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Ann Sevastopulo

Sunday February 07 2010

The alarm goes off at six thirty. In retail the day is so busy, especially when you're managing. I could be dealing with stock one minute and a customer the next. As a result, I make sure that the morning time is my time. Either I will get up to make tea and coffee, or my partner, Tim, will, and then we sit up in bed and chat and listen to the radio -- Ian Dempsey on Today FM. It's nice to take your time getting into the day. Then I shower, have another cup of coffee and breakfast before walking into work. I live in Booterstown and the walk from home to Designyard on Nassau Street takes an hour. I like exercise, but I don't like having to make the effort to go and do it -- I much prefer that this is a means of getting from A to B. I'm very much a perfectionist and the sort of person who is always doing something, even when I'm sitting at home in the evenings, but when you're walking there's nothing you can do except listen to the radio.

Pat's book semi-final spot

Thursday January 28 2010

St Patrick's Navan hit 15 unanswered points to knock St Gerard's out of the Leinster Schools (Section B) Fr Godfrey Junior Cup 20-13 in a quarter-final tie at Ashbourne RFC yesterday.

Why Van and Michelle live their hymns to silence

Sunday January 03 2010

THE biggest surprise last week was the confirmation for the first time that Van and Michelle had got married. We also found out that Michelle Rocca had changed her name to Michelle Morrison. And that they had two children.

Trade Budapest for Mayo

Sunday December 06 2009

Sir -- As we move past the phase of trying to decide whose fault the collapse of the economy was and who should pay -- you not me -- there is a huge asset that might well offer a solution. I am prompted to write this letter on reading that Irish investments amounted to €6bn in tiny Dubai and that 3,500 Irish people bought property in Budapest. The total amount that left the Irish economy could be €150bn, particularly if one includes the ongoing drain: the need to justify the purchase by holidaying in these overseas properties frequently, and encouraging family and friends to fry in a Dubai apartment or to freeze in Bulgaria.

Paying fees 'a waste of money in battle for university places'

Thursday October 29 2009

Middle-class parents who spend vast amounts of money on their children in fee paying schools would be as well off sending them to free-education schools, a leading researcher claimed last night.

Exhausted, but there's life in the old dog yet . . .

Monday October 05 2009

WHO would have thought the mystery man had so much wit in him? Declan Ganley won the first Lisbon referendum vote; then he lost in the European Parliament election and said he was finished with politics; finally he changed his mind, fought the second referendum and lost in a landslide. And when it was all over, he revealed his unsuspected sense of humour.

Legend of John McCormack to be celebrated in new exhibition

Tuesday September 15 2009

WHEN the great lyric tenor John McCormack said farewell to his last adoring audience in 1938, he wept along with most of those sitting in London's Royal Albert Hall.