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Columnists
Today's columnist:
Ruby Walsh
Stiff task for Halo on his return
I suppose you could best describe my weekend as the storm before the calm!
Bring out the red and yellow cards, and keep Lisbon debate free of porkies
IT WAS one of those panels studded with the famous, lucid and loquacious.
‘Operation Jedward’ a perfect plot to make us forget the doom and gloom
HE wasn’t in good humour.
Ignore the swine flu scaremongers and just get on with your life
THERE’S a sort of poetic justice to it: having written back in April about the danger to mental health arising from swine flu hysteria, I have now come down with the bug myself. Perhaps 100,000 people in the State have likewise been struck.
Lack of accountability is the real scandal in Anglo Irish fiasco
POLITICAL and other spin doctors know how to manage a crisis. The critical factor is to hang on. They believe virtually all news media cycles are “nine-day wonders”.
Is the plan for a super-casino a good idea? Don’t bet on it
ONE THOUSAND construction jobs for north Tipperary for three years, followed by 2,000 more jobs in the finished development sounds like a good deal that no government could object to, especially when no government financial assistance is being sought.
Tubridy gets his chance to match the man who changed Ireland
RYAN Tubridy’s selection as next host of the Late Late Show did not come as a great surprise. He was always on the shortlist.
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.
Flutter of wings on the Grand Canal
I WAS travelling in my boat on the Grand Canal recently, enjoying the wonderful autumn colours of the trees and shrubs growing along the bank.
Tracing the roots of Irish folklore
DURING the summer, the discovery of what some people believed was a sacred tree, in a church grounds in Rathkeale, Co Limerick, led to sensational headlines that set off a religious frenzy.
Food for thought in one volume
IN 1773, James Boswell declared that ‘man is the cooking animal’; no other creature, he observed, treats food the way we do.
Support your local restaurant
AWARDS are two a penny these times, so much so that they often come and go with minimum publicity.
Bahrain storms home in Hurdle
A massive gamble on Deutschland, in the Arthur Guinness Galway Hurdle at Ballybrit yesterday, went astray when he proved no match for the Pat Flynn-trained 20-1 shot Bahrain Storm.
Better promotion clearly the key to increasing popularity of hurdle racing
This year’s Vetsearch Irish Grand National has provided a marvellous fillip for hurdle racing in this country and has proved yet again that hurdling could become popular here if given the proper promotion by the authorities.
Talking bull on a Power trip
WHAT do you ask the man who has won everything? Phil Taylor, a middle-aged darts player from the middle of England might not look it — and he doesn’t — but after 13 world titles, he walks with sporting giants.
