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Garda escort for referee after Dubs squeeze home

Thursday March 18 2010

REFEREE Joe Curley received a garda escort from the Dr Cullen Park pitch yesterday after the Meath official incensed the home supporters by failing to award a late, close-range free to the home county in an absorbing semi-final yesterday.

Dail family trees show clans who rule Ireland

Sunday December 27 2009

Irish politics has been dominated by family dynasties since the foundation of the State. Many of the country's current leading politicians are the latest in the line of family members to pursue a career in national politics.

Splendid isolation: the rebel yell of Cork rock

Saturday September 26 2009

If rock music's appeal is global, its roots are always local. Different towns and cities often develop their own distinctive styles and genres.

Take a bow: Caoimhin O Raghallaigh gives a modern, experimental spin to Irish traditional music.

Boldly going where no fiddler has gone before

Saturday May 23 2009

I was sitting on the hard pews of the Unitarian Church on Dublin's Stephen's Green when I first heard Caoimhin O Raghallaigh play live. Playing in near darkness -- he was bathed only in the faintest blue light -- the fiddler wrung the most extraordinarily haunting sounds from his five-string viola.

A damned great work of art

Sunday March 22 2009

J ohn Giles is probably entirely correct, by his own lights, when he describes David Peace's novel The Damned Utd as "arty farty nonsense." According to Giles, Peace's portrayal of events at Leeds United during the 44-day reign of Brian Clough in 1974 is factually incorrect. We've no reason to doubt Giles on this so that means that, on one level, the book is nonsense.

Idiots beware: Jinx is back

Saturday March 21 2009

This country has produced its fair share of singer/songwriters who can't see further than their own plectrum and sing about little else but their own reflection. But with Ireland in the midst of a collective nervous breakdown, it seems like it's high time someone tried to reflect in song what's really happening right here, right now.

Is romantic Ireland dead and gone?

Saturday November 15 2008

A couple are taking a stroll in the park with their toddler; the man (all in black and balding) is pushing the pram, but casting a sideways glance at the siren walking past in an LBD, sexy black fishnets and 'danger here' red shoes ...

The folk singer who will play in your living room

Saturday August 30 2008

Thank goodness for James Yorkston. As rock n' roll retreats ever further behind the velvet rope, the quietly spoken Fife folkie is moving in the opposite direction: taking his subtle, slow-burning music directly to the people.

Targets: 'What we have to do now is manage the situation we're in and make the right decisions,' says Tanaiste Mary Coughlan TOM BURKE

Yes, there are challenges ahead but nobody said it would be easy

Thursday July 24 2008

SOMETIMES when you are already in the public eye, it's what someone else says that catapults you into the spotlight further.