Entries from August 2007

August 21, 2007

Um, ah, love is not enough…

Took part in a conversation on the Last Word with Matt Cooper on Today FM earlier this evening. (Listen here if you like. It was the last 15 mins of the show.)
It centred around Merryn Somerset Webb and her new book Love is not Enough: A Smart Woman’s Guide to Making (& Keeping) Money. Happily, [...]

August 21, 2007

Sunday Times: Oh, the horror of lovely girls

August 19th, 2007 
The optician was stumped. I didn’t have cataracts, conjunctivitis or glaucoma. After running every diagnostic test he could think of, he gave it to me straight. The strange flickering that had been bothering me wasn’t caused by any ocular disorder. Oh no. ‘Twas, in fact, the truth in my eyes ever dawning.
And [...]

August 12, 2007

Sunday Times: Let’s face it, everything is bad for you

Oops, this is last week’s column (which ran in Brenda Power’s slot). No column this week as I’ve been having a long-overdue week off K
August 5th, 2007
Welcome to the topsy-turvy, confusing world of diet-related cancer research. Like a carnival hall of mirrors, it’s a disorientating place where everything is distorted and the most [...]

August 3, 2007

Newstalk lunchtime show

Taking part in a panel discussion today from about 1.30pm on the Lunchtime with Eamonn Keane show on Newstalk 106, although it’s actually Lunchtime with Louise Williams. Presumably, Eamonn is off on his holliers. Tune in if you’re near a radio - it should be entertaining (I hope).