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By COLIN BARTLEY THE Cats face their biggest challenge of the year so far this weekend against Galway, but Brian Cody will at least have
MY grandfather died in his early sixties; my father lived a decade longer. My generation can reasonably hope to see 80 and my grandchildren have
By COLIN BARTLEY IT’S that dreaded time of year and that almost everyone can relate to it – exam time! By now, more than 120,000
SUMMER may be coming in but it’s taking its time about it. Still, the sun did put in an appearance last week. It was brief
THE Green wave was not quite the tsunami RTE’s exit poll had led us to expect. More of a spring tide, really. And that, for
By PÁIDÍ MANNING IN an election where Fine Gael was hammered by the opposition over rural broadband and the Children’s Hospital even before the Housing
READERS sometimes ask where they can buy a wine they have enjoyed in a restaurant. The answer nearly always is that they can’t buy it
GOVERNMENTS rarely do well in local or European elections. Voters do not see either event as terribly important and usually take the opportunity to give
WE eat a lot of Italian food in Ireland. Well, sort of. We eat a lot of pasta and pizza, which is hardly the same
FOR the first time, four clubs from the same country will contest the finals of soccer’s two big European tournaments. The success of these Premier
