Archive for the ‘News’

  • Great Results From St. Mary’s Baldoyle
    Jodie McDonagh, Clare Ferns, Leah O' Brien, Leanne Sherwin delighted with their leaving certificate results Deputy Principal John Moore sends sincere congratulations to all the leaving cert. students from St. Mary’s Baldoyle on their excellent leaving certificate results.
    by Editor at August 20th, 2010 at 09:08 am
  • Looking out for linguists
    Don't neglect your second language!The EU institutions have begun a major recruitment campaign for translators and interpreters into eight languages including English, in a bid to address serious shortages of language staff in Brussels. From mid-July, posts are being advertised for translators into English, Danish, German, French and Slovenian. Interpreter jobs, which...
    by Editor at July 15th, 2010 at 11:07 am
  • New Pitch for Rathoath College
    Gretta Judge, Mairead Ryan, Declan O'Toole (RC Caretaker), Paul Patterson(Patterson Sportsgrounds), Maire NiBhroithe (Principal), Oonagh Prendergast (Deputy Principal) Rathoath College are delighted to announce the opening of an impressive new school pitch. Pattersons (Paul Patterson in photo) have been responsible for this pitch and have spent the past two years...
    by Editor at July 12th, 2010 at 12:07 pm
  • Dublin slips down list of world’s expensive cities
    www.iStockphoto.comDear old Dublin is not quite so dear anymore, according to a new survey analysing the cost of living in 214 cities worldwide. Ireland’s capital has been ranked the world’s 42nd most expensive city in the latest annual study by Mercer Consulting. It’s a long drop since 2008, when Dublin enjoyed the dubious honour of being among the top twenty of...
    by Editor at July 5th, 2010 at 09:07 am
  • Organic farming gets a boost with new EU label
    It’s hoped that a new EU-wide organic logo which comes into use this month will enhance consumer confidence in organic food and help to promote the sector in Ireland and abroad. Since 1st July, the ‘Euro-leaf’ label is mandatory on all pre-packaged foods produced in any EU country that meet organic farming standards. The logo is optional for non-packed and imported...
    by Editor at July 5th, 2010 at 09:07 am
  • True Beauty and Truly Ugly, Penney’s Award Winner!
    Today, I learned a very hard lesson. I learned the worth of true friendship and the value of true beauty. See, in a world obsessed with artifice, it’s very easy to get led astray. We applaud the unnatural, respect the unscrupulous and deny the good. We find some sort of perverse pleasure in being made feel insecure and it is this addiction which denies us the basic...
    by Editor at June 8th, 2010 at 07:06 pm