Rude enchantmentMemoir: Before you read any further, please note that if confessional tales of blow jobs in funeral parlours and dating big …Sat Jun 18 2005 - 01:00
Prime moverConnect: An elderly woman tied to her nursing home bed. A member of the catering staff giving medicationSat Jun 04 2005 - 01:00
Down to monkey businessThe Ark's new co-production with regional arts centres is bringing Roddy Doyle to kids countrywide, writes Shane HegartyMon May 02 2005 - 01:00
Around the clockShowbands may be several decades out of fashion, but the ageless Dickie Rock has managed to stay coolSat Apr 09 2005 - 01:00
Is the Code a cod?Theology: If you have not read The Da Vinci Code , then you may feel somewhat outnumberedSat Apr 09 2005 - 01:00
ChuggersOne morning, the charities of the land woke up and realised that the way to get money from the public was not through the gentle…Sat Apr 02 2005 - 01:00
More than a gameFootball is one of the few sports that throws military and political rivals on to a pitch and lets them at it, writes Shane Hegarty…Sat Mar 26 2005 - 00:00
Ubiquity to goProfile Starbucks - the coffee chain opens four 'communities' every day, and Dublin is due to get at least one by the end of…Sat Mar 26 2005 - 00:00
Primed for the worstTVReview: RTÉ 1 poured out the Prime Time this week, four of them in allSat Dec 11 2004 - 00:00
It's a jungle out thereTV Review: On ITV and TV3 there seemed to be only two programmes this weekSat Nov 27 2004 - 00:00
Bigwigs and asteroid beltsTVReview: It's understandable why the Four Courts and King's Inns opened their corridors to the cameras for Legal EaglesSat Nov 13 2004 - 00:00
Mood swingersTV Revew: How's the mood? What's the mood over there? Has the mood changed since I last asked you about the mood? As coverage…Sat Nov 06 2004 - 00:00
Fashion fundamentalistsTV Review: Fox News doesn't display the terror alert level on the bottom of the screen these daysSat Oct 30 2004 - 01:00
Girls will be girlsTV Review: The ad for The Afternoon Show features its three female presenters, gambolling about town, arm in arm, to music quite…Sat Oct 16 2004 - 01:00
Now you see it . . .TVReview: If you had been enjoying ITV's The Block - the big budget reality show involving identical flats that needed redecoration…Sat Sept 18 2004 - 01:00
They're playing our 'toonPeriodicals: The 13th issue of McSweeney's Quarterly Concern arrives and, boy, is it laden down with goodiesSat Sept 04 2004 - 01:00
Passing into darknessTV Review: A young man calls his wife from an airport departure lounge. "I love you," he tells her. He says it againSat Sept 04 2004 - 01:00
Idiots lighten summer gloomTV Review: Big Brother has found the right balance of idiots this yearSat Jul 17 2004 - 01:00
Getting their houses in orderGazumping, guide prices and fee levels are among the issues that make estate agents unpopular, but the industry is facing a review…Sat Jul 10 2004 - 01:00
Landslide on Henman HillTV Review: The heavy storm of Euro 2004 football lifted briefly at the beginning of the week, and through the gaps seeped the…Sat Jul 03 2004 - 01:00
Blowing away the shadows of post-war SpainCarlos Ruiz Zafón's novel about Barcelona during the Franco regime has made him a huge success in his homeland, writes Shane …Sat Jun 26 2004 - 01:00
Roasting in celebrity hellYou know it's summer because Big Brother is back, RTÉ cleans out its schedules for repeats, and regular TV reviewers go on their…Sat Jun 05 2004 - 01:00
The team that went to hell and backBelfast Celtic were one of the best football clubs of their dayMon May 31 2004 - 01:00
Women's Hour - all weekTV Review: For Inside 252, seven ordinary women were plucked from obscurity to take part in..Sat May 22 2004 - 01:00
Doran's world stops turning in IstanbulSo much does the Irish public enjoy the Eurovision Song Contest that we've given ourselves the chance to enjoy it twice next …Mon May 17 2004 - 01:00
Dublin skyline exclusivesTV Review: Sky News Ireland arrived on Monday with a smirkSat May 15 2004 - 01:00
