Robert Hume

1 week ago | southernstar.ie | Robert Hume |Anne M Minihane

Now moved to the nearby Drinagh Co-op grocery outlet, it’s a little-known fact that one of the town’s first ‘post offices’ was also in a grocer’s. A special place to send parcels, cards, registered letters and telegrams, buy stamps and postal orders, deposit savings, and receive weekly pension payments. Post offices once provided facilities that could be found nowhere else.

Dec 1, 2024 | irishexaminer.com | Robert Hume

Mince pies are “indispensable at this time of year”, declared Cork bakers FH Thompson & Sons in the at Christmas 1890. Of course, there are mince pies and mince pies, some with crumbly short pastry, others with flaky puff pastry. “Some you eat for the sake of the filling, leaving as much as possible of the crust on your plate”, pointed out pastry manufacturer Krusto in their 1931 advert. Of others — like theirs, naturally — you wouldn’t waste a crumb of “light, golden” casing.

Nov 25, 2024 | irishexaminer.com | Robert Hume

Whenever we switch on our devices, we’re bombarded with AI: chatbots offer answers to our questions when we write messages, predictive text suggests words Alexa can play our favourite song AI-generated deepfake presenters read the news In Arizona and California, we can ride in AI-controlled cyber cabs in Beijing last summer 27 AI-enabled humanoid robots attended a conference and at Teatro Verdi in Pisa, on September 12, a mechanical maestro called YuMi conducted Andrea Bocelli and the Lucca...

Jul 29, 2024 | irishexaminer.com | Robert Hume

Bribing opponents and judges, interfering with equipment, deliberately playing badly, getting your twin sister to take your place, and women being fed "blue beans". One athlete even hitched a lift while running the marathon. A carousel of ingenious tricks, shenanigans and skulduggery mark the Olympic path. "Fair play and respect for opponents" is the essence of sportsmanship, declared Baron Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympic games.

Jul 22, 2024 | irishexaminer.com | Robert Hume

Last year, a survey by the IB4UD blog included “Mary had a Little Lamb” and “Baa, Baa, Black Sheep” among Ireland’s Top 3 nursery rhymes. But it was “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star” — “mecca of all Irish nursery rhymes” — that achieved the top spot. These days, nursery rhymes can be found in countries all over the world — from Bolivia to India, Kenya to the USA.