Whooooosh!Special effects on screen are something we've come to expect in every movie, ad and TV drama we seeSat May 29 1999 - 01:00
Case of the Kerry Babies, US styleThe darker stories of recent years to emerge from this island have become internationally knownSat May 29 1999 - 01:00
Funeral today of mother of Sheridan brothersThe funeral takes place today of Mrs Anna Sheridan (78), who was the mother of film director Jim Sheridan and playwright Peter…Wed May 26 1999 - 01:00
Cries Unheard: The Story of Mary Bell, by Gitta Sereny (Papermac, £8.00 in UK)IN Newcastle-on-Tyne in 1968, an 11-year-old girl named Mary Bell took the lives of two small boys within weeks of each other…Sat May 15 1999 - 01:00
Mizen PeopleDriving over the mountains at Moll's Gap, not too far from the Cork-Kerry border, my phone went out of coverage in mid-callSat May 15 1999 - 01:00
Everyone looks so happy. It's catching`I'm there for the whole day. It's almost like I become a guest, but I'm on the peripherySat May 15 1999 - 01:00
The caged bird sings againLast year, Sligo-born Tommy Fleming released his second album, Rest- less Spirit; a landmark occasion for any musicianSat May 01 1999 - 01:00
Write honourable friendsMonday in Galway, and the wind was travelling through the dug-up streets like some invisible Macnas dragon, levelling everything…Sat Apr 24 1999 - 01:00
Gorefest at TCDOn Monday evening, the Edmund Burke Theatre in Dublin's Trinity College was sold out for the inaugural debate for DU Politics…Sat Apr 17 1999 - 01:00
Let the ball rollFinally, although it snowed this week, the summer ball season is rolling ever closerSat Apr 17 1999 - 01:00
Salome unveiledSundays are usually reserved for getting off the going-out carousel, but not for the folk who dug out their tuxedos and shiny…Sat Apr 17 1999 - 01:00
Scriptorium for the youngOn Tuesday afternoon in the Ark in Temple Bar, the bottles of coke and orange were broken open to launch Write Here! Write Now…Sat Apr 17 1999 - 01:00
The Medallion ManEarly on Thursday evening, the Abbey Bar was the venue for the presentation of a Gradam to playwright Hugh LeonardSat Apr 17 1999 - 01:00
Because Cowards Get Cancer Too . . . , by John Diamond. Vermillion, £6.99 in UKCancer is the story of Everyman, although this book is exclusively the story of John Diamond who was diagnosed with cancer of…Sat Apr 17 1999 - 01:00
Making his mark not in politics but in propertyYes, he's related to Garret: the former taoiseach and Fine Gael leader is Mark's dadSat Apr 10 1999 - 01:00
Getting the ball rollingOn Tuesday evening in the atrium, the Trinity Ball Committee was setting, well, what else but the ball rolling with the launch…Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:00
Miserables showerOn Tuesday night, tout le Dublin headed towards the Point Theatre, for the opening night of Les MiserablesSat Mar 06 1999 - 00:00
Mews with character has £350,000 guideA LARGE three-bedroom mews house at 60 Heytesbury Lane, Ballsbridge, has a distinctly English country cottage feel to itThu Mar 04 1999 - 00:00
Whatever next?Barbie at 40 was last month the star resident in the window of FAO Swartz's toyshop in New York on Central ParkWed Mar 03 1999 - 00:00
Thespians revel in a rare break from treading the boardsIt's one of the few occasions when people can actually light up in a library without being asked to leaveMon Feb 08 1999 - 00:00
Cinema gives new platform to the riddle of Will ShakespeareWhen young Will Shakespeare arrived in Stratford-on-Avon, bawling out his first cries in blank verse, he made his birthplace …Sat Jan 30 1999 - 00:00
Son recalls father's role in house burningThe impeccably-dressed elderly man sitting in an armchair in his Dublin home is a living link with one of the more bitter periods…Wed Jan 27 1999 - 00:00
House partyTuesday night saw the first opening of the year at the Temple Bar GallerySat Jan 23 1999 - 00:00
