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		<title>Gardening on a budget</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Joanne Butler &#160; You can discover your green fingers with some help from the experts, says John Cradden For many years, gardening was a relatively inexpensive hobby. It tended to be the preserve of the hardcore green-fingered, and it usually took many years of patience rather than wads of cash to create a beautiful garden. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johncradden.ie/2012/04/25/gardening-on-a-budget/</link>
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		<title>Deaf village project</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A €25 million community development designed for deaf people will open in September, writes John Cradden AFTER FIVE years of planning and a huge amount of consultation, the first and most significant phase of a new €25 million community village development for deaf people is set to officially open in Dublin this September. The development, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johncradden.ie/2012/04/25/deaf-village-project/</link>
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		<title>Dream bangers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There’s a lot to be said for old workhorse cars – they may be long on mileage, but for the most part, they’re much shorter on cost than their shinier, newer counterparts, writes JOHN CRADDEN CARS IN IRELAND generally live a hard life. Motorists here do higher average mileages than those in other EU countries, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johncradden.ie/2012/02/20/dream-bangers/</link>
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		<title>Holidaying on the cheap</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Smart Consumer: How to fund your next holiday By John Cradden Thursday January 26 2012 This is traditionally the time of year when many families plan and book their summer holidays, but if a tighter household budget has ruled out your usual two weeks in the sun, there are loads of clever ways to get [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johncradden.ie/2012/02/09/holidaying-on-the-cheap/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s time to have my ears what?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Smart consumer Listen up: It&#8217;s time to have your ears checked By John Cradden Absolutely no pun intended, but here is a piece of information that tends to fall on deaf ears. One in six people worldwide has a hearing loss greater than 25 decibels (dB), according to the World Health Organisation. About half of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johncradden.ie/2012/02/09/its-time-to-have-my-ears-what/</link>
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		<title>Irish Times article: music to my ears</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wrote an article for the Irish Times Insight supplement, which appeared last week, based on a chat with Richard Reed, a musician with a cochlear implant, who I first talked about here. Here&#8217;s the PDF First page of article Second page of article]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johncradden.ie/2012/01/31/irish-times-article-music-to-my-ears/</link>
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		<title>Tinny radio rocks!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s been just over four months since I was activated, so time for an update. I knew that my soundscape would change as soon as I got the implant, but even after four months, it’s still changing. If you’ve read previous blog entries, you’ll remember that I struggled to settle into a program that I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johncradden.ie/2012/01/23/my-evolving-soundscape/</link>
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		<title>Mapping a path to a hearing sun</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I went for my third mapping on Thursday 1st Dec, a week ago. First, a warning: what you are about to read is quite long and technical, and therefore probably quite dull and uninteresting if you’re not a CI user yourself, or at least profoundly interested in the audiological science surrounding it. Jacki, my audiologist, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johncradden.ie/2011/12/08/mapping-a-path-to-a-hearing-sun/</link>
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		<title>Hanging on the telephone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Thursday I&#8217;ll be going for my second mapping session, so now seems a good time to report on progress. I had the volume turned up near to its max for the last few weeks in the assumption that I would need more volume as time goes on. But in my case, the volume seems [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johncradden.ie/2011/11/29/hanging-on-the-telephone/</link>
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		<title>Richard Reed, a musician with a cochlear implant</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I attended a music workshop for CI implantees yesterday at Beaumont Hospital given by a chap called Richard Reed. Reed, from the USA, is a professional musician who lost his hearing several years ago and subsequently got a cochlear implant, although not until about ten years later. Since then, he has embarked on his own [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johncradden.ie/2011/11/10/richard-reed-a-musician-with-a-cochlear-implant/</link>
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