Monday, February 20, 2012 12:00

DUBLIN-born Maura Lennon is a petit woman, who doesn’t look 48, despite having spent many years working in some of the most difficult circumstances on the planet. Her bubbly personality masks the steely determination necessary for the selfless, sometimes hazardous career she has pursued since early adulthood. More...

Monday, February 20, 2012 12:00

A NORTSIDE HR professional will shortly travel to Uganda on a year long placement with international development charity Voluntary Services Overseas (VSO). Helen O’Flinn (35), from Drumcondra, who works at Eircom, will spend the next 12 months working as a HR development specialist with VSO partner organisation and Ugandan HIV & AIDS supporter group MARP (Most at Risk Population). More...

Monday, February 6, 2012 12:00

IT’S ironic that a man who scarcely wrote a word in his life fathered one of the 20th century's greatest masters of words. John Stanislaus Joyce, father of James, had much to say when his son introduced his future wife, Nora Barnacle, to his father. More...

Monday, January 9, 2012 12:00

An inspirational Dubliner who has embarked on a run around the world has taken his first steps on the long South American leg of his unprecedented global journey. Over a year ago former construction worker Tony Mangan (54), who is from the Liberties originally, ran the Dublin Marathon and he has been running ever since. More...

Monday, January 9, 2012 12:00

A SOUTHSIDE woman has spoken of her experiences in Ethiopia where she witnessed at first hand the impact that emergency relief provided by an Irish aid organisation is having on those affected by the food crisis in East Africa. More...