Sculpture vulturesPRESENT TENSE: IN MANCHESTER, they’ve decided to dismantle a 55m tall sculpture, B of the Bang, (below) because of fears that…Sat Feb 14 2009 - 00:00
A choker at CrokerPRESENT TENSE: SO, I PICK UP my tickets for today’s Ireland-France rugby game and the first thing I notice is the price: €90…Sat Feb 07 2009 - 00:00
From Soho to St Stephen's GreenTHE SATURDAY INTERVIEW : IF A QUESTION is anything longer than a dozen words, Richard Corrigan will start answering it half-…Sat Jan 31 2009 - 00:00
Ross prepares to get back in BBC hot seatJonathan Ross makes his television comeback this Friday, but is he facing a PR nightmare or a warm welcome back as the leading…Sat Jan 17 2009 - 00:00
Why we should be cheered by a comedy about suicide bombersPRESENT TENSE: IT WAS reported this week that British comedian Chris Morris has finally got the go-ahead to make a satire based…Sat Jan 10 2009 - 00:00
Snooze and be damnedCHRISTMAS EVENING: IN THE AFTERMATH of the Christmas dinner, things can get a little messyWed Dec 24 2008 - 00:00
Clear your head, then start againST. STEPHEN'S DAY : THE FIRST THING to note about St Stephen's Day is that, despite the pernicious influence of British culture…Wed Dec 24 2008 - 00:00
O come all ye faithful - or notCHRISTMAS MASS: A HUGE PROPORTION of the country is likely to go to church services on Christmas morning, when the priest will…Wed Dec 24 2008 - 00:00
Just add relatives, stir up and chillCHRISTMAS DINNER: THE SECRET OF cooking the Christmas dinner is all in the timing: namely, knowing just when to get the hell…Wed Dec 24 2008 - 00:00
Picking a "premiere" for all the familyCHRISTMAS TELLY: CHRISTMAS IS ABOUT getting the family together, enjoying each other's company, laughing together, eating together…Wed Dec 24 2008 - 00:00
Early bird specialsCHRISTMAS MORNING: ON CHRISTMAS morning, Mammy and Daddy would like to be woken at about 9am. Some chance.Wed Dec 24 2008 - 00:00
Finger wagging from the ÁrasPRESENT TENSE: PRESIDENT MARY McAleese's most overworked body part must increasingly be her index fingerSat Dec 20 2008 - 00:00
Ireland is OJ Simpson.DiscussPRESENT TENSE: THERE'S A SCENE at the beginning of The Naked Gun in which OJ Simpson, playing luckless cop Nordberg, gets shot…Sat Dec 13 2008 - 00:00
Memoirs put out of their miseryPRESENT TENSE: IF ANY GOOD has come out of the economic crisis it's that among those hit hard are the misery memoirsSat Dec 06 2008 - 00:00
Linehan wins an Emmy for sitcom on the IT setIRISH COMEDY writer Graham Linehan was yesterday celebrating another major television awardWed Nov 26 2008 - 00:00
Looking for life in live TV newsPRESENT TENSE: HERE'S SOMETHING you may have noticed on the nine o'clock news this week, or any weekSat Oct 11 2008 - 01:00
The culture vultures are circlingPRESENT TENSE: YOU JUST KNOW that somewhere out there, hunched over a keyboard, a novelist this week had a eureka momentSat Oct 04 2008 - 01:00
Coping with a crisis of ignorancePRESENT TENSE: FOR ME, if there is one constant in this global financial crisis it is this: my money, my job, maybe my home, …Sat Sept 27 2008 - 01:00
Science fact or fiction?PRESENT TENSE I DON'T KNOW MUCH about physics, but I was sure the world wasn't going to end on WednesdaySat Sept 13 2008 - 01:00
Not such a perfect stormPRESENT TENSE: ON MONDAY night, RTÉ news went live to New Orleans for the latest on the "storm of the century", Hurricane Gustav…Sat Sept 06 2008 - 01:00
Gold medal in faking itPRESENT TENSE THE NEWS THAT China faked parts of the Olympic opening ceremony is hardly the most surprising of the week, perhaps…Sat Aug 16 2008 - 01:00
Help! I'm bored with musicPRESENT TENSE SOME TIME AGO, possibly around the turn of the year, I became bored with musicSat Aug 09 2008 - 01:00
Give us a big, manly hugMen embracing men - we're not comfortable with it, but in the political wrestling ring, PDMAs (public displays of male affection…Sat Jul 26 2008 - 01:00
McNews era tips the balancePRESENT TENSE: WE DON'T GET Fox 5 News Las Vegas morning show in these parts, but we became familiar with its presenters and…Sat Jul 26 2008 - 01:00
