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Clare O'Beara

Clare O'Beara is an independently publishing author, an award-winning blogger and award-winning photojournalist. She is also a tree surgeon and expert witness, and a former national standard showjumper. She is an ecologist and includes environmental issues in her stories. She graduated in 2022 with a BA (Hons, First) in multimedia Journalism. Postgraduate qualification in Data Visualisation.


Contact: author@clareobeara.ie

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My Top Ten Accessible Destinations in Ireland

1. The Chester Beatty Library. Located at the back of Dublin Castle this fascinating museum hosts the Oriental collection of Sir Alfred Chester Beatty, whose life-size statue greets you at the door and can be touched, ideal for the visually impaired. The museum has a lift which is large enough for any wheelchair. The buttons feature Braille and the lift speaks in English and Irish. See full description here 2. The National Gallery
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Recent Work

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Home Alone — Hidden Hazards For Seniors

Some of these photos are not pretty, but I won’t apologise. You need to see them. I visited a family friend, Grace (not her real name) who lives alone in a small, neatly appointed apartment. This is in a cluster built for senior people, with a caretaker whose work includes performing welfare checks, keeping the bins area tidy and locking the gates at night. Grace has a helper, paid by herself, who drops in a few times each week and can bring groceries or take Grace out by car. Grace calls this
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Clare O'Beara Multimedia Journalism •

Content platforms used during my course

Here are some reflections on the websites we used as tools during our Multimedia Journalism degree course. Getting familiar with all of this has been necessary for content creation and publishing. The platform dictates the kind of content published. The final item is a site called JournoPortfolio which allows the student to bring together their published work from various platforms, presenting a substantial body of work. Early in the course we learnt to collaborate using Google Drive.
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Tribute to Henry McDonald

As a former student of Henry McDonald’s, the Belfast-born journalist, author and lecturer, I have been asked to create a blog tribute page for his students and friends. Henry (6 July 1965 – 19 February 2023), already has a Wikipedia entry. He was active on various social media platforms, between news stories and his love of sports. While Henry was with Dublin Business School, I recommended he claim his Goodreads author page, as authors who are members of the site gain more followers;
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School with no-parking bollards in Dublin.
Medium •

Future-proofing Ireland’s education — “I am obsolete three months from now if I don’t keep up.”

Future-proofing Ireland’s education — “I am obsolete three months from now if I don’t keep up.” I attended an event at the Royal Dublin Society’s Library on 21 June, 2022. Here are my notes. Childhood influences later decisions and love of STEM learning. Develops problem solving and critical thinking skills. Facing some challenges. Can be hard to engage young students if they form poor opinions of science. Also need to engage primary teachers. The ESB Science Blast Roadshow toured primary sch
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Medium •

Reasons to return to education — the life lessons I learned outside class

Reasons to return to education — the life lessons I learned outside class. I chose to dive back in to education and achieve a degree. I left school at a time when arts and engineering graduates were either emigrating or working in petrol stations. I worked with trees and later started my own business. The trouble with running a business is that you are either cash-rich and time-poor, or the opposite. I first returned to study Ecology, as the banks collapsed.
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Envelopes
Medium •

Using paper in your office or college? Here’s how to reduce.

Document how much paper each department uses. Then award a prize for the best department reducing its use / using least. Pdfs can be distributed by e-mail or Drive link instead of print. Print or photocopy only the required page/s. Use a program like MS Word or browser option like Google Docs to convert a Pdf into a document, so you can print an individual page. Phone app alternative to Post-its — Google it and a dozen appear. Purchase recycled envelopes. Windowed envelopes are often not re
SMedias
Dublin Business School •

Inside DBS wins 'Blog of the Year' at the 2021 National Student Media Awards

Last September I started editing Inside DBS, which was established by Lea Lair the previous year for the Journalism Society (JSoc). I was the only Journalism student left, so I decided to open up the blog to the whole college and let anyone who wished, get a published article on their CV. My aims were: · Feature as many students and events as possible · Produce a professional looking blog. To begin, I had to go around asking for material and taking photos. Blogs take time to build momentum. Many students were keeping in touch via social media, where it’s easy to make a quick post and that post is soon forgotten. A blog post is there to last. Students would find a link easier to share than a print magazine. This is perfect for anyone looking to build a CV. I also decided to share some of my experience, in articles about how to create quality content for the web. Feedback says that this has been helpful.
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Mars Rover
Medium •

