"I THINK I might be the token 'social scientist' at the Northern Ireland Science Festival," jokes Professor John Barry of his forthcoming 'in conversation' event, an hour-long virtual chat with Sorcha Ní Cheallaigh of Re-imagine Re-make Replay (RRR) which will stream live at midday on Friday February 19.
A social media death threat aimed at an 11-year-old environmental activist has roused outrage in Colombia, a nation where attacks on social leaders are common and threats are taken seriously.
AS WE arrive at the ancient Festival of Imbolc, that time when our ancestors celebrated the near passing of winter and the beginning of spring around what is now the Feast day of St Brigid, February 1 – Lá Fhéile Bríde – most of us, I suspect, are happy to see the back of January and all its ambiguity.
SWIMMING in the Atlantic, the flight of a moth, the honk of swans overhead, small oases of wilderness in an urban sprawl – all open up Thin Places for Derry-born writer Kerri Ní Dochartaigh.
A huge landslide into rivers in Donegal and Tyrone which started on the site of a new windfarm has been described as “catastrophic” by the Loughs’ Agency.