A guide to what's hot and what's not
What's hot
Alan GilsenanAnother superb documentary, The Hospice.
RunningExercise without an exorbitant gym-membership fee. And you get to use your own shower afterwards.
Gravitation 2007 Urban sports, street art and music in a custom-built skate park. Old Dundrum shopping centre, Dublin 14, today and tomorrow, noon-4pm. And it's free.
FrogsMating and making magical, gelatinous spawn at a pond near you (but not for you, as it's illegal to pinch it).
Fionn ReganForget comparisons to Nick Drake, Jeff Buckley and Bob Dylan. Listen to The End of Historyand hear why another Irish troubadour is being hailed.
What's cold
FluWhich is worse: the way we feel or the way we look? We're too sick to care.
Aldi queue-jumpersOne person does the shopping while the other lines up at the checkout, to save a space for the trolley. So Iron Curtain.
LentWe've barely made it through January, and here comes another 40 days to fast and repent?
Nip/TuckIt's the show that celebs are queuing up to appear in - including, in one episode, Brooke Shields, Jacqueline Bisset and Catherine Deneuve.
Back-to-front L platesIf they can't get that right, what chance have they on the Mad Cow roundabout?
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