Opinion
Improving the lot of the Irish consumer
BY JOHN ELLIS, FINANCIAL ADVISOR A study was carried out recently by the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC), involving more than 4,500 consumers who were asked to recall incidents from the previous 12 months that had either cost them money, caused stress, or consumed their time. The purposes of the study was to measure …
Knowing the right time to make a move
AS I SEE IT MARIANNE HERON Knowing when to quit can be a tricky issue. When it comes to retirement the decision is made for many of us. But suppose you aren’t tied by contract or regulation can you judge the right time to let go the reins or make an appropriate change? It’s a …
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 …
