December 25, 2005
AND what's Christmas without a good oldfashioned holy war? First of all there was the kerfuffle when a Catholic priest offered blessings at a tree-lighting ceremony in Manhasset, Long ...
December 25, 2005
PAT Rabbitte has had a mixed political year . . . and we hear his troubles with Declan Bree are far from over . . . but there was some good news in a recent Fine ...
December 25, 2005
CHRISTMAS is coming but save some money for the sales. There are lots of bargains to be had everywhere with prices slashed and big reductions on genuine articles.
Crowd-pleasing offers ...
December 25, 2005
Ann Marie Hourihane
IT REALLY is quite useless pretending to be a serious person. The sheer boredom of the effort is unbelievable. The thing is, it takes real discipline not to burst out ...
December 25, 2005
IVOR Callely was spotted leaving the ladies lavatory in Leinster House last Tuesday afternoon.
"When you got to go, you got to go, " is not quite what Callely told his ...
December 25, 2005
Shane Coleman
CHARLIE McCreevy will never be forgiven now. Those of a left-leaning disposition were never too fond of the current EU commissioner. His Champagne Charlie image jarred too much, as did ...
December 25, 2005
THIS is a story about The Man In Black. Make no mistake, it's a story about a lot of other things; about the music, about the mystique, the sex ...
December 25, 2005
Barry O'Donovan
SOME interesting goings on at Cork City over the past week or so. Interesting in the Michael Moore sense rather than the Nature Channel sense. It is Irish football after ...
December 25, 2005
Stephen King
MOST years throw up big economic surprises of one sort or another, and 2005 was no exception.
At the beginning of the year, the main worries were probably the US ...
December 25, 2005
Una Mullally and Robert Ryan
PAT Kenny has completely eclipsed Ryan Tubridy in RTE's chat show ratings battle this season. The Late Late Show on Friday nights has consistently held the number one position ...