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The realities of rural life in the 1950s-1980s
OpenLearn Ireland

The realities of rural life in the 1950s-1980s

...resource community such as ours. Conditions were quite awful when I arrived here because emigration was taking a massive toll of the people, to tell you the truth. When I saw what was happening I was as mad as hell because all the young people were being siphoned off and they were just emigrating in droves, and before very long this community would die, and being saddled...
Occupying Turin: refugees breathe life into abandoned buildings of Olympic village, but authorities want them out
Society, Politics & Law

Occupying Turin: refugees breathe life into abandoned buildings of Olympic village, but authorities want them out

...resources to provide support for new arrivals. But concerns about Italy’s response to refugees extend beyond the financial. In the face of rising numbers of migrants, Italy has struggled to maintain humane conditions for these people. Indeed, at the end of 2015, Médecins sans Frontières announced that it would cease work in migrant reception centres in Pozzallo,...
Haymaking is critical to our heritage meadows, but is later really better?
Nature & Environment

Haymaking is critical to our heritage meadows, but is later really better?

...resource and species-rich hay can still provide a wide range of nutrients and medicinal compounds for pasture-fed livestock. [brown calf grass field] [lamb sheep meadow] Livestock grazed on species-rich meadows may enjoy better health owing to a wide range of natural antibiotic and antiparasitic compounds produced by meadow herbs. The timing of haymaking is a critical...
COP28: inside the United Arab Emirates, the oil giant who hosted the 2023 climate change summit
Nature & Environment

COP28: inside the United Arab Emirates, the oil giant who hosted the 2023 climate change summit

...resource extraction. In the UAE, sovereign wealth fund Mubadala is tasked with enabling this transition. It has invested in a variety of high-tech sectors, spanning commercial satellites to research and development in renewable energy. But even if the UAE was to achieve net zero by some measure domestically, continuing to export oil internationally means it will be burned...
Rocky relations: Why an isolated rock in the Atlantic is a sought after and contested place
Nature & Environment

Rocky relations: Why an isolated rock in the Atlantic is a sought after and contested place

...resources, is the primary source of the interest in this single unforgiving and unliveable rock. [Rockall with birds flying] Arguably there can be few places in the world, so small, so isolated, and so perilous, that have generated international disputes, and filled as many newspaper and online column inches as has Rockall. The dispute goes back to the middle of the...
An American Classic: How Spam became a success
Money & Business

An American Classic: How Spam became a success

...resourcefulness. Spam ‘hits the spot’ Spam isn’t exactly the most exciting product. The original recipe included chopped pork shoulder meat with ham, salt, water, sugar and sodium nitrite. (This remained unchanged until 2009, when Hormel added potato starch in an effort to eliminate one of the product’s less attractive features: the gelatin layer created by the...
Netball Super League 2025: the Nottingham Forest rise to success!
Health, Sports & Psychology

Netball Super League 2025: the Nottingham Forest rise to success!

...resources, and a built-in fanbase, Nottingham Forest Netball is well positioned to be one of the most competitive new teams in the NSL. Let’s face it, with the men’s football club’s rising profile during the 2024–25 season, Nottingham Forest’s success can only benefit netball. The football club’s rising profile will generate more media attention and fan...
How a new First Minister of Wales is appointed
Society, Politics & Law

How a new First Minister of Wales is appointed

...already a member. [i] Standing Order Number 8 [ii] Government of Wales Act 2006, s. 46 [iii] Government of Wales Act 2006, s. 47(4) [iv] Government of Wales Act 2006, s. 116(2) [v] Government of Wales Act 2006, s. 55 More like this on OpenLearn [AC Collection] This resource is part of the Active Citizenship in Wales collection. Discover more on the collection homepage....