Like mother used to makeI've eaten truffle risotto in the Byerley Turk restaurant at the K Club, in Co Kildare, and if I could I would have bottled the…Sat Jul 02 2005 - 01:00
Bringing it all back homeOver afternoon coffee in a Dublin pub - some of us don't need cafe bar licences to act all European - a friend suggested that…Sat Jun 25 2005 - 01:00
Hot shotThe country will be abuzz next weekend, with the European Open, at the K Club, followed by the biggest private party of all, …Sat Jun 25 2005 - 01:00
Ave MariaI have a cleaner. I know, I know. There are only two adults in the house. And no childrenSat Jun 18 2005 - 01:00
Oireachtas members to hear of 'dangerous' facilitiesMembers of the Cystic Fibrosis Association of Ireland (CFAI) will tell TDs and senators at a meeting today of their frustration…Wed Jun 15 2005 - 01:00
Whatever floats your boatJohn Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men sits on a shelf in Brú's boat, his home, his castleSat Jun 04 2005 - 01:00
Jogging the memoryThe first column I ever wrote for this magazine - in 2002 - was given the deeply appropriate headline Running to StandstillSat May 07 2005 - 01:00
The fat lady sang twice - but there was no way she'd be rushedSouth Down: Arriving at the Dromore Leisure Centre in Co Down at lunchtime yesterday, SDLP hopeful Eddie McGrady was surprisingly…Sat May 07 2005 - 01:00
I'm an open bookA severe storage crisis meant that for almost a year my book collection was banished to the floor of the spare roomSat Apr 02 2005 - 01:00
Maid in the kitchen, nurse in the bedroomHe is sick, and in the grips of a snuffling, rasping, hacking cough that should elicit sympathy, but merely manages to irritate…Sat Mar 26 2005 - 00:00
7 things to do this weekTODAY: You haven't lived if you haven't got lost barefoot in a giant inflatable maze, so get down to Dublin's docklands before…Sat Mar 19 2005 - 00:00
Sex, drugs, rock'n'roll? Darn tootin'Popular Fiction: It's the late 1970s and 21-year-old Maggie Lennon has arrived in Florida with her two equally green - in the…Sat Mar 12 2005 - 00:00
Desperate behaviourDesperate Housewives, or Despera' Oul Ones as we on the northside of Dublin like to call the latest US TV phenomenon, has an …Sat Mar 12 2005 - 00:00
The unbearable snag lists of lifeMessy jewellery box. Squeaking floorboards. Dents in plaster. Broken handbagSat Feb 12 2005 - 00:00
Maybe babyPopular Fiction: At 33 Emma Hamilton's biological clock was ticking so loudly that she immediately made a New Year's resolution…Sat Sept 04 2004 - 01:00
Look back in languorA teenager writes to say that she is just a teenager and, like most teenagers, hates big newspapersSat Sept 04 2004 - 01:00
Winning words and a smile to bootWhen Bill Clinton called into Eason's bookshop on O'Connell StreetThu Aug 26 2004 - 01:00
