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Rhona's found her Troc of gold

Sunday February 07 2010

Despite all the epic romances and all the relationships, there were never any children in Rhona Teehan's life. The beautiful 60-year-old says she cried buckets of tears over the fact that she could never have any.

Review: Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving

Sunday January 31 2010

Writer John Irving has mined directly the loves, losses and lessons of his life for his novels -- but the hordes of autobiographical demons never seem to be fully vanquished, he tells Julia Molony

Adoption deal for Irish couples not on cards

Thursday January 28 2010

IRISH couples wishing to adopt one of the thousands of orphaned children in Haiti after the devastating earthquake will not be allowed do so for now.

Kevin Myers: Disasters -- where would showbiz be without them?

Kevin Myers Tuesday January 26 2010

It's hard to know where to start when human catastrophe occurs, and the breast-beaters come out of the woodwork. I do not make light of such calamities: only the sick and the wicked do that.

Eoghan Harris: Haiti shows where aid ranks in order of things

Eoghan Harris Sunday January 24 2010

HAITI hammers home an old lesson. Order is the rock on which human society rests. Without order, the strong eat and the weak starve. Hence Haiti needs a strong governing group as much as it needs food.

Nothing but the truth? Master Stone's history lesson

Saturday January 23 2010

At 63, Oliver Stone is showing no sign of slowing up on the work front -- and in between film projects he has somehow found time to make a 10-hour history series that will be shown on American television later this year.

Greed is back . . . and it's just in time

Saturday January 23 2010

Say what you like about Oliver Stone, but the man has a rare gift for the zeitgeist. There have been mutterings about a possible sequel to his hugely successful 1987 film Wall Street for years, but what better time to release it than 2010, as the financial world struggles to reassemble itself in the wake of the worst crash since the big one back in 1929? Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps, which is due to arrive at a cinema near you in late March, has been in development since 2007, and Stone shot it at breakneck speed in Manhattan last autumn in order to get it released as quickly as possible.

Review: Homer and Langley by El Doctorow

Saturday January 23 2010

Truth is stranger than fiction. In 1947 the body of hermit Homer Collyer was discovered in the decrepit Manhattan mansion he shared with his equally reclusive brother Langley. Suspecting foul play, the police instigated a manhunt for Langley but eventually found his corpse under a mountain of rubbish close to his brother.

Johann Hari: The age of the killer robot is no longer a sci-fi fantasy

Friday January 22 2010

In the dark, in the silence, in a blink, the age of the autonomous killer robot has arrived. It is happening. They are deployed. And – at their current rate of acceleration – they will become the dominant method of war for rich countries in the 21st century.