The fat lady sang twice - but there was no way she'd be rushedSouth Down: Arriving at the Dromore Leisure Centre in Co Down at lunchtime yesterday, SDLP hopeful Eddie McGrady was surprisingly…Sat May 07 2005 - 01:00
Jogging the memoryThe first column I ever wrote for this magazine - in 2002 - was given the deeply appropriate headline Running to StandstillSat May 07 2005 - 01:00
I'm an open bookA severe storage crisis meant that for almost a year my book collection was banished to the floor of the spare roomSat Apr 02 2005 - 01:00
Maid in the kitchen, nurse in the bedroomHe is sick, and in the grips of a snuffling, rasping, hacking cough that should elicit sympathy, but merely manages to irritate…Sat Mar 26 2005 - 00:00
7 things to do this weekTODAY: You haven't lived if you haven't got lost barefoot in a giant inflatable maze, so get down to Dublin's docklands before…Sat Mar 19 2005 - 00:00
Desperate behaviourDesperate Housewives, or Despera' Oul Ones as we on the northside of Dublin like to call the latest US TV phenomenon, has an …Sat Mar 12 2005 - 00:00
Sex, drugs, rock'n'roll? Darn tootin'Popular Fiction: It's the late 1970s and 21-year-old Maggie Lennon has arrived in Florida with her two equally green - in the…Sat Mar 12 2005 - 00:00
The unbearable snag lists of lifeMessy jewellery box. Squeaking floorboards. Dents in plaster. Broken handbagSat Feb 12 2005 - 00:00
Maybe babyPopular Fiction: At 33 Emma Hamilton's biological clock was ticking so loudly that she immediately made a New Year's resolution…Sat Sept 04 2004 - 01:00
Look back in languorA teenager writes to say that she is just a teenager and, like most teenagers, hates big newspapersSat Sept 04 2004 - 01:00
Winning words and a smile to bootWhen Bill Clinton called into Eason's bookshop on O'Connell StreetThu Aug 26 2004 - 01:00
Opening minds on a first trip south of the BorderBANKS OF THE BOYNE: A history lesson for Northern children: Fifteen-year-old Thomas Cochrane who lives on the UVF- controlled…Mon Aug 23 2004 - 01:00
Carry on singingIt's easy to become blasé about the rights we are afforded in a democracy, rights that are denied so many people in the world…Sat Jul 31 2004 - 01:00
All the rageWrapper rage/What is it? Hang on a sec, can't type: just injured a nail on one of those little pots of jam with lids you'd need…Tue Jul 27 2004 - 01:00
Beginning of the end as seven towers are waked by localsIt was a fitting tribute to the nearly departedSat Jul 10 2004 - 01:00
All the rage11: Pre-holiday rage: What is it? It wasn't supposed to be like thisTue Jul 06 2004 - 01:00
All the rageFestival rage: What is it? You've been queuing for half an hour to use the only decent-smelling Portaloo in the field and as…Tue Jun 29 2004 - 01:00
Lohan beholdShe might be Hollywood's latest high-school pin-up but Lindsay Lohan has more than the teen queen card up her sleeve, writes …Sat Jun 26 2004 - 01:00
Intimidation alleged at Muslim singles eventA singles event aimed at introducing Irish Muslims to prospective marriage partners has been cancelled amid claims that female…Thu Jun 17 2004 - 01:00
Dubliners have a free Bloomsday breakfastForget lunch.Up to ten thousand people discovered that there is such a thing as a free breakfast on a transformed O'Connell Street…Mon Jun 14 2004 - 01:00