Portraits of heroism can cause their own collateral damagePRESENT TENSE: THERE WAS SOME coverage this week of the death of former US army medic Private Joseph Dwyer, who killed himself…Sat Jul 19 2008 - 01:00
Flogging press freedomPRESENT TENSE: THE BRITISH PRESS has been having a certain amount of fun with the ongoing Max Mosley vs News of the World trial…Sat Jul 12 2008 - 01:00
Keeping up appearancesThe PR industry has had an image problem, but the downturn just may be its saving grace, writes Shane Hegarty.Sat Jul 12 2008 - 01:00
Driven by girl powerPRESENT TENSE: It sometimes seems as if certain ad campaigns are planned from the slogan onwardsSat Jul 05 2008 - 01:00
Bertie unpluggedAfter a past battle with cyber-pranksters who set up www.bertieahernSat Jul 05 2008 - 01:00
Let's go to LazytownPRESENT TENSE: USUALLY, WHEN a branch of the arts is a multi-billion-euro industry, ubiquitous in our culture and hugely influential…Sat May 31 2008 - 01:00
Pitching it rightPRESENT TENSE: WEDNESDAY NIGHT WAS a long, long night of Champions League football and an even longer night of football coverage…Sat May 24 2008 - 01:00
Pictures and liesPRESENT TENSE: THE NEW YORKER magazine has just run a fascinating profile of Pascal Dangin, the fashion and publishing worlds…Sat May 17 2008 - 01:00
Histrionics are not historyPRESENT TENSE: 'THERE IS, of course, no ending to history," Bertie Ahern told the joint Houses of Congress on WednesdaySat May 03 2008 - 01:00
Hopelessly lost in LisbonPRESENT TENSE: EVERY ONCE IN a while an issue comes along that is of great importance to the State and its citizens, which must…Sat Apr 26 2008 - 01:00
The ads don't workPRESENT TENSE: THE DEPARTMENT of the Environment is running a television ad proclaiming that this generation will be defined…Sat Apr 12 2008 - 01:00
A good twist is the whole storyPRESENT TENSE: ON WEDNESDAY, it became obvious where Cecelia Ahern had inherited her narrative skills from.Sat Apr 05 2008 - 01:00
This just in - 90 per cent agree media surveys are worthlessPRESENT TENSE : IF YOU picked up a copy of Metro or Herald AM on your way to work on Wednesday morning, you would have learned…Sat Mar 29 2008 - 00:00
Helpful advice for self-help TVPresent Tense: ON WEDNESDAY night, RTÉ1 broadcast a new series, Not Enough Hours , in which a man with a clipboard and a camera…Sat Mar 22 2008 - 00:00
And the award for best awards goes toPresent Tense: This morning you will have opened your papers to find pictures from last night's Meteor music awardsSat Feb 16 2008 - 00:00
Just say no to same aul' jargonPresent Tense: More than €10 million worth of cannabis was seized in a raid on a criminal gang in Kildare this week.Sat Feb 09 2008 - 00:00
Happiness - where are you on the U?Present Tense: A report this week came to the conclusion that middle age is, on average, the worst ageSat Feb 02 2008 - 00:00
Recession:a beginner's guidePresent Tense: During the week, a great many Irish people will have heard a lot of talk about something they had doubted really…Sat Jan 26 2008 - 00:00
Teenage kicks, so hard to deletePresent Tense: Most of us did dumb things in our teenage yearsSat Jan 19 2008 - 00:00
Can games become art?Present Tense: This column will be about computer games. Please don't turn away.Sat Jan 12 2008 - 00:00
Shortt shrift for the criticsPresent Tense: A company is offering Killinaskully-themed holidaysSat Jan 05 2008 - 00:00
'Magic' in the air as the Boss returnsSome people were willing to sacrifice anything to catch Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band's return to Ireland on Saturday…Mon Dec 17 2007 - 00:00
Yawning in the face of ApocalypsePresent Tense: Climate change is the "defining issue of our time", as UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon put it in Bali this…Sat Dec 15 2007 - 00:00
Is there a War on Christmas?Present Tense: This week, an Irish chain of creches decided not to put on nativity plays for fear of offending non-Christian…Sat Dec 08 2007 - 00:00
