December 28, 2008
Rock and Pop
I am officially a fool. Having agreed to write this piece, it has dawned on me that you, dear reader, will probably never believe another word I ...
December 28, 2008
A couple of years ago, I found myself sat at a dinner table in an old Italian restaurant in the Bronx. It was Sunday dinner with a friend's boyfriend ...
December 28, 2008
Iwouldn't want to be sitting anywhere else. I'm in total control. No noise. No talk, no discussion, no commentary, no sound at all coming from the television set ...
December 28, 2008
Decoupling in the
global economy
This was the chief intellectual argument of 2008, and now seems utterly bogus. Earlier this year some economic thinkers passionately argued that the US economy ...
December 28, 2008
Michael Walker
IT IS a noon kick-off,only 43 drowsy hours after the St Stephen’s Day games ended and Newcastle United have just lost at Wigan for the fourth season in ...
December 28, 2008
Word of the ticket filtered through on the Thursday beforehand. Yes, I was on my way to Wembley and, like Ossie, my knees had gone all trembly. Then came the ...
December 28, 2008
Police in Co Down are now treating the death of an elderly woman in Newry as murder. Marie Rankin (81) was found dead at her home at Lower Dublin Road ...
December 28, 2008
Met Eireann has predicted a cold snap for early next week. Temperatures fell to minus four degrees in parts of the country last night. They will fall next week but ...
December 28, 2008
The number of kidney transplants carried out this year looks set to be down on last year's figure due to a lack of suitable donors.
About 140 transplants will ...
December 28, 2008
The coastguard search around Lough Derg for a suspected missing woman has been stood down.
The search got underway at 4.15am yesterday morning following reports that a woman was ...