Decades ago, the Shingle was a smuggler’s ship operating in the waters off Ireland. Later, the vessel ran up a huge dry-dock bill.  But now a group plans to turn the hulk into Ireland’s first artificial reef. Mobile journalist Conor Hunt deftly presents this complex hero’s journey—featuring docking fees, tugboats, tourism, and more— in under…

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Kate Fahey didn’t set out to prove anything to the world. All she wanted to do was be good at operating a gigantic tower crane—a piece of equipment critical to building skyscrapers. But as we learn in Conor Hunt’s RTEnews report—”Young crane driver scales new heights”—Fahey was the first female crane driver in Ireland. That…

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