Place: Botany Bay

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Great-great-grand-niece of Ireland's first female botanist highlights achievements of Ellen Hutchins

“It really is the highest form of respect to be given to any scientist,” says Madeline Hutchins of her great-great-grand-aunt Ellen Hutchins, who had a number of plants named after her.

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The amazing tale of Cork’s nasty nobleman

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Dreamt you dwelt in marble halls?

Figaro looks up to the task in Bumper at Galway on Monday

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When Irish convicts were banished from Cobh to Botany Bay

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Personal touches encourage aura of recovery for children

Do shoplifters really steal bread in the hope of making some dough?

ONE of the most rewarding questions, up there with “what frightens you most?” is “have you ever shoplifted?”

Mon, 12 Nov, 2012

We didn’t save the banks so they could drive people into despair

WE all know Charles Edward Trevelyan, created a Baronet in 1874 for his services to Her Majesty Queen Victoria.

Tue, 30 Aug, 2011

Trinity College gets first set of GAA goalposts

History has been made at Dublin's Trinity College with the instillation of a set of GAA goalposts at College Park allowing Gaelic games to be played on the city centre campus for the first time in its 418-year history.

Fri, 15 Jan, 2010

Police and youths clash in Australian riots

RACIAL tensions erupted yesterday into running battles between police and thousands of white youths, many chanting racial slurs against ethnic Middle Easterners, at a beachside suburb in southern Sydney.

Mon, 12 Dec, 2005

Australia hit by race riots

Racial tensions erupted today into running battles between police and thousands of white youths, many chanting racial slurs against ethnic Middle Easterners, at a beachside suburb in southern Sydney.

Sun, 11 Dec, 2005

Fowler leads ANZ Championship

Peter Fowler set the first round pace at the ANZ Championship in Sydney to lead a clutch of Australians at the top of the leaderboard.

Thu, 06 Feb, 2003

Cpt Cook logo deemed 'offensive' to aborigines

Captain Cook - revered by many as the man who ‘‘discovered’’ Australia - may be muscled off a Sydney municipality’s logo by a dolphin because he is deemed dated and offensive to Aborigines.

Fri, 10 Aug, 2001