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By EMILY BYRNE IT’S been a fairly mixed bag, as they say, of a Summer. But regardless of the temperature swing, it’s a time of
By MICHAEL WOLSEY LIKE books and covers, you should not judge a wine by its label. But it is easy to be tempted by Zekor
‘A light from heaven,’ was how a woman, born in the 1870s, described the electricity brought to her home by the rural electrification scheme which
By MICHAEL WOLSEY IN Ireland we associate the name Sancerre with good white wine, dry with flavours of apple, peach, and apricot – perfect summer
I HAVE two weeks to learn Spanish. I’m quite relaxed about it – and so I should be, for I do the same thing every
By MICHAEL WOLSEY THIS column has been island-hopping in recent weeks, looking at some unusual wines you might enjoy on holiday. This week I’m hopping
IT was seven in the morning and journalist Sinead O’Carroll was heading to work when some men in a car started cat-calling and wolf whistling
LAST week I wrote about the wines of Gozo. From the north of that Maltese island, you can – if the day is clear and
IT has been a very good year for women’s sport, culminating in some thrilling contests at Wimbledon. For me, it started last summer with the
THE island of Gozo lies between Sicily and Malta. Politically it is part of Malta, but it is very different from the bigger island with