Those IT Queries

Any computer user has run across some issue they don’t immediately understand. Some issues the user can quickly resolve, and others remain a mystery — an obstacle — and a pestilential nuisance in some cases. The more extreme version can be caused by switching from Windows PC to Apple Mac, or vice versa, because you are changing Operating System (OS) and programs (now often called applications or apps) at the same time. Your college or work may have an IT helpdesk just waiting to help resolve your
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Media room, UN Conference, Viet Nam
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Web Writing — Part Eight, Covering a Conference

If you can take notes in class, you can cover a United Nations conference. This experience could lead in to journalism or office work, diplomatic or committee secretary posts. You can do this for free, for your own blog or elsewhere, and put it on your CV. I recently attended a virtual conference on marine plastic waste held in Viet Nam by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and here’s what I did. Get experience first. This might be taking minutes at a college society meeting....
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Trinity College Dublin, wildflower meadow
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Web Writing — Part Seven, Crediting and Creative Commons

In Part Six, we looked at legal issues around posting on your blog. A highly important aspect of blogging or web work is giving credit where it is due. This relates to any form of media content. You can’t just copy a paragraph or scrape a film, because that content is somebody’s copyright. Try to get written permission or a licence to use material. If you can’t manage it, paraphrase, quote a line with attribution and discuss your own point of view. Or go and take your own photo.
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Chengdu fashion show
Medium •

Year of the Ox

Greetings for Lunar New Year! This is a traditional festival for Chinese people, based on the new moon calendar, which is now celebrated in Dublin too. During the Lunar New Year of 2020, the DBS Journalism Society visited a weekend afternoon of music, dancing and other traditional entertainments from Chengdu, a city in Sichuan Province. Families were thoroughly enjoying the spectacle. We saw traditional dances, magic tricks, formal tea-pouring, puppetry, the Long Silk Dance, the face-changing a
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Amaryllis
Medium •

Web Writing — Part one, Content and Copy work on the web

Welcome to the first part of a short series on how to write for the web, and how to make your work look as professional as possible. Content and copy work on the web I’ve been a content provider and content manager for Fresh Fiction.com, a media website based in Texas, since 2012. I’m also an author who has been publishing through Amazon since 2013, and a final year journalism student. Copy is what journalists write. They send perhaps 500 words of copy to the copy editor. Editors edit; get us
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Pete Smith at opening of Local exhibition
Medium •

Exhibition of photography by Local artist Pete Smyth

The arts are good for us, according to a study published in the British Medical Journal in December 2019. Attending even one or two museum, gallery or theatre events during the year was found to correlate with a longer lifespan. The Journalism Society received an invitation to attend the opening of a photography exhibition by Pete Smyth during November 2019. Visiting galleries while in college could spark the habit of a lifetime, and as well as improving health, it gives the visitors something t
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Laptop, books and fruit
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Web Writing- Part Six, Legal issues

The Web is full of content so how do we know what is allowed? In Part Four, we looked at setting up your own blog. If you put something on the web, you are publishing that piece. If you write something original, or take a photo or video clip, you hold the copyright. Using someone else’s material is breach of their copyright. A firm of lawyers exists solely to write to people and point out that Biro needs to be capitalised. Trademarks need capitals. Another firm profits by contacting American
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Student working
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Web Writing — Part Four, Setting up a page or site

Welcome to the fourth article of this series. In Part One we looked at writing content for other people’s sites, and Part Three focused on American sites. Now let’s look at what to put on your own site, remembering the lessons of Part Two about writing detail. Unless you have your own webspace, you’ll probably start on an established platform like WordPress, Wix, Blogger. Titles are deemed to be too short for copyright. But you should search for your proposed title. See how many sites of that n
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Art opening
Medium •

Photography Exhibition by Susan Sweeney

A year ago the Journalism Society was among those who were invited to attend the opening of DBS lecturer Susan Sweeney’s photography exhibition. Susan had invited friends in the arts to compose short poems about some of the artworks, and these were each read at the opening, which created an interactive and involving atmosphere. The title of the collection was Ekphrasis2020. According to Oxford Languages, this is “the use of detailed description of a work of visual art as a literary device.” We
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Monitors at RTE
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Web Writing — Part Five, Search Engine Optimisation

