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‘Slendertone’ in space

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From Daly Planet: http://www.silvercircle.ie/health/343-turn-your-back-on-pain.htmlTURN YOUR BACK ON PAINFour out of five adults suffer from back pain at some stage in their lives. As we get older, the simple ‘wear and tear’ of time on the body can make it more frequent and severe. SUSAN DALY has some ideas on the best ways to manage a [...]

From Daly Planet: From today’s Irish Independent – now here’s a 15-year-old to make you wonder how you spent your wasted youth….http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/how-our-saoirse-signed-for-the–premiere-league-2033041.htmlBy Susan DalyWednesday January 27 2010It should have been difficult for Saoirse Ronan to play the victim in her new film. The 15-year-old has known little but success in her short life. She
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From Daly Planet: Why we’ll all be peacocking and buycotting this yearForget SuBo and Twitter, Susan Daly reveals the ‘hot’ buzzwords that will be on everybody’s lips in 2010This time last year, the world had never heard of SuBo. But by the end of 2009, everyone — including Oprah — could recount the tale of [...]

From Claire O’Connell:

OK so things were going fine, I was managing the workload OK for a couple of weeks, smallie was settling into pre-school. Everyone was getting some sleep, for once.
Then whump, I get one extra commission fired into me over the weekend at the last minute and the whole thing falls apart. Like it [...]

A list of Irish journalists on Twitter courtesy of Paul at webdistortion.com. If you would like to be added to the list, send a message to @margareteward on Twitter.

From Adrian Russell:
Ask a New York cabbie, “How do I get to Carnegie Hall?” and they’ll invariably tell you “practice, practice, practice”.
With my collar pulled above the nape of my neck to shield myself from a sheet of the wettest Kerry rain, as I shuffled along the road between Killarney and Tralee [...]

From Bibliocook: All About Food:
A cup of hot coffee with milk at Café Mai, 79 Le Van Huu Street, Hanoi. Dark, strong and very sweet – there’s a layer of condensed milk at the bottom of the cup – Vietnamese coffee is just the thing to get you going in the morning, and for [...]

From Bibliocook: All About Food:
On a cold, wet, miserable day, there’s nothing better than coming home to a big bowl of piping hot, homemade soup. Pick from Chicken Noodle, Butternut Squash and Sweet Potato or White Bean and Cabbage Soups and make a meal of it with Caroline Hennessy’s recipes for pots of pleasure [...]

From kathleen barrington: 24 January 2010
By Kathleen Barrington
Anybody who heard last week’s debate on RTE‘s Frontline about how to restore cost competitiveness might have jumped to the conclusion that the only weapon available was to slash the minimum wage. It is true that the minimum wage here is higher than in Britain and the [...]