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Controversial Selection dunphy's Starting Eleven

Saturday January 16 2010

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A doctor's fight to aid the poor

Sunday December 27 2009

Stricken by pain and disability since birth after his mother was given thalidomide while she was pregnant, Dr Austin O'Carroll has since dedicated his medical career to assisting the homeless, drug addicts and prostitutes of the inner city. Encouraged by an upbringing of tough love, discovers Emily Hourican, he gained the strength to do battle for others

Determined-looking demonstrators hold their hands in the air as they are arrested by Danish riot police in the centre of Copenhagen yesterday

Pressure for climate deal hots up as deadline looms

Monday December 14 2009

Environment ministers tried to overcome rifts between rich and poor nations in Copenhagen yesterday, with the deadline for a climate deal looming.

Cowen earns more than Brown and Merkel despite pay cut

Saturday December 12 2009

TAOISEACH Brian Cowen is still being paid more than British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and German Chancellor Angela Merkel -- even after his 20pc pay cut.

Miriam and sisters didn't do it for me

Saturday November 28 2009

For a brief period back in the 1990s, though it now seems like the 1890s, Clare McKeon was RTE's chosen presenter of girl-talk shows. I can't recall whether this was before or after our national broadcaster's equally fickle infatuations with Bibi Baskin and Carrie Crowley, but for a while Clare was its darling, fronting a succession of shows in which women fretted about love, pain and the whole damn thing -- and in the process talked an awful lot of twaddle.

Gene Kerrigan: Good times roll for the political cronies

Gene Kerrigan Sunday November 22 2009

Let's start with a correction to a previous column. And this gives us an opportunity to bring you some good news, some indication that things are better than we thought they were. It was the week in which we suffered flooding. It was the week in which the French Thierryfied us -- but things are surely looking up for this great little nation.

Robinson is a fighter, but not for our farmers

Tuesday November 17 2009

The Michael Dillon Memorial lecture was delivered to the Irish Guild of Agricultural Journalists in Dublin recently by our former president, Mary Robinson.