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The Irish Times - News

19 January 2019

• Man (37) killed in Co Down shooting identified
  PSNI appeals for information surrounding shooting of Wayne Boylan on Friday evening
• Pioneering science students chosen as Cork Persons of the Year
  Irish rugby coach, Joe Schmidt made an honorary Corkman for his contribution
• ‘I was not a human being’: A history of Irish childhood
  No Child 2020: Dark stains remain on the Irish conscience over the treatment of children
• Life as a child in Ireland: ‘Here’s phones. Here’s alcohol. Here’s weed’
  Five young Irish people discuss their early lives in modern Ireland – their fears, hopes, dreams and personal challenges. Interviews by Patrick Freyne
• Irish childhood in six scary charts
  No Child 2020: In today’s Ireland, 105,000 children are living in ‘consistent poverty’
• What is child poverty and why must we try to solve it?
  No Child 2020: Not everyone has enough to eat in Ireland. But poverty is more complex than that
• What are these clear, gelatinous cylinders housing small zooplankton?
  Eye on Nature: Your notes and queries for Eithne Viney
• Debate over mackerel quotas grows as Atlantic nations flout advice
  Shoals are moving into northern waters, hitting salmon and seabird populations