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'Messer' Daithi is nobody's fool
'A WOMAN knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea', Balzac once wrote. Rita Talty says she knows the heart too of the man she is going to marry during the summer in Dingle.
A scandal never to be told
FOR Mimi Alford the first question is "why?" Why now, almost 50 years after John F Kennedy's death, would the one-time intern emerge from the shadows to claim she had had an affair with the former president while he was in the White House?
Beware Greeks bearing grudges
OK, so the Greeks may have invented public debate but the grinding pace of the bailout talks takes things to extremes. No sooner had one set ended than the next seemed to kick off, with the goalposts moved again.
Game of Thrones gets dirty
WE have had two civil wars in the last Century. The first featured a charismatic Cork man and a treaty.
Call a truce on the turf wars, we've all got rural rage
Liam Fay: Not for the first time, self-styled spokespeople for the inhabitants of rural Ireland claim to have found the most precious piece of fodder in the countryside store -- the last straw.
OMG that's TMI!
From real-time updates on the break-up of Seal and Heidi to the bulletins about the remnants of Ashton and Demi's marriage -- Declan Cashin on the celebs who just don't know when to stop sharing
Everything you ever wanted to know about sex ...
Most of us assume that we are good at sex. We are proud of having caused more than a few gasps of delight in the past.
Off with his free-spending head! Is it cheque-mate for Sarkozy?
Crisis? What crisis? There is a febrile, pre-revolutionary feel to France these days. The Marie Antoinette of the moment is French leader Nicolas Sarkozy, who has been accused this week of adopting a do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do policy in his handling of the country's economic problems.
Jailbreak!
Armed only with a pot of pink chrysanthemums and a walkie-talkie, a Limerick convict sprang the UK's most-wanted KGB spy in a daring prison escape that would go down in British penal history.
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Trendwatch: Make 2012 your most gorgeous year yet
Cellulite, stretch marks or imperfect teeth? Fear not – now you can do something about it. Deirdre Reynolds looks at the coming year’s latest beauty trends.
Sex change British man gives birth to son new
A MAN who used to be a woman has become Britain's first "male mother" by giving birth to a son.
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Recipes: Ross Lewis gives some tips for cooking a classic romantic meal
If you're like me and short on time at home, it is important to grab any opportunity to have a good dinner with your darling wife, but you also want to make sure that it won't mean staying in the kitchen half the night!
Tough Kia Rio is no pushover
Recently a little girl saved my life. By waking up and stumbling downstairs as we were leaving a friend's house, 10-year-old Kitty delayed our leaving by a crucial 60 seconds -- a minute that we'll be repaying her for decades.
Centuries of design
Built in 1399 and renewed in 1650, 1754 and 1998, €2.5m Knockabbey Castle, Co Louth has showcase gardens and sits on 30 acres, writes Caitriona Murphy
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