There's much talk of pollution at the moment.  If it isn't bugs in the groundwater from septic tanks, it's poisonous chemicals from fracking, and yet the rural people seem curiously [...]

John O'Connor is an Irish doctor working in Canada since 1993. He recently provided this short post on fracking which, in case you haven't come across the term, is an [...]

Time to take a break from the elements

Jesus Christ, it's pissing rain again. Will this rain ever stop? I ask myself, and after a brief lacuna, comes the reply: Yes.  When it freezes. I know I've said [...]

Scientists in University College, Cork have come up with a bio-degradable chewing gum which does the same thing as the filthy stuff people currently chew but which breaks down instead [...]

What do we want for our cities?

Destroying history in your name

Looking for a low-impact way to throw things out.

The rot didn't start yesterday

There's always a human element