Wednesday, February 10 2010

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Famous faces don't always get vote of confidence

Tuesday February 09 2010

FALLEN political star George Lee is just one in a long line of celebrity candidates to represent political parties.

Driving test candidates face examiner lottery

Tuesday February 09 2010

LEARNER drivers are more likely to fail if they are assigned certain testers because of "considerable variations" in the driving test system.

The machinery: The manual login

Tuesday February 09 2010

As a rule, farmers and contractors alike will carry out as much maintenance or repairs as they feel they are capable of on their own machinery. This serves several purposes: it helps to keep repair costs down, provides some off-peak work and offers a first response to a breakdown at peak times when it is often crucial to make the most of the weather.

Date for fatal crash report

Monday February 08 2010

THE cause of a crash that killed two pilots when their Air Corps plane went down in Connemara, Co Galway, should be completed and published by June.

Nolan savours golden moment

Monday February 08 2010

"This was Joncol's Gold Cup. Cheltenham and the Ryanair Chase is at the back of our minds, not the front, and there's always the Guinness Chase at Punchestown if the ground stayed right."

Health bits: Walk your dog for a good cause

Monday February 08 2010

RTE stars Marty Whelan and Mary Kennedy are asking people to take their dog for a walk as part of a drive to raise funds for 161,000 carers.

Romance in the air -- for some

Sunday February 07 2010

It hardly sets the right tone, but oh well. Nigella Lawson is doing nothing for Valentine's Day. "I stopped believing once I grew up," she tells me. The domestic goddess says that happened when she left Oxford University. And there was me thinking she and Maurice Saatchi were the last of the great new romantics. "Valentine's Day is not about romance," she says, "but sentimentality."

Deaf ear turned to climate change facts

Saturday February 06 2010

The most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report has been shown to be full of errors exaggerating the effects of global warming on Himalayan glaciers, the Amazon, damage from disasters and even the area of the Netherlands below sea level.

Medb Ruane: As the UK marches to the equality drum, lesbians feel the belt of the Pope's crozier

Medb Ruane Saturday February 06 2010

Arsenal suffered a thrashing from Man U on Sunday but it paled to the reddener the House of Lords delivered to Harriet Harman, days after Pope Benedict intervened.

Priest in fight for his life after being hit by malaria

Thursday February 04 2010

A MISSIONARY priest is critically ill after contracting malaria while working in Africa.