December 29, 2002
NEIL FRANCIS
With one of the best defences around, Leinster look like genuine contenders for the Heineken Cup after years of drifting in a sea of mediocrity YEARS ago, after a particularly ...
December 29, 2002
LISE HAND
IFany lonesome chaps were wondering yesterday morning where the young womenfolk of Dublin had gone, they were all crammed into Mango in Arnotts of Henry Street. The department store's ...
December 29, 2002
LISE HAND
The punk roots from which Joe Strummer sprang were still with with him at the very end of his life
THERE was Joe Strummer in the actual, real, right-in-frontof-me flesh ...
December 29, 2002
OIL companies yesterday said they had little control over the prospect of huge petrol price rises in the coming months.
It comes as the strike in Venezuela and tension over ...
December 29, 2002
CIARAN CARTY
From the overhyped to the underrated - Middle Earth adventures to subversive satires - these were the top 20 films of 2002 Habla Con Ella (Pedro Almodovar) As expected, Pedro Almodovar didn ...
December 29, 2002
HECTOR MACKENZIE
The Great Wall of China is facing its biggest threat since the birth of Christ
"THAT is absolutely incredible!'' Dan Mackay's wide-eyed reaction on getting his first glimpse of ...
December 29, 2002
BRIAN KEOGH
Richard Governey the hero as visitors enjoy hard-fought victory over bitter rivals at Stradbrook TERENURE College gave their beleaguered supporters something to cheer about with a hardfought win over eternal ...
December 29, 2002
JOHN BURKE
In recent months, rodent populations in many parts of the country have been growing to biblical proportions
A LARGE increase in the rat population has occurred across the country in ...
December 29, 2002
PAUL WHEELER
HAVING hit a vein of form so rich that even the stable cat has been mentioned favourably in gallops reports, Jonjo O'Neill produced another ace from the pack at ...
December 29, 2002
SHANE COLEMAN
Politician of the year Bertie Ahern. Despite everything that's been thrown at him, he's set fair for another five years as Taoiseach. The most cunning, the most devious ...