Why do we need SEO? Organic, or natural, search results are from visitors naturally searching for your content, or your site ranking high because of its content and reputation. Otherwise, firms need to pay for advertising to draw attention. Keeping up with how search engines work is like running on an ever-changing racetrack. While the people behind various engines don’t tell us all their inner workings, I’ve provided some of the better established facts to help anyone setting up her own blog
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Fresh Fiction review
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Web Writing — Part Three, American style and CMF

Welcome to part three of the guide to presenting web work professionally. In Part One we started work as a content provider, and in Part Two we looked at writing detail. Now we should realise that many of the world’s English language websites are located in North America. This means that if you live elsewhere, you have a huge market to serve, but you need to adapt to their readers and editors. American websites, like Fresh Fiction, a media site based in Texas which sends me e-books to review, w
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Lemon traybake in sunlight. Photo: Clare O'Beara
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Web Writing — Part Two, Writing detail

In Part One we looked at how to get assigned to a web post or choose to write one, and the kind of work this can provide. Now you have a post set up and a topic to cover. Let’s look at the detail of the content writing itself. Write in a word processor. Don’t type directly onto the screen unless it’s absolutely unavoidable. The spell and grammar check can save you from having to go into a post and correct something later. Sentences should not get too long and paragraphs should be not more than
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Fiction Work

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Book cover: A Pony For Quarantine by Clare O'Beara
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A Pony For Quarantine: Kindle Store and Paperback

Moya O’Leary is thirteen when the Coronavirus Pandemic reaches Ireland. Her class is sent home, to take lessons on line, and her family has to adapt to the quarantine situation. Moya is blessed with a lively young Connemara pony which she was hoping to enter in jumping competitions. That seems less likely as the country enters strict lockdown. Her mum and dad are more concerned about her little brother Michael, who is on the autism spectrum.
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Dining Out Around The Solar System
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Dining Out Around The Solar System - Book Series Trailer - YouTube

A Dublin hacker teams up with a London reporter. The future of journalism… is dangerous. Giant corporation British Space Mines has nothing to fear but journalists and hackers. This series follows the career of two journalists with e-zine London's Eye who want to get a look at their secrets. In this future, migrant workers from other planets fill London's basic jobs. They open ethnic restaurants. For every Gas Giant native who works in ballet, there's one who plots a takeover. Climate change is worsening ordinary life, and protest marches are commonplace. These reporters will go anywhere for an exclusive story, even the Andes of Argentina. They also review restaurants. This is a science fiction book series published on Amazon Kindle, by Amazon Best Selling Author Clare O’Beara. Filmed by Clare O’Beara on location in Dublin and London. Produced by Clare O’Beara. Series title: Dining Out Around The Solar System. This trailer contains trailers for four books, which may be watched separately.
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London City
Simon & Schuster •

London Calling - Award winning short story by Clare O'Beara

"London calling," said the investigator in the Moscow branch. "Interpol wants us to send a liaison officer to them." His superior frowned. This might be a time to get on someone's good side by sending their son to this brief. On the other hand... "We don't want to make it a permanent posting," he said. "I can think of someone we can be well rid of for a few months." Arkady Renko arrived in London overland, having endured a long wearying journey and with one bag. Although he was well travelled

Environment

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School with no-parking bollards in Dublin.
Medium •

Future-proofing Ireland’s education — “I am obsolete three months from now if I don’t keep up.”

Future-proofing Ireland’s education — “I am obsolete three months from now if I don’t keep up.” I attended an event at the Royal Dublin Society’s Library on 21 June, 2022. Here are my notes. Childhood influences later decisions and love of STEM learning. Develops problem solving and critical thinking skills. Facing some challenges. Can be hard to engage young students if they form poor opinions of science. Also need to engage primary teachers. The ESB Science Blast Roadshow toured primary sch
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Envelopes
Medium •

Using paper in your office or college? Here’s how to reduce.