From honeydew to Ronnie DrewTV Review: A couple of months ago Sally Webster woke up one morning in Coronation Street to find that she had gone from mousy…Sat May 01 2004 - 01:00
Life in a delicate balanceTV Review: Much was written and spoken about My Foetus in the run-up to its transmission, and many will have chosen not to watch…Sat Apr 24 2004 - 01:00
Operation Timid ReverenceTV Review: Time to check back in with the folks at Fox News, which this week cranked up in response to Operation Vigilant Resolve…Sat Apr 10 2004 - 01:00
When one suicide leads to anotherCan elaborate funerals and a lack of counselling lead young people to see suicide as a path to 'a better place', asks Shane Hegarty…Fri Apr 09 2004 - 01:00
Stranger than fictionFrom stockbroking, to founding a theatre, Hugh O'Donnell has gone from one success to anotherWed Apr 07 2004 - 01:00
When the smoke clearsTV Review: During a discussion on gay marriage on Questions and Answers, Michael Healy-Rae, son of Jackie, gave the country …Sat Apr 03 2004 - 01:00
If God was one of usTV Review: What would God watch? Perhaps he would pass over Songs of Praise because, when he turns on the TV on a Sunday evening…Sat Mar 27 2004 - 00:00
The goodbye girlsTV Review: Given that this is an election year, From Ardoyne to the Áras: Inside the McAleese Presidency needed to avoid being…Sat Mar 20 2004 - 00:00
From superhero to near zero with Dylan and MingusFiction: Jonathan Lethem, a writer who has swung from genre to genre, detective fiction to science fiction, here blends fantasy…Sat Mar 13 2004 - 00:00
Going out with a crashTV Review: Having previously lost his arm to a helicopter, Dr Romano lost the rest of his body to one in last Sunday's ERSat Feb 07 2004 - 00:00
Just a cuddly old punkTV Review: If John Lydon really is the anti-Christ then Hell will be a delightful spotSat Jan 31 2004 - 00:00
Cures for sleep deprivationTV Review: Proof began with the arrival of a freight container at Dublin port. It is loaded from a cargo ship onto a truckSat Jan 10 2004 - 00:00
Keep it Shortt and sweetTV Review: The Office shut its doors this week with David Brent handed a single shred of dignity as he left the buildingSat Jan 03 2004 - 00:00
The agony and the ecstasyThe TV Year: It was the year of makeover shows, a resurgence in British drama, and some bloke called Dunphy, writes Shane Hegarty…Sat Dec 27 2003 - 00:00
Last walk on the northsideTV Review: The BBC was a co-producer of the first series of Bachelors Walk, but when it broadcast the programme via the isolated…Sat Dec 20 2003 - 00:00
Over-balancing actTV Review: If anyone should be making dramas about the Northern Ireland conflict, it is probably best that it shouldn't be Northern…Sat Nov 15 2003 - 00:00
Fame is the spur Hall of fameWars, bad designers and strange behaviour - towns don't always get theirnames for the right reasons, writes Shane HegartyTue Oct 21 2003 - 01:00
Up and Down Under to the trip of a lifetimeThere has never been a sporting event better designed to get Irish fans onthe move than this Rugby World Cup, writes Shane Hegarty…Sat Oct 11 2003 - 01:00
Postcode snobbery screams 'location, location, location'For many Dublin residents avoiding having the 'wrong' address has become something of an obsession, writes Shane HegartySat Oct 11 2003 - 01:00
Women answer rugby's callMention women's rugby and the jokes start coming at you like a rolling maul- but clubs are finding there is more interest in …Fri Sept 26 2003 - 01:00
In safe-cracking handsTV Review: In The Debt Warren Clarke played Geoff Dresner, an ageing safe-cracker forced into doing one last jobSat Sept 06 2003 - 01:00
Planet of the B-movie fantasyProfile: It's the cool place to go: five probes are on their way to the Red Planet, which is closer to us than it has been since…Sat Aug 30 2003 - 01:00
Overdosing on realityMasters And Servants is almost identical to Wife Swap, only this time it is Wife, Husband And Skiving Teenagers Swap.Sat Aug 16 2003 - 01:00
