December 26, 2004
Conor Brophy
IF anyone understands what it's like to be in a place called vertigo, it's Steve Jobs. The Apple chief executive is enjoying one of the best quarterly sales ...
December 26, 2004
Peter O'Reilly
AS Johnny Cash might have put it, turning 30 does things to a man.
Malcolm O'Kelly began his fourth decade back in July and already it shows.
It's ...
December 26, 2004
THE year began with a birthday bash. The Abbey, 100 years old, wrapped itself in a big purple bow, threw a party, and promised that all would be well. A ...
December 26, 2004
THEY had quite a year of it in 2003 with matriarch Sharon Osbourne's colon cancer battle, and 2004 didn't start too well either for the world's best ...
December 26, 2004
Pig a bit light on his trotters
BULGARIAN farmer Galen Dobrev is suing the breeder who sold him a pedigree pig, claiming that the animal was unable to mate because ...
December 26, 2004
Paul O'Kane
IT might not be something they teach you at business school, but Fruitfield's acquisition of Irish biscuit company Jacobs was due to simple persistence and a bit of local ...
December 26, 2004
Brian Carey
IN late 2003, a large European bank was encountering some difficulties offloading a London property portfolio with a value of £150m. It was suggested that the bank contact a ...
December 26, 2004
Sarah Barrell
THE current batch of new New York hotels are not so much new as reinvented. The formula seems to be: out with the old (name, staff and decor), in with ...
December 26, 2004
Top 20 movies of 2004
1) The Motorcycle Diaries (Walter Salles)
2) Fahrenheit 9/11 (Michael Moore)
3) Bad Education (Pedro Almodovar)
4) School of Rock (Richard Linklater)
5) Collateral ...
December 26, 2004
Jude Law and Sienna Miller In 2054, if anyone remembers Sienna Miller, it will be less to do with her acting and more to do with the renaissance of fur ...