Document how much paper each department uses. Then award a prize for the best department reducing its use / using least. Pdfs can be distributed by e-mail or Drive link instead of print. Print or photocopy only the required page/s. Use a program like MS Word or browser option like Google Docs to convert a Pdf into a document, so you can print an individual page. Phone app alternative to Post-its — Google it and a dozen appear. Purchase recycled envelopes. Windowed envelopes are often not re
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Recycling and litter bins at DBS
Sustainable College •

Sustainable Dublin Proposals

During the Sustainable Week we ran a contest for proposals towards a more sustainable city. Here is my list of 18 suggestions. More good ideas are welcome! Dart spur to the airport. DAA apparently doesn’t want this because they make money from car parking, and taxi drivers make money from fares. No Metro construction is needed as the Dart runs from the city centre. Anyone living near the Dart line would not need to get into the centre and out again. Public transport is much more efficient than
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Young oak tree in winter
Sustainable College •

Trees of Ireland

This country has many native species of tree, some which were introduced so long ago they have become naturalised, and more exotic trees recently planted. Our natives would be Oak, Ash, Birch, Holly and Yew. Naturalised includes Beech and Sycamore. Exotics include Monkey Puzzle, Paulownia and Magnolia. There are many more examples of all these. One interesting exception is Arbutus or Strawberry Tree. This is found naturally in the south tip of the country and otherwise is native to the mild
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Repotting herbs
Sustainable College •

Film clips with a green edge

This year Green Week marks our first year on our journey toward achieving the An Taisce Green Campus award. We have chosen to explore the themes of Litter and Waste, Biodiversity, Climate Change and Climate Justice. Green Edge (Horticulturalist Marion Keogh) has given us a fresh dose of “Grow It Yourself” inspiration each day here during Green Week! Day 1 – Growing Herbs from a Plant Pot Day 2 – How to Print Your Own Money (Sowing Seeds) Day 3 – Build Your Own Bird Feeder Day 4 –
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Vegetarian supermarket foods
Sustainable College •

Why eat vegetarian?

Who says we should eat less meat? According to the World Health Organisation, the United Nations Environment Programme and many other bodies, we collectively eat more meat than we need. Meat uses a lot of resources to produce, which includes land, water and feedstock crops. We also have a responsibility to care properly for animals we keep as livestock, including dairy animals. Some people do not eat meat, and others eat a small amount. Various movements try to encourage alternative eating pla
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Flower box on O'Connell Bridge, Dublin
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Green Campus and what we do

DBS Green Campus is proud to be part of a countrywide Green Campus movement. The way this operates is that a group of staff members and a group of interested students enrolled at each third level institution in Ireland, may form a committee to work together on the issues. Sustainability, Biodiversity and Environmental Impact are the main points of discussion. After establishing a Green Campus programme, the college may apply for a Green Flag Award. This usually takes some time to achieve,
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Cresswell photo exhibition
Medium •

Ireland In Focus: 1950s Photographs

This exhibition Ireland In Focus is currently housed at the Museum of Decorative Arts and History in Collins Barracks Museum, Dublin. Three photographers from outside Ireland came here during the 1950s, either on assignment or for an extended stay, to document Irish customs and country life. Today their works are both fascinating and important parts of our historical record. I visited the exhibition, which is in the middle of its run, and was delighted to hear that its immediate popularity has n
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NASA Air pollution over China
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Coronavirus, Air Pollution and The Smoking Gun

The Coronavirus causing a pandemic is a killer all by itself. But I’ve traced the path of the deadliest outbreaks of Covid-19 and linked them to the heaviest rates of air pollution. China, northern Italy, Iran, Spain. Toxic air kills people: the European Environment Agency (EEA) tells us that nitrogen dioxide, mainly caused by transport emissions, is responsible for about 9,000 premature deaths annually in Spain. The World Health Organisation (WHO) says over 7 million premature deaths occur glob
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Shore birds and ferry Bull Island
Medium •

Decline of Eurasian Curlew

The closure of Bord na Mona peat bogs to peat cutting made headlines, although it had been forewarned. The rejection of planning permission to build apartments in a school playing field in Raheny, north Dublin, similarly made headlines. Behind both those news items lies a sombre fact; the decline and threatened extinction of the Eurasian curlew. The curlew, Crotach in Irish, has been part of the Irish countryside forever, nesting in peatland, heather and marginal farmland, stalking tidal shores

Student Life

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Clare O'Beara Multimedia Journalism •

Content platforms used during my course

Here are some reflections on the websites we used as tools during our Multimedia Journalism degree course. Getting familiar with all of this has been necessary for content creation and publishing. The platform dictates the kind of content published. The final item is a site called JournoPortfolio which allows the student to bring together their published work from various platforms, presenting a substantial body of work. Early in the course we learnt to collaborate using Google Drive.
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Clare O'Beara Multimedia Journalism •

