December 25, 2005
Shane Coleman
Political Correspondent TWO-THOUSAND and five was the year that politics in Ireland was dominated by non-politicans. Twelve months ago, the McCartneys in Short Strand were just a normal family looking ...
December 25, 2005
Valerie Shanley
CONSTANCE Cassidy's plan that the open fires in Lissadell, all 58 of them, are lit each morning will come something of a cropper this Christmas Eve.
The imposing house ...
December 25, 2005
King David, Jerusalem
THE top luxury hotel in this troubled city, the palatial King David is right in the heart of this most biblical of cities. Originally opened in 1931 ...
December 25, 2005
Paul O'Kane and Aine Coffey
THE IRISH stock market is set for a bumper 2006, with a host of companies contemplating flotations.
A handful of substantial companies are weighing up plans for Iseq listings. Next ...
December 25, 2005
Maxi on Maureen Potter
REMEMBER going in to the Gaiety as a very little girl and seeing Maureen Potter rehearsing. As I was walking up the stairs to one of ...
December 25, 2005
High flyers, hotlines and hard rockers. . .
EIRCOM
Eircom chief executive Phil Nolan must feel like he has spent 2005 playing a highstakes game of snakes and ladders.
The company finished ...
December 25, 2005
Martin Frawley
A Chinese Christmas
MOST of the restaurants in Dublin's rapidly developing 'Chinatown' will be open on Christmas Day to cater for the thousands of Chinese students who have come ...
December 25, 2005
If I could be anyone for a day it would be. . .
Podge: Saddam Hussein.
Although not now he's banged up, the poor fella.
Maybe Osama then.
Rodge: Grainne Seoige ...
December 25, 2005
Nick Townsend
HOME-MOVING can be a stressful business. Only slightly less so than divorce, they say. As Arsenal sell off, prepare to pack up the silverware and load the removal vans for ...
December 25, 2005
Shane Coleman, Political Correspondent
GOVERNMENT departments are failing to live up to their own 'reduce, reuse, recycle' message and are dumping their own recycling material in landfill sites, Green Party leader Trevor Sargent has ...