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“If You Don’t Have Doubts, You Should Give up Being an Artist”
Before we had the COVID-19 pandemic and the career of an artist became even more precarious, I spoke to artists from three different disciplines for an episode of Overinformed to ask what it took for them to get where they are today. I…
Where is My Home? | The Housing Crisis, Homelessness & Co-Living
Our housing crisis and homelessness crisis has dominated Irish political discourse for the second half of the 2010s. It was perhaps the defining feature of the 2020 general election which itself redefined the Irish political landscape, or…
Why Are We so Afraid to Be Bored That We Would Electrocute Ourselves?
Perhaps you might be switching between boredom and panic at the moment. You probably can guest why you are bored at the moment. Your home can only be homely for so long before it becomes a prison and we are finding out how long that is.…
Political Correctness is Not as New as You Might Think
Is there a phrase more of our time than political correctness? In an age where fake news and the truth is something that people are taking or leaving, where diversity is somehow considered a threat and being “a straight-talker” seems to…
The Burden of Opportunity | Are Millennials Spoiled For Choice?
It’s a tricky time. Being in your 20-30s' that is. It’s a time when you define the rest of your life, hopefully. Of course having to redefine yourself is always a possibility, no matter your age. So what is the experience of 20-30 year olds…
Hack Attack: Tips on Preventing Data Breaches
The past decade has seen some of the worst security breaches imaginable. From Yahoo’s breach in 2013 that impacted three billion people to the Equifax breach that exposed the personal credit information of 143 million people, it’s clear…
5 Reasons a Sustainable Business Model Will Be the Only Future Business Model
Achieving sustainability is beneficial for business. If there's a fact that goes under-reported and misunderstood when we talk about "going green," it's this one. Embracing the principles of a sustainable economy is an urgent moral…
Cracking the Code: Nontraditional Paths into Cyber Security
Cyber security today is more important than it has ever been before. More and more business sectors are realizing that they are in need of cyber security measures and it is projected that the cyber security market is expected to reach…
What happened in GE2020 and where do we go from here?
It is difficult to overstate how dramatic and transformative the results of GE2020 have turned out to be. Ireland's version of the two-party system has been broken. We likely will have a Taoiseach who doesn't come from the two parties that…
The Zone | Why we fear the concept of comfort
For a long time I was blissfully unaware of any such thing as a specific ‘zone’. Like generations before me, I survived. Obviously not in an optimal way; why else would this ubiquitous term enjoy such prominence in our culture now?…