Tribute to Henry McDonald

As a former student of Henry McDonald’s, the Belfast-born journalist, author and lecturer, I have been asked to create a blog tribute page for his students and friends. Henry (6 July 1965 – 19 February 2023), already has a Wikipedia entry. He was active on various social media platforms, between news stories and his love of sports. While Henry was with Dublin Business School, I recommended he claim his Goodreads author page, as authors who are members of the site gain more followers;
Clare O'Beara
Medium •

Reasons to return to education — the life lessons I learned outside class

Reasons to return to education — the life lessons I learned outside class. I chose to dive back in to education and achieve a degree. I left school at a time when arts and engineering graduates were either emigrating or working in petrol stations. I worked with trees and later started my own business. The trouble with running a business is that you are either cash-rich and time-poor, or the opposite. I first returned to study Ecology, as the banks collapsed.
SMedias
Dublin Business School •

Inside DBS wins 'Blog of the Year' at the 2021 National Student Media Awards

Last September I started editing Inside DBS, which was established by Lea Lair the previous year for the Journalism Society (JSoc). I was the only Journalism student left, so I decided to open up the blog to the whole college and let anyone who wished, get a published article on their CV. My aims were: · Feature as many students and events as possible · Produce a professional looking blog. To begin, I had to go around asking for material and taking photos. Blogs take time to build momentum. Many students were keeping in touch via social media, where it’s easy to make a quick post and that post is soon forgotten. A blog post is there to last. Students would find a link easier to share than a print magazine. This is perfect for anyone looking to build a CV. I also decided to share some of my experience, in articles about how to create quality content for the web. Feedback says that this has been helpful.
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Fire safety
Medium •

Fire Safety Awareness Winners

The Journalism Society held a contest to raise fire safety awareness during January. This was open to the whole college. Entrants had to photograph an item relating to fire safety, such as a fire exit or fire extinguisher. A separate prize was given for a scavenger hunt, in which entrants had to photograph as many different fire safety related items as they could find. Speaking as someone who was staying in a London hotel when the fire alarms went off in the middle of the night, I can say tha
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Art opening
Medium •

Photography Exhibition by Susan Sweeney

A year ago the Journalism Society was among those who were invited to attend the opening of DBS lecturer Susan Sweeney’s photography exhibition. Susan had invited friends in the arts to compose short poems about some of the artworks, and these were each read at the opening, which created an interactive and involving atmosphere. The title of the collection was Ekphrasis2020. According to Oxford Languages, this is “the use of detailed description of a work of visual art as a literary device.” We
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Diwali Challenge Art
Inside DBS •

Visit to Diwali at DBS

The Festival of Light or Diwali looked like the best fun I would have all week, so I booked my place and turned up at the Online Common Room. Because this was a party, I dressed up and brought my own coffee. I really regret not visiting the in-person event last year, but we always think we’ll have time to do something. Next year I advise all students to make the time to attend Diwali! About 30 people attended the Zoom meeting with some dropping in as they had time. To start, we were greeted by
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Pool table and disinfectant gel
Inside DBS •

College And Covid – starting the semester

The pool table in the Common Room has been sidelined, sadly. The scene may look different, but the welcome is still warm and students can still relax, have something to eat, just chill with coffee or get some study done. Due to guidelines issued to colleges, DBS has had to alter their lecture provision, furniture arrangements and even library borrowing. All this is being done to keep students and staff safe while on target with courses. You’ll find plenty of information on the DBS website. I took a look at the new situation.
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NASA Mars Rover
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One Dystopia to Another – but fans have more fun!

Ireland’s national science fiction convention, Octocon, has been obliged to go on line this year, and the good part for students is that the convention on 9 – 11 October will be free to attend, hosted on Discord. Last year we were so lucky to host Worldcon in the Convention Centre before we started having restrictions. Come and meet authors, graphic artists and film experts as we livestream our way through this dystopian 2020. Octocon organisers say: “It will be streamed live on our Twitch channel (octoconirl)
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Above the Late Late Show.
Inside DBS •

