The Longitude festival kicks off today the three-day series of concerts takes place in Marlay Park in Rathfarnham where the likes of Bastille, Sam Smith, Disclosure, The 1975 and Massive Attack are set to play. Precautions! Festival goers are reminded More….
A proposal to ban buskers using amplifiers is set to come before the next Galway City Council meeting on July 21 – the latest in a long line of calls to see buskers revert to ‘unplugged’ performances. The motion is More….
A proposal to ban buskers using amplifiers is set to come before the next Galway City Council meeting on July 21 – the latest in a long line of calls to see buskers revert to ‘unplugged’ performances. The motion is More….
Young And Old Putting Their Hearing At Risk Upside: You, baby boomer parent, and your teenager may finally have something in common. Downside: What you have in common may be noise-induced hearing loss from all those concerts you attended back More….
As we enter in to the music festival season all festival goers should remember to protect their hearing. It is thought that the majority of festival and concert-goers do not understand the damage they could be doing to their hearing or More….
A new survey by Hidden Hearing has found that almost a quarter of under 25 year olds in Ireland (24%) are putting their hearing at risk by listening to music at levels that cause long term harm. Conducted by Behaviour More….
Did you know both former Presidents Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton were fitted with hearing aids while they were in office? In September 1983 Ronald Reagan began wearing a custom-made, technologically advanced hearing aid in his right ear after experiencing increased More….
Many cases of hearing loss are due to excessive noise. With power tools, motorcycles, movies, lawn mowers and music players capable of producing noise levels above 85 decibels (dB), there is no shortage of sounds that put hearing at risk. More….
Nearly 1 in 5 adolescents have some level of hearing loss, a rate that has climbed substantially over the past two decades. Hearing loss has become the 3rd most common health problem in the nation. Audiologists say people who listen More….
