Friday, July 30 2010

 

11,000 new houses built as 300,000 still lie empty

THOUSANDS of homes across the country are still being built -- as a new report warns that 120,000 existing houses are unlikely ever to be sold.

Entertainment

  • Lottie Ryan at Donnybrook Stadium, Dublin, yesterday to launch the Leaving Cert results festival 'Summer Blow Out 2010'
    A whole Lottie rockin' going on

    THE daughter of the late broadcaster Gerry Ryan has ruled out following her father into radio -- because his shoes are too big to fill.

Tony McCoy's wife Chanelle congratulates him after winning the Galway Plate. Picture: Frank McGrath

Fingers off pulse as win surprises crowd

THE Taoiseach wasn't looking too excited by the fact that horse number 25 was travelling well in the big race of the day, the Galway Plate. It was going great guns down the back straight, tucked nicely in third place a few jumps from home.

Independent Woman

Why do men cheat?

John and Marilyn. Bill and Monica. Charles and Camilla. Ashley and Whatshername. The extramarital affair has a long and if not quite distinguished, then at least high-profile, history. More often than not it is the men who occupy that central, adulterous role; difficult as infidelity statistics are to gauge, men repeatedly own up to committing the lion's share of affairs, outnumbering women by at least two-to-one. But why?

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