Opinion
Looking after your bones starts in your 30’s
BY CLAIR WHITTY It’s time to tell you about some exciting new supplements. For bone health there’s Cleanmarine Bone Factors with essential nutrients for female bone health. If you like Magnesium Bisglycinate then One Nutrition has a new one for you to try. Cleanmarine Bone Factors is a gold standard blend of scientifically researched nutrients …
Is it smart to allow a child a mobile phone?
THE FACT OF THE MATTER BY PAUL HOPKINS Eighteen years after it was first mooted, the iPhone has made Apple the world’s most valuable company (with a market capitalisation of $2.9 trillion as of last week) but, in a way, that’s the least interesting thing about it. What’s more significant is that the late Steve Jobs’ iconic …
Remembering my father, my Da, James Moran
FURTHERMORE By Gerry Moran Some photographs are precious. One of those photographs sits on our mantelpiece. I look at it often. And always I linger over it. The photograph is precious for three reasons. One tt was taken on my 21st birthday with my father and mother alongside me Second, it was the day I …
Can an MRI scan be harmful?
A chartered physiotherapist’s perspective By Paul Bolger. Nano Physiotherapy MRI scans have been a remarkable addition to modern medicine. They can save lives. Where surgeons previously cut a patient open to examine them, scans can now reveal what lies within. But scans can be harmful. It’s not because they blast our body with harmful beams …
Old time fun and games
PART SIX BY JOHN FITZGERALD 1925 proved to be a vast improvement on the previous round of Callan sporting competitions. This time, the High Jump was added to the list of fixtures. And a race laden with what Martin Kelly called “special handicaps” complemented the action in style: this ingenious event encompassed a number of …
Some thoughts at being 70 – or thereabouts!
FURTHERMORE By Gerry Moran And so I have reached the venerable age of 70. Plus vat! Was going to write the venerable OLD age of 70 but, as everyone knows, 70 isn’t old anymore. Everyone knows that 70 is the new 60! Being 70 may also be the age when you delude yourself. About your …
Strangers in the plight that robs us of ourselves
THE FACT OF THE MATTER BY PAUL HOPKINS Over the course of – what was it? – weeks, months, perhaps only days, a stranger came to live among us. He looked familiar, like someone I had once known and, yet, it was not he. He did not appear to recognise me. Not a flicker. His …
Driving down death toll on our roads
AS I SEE IT MARIANNE HERON An increase in disregard for drink-driving laws and less traffic safety enforcement by Gardaí have happened at same time as an increase in the number of fatal road traffic accidents. Hardly a coincidence, is it? Tragically the number of deaths on our roads rose last year to 184, up …
So then customer, will that be card or cash?
BY JOHN ELLIS, FINANCIAL ADVISOR Is cash on the way out? Last August in the UK, cash was in such short supply that the Treasury moved to protect public demand for physical money by announcing that banks would be fined for failing to provide free access to cash withdrawals for consumers and businesses. Recently I …
Love is in the air
BY CLAIR WHITTY Love is in the air, I don’t think we have to wait to celebrate love, happiness, and appreciation for each other until Valentines Day! We can celebrate any day we like. Here are some gift suggestions for someone you love. Chocolates are always a great gift idea. Booa Booja Hazelnut Crunch chocolate …
