Speaking up for the right to wear pyjamasGloomy news is driving some of us to take early refuge under the duvet – meanwhile the debate about wearing pyjamas before bedtime…Mon May 10 2010 - 01:00
Joy of British innocent will fill us with regretMay the British never know what it’s like to see their country ruined and left in the economic ditch of EuropeMon Apr 26 2010 - 01:00
Grounded, with a sense of calm amid chaosThis is a Europe-wide crisis for which there is no reason for airlines, politicians, or anyone else to be blamedMon Apr 19 2010 - 01:00
Planting seeds of doubt about gardeningIT IS a terrible thing when you lose faith in gardeningMon Mar 29 2010 - 01:00
Planting seeds of doubt about gardeningIT IS a terrible thing when you lose faith in gardeningWed Mar 24 2010 - 00:00
Hard times are no blessing for patron saintSt Patrick’s crozier is in hock. It is an ignominious position for a saint who has worked so hard for his countryMon Mar 15 2010 - 00:00
Sport now kicking and screaming at soap opera pitchMatches are being associated with prowess less suited to the field and more to glamour magazinesMon Mar 01 2010 - 00:00
Magic on the iceTV REVIEW: Winter Olympics BBC2, all week, Roy RTÉ 2, Monday, Fiorscéal TG4, Thursday, On Expenses BBC Four, TuesdaySat Feb 27 2010 - 00:00
Apologies are delayed so often that they are tarnishedSurely it is Irish Catholicism that made us both so fixated on the apology and so reluctant to apologise, writes ANN MARIE HOURIHANE…Mon Feb 22 2010 - 00:00
McGarrigles are bound up with our youthThe album ‘Kate Anna McGarrigle’ conjures up 1970s Dublin just as surely as the tang of roll-ups or the pulse of a SuperSer…Mon Jan 25 2010 - 00:00
McGarrigles are bound up with our youthThe album ‘Kate Anna McGarrigle’ conjures up 1970s Dublin just as surely as the tang of roll-ups or the pulse of a SuperSer…Mon Jan 25 2010 - 00:00
Not half complicated enough for this demographicIn good times for cinema, it seems only films aimed at the middle-aged are shoddy and patronisingMon Jan 18 2010 - 00:00
Not half complicated enough for this demographicIn good times for cinema, it seems only films aimed at the middle-aged are shoddy and patronisingMon Jan 18 2010 - 00:00
From urban war zone to Brazilian soap operaThere is an untold glee in finding out about the private life of an outwardly puritan coupleMon Jan 11 2010 - 00:00
From urban war zone to Brazilian soap operaThere is an untold glee in finding out about the private life of an outwardly puritan coupleMon Jan 11 2010 - 00:00
No fun for Mrs Woods, but plenty for the rest of usWith the flooding, national bankruptcy and clerical child abuse, it took a philandering golfer to get us smilingMon Dec 07 2009 - 00:00
Posh Telly on the marchTV REVIEW: Into the Storm BBC2, Monday, Beyond the Berlin Wall RTÉ1, Tuesday, The Clinic RTÉ1, Sunday, The Schoolboy Who Sailed…Sat Nov 07 2009 - 00:00
Women rarely seen dead in obituariesReading obituaries is a strangely comforting experience if you have two X chromosomes about your personMon Oct 19 2009 - 01:00
An opera, TV show or Almodóvar set-piece?LAST WEEK it was announced that the television phenomenon known as Big Brother is to be axed, on the grounds that it has outlived…Mon Aug 31 2009 - 01:00
Putin's posings a classic example of political pornIt is fascinating to see the male form become an ideological weapon once again, all over the worldMon Aug 10 2009 - 01:00
Not surprising many refuse to be lured on to busesWe’ve always had a peasant hatred of being part of any crowd that we can’t get away from – in our own carMon Jul 27 2009 - 01:00
Staying in on the stay-at-home holidayWe have systematically destroyed rural life but the country is full of plush holiday homes – no wonder it all seems so quiet …Mon Jul 20 2009 - 01:00
McAleese the only one who hasn't totally lost itTHE QUEEN of England recently spent £14,000 on a train journey from London to LiverpoolMon Jul 06 2009 - 01:00
Parents don't understand sexual display is rehearsalFor all their obvious sexualisation, young girls today may be no greater threat than any previous generationMon Jun 22 2009 - 01:00
Time for charm offensive from FF message maestrosOPINION : The problem with Fianna Fáil is not poor communications skills. They simply cannot plead ineptitude or shynessMon Jun 15 2009 - 01:00
