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O Cuiv defends his €20,000 on chauffeurs in two years

Thursday November 12 2009

A GOVERNMENT minister spent €20,000 on chauffeur services while on foreign trips over the past two years.

Kevin Myers: 'Fear of Islamophobia stopped Hasan's superiors from disciplining him for his jihadist outpourings'

Kevin Myers Tuesday November 10 2009

I imagine a lot of American Muslims over the weekend will have felt like the Irish once did in London after an IRA bombing there: let this massacre not be by one of ours, dear God.

A Leviathan whose changes shaped us

Sunday November 01 2009

One of the most remarkable things about Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan, that classic 17th century account of political sovereignty, is the original cover of the book.

In Sudan's collapsing moral order . . . the only way for westerners to survive is to go armed

Kevin Myers Thursday October 22 2009

SO the government jet finally got a deserving passenger, Sharon Commins, after her three months' captivity at the hands of some incomprehensible band of terrorists in Sudan. Good.

Expenses row hangs over trade mission to China

Tuesday October 13 2009

TRADE Minister Billy Kelleher yesterday jetted off on a week-long trade mission to China as passions ran high over the cost of a similar venture to India, where a bill of €28,000 was run up for a single banquet.

Demanding brides

Saturday October 03 2009

Each guest invited to Liz Hurley's multi-million dollar, March 2007 wedding to Arun Nayar received a detailed orientation pack to prepare them for the great event. The couple opened their own private wedding 'shop' at the Hilton Towers Hotel in Mumbai, stocked with the mandatory saris, kurtas, bindis etc that the guests were encouraged to wear. Hurley's wedding, which took several days starting in the UK before moving to India, cost an estimated €4m.

The €85 curry taking India by storm

Tuesday September 29 2009

If the price of what might be the world's most expensive takeaway chicken curry seems somewhat unlikely, then so too are the ingredients.