May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get

10% back in credits to spend on your next Uber ride so you don't have to walk home in the brain again.

Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. We live in a world where the past seems further and further away.

This might seem like a strange thing to say, but given the rapid rate of technological

change we are living through, it can be hard to understand the very basics of life even in the

recent past.

I'm not talking about the 19th century, it can be hard to understand and relate to what life was like

before the internet, social media and smartphones transformed the basics of our daily lives from shopping to dating.

The world of our more distant ancestors, someone like old Crohenman, who was brutally

murdered 2,300 years ago, often seems too far into the remote past, a world

obscured by the mists of time to even imagine.

However, in spite of all that change, there are things that have remained constant

through the 80 or so generations that have come and gone since old Crohenman walked the earth.

Despite the wars, invasions, pandemics and conquests, there are some things

that were important to him and his generation that remain important to us today.

When I visited Crohan, this continuity over generations was striking.

Crohan Hill dominates what is otherwise a very flat landscape. It not only shapes how people move around the area, but it's also a focal point for miles around.

For Miriam Ryan, who lives in the shade of the hill, it's always a welcome site when she returns from work in Dublin.

It's something that's been in the landscape for a very long time.

You can catch sight of it from almost any direction approaching it. You know you're coming home.

While its dominance in the landscape was unquestionably equally important for Okrahan Man,

this is not the only continuity between the past and present.

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