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# Geography

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# Let's Get Quizzical
QUIZ: Can you name the Irish town from above?
Is it Dunboyne or Dungarvan?
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Sep 6th 2020, 10:00 PM
# All-Ireland
Quiz: Can you name this county without its borders?
This is trickier than you think.
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Jun 25th 2020, 9:30 PM
# Junior Cert
'The importance hasn't gone away': Calls for geography to be brought back as core subject
Geography was removed as a core subject from the Junior Cert last year.
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Feb 25th 2019, 1:17 PM
# Kilauea
Hawaii's Big Island is bracing for a potential volcanic explosion
A total of 17 fissures in the earth have been identified.
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May 13th 2018, 6:28 PM
# dramatic impact
Climate change behind dramatic shift in timing of Irish floods, study finds
Winter floods are now occurring the east of Ireland earlier towards autumn than they did 20 years ago.
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Aug 11th 2017, 12:43 PM
# Quiz
Only True Irish Geography Buffs Will Get Over 80% In This Quiz
Get out your Folens Geography textbook for this.
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Aug 7th 2017, 7:00 PM
# Never too old
This 73-year-old student is doing the Leaving Cert this week
Denis North is taking the English and Geography exams at Kennedy College, New Ross.
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Jun 10th 2017, 8:15 AM
# under the sea
Welcome to Zealandia: Scientists reveal 'Earth's hidden continent'
They want the landmass recognised as a continent.
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Feb 17th 2017, 10:20 AM
# clintz'n'grikes
12 memories you'll only have if you studied Leaving Cert Geography
Damn. That Karst landscape.
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Oct 31st 2016, 8:15 PM
# Quiz
This Quiz Will Determine Whether Or Not You're An Irish Geography Whizz
How will you fare?
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Jun 1st 2016, 6:34 PM
# geography test
11 Irish people tried to draw their home counties from memory
How would you do?
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Dec 22nd 2015, 5:56 PM
# Eruption
Tourists warned to stay away after Japan's biggest volcano blows its top
Ash has been spewed for thousands of metres above Mount Anso.
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Sep 14th 2015, 7:19 AM
# the principality of tides
PHOTOS: Welcome to Sealand, the bizarre 'micronation' off the coast of England
The Principality of Sealand has its own currency, flag, and royal family.
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Jun 27th 2015, 7:00 PM
# bleedin' gorgeous
Dublin Bay is now a UNESCO reserve alongside some of the most beautiful places on Earth
The bay is now a UNESCO Biosphere reserves.
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Jun 25th 2015, 3:53 PM
# the knowledge
Quiz: How well do you know your way around Dublin?
Do you know your Red Line from your Green Line?
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Jun 14th 2015, 10:32 PM
# Geog on
The42's extra tough Leaving Cert Geography quiz
You know your igneous from your sedimentary, so here’s some amps for you to examine.
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Jun 5th 2015, 7:42 PM
# mother nature
A 'supertide' has turned this French monastery into an island
It’s usually linked by a narrow causeway. Not today.
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Mar 21st 2015, 2:31 PM
# Quiz
Which Irish City Should You Really Live In?
Time to find out if you’re in the wrong place.
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Jan 25th 2015, 8:15 PM
QUIZ: Can you tell these countries from the air?
Time to recall all that geography you learned in the two weeks before the Leaving Cert!
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Jan 4th 2015, 8:00 PM
Voices
Opinion: Street harassment influences how women experience the world
In terms of social geography, street harassment changes the way women experience and use public spaces – it is made smaller, it is limited.
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Oct 29th 2014, 7:00 PM
# Quiz
How Well Do You Actually Know Ireland?
Do you know your way around? Take this quiz to find out…
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Sep 6th 2014, 6:00 PM
# high noon
So we all know today is the longest day of the year. But exactly how long?
Technically the darkest it gets is very dark twilight.
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Jun 21st 2014, 10:00 AM
# clints and grikes
6 things everyone remembers from Geography in secondary school
Karst landscapes forever.
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Jun 6th 2014, 8:44 AM
# boobies
Happy National Cleavage Day! Here are 5 fine specimens to celebrate
They’re all natural.
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Mar 27th 2014, 2:37 PM
# washington state
Fatal US mudslide: Five questions families want answered
The number of people missing has fluctuated wildly from 18 to 176.
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Mar 25th 2014, 8:03 AM
# no peig we promise
The Annual Bumper Secondary School Christmas Test
Gather the family. No fighting!
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Dec 25th 2013, 11:00 AM
# i feel the earth move
Magnitude 2.6 earthquake off Cork coast rattles doors and confuses locals
The Irish National Seismic Network says that earthquakes around Ireland are usually at a magnitude of about 1.5 or 1.8 so this is definitely more significant.
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Dec 4th 2013, 7:09 PM
# the smarts
5-year-old knows more about Geography than you ever will
Watch and marvel at your lack of knowledge
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Nov 8th 2013, 8:30 PM
# that's rank
18 countries that are #1 in an unexpected way
Who are the tallest nation? Who sends you all that spam? Who grows the most potatoes?!
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Sep 9th 2013, 9:30 PM
# location fail
Boxer makes critical error by giving a big shout-out to the wrong city
‘San Diego… I mean, San Antonio.’
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Jul 28th 2013, 5:48 PM
# school daze
Lady Gaga and horse burgers: Junior and Leaving Cert examiners having the craic
Lady Gaga on the business paper, horse burgers in the French exam. Gas Al
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Jun 13th 2013, 6:00 PM
# Weather
Study: Heat from cities 'affects weather thousands of miles away'
Newly-published research could explain why some regions in the Northern Hemisphere have warmer winters than expected.
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Jan 27th 2013, 6:52 PM
# Quiz time
It's the bumper secondary school Christmas test!
What does AC/DC stand for? Who discovered the double helix? Do you know?
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Dec 26th 2012, 10:41 AM
# if you know...
If you know Dublin (or Cork), you'll know these things...
A Twitter geography test.
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Dec 19th 2012, 10:32 AM
# Oral History
River Shannon gets storytelling project
Arts project wants people to relate their tales of Ireland’s longest river and its effect on their lives.
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Sep 9th 2012, 8:15 AM
# Geography
After a sluggish first round, where do TV commentators think he's from?
The Holywood man is back in the clubhouse with a one over par 71. So where does that leave him?
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Jul 14th 2011, 2:37 PM
# State Exams
Day 3: Exam students tackle Geography and Maths papers
Students in the Leaving and Junior Cert will both face papers on Maths and Geography today ahead of a welcomed weekend.
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Jun 10th 2011, 9:44 AM
Good Morning
The 9 at 9 Nine things you need to know by 9am: New ministers from north and south of the border meet for the first time today; more protests on the way in Syria, and the unthinkable…a Father Ted rip off.
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Jun 10th 2011, 8:27 AM
# Week in Photos
The week in photos
This is the week that was, in pictures.
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May 21st 2011, 7:59 AM
# Your Say
Twitty Fit over BBC's British Isles 'slur'
Microbloggers fall out over whether Ireland is a ‘British Isle’. What do you think?
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Aug 12th 2010, 12:38 PM