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Electronic voting, a metro system, a children's hospital, a fleet of electric buses. These are just some of the projects a modern, forward-looking Ireland should have produced on time and within budget in the past twenty years. But it did not. Sinead O'Sullivan is an economist wh ...  Show more

At least 67 migrants died this week making the crossing from Morocco to Ceuta, the Spanish exclave on the north-western tip of Africa. The world was shocked by images of an estimated 60,000 people breaching the border with the Spanish territory, and it has sparked a lot of politi ...  Show more

The pandemic provided city dwellers with a break from the din of the modern world. Now the noise is coming back. What does that mean for our productivity, health, and basic sanity?

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The modern world overwhelms us with sounds we didn’t ask for, like car alarms and cell-phone “halfalogues.” What does all this noise cost us in terms of productivity, health, and basic sanity?

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The 'age of noise': How a preoccupation with unwanted sounds came to characterise modernity. The 20th century saw the expansion of cities and technological change. The sounds of motor cars, vacuum cleaners and gramaphones filled the air, leading social commentators to forecast th ...  Show more

If you’ve ever found your blood pressure rising because some guy down the street doesn’t know how to keep the trigger on a leaf blower pulled all the way, then you’ve experienced noise pollution. Not only is it annoying, it turns out it’s deadly too!