September 20, 2009
Andy Gill
Cliff Richard and The Shadows
Reunited
EMI
Rating: 2/5
In the current hubbub over the Beatles, the reunion of Cliff and the Shadows may have been overlooked. These revisitings ...
September 20, 2009
Metaphors for the day that's in it, and the dark times that prevail. The first is the occasion of the 1990 Munster Football Final. At half time in the ...
September 20, 2009
The man known as the "godfather of neoconservatism", Irving Kristol, has died from lung cancer aged 89.
Kristol rejected the communist beliefs of his youth to become a leading right-wing ...
September 20, 2009
Thahir Asmal, Johannesburg
The Caster Semenya affair took another twist yesterday when the man in charge of athletics in South Africa issued an apology for the cover-up that set tongues wagging in the ...
September 20, 2009
Barclay's Premier League
Arsenal (1) 4 Wigan (0) 0
Vermaelen 25, 49 59,103
Eduardo 59, Fabregas 90
Arsenal Mannone, Sagna, Gallas, Vermaelen, Clichy, Eboue (Rosicky 73), Song Billong ...
September 20, 2009
There was speculation that the euphoria of Barack Obama's election night last November would precipitate a baby boom. There are no statistics available yet of any significant increase in ...
September 20, 2009
Ireland is represented by Lance Daly's Kisses in the official longlist of 48 films from which nominations for this year's European Film Academy Awards will be chosen. Among ...
September 20, 2009
LISTOWEL
Going: Good-good to firm in places on nh course
2.25 LYNCH'S BAKERY FILLIES MAIDEN E14500 1m
1 Basil Brindley's LA MERE GERMAINE (B F Indian Ridge-Champs ...
September 20, 2009
In the 11th series of the Sculling Challenge racing series between the Cork, Dublin and Belfast sculling ladders held at Islandbridge, Dublin, husband and wife team Sean and Siobhan Jacob ...
September 20, 2009
Just occasionally the conventional wisdom is right. In the apocalyptic period after Lehman Brothers' collapse last year a few bulls still romped around the Irish stock exchange, making the not ...