Person: Pied Piper

A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

home and gardens

Back to the future for Dublin's Dylan Hotel

IT’S soaring in popularity as an urban pastime and crane-counting was very firmly on the agenda when I took up a challenge to find out just how much I could pack into a 24-hour architectural and interiors fact-finding mission in Dublin.

general

What to watch this week

rugby

Irish pair’s Champions’ Cup progress will keep turnstiles clicking

gaa

Davy Fitzgerald's presence not adding to pressure on Wexford players, claims Lee Chin

rugby

Peter Jackson: Clermont continue long quest for European coronation

Dan Carter kicks a conversion 12/12/2015

rugby

Peter Jackson: Now all Racing 92 need is fans

Living on an island

Teenagers from Cape Clear, Sherkin and other offshore locations tell Rita de Brun about the stormy crossings, the strong sense of community and the difficulty of finding dates

Thu, 14 Mar, 2013

Who will follow Pied Piper Sexton?

Rob Kearney has revealed Jonathan Sexton was “upset” that a deal could not be done with the IRFU to keep him at Leinster next season and warned that the out-half’s move to France could pave a path that other Irish internationals will follow.

Tue, 29 Jan, 2013

Police: Savile was a ‘sexual predator’ who used fame to prey on vulnerable

Patients in hospital beds; star-struck teenagers in a TV show audience; pupils at a school for troubled girls; a 10-year-old autograph hunter.

Sat, 12 Jan, 2013

Burke feels pressure lift following Royals’ revival

Kildare beaten, convincingly.

Wed, 18 Jul, 2012

Searching for heroes among the dead

Who owns the dead? Who can claim that a deceased person’s spirit lives on in pursuit of changed circumstances?

Sat, 02 Jun, 2012

Children's 'hearts broken' by parents' murder in Birmingham

The son and daughter of a couple murdered at their home begged for help in finding their parents’ killers today, saying the light had been “switched out” in their lives and their hearts were “broken forever”.

Thu, 12 Jan, 2012

Irish pair’s Mission remains possible

WHILE the future of the Mission Hills World Cup was assured behind closed doors, Rory McIlroy continued playing his Pied Piper role as he and Graeme McDowell put Ireland into a share of the lead with two rounds remaining on Hainan Island in China.

Sat, 26 Nov, 2011

A summer certainty: more magic from Micko

YOU just begin to take these things for granted. Mick O’Dwyer, in the championship, winning games.

Mon, 25 May, 2009

How the rat clawed its way to top

RATS, it appears, have returned to Hamelin, 700 years after the Pied Piper banished them.

Mon, 29 Dec, 2008

Penn sets off on protest tour with Coachella revellers

Sean Penn played the Pied Piper of activism at the Coachella Festival on Monday when he set off on a protest trip to New Orleans, Louisiana with buses loaded with event revellers.

Tue, 29 Apr, 2008

Ahern payments - Taoiseach is not a victim of the press

In his RTÉ interview on Tuesday evening, Bertie Ahern raised the Pied Piper analogy of up to 50 journalists pursing him in recent days. This amounted to a subliminal suggestion that those reporters doing their jobs were akin to rats. It was one of a number of aspects of his interview that provoked further questions.

Thu, 28 Sep, 2006

Soccer: Evans aims to make Swindon razor sharp

Former Liverpool boss Roy Evans was today lured out of retirement by Swindon - thanks to Town chairman Danny Donegan’s friendship with Neil Ruddock.

Fri, 03 Aug, 2001

Viewers shocked as Mel B swears on children's TV

Spice Girl Mel B is under fire from family campaigners after reportedly yelling out a swear word on children's TV.

Sun, 20 May, 2001