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Monday, February 13, 2012

Columnists

 

Today's columnist:

Terry Prone

Valentine, not just the patron saint of romance, but also of epilepsy

Although the epileptic may get warnings of an oncoming electrical brainstorm, others don’t get such advance notice, and so, as far as the bystander is concerned, the seizure comes out of nowhere, transforming the person they know into someone they very definitely don’t know.

Slovenia seduces with autumn bliss

IT IS hard to imagine how anyone with a little foresight could ever starve in Slovenia, in south-central Europe, where I spent the last week.

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President wanted: those without sin and ladies not for burning only

IMAGINE it’s 14 years into the future. Imagine that you run a major charity. Or you’re a successful MEP. Or you’re a TV star. Or a senator. You’ve done well, you’re popular, you’re happy.

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He’s been convicted by public opinion, but Strauss-Khan deserves a fair trial

AS ONE of my Facebook friends aptly put it, now that Queen Elizabeth and President Barack Obama have left our shores we’re back to the French and the Germans dropping in to tell us how to run the economy.

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Nama and bankers take their place as new cuckoos in the nest

During the Noughties Government buildings entertained interlopers.

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Change was promised. It hasn’t arrived

HOPE springs eternal.

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John McCarthy’s love of life should be an inspiration to us all

YEARS ago one of my best friends told me that “all people are mad, it’s just a question of degree”. It has stuck with me ever since. What is “normal”? What is “mad”? Is one better or worse? Who decides?

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EU forces O’Leary to eat humble pie and saves our tourism season

IF Michael O’Leary of Ryanair could make money selling toilet paper on his planes, he would do it, and he has been quite candid about it.

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Democrats won’t give Europe an easy ride in Doha negotiations

ANY thoughts that having the Democrats in control in the US would favour Europe in the Doha WTO negotiations have been quickly shattered.

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Winters deadly for lively long-tailed tits

THIS winter a small flock of long-tailed tits has become a regular visitor to my bird feeding station.

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Wetlands solution to waste problem

OPPOSITION politicians are having a field day with the septic tank issue in rural Ireland, gladly joining protesters who are packing village halls in their hundreds to rail against the €50 fee for tank inspections.

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A whooper of a love story

WHOOPER swans Romeo and Julietta are in the news.

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Weekend food with Darina Allen

WHAT is it about barbecues that brings out latent culinary skills in even the most kitchen-shy lads; perhaps it is the primeval thrill of playing with fire that generates a rush of excitement.

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