December 28, 2003
Nina Siegal
"BEEF is back, the Street is back, redemption is the word!" said Michael Spillane, a highyield bond trader for First Albany whose friends, rather obviously, call him Mickey. He was ...
December 28, 2003
Brian Caulfield
BINDAREE outfought the favourite Sir Rembrandt in a memorable finish to the Coral Welsh National at Chepstow yesterday.
Carl Llewellyn brought home the 10/1 shot, trained by Nigel Twiston-Davies ...
December 28, 2003
Jonathan Stearns
GARETH MORGAN pledged last year never again to fly Ryanair. The no-frills airline didn't reimburse him for the loss of a ?24 clock that was removed from a bag ...
December 28, 2003
Valerie Shanley
SOUTH Lodge, a 19th century house near Clonmel, Co Tipperary, may have a long tradition with racehorse training, but also makes an impressive country residence in its own right. Set ...
December 28, 2003
PREPARATIONS Spain are lining up a prestige friendly with Italy before next year's Euro 2004 . nals in Portugal.
Inaki Saez has already agreed friendly dates with Peru and Denmark ...
December 28, 2003
Paddy Murray
IT'S nearly the end of another year. And it's nearly the start of a new one. So it's an appropriate time to look back at how things ...
December 28, 2003
John Burke
MORE than 40 landfill sites nationwide have been found to be in breach of environmental safeguards over the past year, with 26 local authorities failing to apply the proper standards ...
December 28, 2003
Shane Coleman Political Correspondent
THE continued payment of ground rent to English landlords for prominent state buildings ? including Arbour Hill, the burial place for the 1916 leaders ? is "an absolute scandal" that has been ...
December 28, 2003
ANTI-SMOKING group Ash has called on RTE to stop showing Formula One racing on television until the sport bans tobacco advertising. Ash said that RTE should cease screening Formula One ...
December 28, 2003
Marianne Heron
THE grand old Lady of Abbey Street will reach out to a million people during the year that the theatre celebrates the end of its first century.
Looking back, 99 ...