No one quite does Christmas like New York, with a wonderful festive feel and some cracking bargains to boot, writes Vickie Maye. 

Since quitting her full-time job, Andrea Mara realised her kids have been living cossetted lives. And so she set about being a ‘free range parent’, trying to build kids that will be ‘can-do’ adults.

The Irish Times and The Times are two completely different newspapers and no-one’s going to confuse them - or, at least, a court ruled this week that the Dublin newspaper was not entitled to an injunction against the new entrant.

The London Times has alleged before the Commercial Court it is legally entitled to use the words “Times” and “Irish Edition” in promoting a new digital Irish edition of the UK newspaper.

Chances are that, like the vast majority of those who delve into the sports page for a daily dose of sustenance, your annual digression into the world of horse racing has come and gone in the past week.

Rose Martin looks at a new book illustrating architecture in high places.

Marlay Park, Dublin

A reporter for the London Times has been shot and a photographer badly beaten after they were double-crossed and kidnapped by rebel fighters in Syria, the paper reported tonight.

Six years, six wins, all in the same race.

It was ludicrous how Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair’s spin doctor, was feted by the media and others when he arrived here to launch his new book, The Irish Diaries.

Most women if given the choice would actually stop working when they have young children, according to straight-talking Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary.

It takes a team of 20 professionals and up to three hours of work to make a supermodel look good enough for a photo shoot, a film aimed at teenage girls has revealed.

The Government has rejected claims in a British newspaper that Ireland received a “back door bailout” from the UK to cover losses in Ulster Bank.

So what was life really like inside the ‘Downton Abbeys’ of Ireland?

IF Michael Collins hoped the Northern Offensive would concentrate the political focus on Northern Ireland, he must have been sorely disappointed, because the orgy of murder was not confined to the North.

Nuisance. Pest. Pain in the arse.

THE Irish Mail on Sunday asked shopkeepers to display a Sunday Tribune lookalike edition on empty spaces previously reserved for the defunct newspaper, a court has heard.

The Irish Mail on Sunday asked shopkeepers to display a Sunday Tribune look-alike edition on empty spaces previously reserved for the defunct newspaper, a court has heard.

THE ashes of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Frank McCourt will be scattered today at a very special location in his adolescent life in the Limerick countryside.

YOU might be forgiven for thinking that this is a book about natural history, particularly because each chapter has the title of a different animal or bird with the common English name followed by the zoological Latin one.

RESPECTED rugby pundit, Stuart Barnes, expects the Lions Test team to be based around the Munster model, describing the European Cup holders as a team of winners.

Damien Enright recalls a strange affair between volunteer and pelican.

THE recent kidnappings of the three Israeli soldiers and the horrific repercussions have a haunting parallel with events in Tralee in 1920.

A foreign national whose identity remains uncertain has been jailed for two years for burglary at a top Dublin hotel and use of a stolen credit card to buy luxury items at city centre jewellers.

READING the British newspapers this week gives one a real sense of déjà vu.

AFTER Abraham Lincoln died in 1865 a joint resolution of the US Congress praised his "qualities of courage, will and indomitable persistence of purpose, which never flagged or faltered ...

SOHAM killer Ian Huntley was officially "eliminated" as a suspect in the murder hunt just six days into the police investigation, a secret report revealed yesterday.

Electronics retailer Maplin could be sold after it emerged today that talks were taking place over a deal thought to be worth £240m (€356.4m).

MICK McCarthy last night insisted he is not about to quit as manager of Ireland.

PINTS of butter beer all round, Harry Potter number five is finally on the way.

US President George W Bush has urged the IRA to honour its commitments to decommission its weapons.