Even if LGBT people achieved absolute social acceptance in Ireland, the parades that inject Irish cities with a rainbow of colour would still be necessary. Brian O’Flynn explains why

It's been a long time since Jennifer Lopez was merely a dancer in a Janet Jackson video. These days she's a bigger star than her fellow singer, dominating the music and movie worlds with apparent ease.

IN a twist on the old cliché of a bull in a china shop, Eamon Gilmore has been talking bull in a ‘shop’ in China.

POWER is at its most potent when it is implied. Revealed it loses its mystique. What inspires awe at a distance, provokes resentment not understanding in the actual encounter. So it proved in Seanad Éireann. Largely ignored for decades, some senators forgot that the cameras and microphones fixed to the furnishings in the Duke of Leinster’s former ballroom allow others to look in as well as them shout out.

THIS was one of the most exciting Connacht finals that I was ever at.

LISTENING to some of the teachers and the union representatives moaning during the week one could be tempted to suggest that what we need is to bring back corporal punishment and flog those teachers.

All sorts of verbal blunders swim through our sentences like bubbles in champagne.