Marie Curie

Poland’s a really young country compared to Ireland. It's hard to say when it even started. We could start in 1989 when the present ‘democratic’ Poland was born. I use quotation marks because, well, when Communism fell and Capitalism 2.0…

Yesterday I read something that made my blood boil. In 1939, de Valera's minister for education announced a proposal to cut mathematics as a compulsory subject at the intermediate level (equivalent to the junior certificate). He said that…