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Dream team to answer Ireland’s call
20 January 2011
ON 9 September in Auckland, New Zealand, the 2011 rugby World Cup will kick off. And what of Ireland’s prospects?
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Celtic Tiger was a castle on sand
13 January 2011
THE darker the night – the brighter the stars. This is a line from Dostoyevsky’s great novel Crime and Punishment and it’s meant to tell us that even when we are on the precipice of despair there is always hope, always the promise of a better and brighter tomorrow.
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When sports moves off the back pages
06 January 2011
IT rarely happens to even the greatest of sport stars. To what do I refer? An editorial in a national newspaper.
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Taking to the skies with Angelina Jolie
23 December 2010
SOMEWHERE over Vietnam at 37,000 feet I’m ogling Angelina Jolie. Now you can’t blame me for that.
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Secrecy is a shield to hide behind
16 December 2010
I’M packing a bag for Australia and listening to a discussion on the BBC World Service about the reaction to the release by WikiLeaks of thousands of secret US diplomatic cables.
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The day I met the pope in Rome
09 December 2010
THIS week I had a dream, but not just any old dream. This week I dreamed I met the pope and there wasn’t a mention of a condom. Cross my heart.
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Sexy women always call me to heel
02 December 2010
I WAS once told by a friend of mine, a lovely Welsh woman who lived in Sydney, Australia, that I had a shoe fetish. The comment was made after we had watched Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell starring in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
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Church has no authority on sexuality
25 November 2010
NOWHERE has the Catholic Church suffered such a catastrophic loss of authority than in the area of human sexuality.
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The wealthy do not pay their fair share
18 November 2010
IF we had a political establishment in this country genuinely committed to the creation of a fair society, then the restoration of third-level fees would be a foregone conclusion.
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Sorenson was a very gifted wordsmith
11 November 2010
I STILL have the pencil. It was given to me in New York in 1992 by Theodore Sorensen, who died recently at the age of 82.
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