Bringing light to relieve MS darknessThe car got clamped, the killer heels were sold out, the stupid bag handles are slicing your palms to ribbons and if You Raise…Sat Dec 17 2005 - 00:00
Judge tells of 'most socially divisive' caseMayo farmer Pádraig Nally was yesterday sentenced to six years in prison for the manslaughter of Traveller John Ward after what…Sat Nov 12 2005 - 00:00
Trying to pick up the piecesFr John Sinnott shrugs wryly and repeats: "There were rumours. Only rumoursSat Oct 29 2005 - 01:00
Mourners remember 'lovely young man'The 200-year-old, little Church of the Assumption in Paulstown was full 30 minutes before James Healy's funeral Mass was due …Wed Sept 07 2005 - 01:00
Tragic death in a faraway country spurs a David and Goliath battle at homeUK: Kathy Sheridan , in East Kilbride, Scotland, meets a cleaner who is challenging a Labour defence ministerMon May 02 2005 - 01:00
Iraq spells trouble for Blair in Labour's heartlandsIt's usual for parties trailing in the opinion polls to insist that the offending surveys do not reflect "what we're hearing …Tue Apr 26 2005 - 01:00
Dismayed? Definitely. Disengaged? Definitely notKathy Sheridan discovers a surprising depth of feeling among shoppers and schoolgirls about the choice of PopeSat Apr 23 2005 - 01:00
'How could I bring my children back to a place where they would not be safe?'Nkechi Okolie and her three children were summoned to Castleblayney Garda station and deported to Nigeria without even being …Sat Mar 26 2005 - 00:00
Centre with the mostest opens to acclaimInto every life a little rain must fallFri Mar 04 2005 - 00:00
Youth theme brings cagey optimism to the FG campCampaign Trail: For a new lad to national politics and to the northernmost part of North Kildare, Darren "I'm a young father…Thu Mar 03 2005 - 00:00
Driving home the party's messageCampaign trail: There may well be tougher ways to win votesWed Mar 02 2005 - 00:00
Life goes on for resilient Sri LankansSRI LANKA: The "Queen of the Sea" is back on trackMon Jan 10 2005 - 00:00
Chewing over benefits of family mealtimeDining research: Who'd have guessed? Sitting down to family meals can be good for an adolescentTue Aug 03 2004 - 01:00
All's fair in war between FF's hopefuls in SouthCampaign trail: The veteran Fianna Fáiler gazes wonder-struck at the swoosh of canvassing genius that is Gerry Collins.Thu Jun 03 2004 - 01:00
Friends told court Laide was shaken after fightThe evidence concerning Dermot Laide: Dermot Laide was more than a year out of Blackrock College on August 30th, 2000Thu Feb 26 2004 - 00:00
A liberal bridge too farA neighbour in our rural area recently needed a doctor in the early hoursThu Feb 12 2004 - 00:00
Christmas, minus the humbugIf you have an opinion, spit it out. No columnist could say otherwiseThu Dec 18 2003 - 00:00
Criticism of TDs' pay legitimateNo more than most, I'm happy enough to read Drapier on a Saturday without knowing the bylineThu Nov 27 2003 - 00:00
Lissadell contents fetch €2m by day's endAs the fourth helicopter landed on the lawn outside, Lady Gore-Booth could barely contain herselfWed Nov 26 2003 - 00:00
The ritual stepping in and stepping out continuesDay four in Cloverhill courthouse and, as is now the ritual, it began with legal argumentWed Nov 12 2003 - 00:00
Special protection for the main witness leads to objectionsThe jury of seven men and five women at Cloverhill courthouse since Wednesday have all the appearances of an alert, hard- working…Sat Nov 08 2003 - 00:00
A cruel twist of fate for BlairIt's hard to know which is the more compelling: the contrasting photographs of a 50-year-old Tony Blair, showing the vital, bright…Thu Oct 23 2003 - 01:00
Concorde prepares for its final landingThe Charles Heidsieck is flowing, the tabletops are laid with white Royal Doulton china on crisp linen cloths and the poached…Wed Oct 22 2003 - 01:00
Horsing around among the Luas trenchesThe Minister for Transport was given a choice of dates but still chose to decline the invitationThu Sept 25 2003 - 01:00
Two senior barristers are proud new owners of LissadellThe buyers of Lissadell, the former home of Countess Constance Markievicz, have emerged as two senior counsel, Mr Edward Walsh…Fri Sept 05 2003 - 01:00