DBS Visit to RTE Studios

The Journalism Society visited the RTE studios (Ireland’s national broadcaster) in Montrose, Dublin, during spring. The trip was arranged by our Chairman Lea Lair who got us to the location before the Pandemic spread to Ireland. She also opened the trip to any DBS students who were interested in attending. We met at the studios and were shown around by an experienced producer who had worked in the backstage and sound area for many years. As the news and sports studios were not in use at that time....
DBS Drama Society
Poster for Chatroom
Inside DBS •

Chatroom: a DBS play worth talking about

Chatroom was presented in the DBS Media Studio just before Christmas. This was an original multimedia play, featuring surprisingly powerful performances from six talented student actors, and using the skills of backstage personnel. The DBS Drama Society provided a fantastic evening’s entertainment and much food for thought. Following a welcome with wine and cheeseboard, we sat and enjoyed the performance. The screen at the back of the stage showed film clips between scenes, setting the atmosphere
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Dragon at Ulster Museum. Photo by Clare O'Beara.
Inside DBS •

Poppies and Dragons

I got up at oh-dark-thirty, went to the city centre and caught a bus with fellow students, and we travelled to another country. We saw a champion wolfhound, a redbrick university, greenhouses, a waterfall of poppies, and dragons. That was only half the day. A DBS outing was taking students from several classes and many countries to Belfast, and we had to book our own bus seats which meant there was no chance of oversleeping. This was in December, so we were all bundled up in coats and scarves.
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Irish Rail ticket screen confused by student card
The Register •

When Irish screens are borking: Ticketing trip-up for Dublin-based Windows 10 IoT terminal, but at least it's not XP

Bork!Bork!Bork! Summer time, and the borking is easy. Particularly if you're a Windows 10 IoT-powered ticket machine in Dublin. Spotted by an eagled-eyed Register reader, this Irish Rail machine is, in a very real sense, flashing its undergarments for all to see. It has revealed that lurking beneath the sheen of the usually byzantine range of ticketing options familiar to travellers lies the equally byzantine world of Windows 10. Our reader reckons they befuddled the poor thing by popping thei
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Women in Business panel
Medium •

Women in Business Panel

Dublin Business School hosted an excellent talk by four women in business, on 23rd October 2019. The fourth floor common room was crowded with students, some standing at the back, gaining valuable insights. Each of the speakers had taken unique and twisting paths to reach their current positions. Eadaoin Curtin told us of her journey towards owning her own photography studio. She lived abroad during the Celtic Tiger, then returned to work in architecture, living with her parents and caring for

Disability Access

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Medium •

Home Alone — Hidden Hazards For Seniors

Some of these photos are not pretty, but I won’t apologise. You need to see them. I visited a family friend, Grace (not her real name) who lives alone in a small, neatly appointed apartment. This is in a cluster built for senior people, with a caretaker whose work includes performing welfare checks, keeping the bins area tidy and locking the gates at night. Grace has a helper, paid by herself, who drops in a few times each week and can bring groceries or take Grace out by car. Grace calls this
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Allan Tennent
Medium •

Too Young To Retire, Too Old To Be Hired By Google

Allan Tennent is too young to retire but too old to be hired by Google. He’s a computer professional now aged 59. He can’t be officially retired until over 65 but he says IT is a young industry. Sitting at home, my husband Allan told me that the skills he used in office environments are largely outdated. He used COBOL and other languages as a mainframe analyst programmer for decades, but this work has been transferred to server based systems. Work is often just at the maintenance level now so th
Clare O'Beara Cloud Light
Cloud Light. Photo: Clare O'Beara
Clare O'Beara Public Seating at Dame Lane, Dublin 2.
Girl on Public Seating, Dame Lane. Photo: Clare O'Beara.
Clare O'Beara Chester Beatty Library, Dublin
Chester Beatty Library, Dublin. Photo: Clare O'Beara.
Clare O'Beara Andree Gonzalez Logo
Andree Gonzalez Logo, Dublin. Photo: Clare O'Beara.
Clare O'Beara Women in Business panel
Women in Business Panel, DBS. Photo: Clare O'Beara.
Clare O'Beara Public Seating at Dame Lane, Dublin 2.
Public Seating at Dame Lane, Dublin. Photo: Clare O'Beara.
Clare O'Beara London City
London City. Photo: Clare O'Beara.
Clare O'Beara Dublin Coroners Court
Dublin Coroner's Court. Photo: Clare O'Beara.
Longhair Chihuahua
This Saluki appeared out of the morning mist.
Walk away the blues.

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