December 30, 2001
Sam Smyth
THE Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales and Eamon Leahy SC, one of the most able criminal lawyers at the Irish Bar, have both suggested that "protective custody" may ...
December 30, 2001
Tom Doorley
I HAVE a feeling that 2002 will be a somewhat leaner year for restaurants. Already, the frenetic pace of openings has slowed down to a trickle. Most of the new ...
December 30, 2001
POLICE are investigating two separate incidents in the Moy and Coalisland areas of Co Tyrone, in which the houses of two elderly women were entered by men claiming to be ...
December 30, 2001
Ann Marie Hourihane
PEOPLE in the toy business talk about GOY. They mean that children are Getting Older Younger. A toy which would have pleased an 11-year-old 10 years ago is now thrown ...
December 30, 2001
Helen Murray
Bertie Ahern, Taoiseach:
"I was in a series of meetings in Government Buildings with Richard Haas, an ambassador from the Bush administration. We were scheduled to meet with Gerry Adams ...
December 30, 2001
It's like cracking the common cold Tony Blair expresses his exasperation at the developing Foot and Mouth crisis in March With his death goes the truth. I don't ...
December 30, 2001
ARE you the weakest link? Do you have to ask the audience to find out who Tom Hanks is? If so, our New Year's arts quiz may not be ...
December 30, 2001
Nell McCafferty
YOU couldn't get a dog for love nor money from the dog pound this Christmas. It would be cruel to the animal. The Dublin Society for the Prevention of ...
December 30, 2001
MATT COOPER
SO where stands Ireland going into 2002? While private sector economists vary greatly in their predictions for economic growth next year ? anywhere between 0% and 5% growth ? a consensus of ...
December 30, 2001
Harry McGee
MULTI-MILLIONAIRE businessman Denis O'Brien is returning to live in Ireland next month after a two-year stint as a resident of Portugal that may have saved him from paying as ...