The poor - how terrified we were of themLast week the middle-aged were forced to recall the Ireland of their youth, where respectability was the only idealMon May 25 2009 - 01:00
Victim's family tell of abusive marriageTHE FAMILY of a Dublin woman murdered by her husband at their home in Castleknock two years ago has spoken of how the couple …Sat May 02 2009 - 01:00
Sharing a dream with an unlikely singing starOPINION : The real genius of this story lies with the producers of ‘Britain’s Got Talent’Mon Apr 20 2009 - 01:00
Vampires seen from the victims' perspectiveOpinion: ‘Twilight’ is about the problems good girls face as they move towards independenceMon Apr 13 2009 - 01:00
Rugby is terrifying but it is all we haveAll the attention at the weekend was not on the FF Ardfheis but on a victory in the violent sport of rugbyMon Mar 02 2009 - 00:00
Our hopeful link to chic New York landmarkOPINION: Nationalised Anglo Irish Bank loaned $385 million to the owners of the Apthorp building in Manhattan, ANN MARIE HOURIHANE…Mon Feb 09 2009 - 00:00
'Late Late Show' slot with Paisleys an orgy of cosinessIan Paisley rewrote history at a wholesale rate on Friday night and interviewer Pat Kenny let him away with itMon Feb 02 2009 - 00:00
She moves through the gloomTHERE’S A water-cooled concrete-cutter, some welding gear, two small generators, several saws, some key-cutting equipment and…Sat Jan 31 2009 - 00:00
Patriotism is embarrassing fig leaf for Irish leadersThe everyday reality of Irish people's lives belies the simplicity of politicians' call on them to show patriotismMon Dec 01 2008 - 00:00
McCains sound an Irish note on house ownershipIn Ireland a lot of people have lost track of how many houses they own – or now wish they couldMon Aug 25 2008 - 01:00
Back on the treadmill of not minding that hamsterThere is something gnawing away at the heart of summer - it's the pressure to mind other people's pets.Mon Jul 21 2008 - 01:00
A health board by any other name . . .They've been away for a while but now they're coming back "in a calm and measured way over the coming 18 months", writes Ann …Mon Jul 07 2008 - 01:00
Private grief, public recordPatrick Kelly was the first Irish soldier to be killed in the Republic since the Civil WarSat Jul 05 2008 - 01:00
Electors take opportunity to make show of politiciansVoters used the poll to exact revenge on the politicians they felt had neglected them, writes Ann Marie Hourihane.Mon Jun 16 2008 - 01:00
Mould is starting to grow on our celebrity cultureToo much information has destroyed the mystique which once made the famous such compulsive viewing.Mon Apr 21 2008 - 01:00
The erotic reward of sweeping it all under the carpetThere is a dirty rumour doing the rounds: housework may well earn men certain favours, writes Ann Marie Hourihane.Mon Mar 10 2008 - 00:00
In praise of rubbish televisionOf course, the real problem is that there isn't enough rubbish on television. I mean real rubbishThu Feb 21 2008 - 00:00
Charity as an orgy of selfishnessIt is time to dust off - yet again - that old quote from Alexei Sayle: that everything would have been okay if Hitler had invaded…Thu Feb 14 2008 - 00:00
Real worry may be the wine trendsSometimes one cannot help feeling that we are worrying about the wrong things, and there's a lot of worrying going on at the …Thu Jan 24 2008 - 00:00
Fashion's sacrificial muttonIt takes a strange type of person to look at the reporting from Pakistan, as that country stumbles into further bloodshed and…Thu Nov 15 2007 - 00:00
Letting the emotion hang outIt was sensible of the pharmacists not to withhold prescribed medication from the thousands of their customers who are taking…Thu Oct 18 2007 - 01:00
Too little anger for Bertie yarnIt would be very nice if one of our Taoiseach's former admirers, now dripping disillusionment, wrote a novel about himThu Oct 04 2007 - 01:00
The girls can't help it - and we can't help watchingDoubleTake: Self-destructive women have always been with us, from Billie Holiday to Janis Joplin - these days, though, we get…Sat Sept 01 2007 - 01:00
Been there, done that, worn the mini-skirt . . .Double Take: In the first of a weekly column, memories of being a 20th-century lovely girl are sparked by the row over politicians…Sat Apr 21 2007 - 01:00
