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Ian O'Doherty: He admits it -- he's a hardliner

Ian O'Doherty Wednesday January 27 2010

This column has come in for some stick in the past and apart from the usual mad threats from religious types -- it's amazing how many of these poor, superstitious fools seem to have missed that whole bit about 'forgiveness' in their Bible -- the rest of the hate mail tends to come from furious gay people who didn't like being slagged for their more outrageous behaviour.

Brosnan calls for 'closure' on Polanski child sex case

Tuesday January 26 2010

ACTOR Pierce Brosnan , the star of controversial film director Roman Polanski's new film, has called for closure on the child sex saga.

'I shall miss you when I am dead'

Sunday January 24 2010

He was the greatest playwright of his day, the son of an East End tailor; she was an historian, wife of a baronet and mother of six. Harold Pinter and Lady Antonia Fraser survived the scandal of their intense, incendiary love affair in the Seventies to live a star-filled, glamorous life together till Pinter's death in 2008. Now, the acclaimed biographer has written a memoir of their passionate marriage. Emily Hourican chronicles their story

Sinead's crusade on abuse and Polanski

Sunday January 10 2010

WHEN Sinead O'Connor tore up a picture of Pope John Paul II, staring into camera and chanting "fight the real enemy!" on Saturday Night Live in 1992, she derailed her career, and caused most of us to conclude she was a bit mad. The gesture seemed extreme, showy, unnecessary, and by it and many others, Sinead seemed to wilfully chuck away the stellar career that could have been hers. That graceful child with huge eyes and breath-catching talent, she could have conquered the world by staying quiet and using her clear, pure voice to sing the songs people wanted from her.

Polanski supporters overshadow Listowel

Sunday January 03 2010

IT'S been comforting for us townies recently to be able to point the finger at the beleaguered people of Listowel and sneer, "Gombeens."

swept away by a mysterious genius

Saturday November 28 2009

Thirty years ago, in August 1979, 15 people died during a terrible storm that struck the Fastnet yacht race. The former British prime minister Ted Heath, a keen sailor and a participant in the race, very nearly died too. On the same day, but in relatively calm conditions, a man fishing on the rocks at Kilcrohane in Cork was swept away by a freak wave and drowned. Onlookers say that the man did not struggle in the water but seemed to accept his fate calmly.

We need to talk about Islam, now

Sunday November 15 2009

ALL the documentaries in recent weeks celebrating the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall have given us a reason to celebrate the fact that, regardless of our present travails, we live in the free West where the rights of the individual will always triumph over the ideology of the group. Ding, dong, the Witch is dead.

Barry favourite to claim top book prize

Monday November 02 2009

FOUR Irish writers have made the longlist for the world's most valuable literary prize for a single work of fiction.

Wife slashed husband for forcing her to violate Muslim faith

Saturday October 31 2009

A devout Muslim woman says she slashed her husband's neck with a kitchen knife as he slept because he forced her to eat pork, wear short skirts and drink alcohol in violation of her religious beliefs.

Art offers no diplomatic immunity

Sunday October 04 2009

THE contest for the year's least surprising news is now officially over as it's announced that Woody Allen has put his name to a petition calling for Polish director Roman Polanski not to be extradited back to the United States from his Swiss jail to face child sex charges.