
Shining a Light on Dark Personalities | Part Two: Noticing the Narcissist
Miriam King is currently a Lecturer in Psychology in Carlow College, St Patrick’s. Miriam’s research interests include dark personality traits, defence mechanisms, criminal psychology and

Shining a Light on Dark Personalities | Part One: Spotting the Sadist
Miriam King is currently a Lecturer in Psychology in Carlow College, St Patrick’s. Miriam’s research interests include dark personality traits, defence mechanisms, criminal psychology and

Why are we now seeing an ‘alarming rise’ in measles cases?
Analysis: antibiotics and vaccination all but wiped out such traditional infectious childhood diseases as measles during the 20th century By Dr Ida Milne, Lecturer in

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Thirty-six years ago, in November 1987, just in time to compete for the highly coveted Christmas No.1 spot in the UK music charts, ‘Fairytale of

Michael Sherman: ‘I’d rather not live like there isn’t a God…’ The Gospel according to Kendrick Lamar
Endings matter. While a good start is half the battle, nothing beats a ‘mic-drop’ finish. The American rapper and songwriter, Kendrick Lamar, brought his headlining

Transforming Patrick in the Medieval WorldÂ
Transforming Patrick in the Medieval World At some point in the fifth century CE a former slave called Patrick made the decision to return to

Reflections on Advent 4-Part Series: Rethinking Advent through Hidden Matriarchs
This Advent, I begin a four-part reflection series focusing on the often-overlooked figures in the Christmas story. As we light the Advent candles each Sunday,

Food Security and Insecurity: Lessons from medieval Irish towns.
The terms ‘food security’ and ‘food insecurity’ have been in use since the 1970s and were formally defined by the first World Food Summit in

Pope Leo XIV and the Generative Age: Tradition, Technology, and the Next Chapter in the Catholic Social Tradition
Thursday’s election of Robert Francis Cardinal Prevost, American by birth and shaped by his many years of missionary ministry in Peru, as Pope Leo XIV