Sister pactMy sister Rachael doesn't get out much, apparently because she is an actuary with two small childrenSat Sept 17 2005 - 01:00
Hundred dollar babiesSport: Leah Hager Cohen didn't expect to end up fighting when she started going to Somerville Boxing Club in Massachusetts to…Sat Sept 17 2005 - 01:00
Don't say a wordBy day four I had got used to leaving a shovel of mud behind me in the toilet pits, an embarrassing effort at leaving no trace…Sat Sept 03 2005 - 01:00
Women on the caseFiction: Claire Watson, an ex-detective from Belfast, is on holiday in the south of France with her young child and old friends…Sat Aug 13 2005 - 01:00
7 things to do this weekTODAY The first all-Irish Evolution Music Festival takes place today at the Kilruddery Parklands, Bray, Co WicklowSat Aug 06 2005 - 01:00
Iris knows bestWhen the television company rang to ask if I wanted to take part in a new RTÉ series called Mother Knows Best , I confess I considered…Sat Jul 30 2005 - 01:00
Dublin spiritual festival threatened due to visa delayLove comes to Town, a three-day spiritual festival billed as a gift of love to the Irish people, is now in doubt with confusion…Sat Jul 23 2005 - 01:00
Right here, right now: People in the newsSeán Paul O'Hare, Director of Féile an PhobailSat Jul 23 2005 - 01:00
Living by the bookI keep telling everyone about The Four Agreements. My uncle told my mother, and my mother told meSat Jul 23 2005 - 01:00
My life in a boxI dragged the dreaded Life Suitcase out from under the stairs the other day, only to discover it was easier to let go of the …Sat Jul 16 2005 - 01:00
And the nomi-knees are . . .I was cycling to work in the wind recently, trying to stop my calf-length skirt from blowing over my head while simultaneously…Sat Jul 09 2005 - 01:00
Like mother used to makeI've eaten truffle risotto in the Byerley Turk restaurant at the K Club, in Co Kildare, and if I could I would have bottled the…Sat Jul 02 2005 - 01:00
Hot shotThe country will be abuzz next weekend, with the European Open, at the K Club, followed by the biggest private party of all, …Sat Jun 25 2005 - 01:00
Bringing it all back homeOver afternoon coffee in a Dublin pub - some of us don't need cafe bar licences to act all European - a friend suggested that…Sat Jun 25 2005 - 01:00
Ave MariaI have a cleaner. I know, I know. There are only two adults in the house. And no childrenSat Jun 18 2005 - 01:00
Oireachtas members to hear of 'dangerous' facilitiesMembers of the Cystic Fibrosis Association of Ireland (CFAI) will tell TDs and senators at a meeting today of their frustration…Wed Jun 15 2005 - 01:00
Whatever floats your boatJohn Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men sits on a shelf in Brú's boat, his home, his castleSat Jun 04 2005 - 01:00
The fat lady sang twice - but there was no way she'd be rushedSouth Down: Arriving at the Dromore Leisure Centre in Co Down at lunchtime yesterday, SDLP hopeful Eddie McGrady was surprisingly…Sat May 07 2005 - 01:00
Jogging the memoryThe first column I ever wrote for this magazine - in 2002 - was given the deeply appropriate headline Running to StandstillSat May 07 2005 - 01:00
I'm an open bookA severe storage crisis meant that for almost a year my book collection was banished to the floor of the spare roomSat Apr 02 2005 - 01:00
Maid in the kitchen, nurse in the bedroomHe is sick, and in the grips of a snuffling, rasping, hacking cough that should elicit sympathy, but merely manages to irritate…Sat Mar 26 2005 - 00:00
7 things to do this weekTODAY: You haven't lived if you haven't got lost barefoot in a giant inflatable maze, so get down to Dublin's docklands before…Sat Mar 19 2005 - 00:00
Desperate behaviourDesperate Housewives, or Despera' Oul Ones as we on the northside of Dublin like to call the latest US TV phenomenon, has an …Sat Mar 12 2005 - 00:00
Sex, drugs, rock'n'roll? Darn tootin'Popular Fiction: It's the late 1970s and 21-year-old Maggie Lennon has arrived in Florida with her two equally green - in the…Sat Mar 12 2005 - 00:00
The unbearable snag lists of lifeMessy jewellery box. Squeaking floorboards. Dents in plaster. Broken handbagSat Feb 12 2005 - 00:00