Fierce shenanigansThen it was on to the Conversation Room in the newly-opened Messrs Maguire microbrewery on Burgh Quay for the publication of …Sat Jan 23 1999 - 00:00
Here's to you, MaureenOn Monday night at the Gaiety, this year's Cinderella did not go to the ball or anywhere elseSat Jan 23 1999 - 00:00
Winters in IrelandOn Thursday night, Tony and Jane O'Malley had a launch in absentia at the Vanguard Gallery in MacroomSat Jan 23 1999 - 00:00
From Russia with loveA very different celebration was going on across town at Pravda, the bar which managed to get the recalcitrant Irish to queue…Sat Jan 23 1999 - 00:00
Summers in IrelandAlso launched this week was the Discover Ireland spring/summer 1999 holiday breaks brochure, at Bord Failte's head office on …Sat Jan 23 1999 - 00:00
Tributes for a `super trouper'"A great lady, a unique artiste, an Irish icon, a super trouperTue Jan 19 1999 - 00:00
Cold day, warm welcomeIt was a week of Nordic associations, what with the bitingly cold weather, and all the Scandinavian parties going onSat Jan 16 1999 - 00:00
Praise for Moore's lasting impact on Irish fiction"You always hesitate to say that an author's first book is their best but The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne is such a triumph…Wed Jan 13 1999 - 00:00
Cork's publishing houses second to noneDublin is the first city, but when it comes to book publishing, Cork city and county have as impressive a list of publishing …Tue Jan 12 1999 - 00:00
Replica of `Normandie' liner sets sail againThe original Normandie sailed on its maiden voyage across the Atlantic from Le Havre to New York in 1935Mon Jan 11 1999 - 00:00
Diva into JanuaryWell, the season of cloistered excess has come and gone for another yearSat Jan 09 1999 - 00:00
EU and local council combine to breathe new life into Big House on top of the hillIn the picturesque village of Inistioge, Co Kilkenny, with its famous bridge that lies like a stone drawbridge across the river…Wed Dec 30 1998 - 00:00
Racing JordanOn Tuesday night, there was a champagne reception at Vicar Street for the book launch of Against the Odds: Jordan's Drive to …Sat Dec 12 1998 - 00:00
The mane eventIt's backstage at the Gaiety and Bill and Ben are in their little pen, snuffling away and stocking up on hay to sustain themselves…Tue Dec 08 1998 - 00:00
Elsewhere on the shelves . . .So, apart from Furby and Dustin ag caint, what other toys are going to be grabbed off the shelf this year? At Nimble Fingers …Mon Nov 30 1998 - 00:00
Widespread shock at death of Ted Hughes, a poet with a `savage gift'Like a great tree felled, the English poet Ted Hughes has died peacefully at home aged 68Fri Oct 30 1998 - 00:00
The return of the VikingsOn Mondays, the doors of our National Museum are usually shut tight, and the treasures that lie within are unlitSat Oct 24 1998 - 01:00
Fishing houses that lure the angler`It's like sitting in front of an open fire. You can just sit there for hours, watching and being drawn inMon Oct 19 1998 - 01:00
Opera lovers enjoy a sound journeyThose waiting for a homeward DART at Pearse Station in Dublin yesterday were transfixed by the surreal sight of scores of people…Fri Oct 16 1998 - 01:00
Stirring up memoriesThere is a disadvantage to having such a famous name as Bewley's of Grafton Street, with all the responsibilities it holds for…Sat Sept 26 1998 - 01:00
Building boom in hotels spreads southWhat do an old furniture warehouse, two period family residences, an outdoor swimming pool and a Victorian nursing home have …Tue Sept 08 1998 - 01:00
Giving fashion a platformRural railway platforms were really the original catwalks of fashion - all that careful preening before you alighted from the…Sat Aug 15 1998 - 01:00
Hector's BoathouseOpening today in Castletownsend's Boathouse Gallery is an exhibition entitled Journeys by sculptor and painter, Hector McDonnell…Sat Aug 08 1998 - 01:00