Who will you be watching?After months of speculation, Pat Kenny and Eamon Dunphy are ready to compete for viewersSat Aug 30 2003 - 01:00
Progress? What progress?High childcare costs are deterring many women from returning to workSat Jul 12 2003 - 01:00
Now lads, you're not playing fairSix out of seven women would rather be at home than at work, a British survey "revealed" last week. RemarkableThu Jul 10 2003 - 01:00
Mystery aircraft and mystery meetings spark wild surmisesDail Sketch: Enda Kenny is rightThu Jul 03 2003 - 01:00
Still turning their backsPortmarnock Golf Club, host of next month's Irish Open, has no women members. What is it scared of, asks Kathy SheridanSat Jun 14 2003 - 01:00
A choice? Some choice ... Kathy SheridanNot a minute went by while researching our commuter series when my thoughts didn't fly to Dublin City Council's director of traffic…Thu May 15 2003 - 01:00
Directors' pay gulf is a bit rich'The thing is," the Dundalk farmer said affably, "farmers are producers. Unlike yourself nowThu May 08 2003 - 01:00
Ignorance last empire to fallDoctors are saints, lawyers are smart, teachers are martyrs, journalists are scum. We have no illusions.Thu Apr 10 2003 - 01:00
To objectify women is to initiate abuseIt was a simple trade. He wanted sex with a small girl - aged between seven and 10 - and he was willing to pay £100 for itFri Jan 24 2003 - 00:00
The shameful hounding of Ivan PayneIn terms of child abuse, convicted priests may be the least of ourworries, writes Kathy SheridanThu Nov 21 2002 - 00:00
Fame exacts a price: the loss of privacyLast Sunday, one newspaper heaved with bilious "revelations" from women - one Irish, one English - about their ex-menfolkThu Nov 07 2002 - 00:00
Drinking together, thinking togetherThe working lives of politicians, from funerals to fund-raisers, areintimately linked with alcoholTue Sept 24 2002 - 01:00
Just what are the TDs for exactly?As an Independent TD in the 1960s and 1970s, my father briefly held the casting vote in the DβilMon Dec 31 2001 - 00:00
We're sorry William, but hair mattersOnly a heartless hound could fail to feel a stab of pity for William HagueWed Jun 06 2001 - 01:00
Decline of Internet a giant step for mankindA friend stuck on the notion of old-fashioned family bonding over a board game always includes one in the Christmas bootyFri Jan 05 2001 - 00:00
How Gore and Clinton have handed over to BushI'll miss Bill Clinton. The more I see of the candidates for his job, the more I know I'm going to miss himMon Nov 06 2000 - 00:00
Good moaning, listenersThere are plenty of laugh-out-loud yarns in Terry Wogan's 267-page autobiography but nothing is more splutteringly hilarious …Sat Sept 09 2000 - 01:00
Paying the price for a `good life'What is it about this rail dispute? Now well into its sixth week, it's so low-key as to be little more than a background drone…Fri Jul 28 2000 - 01:00
Changing directionWomen's groups? So-o 1990s. Wheel out the battered husbands, sobbing sports stars, celebrity dads. Newer, better, sexierSat Jun 10 2000 - 01:00
Is smugness going to do for us in the end?Riverdance tap-tapped on to Broadway a few weeks ago and broke box office records for the strip's largest theatreThu Mar 30 2000 - 01:00
Ordinary people have reason to be queasy over developersA casual question thrown out to a few people this week: what public issue was uppermost in their minds? No, it was not tax individualisation…Thu Mar 09 2000 - 00:00
Czechs give President a warm welcomeThe day began with the sight of the Tricolour flying above a majestic, sunlit Prague Castle and the Irish national anthem echoing…Wed Oct 20 1999 - 01:00
President McAleese arrives in Prague at start of four-day State visit to the Czech RepublicThe President, Mrs McAleese, arrived in Prague yesterday afternoon for a four-day state visit, the first for an Irish president…Tue Oct 19 1999 - 01:00
Orangemen go very politely to the barricadesThe tone of the day was firmly set at around 11.10 a.mTue Jul 13 1999 - 01:00
Orangemen in Belfast keep their promise and the peaceAll quiet in Shaftesbury Square, said the RUC officer happily as night descended on the hub of Belfast cityTue Jul 13 1999 - 01:00
