February 22, 2009
As the words "default'' and "Ireland'' swirled around the bond market again last week, propelled by some excitable media comment, it was a case of holding your nerve at the ...
February 22, 2009
LAST week the Gaelic Players Association came in for some stinging criticism from Enda McEvoy, criticism which we believe was grossly unfair and based on an inaccurate interpretation of the ...
February 22, 2009
Ideliver the family to Aberdeen airport on a Monday morning. They will travel back to Dublin by plane and I will follow with the car later in the week, a ...
February 22, 2009
Prof Eamonn J Walsh
The annual report of Anglo Irish, released last Friday, sheds further light on the three transactions that have attracted extensive attention in the past few weeks.
To get ...
February 22, 2009
Compiled by Ciaran Cronin and Miguel Delaney
Arsenal v Roma
Tuesday, Emirates Stadium, 7.45
Live, Setanta Ireland, 7.00; ITV, 7.30
Since Arsenal's last European deployment, the team's results and performances have deteriorated rapidly. They ...
February 22, 2009
Colm Greaves
The end of Thyne
Flashy chestnuts aren't always hugely popular at the sales, but they always grab the eye on the course. Which makes it even sadder that Cheltenham ...
February 22, 2009
Ciaran Carty
The annual IFTAs last weekend coincided with the funeral of Hugh Leonard, prompting Jim Sheridan to regret that it was now too late to give him a lifetime achievement award. ...
February 22, 2009
Stealing Water
By Tim Ecott
Sceptre, £8, 304pps
IT IS clear from the outset that Ecott is dead set on enjoying himself in the writing of ...
February 22, 2009
FA Premier League: Bolton Wanderers 2, West Ham United 1. Ken Gaunt, The Reebok Stadium
Early goals from Matt Taylor and Kevin Davies helped Bolton end West Ham's seven-game unbeaten away run in the Premier League. Taylor opened the scoring in the ninth minute with ...
February 22, 2009
Barack Obama, they say, did not get on well with Bibi Netanyahu when he met him in Jerusalem before the US elections.
Obama, who figured out the Middle East ...