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Eagles fully committed to bridging the global divide

Saturday November 21 2009

The old beer ad with Sally O'Brien and 'the way she might look at you' came to mind last Sunday. It has become the emigrant's cliche, I suppose. The cold beer, the smile, the egg you could fry on a pavement, "if you had an egg". I sat in a small hotel room in Montevideo watching Ireland rein in Australia on TV, thinking how, even though the world is just an outsized village now, Croke Park seemed galaxies away.

Angry Trap points the finger

Friday November 20 2009

PSYCHOLOGISTS tell us there are seven stages of grief. It is a process that begins with shock, works through denial, anger, bargaining, pain and depression before the eventual arrival at ... well, we'll get back to that one later.

Wanted: one new lord for the manor

Friday November 20 2009

The Woodhouse Estate in Stradbally, Co Waterford, is back on the market after a short hiatus. The historic estate featured on the cover of this supplement in March this year, when the price was reduced from €11.5m to €7.5m. The estate has since undergone further intensive investment and has been repackaged with 383 acres.

Rematch would truly be fair play

Friday November 20 2009

I REQUEST a replay of the France vs Ireland second leg on the basis that it goes against the FIFA 'fair play' initiative and does not adhere to the spirit of the game.

No pot luck for Trapattoni as Ireland seeded third for Euro draw

Friday November 20 2009

IRELAND have been named among the third seeds for the 2012 European Championship.

Cash-starved councils don't work and must go -- Dempsey

Thursday November 19 2009

TRANSPORT Minister Noel Dempsey wants to scrap all county and city councils because they don't work and are starved of cash.

Petroneft to become oil industry front-runner with Siberian conquest

Thursday November 19 2009

PetroNeft is one of the few exploration companies to have a decent exposure to the Russian oil industry, and one of even fewer who have managed to wring some value out of it.