Donal Byrne's piece in the Sunday Tribunemagazine about life in the fast lane as he shared pit room with the Jordan Formula One team in Brazil.

WE WERE SHOPPING. . .

In the newly opened Habitat shop on St Stephen's Green.

Habitat IS the taste police.

Prepare to be flooded by deep blue sofas darling fruit bowls and Mediterranean flower pots, " wrote Ann Marie Hourihane WE WERE PAGE-TURNING. . .

The Chamber by John Grisham which had just hit number one in the paperback fiction bestseller list.

WE WERE WEARING. . .

Yves St. Laurent and Dolce & Gabbana underwear , , The Dressing Room shop in Cork were the first stockists of the labels in Ireland.

WE WERE EATING. . .

At Les Freres Jacques, reviewed in the Tribune magazine, ?At Guilbaud's, you get a helluva lot more space and a sense that an occasional extravagance like this is good for the soul.

At Les Freres Jacques, pleasant as it is, one can't help feeling that there is better value elsewhere, " wrote Tom Doorley.

WE WE ARGUING WITH. . .

Diarmuid Doyle's assessment of Father Ted, which just started on Channel 4, ?The best that can be said about Father Ted. . . is that it is not awful. . .

Father Ted had its moments but they were almost entirely down to the presence of Frank Kelly as Father Jack Hackett."