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Cold comfort as clubs face up to golf's big squeeze

Sunday February 07 2010

Picture this little domestic scene: beaming husband tells seriously unenthused wife how he's been offered membership of the local golf club for €20,000 followed by an annual subscription of €1,500. "In the current climate, she'd run him out the door, and rightly so," said Declan Branigan.

I pity people with no spiritual element in their lives. Where life only consists of the material, it seems to me to be bleak and unimaginative

Saturday February 06 2010

On social networking sites, you can cut your links with a previous friend by formally 'unfriending' them. Andrew Madden, who was scandalously abused as a young altarboy by the paedophile priest Ivan Payne, has done something similar with the Catholic church by formally cutting his links with his baptismal faith on the Count Me Out website.

It's out of this world -- zany artists link Red Planet to Letterkenny

Thursday February 04 2010

The idea of twinning a place in Co Donegal with the planet Mars may sound out of this world, but it could become a reality within weeks.

Irish golf will regret Cup's slow demise

Sunday January 31 2010

The absence of golf's World Cup from next autumn's tournament schedule is being blamed largely on the poor response by leading American players to recent stagings. And why have they gone missing? The problem, in my view, has its roots in the plague of slow play which has eventually choked the life out of a great event.

Lamb Shanks With Roast Root Vegetables

Saturday January 30 2010

4 lamb shanks (oven ready)

Swap mine for yours?

Friday January 29 2010

When a property market is quiet, people are encouraged to think outside the box and find new ways to move up the property ladder.

The new core values

Sunday January 24 2010

In part two of his guide to living in post-recession Ireland, Pat Fitzpatrick looks at our core values as a nation in terms of religion, sport, love, homosexuality, work and the Irish language, and examines how they have been altered by boom and bust. More importantly, he tells you how to avoid embarrassing yourself in public by falling foul of Ireland's new standards. Illustration by Jon Berkeley