May 25th, 2008
Nothing compounds the post-holiday blues quite as much as the realisation that the news rumbled on without you, leaving you frantically scrabbling to catch up. I had one of those post-holiday moments last week when a colleague mentioned that Ciaran Cannon had called for prostitution to be legalised.
“He did?” I responded politely, [...]
It may seem a tad early and it’s hard to think about winter woollies while the sun is shining gloriously, but I’ve had a sneak preview of the trends for autumn/winter and I just have to share them with you.
The big news? Austerity is the new black. Spending is out. Stinting is in. Who’ll have [...]
April 6th, 2008
Were you caught rotten on Tuesday? Sent out by the boss to get tartan paint or a left-handed hammer or discovered your stapler suspended in a block of jelly?
Maybe you were lucky enough not to suffer any April Fool’s jokes, but thousands of motorists in Mayo were nicely pranked by the county council [...]
March 30th, 2008
The mandarins of the French foreign ministry in Paris have one overweening preoccupation these days, apparently. According to a ministry adviser quoted in the Irish Times, “they talk of little else at the Quai d’Orsay”.
What do you think this obsession might be? Go on, have a guess. A possible French boycott of the [...]
March 23rd, 2008
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Suffering from the perennial complaint of having hundreds of TV
channels but finding there’s nothing on? You could soon have something
new to watch, if a senior garda gets his way. Paschal Feeney, the
president of the Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors (AGSI)
wants murder and kidnapping trials to be televised. [...]
March 16th, 2008
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Did you hear the one about the man in a straitjacket who wouldn’t get
into a taxi outside the Central Mental Hospital? It’s a corker.
A couple of comedians thought it would be funny to dress up as a nurse
and a patient from the hospital and prank an unsuspecting taxi [...]
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