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The perfect getaway
Sunday February 28 2010
When Cyril Forbes and his wife Jill first viewed the riverside house that was to become their country retreat, they met a man outside the property who was full of doom and gloom. Cyril recalls his exact words. "Yes, it's a lovely house, but unfortunately it's subject to flooding." "Then when we went inside," says Cyril, "and I remarked on the lovely fireplace in the front room. He agreed, but added: 'When it smokes, open the window'." As an amused Cyril reminisces about the stranger, who had no vested interest in dissuading him and Jill from buying the house, he is making a point about how some people just cannot help being pessimistic.
Lucinda's lavendar ladies
Sunday February 07 2010
About 20 years ago a small ad, placed by a firm of London solicitors, "seeking the relatives of Cecilia Morris, deceased," featured on the back of the Irish Independent. You know the sort of thing -- we have all seen them over the years, and wonder will they trace the people concerned, or maybe what was the story behind the newspaper ad. You never think it will happen to you.
Clean-up begins after the deluge
Friday November 20 2009
A MASSIVE clean-up operation begins today after some of the worst flooding in Ireland in living memory.
Public to escape bill for road repair
Wednesday October 21 2009
THE public will not have to foot the bill for dismantling part of a new motorway which contains the wrong batch of concrete, the National Roads Authority said last night.
Get on yer bike and have some family fun
Thursday August 13 2009
It's hard to believe summer will soon draw to a close. But close it must. School starts up again in a couple of weeks, bringing to an end a holiday season during which we booked late, took 40pc less foreign trips and adopted 'staycation' as the year's most annoying Americanism.
10 best... Father's Day surprises
Saturday June 13 2009
Don't even think about buying the same old aftershave or chocolates. Pól ó Conghaile has 10 great suggestions for spoiling dad next weekend
Horses die after lorry crashes into river
Saturday June 06 2009
THREE horses were killed yesterday after a lorry careered off a bridge and toppled into a river, writes Stephen O'Farrell.
Three die in spate of heatwave drownings
Friday June 05 2009
Three people have drowned in separate incidents over a 24-hour period.
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