Clare O'Beara – Medium

Clare O'Beara

Home Alone — Hidden Hazards For Seniors

Some of these photos are not pretty, but I won’t apologise. You need to see them.

14 min readJun 9, 2023

--

1

Home Alone — Hidden Hazards For Seniors

--

1

Clare O'Beara

Future-proofing Ireland’s education — “I am obsolete three months from now if I don’t keep up.”

I attended an event at the Royal Dublin Society’s Library on 21 June, 2022. Here are my notes.

7 min readSep 9, 2022

--

School with no-parking bollards in Dublin. Photo: Clare O’Beara.

--

Clare O'Beara

Reasons to return to education — the life lessons I learned outside class

First steps

10 min readAug 23, 2021

--

Teasel heads and footpath. Life throws spikes in your path. Keep walking. Photo: Clare O’Beara.

--

Clare O'Beara

Using paper in your office or college? Here’s how to reduce.

Recently I was asked for suggestions on reducing paper use once office staff return to the workplace. As ever, my response consists of tips…

5 min readJul 11, 2021

--

Various size envelopes. Photo: Clare O’Beara.

--

Clare O'Beara

Those IT Queries

Any computer user has run across some issue they don’t immediately understand. Some issues the user can quickly resolve, and others remain…

5 min readMay 23, 2021

--

Mars Rover image courtesy of NASA.

--

Clare O'Beara

Web Writing — Part Seven, Crediting and Creative Commons

Crediting

3 min readApr 1, 2021

--

Wildflower meadow at Trinity College, Dublin. Photo by Clare O’Beara.

--

Clare O'Beara

Web Writing — Part Eight, Covering a Conference

If you can take notes in class, you can cover a United Nations conference. This experience could lead in to journalism or office work…

6 min readApr 1, 2021

--

Press room in Viet Nam during the UN Sea of Solutions conference, 2020. Screenshot by Clare O’Beara.

--

Clare O'Beara

Year of the Ox

Greetings for Lunar New Year! This is a traditional festival for Chinese people, based on the new moon calendar, which is now celebrated…

4 min readMar 7, 2021

--

Chengdu was the location for a fashion art shoot. Photo: Clare O’Beara.

--

Clare O'Beara

Exhibition of photography by Local artist Pete Smyth

The arts are good for us, according to a study published in the British Medical Journal in December 2019. Attending even one or two museum…

3 min readFeb 23, 2021

--

Pete Smyth (right) at the launch of his photography exhibition and book Local. Photo: Clare O’Beara

--

Clare O'Beara

Web Writing- Part Six, Legal issues

The Web is full of content so how do we know what is allowed?

4 min readFeb 22, 2021

--

Laptop, books and fruit. Photo: Clare O’Beara.

--

Clare O'Beara

Clare O'Beara

Environmental journalist, tree surgeon and expert witness, and former national standard showjumper. Author of 19 books of crime, science fiction, YA fiction.

Following

Help
Status
About
Careers
Blog
Privacy
Terms
Text to speech
Teams