Increasing diversity within its women’s team is a key priority, Arsenal said in a statement. English football club Arsenal has said it accepts that it has diversity issues within its women’s first-team squad after drawing scorn online for posting a team photograph that didn’t feature any black or […]
The last census in Australia indicates that, while Christianity is still the answer most people give when asked about their religion, it is in sharp decline, and ‘no religion’ is a close second. Almost 44% of the respondents said they were Christian in 2021, and almost 39% said […]
MICHAEL WALSH POET AND AWARD-WINNING WRITER There are two things certain in life so it is said; death and taxes. To this might be added regrets and who better to ask what these misgivings might be than the brave nurses in palliative care. What are deathbed laments of […]
MICHAEL WALSH DISSIDENT JOURNALIST: We often talk about a country’s assets fuelling prosperity; its industrial might and its natural resources, its economic know-how; its pivotal trading position; its geographical location, and its technology. Sadly. People – yes people, the greatest asset is nowhere to be seen on the […]
A poorly dressed man asked for a ‘Suspended’ coffee in a cafe. I was very surprised when I learned what this meant! A few years ago, I sat with a friend in a small cozy cafe near the famous city of Venice. While we were enjoying incredibly delicious […]
MICHAEL WALSH EX-MARINER: The U.S. space agency NASA once spent millions developing a pen that would write upside down or in a non-atmosphere environment. The Russians replied; ‘we use a pencil.’ A friend once boasted that if you pressed a little button on his new watch the hands […]
Princess Leonor of Spain, 17, swaps royal glamour for military uniform as she takes a major step as queen-in-training according to the Tatler periodical. As part of her training as the future queen of Spain, Princess Leonor will spend time with all three branches of the armed forces. […]
Imagine the scene; it is an upstairs bar and this is no gentleman’s club. The night has been boisterous but the sailors and hangers-on have by now mostly evaporated into the night air. ME, I have other things on my mind. Gloria is a petite brunette who works […]
‘I had spent an hour in the bank with my dad, as he had to transfer some money. I couldn’t resist myself and asked… ‘Dad, why don’t we activate your internet banking?”
”Why would I do that?” He asked…
The parents of quintuplets, who already had seven children, tell the press: ‘There can never be too much happiness’: A mother gave birth to three boys and two girls at the University Hospital in Kraków on Feb. 12, an event that ended up warranting a press conference. All five children are in stable condition, given their premature birth, and will join their older siblings in three months.
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