AS closure came for some of those waiting on the quays for five long days, the anguish went on for others.

A new family is set to make its first appearance on ‘Fair City’ in the coming week.

LITTLE DORRIT director Dearbhla Walsh was very glad that her parents got cable when she picked up her Emmy for her direction of the drama series.

There’s a veritable tsunami of criticism of the standard of umpiring during both senior hurling quarter finals at Semple Stadium at the weekend. The fans’ wrath is palpable and – to be honest – understandable

I am 36 years old, 37 this December, and I am a mother-of-three, two boys aged six and nine and a girl aged two. I am in full-time employment but am on the last of my parental leave of one day a week which will cease in February 2006.

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