Leave Well Onough Alone
(Don’t try to improve something that is already satisfactory)
-Greetings, Vicky. What have you been up to lately?
- Oh, I’ve been busy working on my sculpture for the spring art exhibition. I’m not satisfied with the symmetry between the head and the torso.
- I’m no connoisseur, but when I saw your sculpture last [...]

‘As soon as Roy opened the dorr, he knew something was wrong, because the audience was in silence. When Roy signed up for the X-Factor, he knew that it wouldn’t be easy, but he decided to take the chance, because he had been studying music a lot until that moment.
Roy came in with his feet [...]

If You Can’t Beat Them, Join Them.
(If you can’t defeat your opponents, join forces with them)
Mrs. Kowalski had never been much of a sports fan – unlike her husband and two children. On weekends the others would take in either a baseball or a football game, while she stayed home alone. After a while [...]

ISI Cineclub shows various films in English every Thursday.
This week’s film: “Pulp Fiction”

We’ll stay in the city this week and visit The Government Buildings on Upper Merrion Street. The buildings have been converted and entirely refurbished to form modern accommodation for a number of departments including the Department of the Taoiseach, the Department of Finance and the Office of the Attorney General.
Location: Beside the Merrion Square West [...]