see their world tour when they came to Seattle, Washington this past summer. I was up on my feet for the amazing 2 plus hour…
