Imagine paying €51,000 for a Skoda? Considering the misplaced jokes over the years, this might come as a surprise to a lot of people. Not only are eyebrows raised at the potential full price of the Enyaq, there is a queue of people waiting to hand over their cash (or credit) for one at the…
Prof Brendan Kelly recounts the fascinating life of Violet Gibson In March 2021, a Dublin City Council committee voted to support the erection of a plaque to the memory of Violet Gibson, an Irish woman who shot Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini in 1926. It is hoped to locate the plaque at 12 Merrion Square,…
Trauma is everywhere. More precisely, the term “trauma” is now used to describe everything from truly traumatic experiences that would disturb most people, to the routine ups and downs of everyday life that leave some of us slightly upset. Everything is traumatic, it seems. It is not entirely clear when this trend started, or why…
A few years ago, before The Restaurant was transformed into the Marco Pierre White show, Paolo Tullio and I were served a particularly delicious meal that we took to be vegetarian. It was cooked by Sharon Shannon and it turned out to be vegan. It was vegan in the sense that it contained no animal…
In a previous Dorsal View, we looked at studies showing how wearing a white lab coat appeared to improve the performance of participants in certain tests. Importantly, the effect was only seen when the participants were informed that they were wearing a doctor’s white coat, rather than an artist’s white coat, for example. But what…
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