Russian 'mug money'
Alexandre Gaydamak is another Russian millionaire buying into British soccer. The source of these men's money and their murky past seem of no interest to the FA. By Max McGuiness
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ART / BILLY LEAHY
One of the key figures in conceptual art, Clodagh Emoe's new exhibition at the Temple Bar Gallery gives a heavy nod to the work of other artists while still remaining personal and original. By Billy Leahy
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King's cell buy date
Word from his publishers is that Douglas Coupland's new book is called iPod A Novel. We know nothing more, but salute Coupland's dedication to the zeitgeist.
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The right to ridicule
Media outlets in the West that did not publish the Danish cartoons were right not to, but that doesn't mean freedom of speech should have limits, writes Ronald Dworkin
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'Shall we dance?'
These are the moments I like the most. It has snowed in New York. Two feet of it over the course of the night. A path has been cleared on 82nd Street between Lexington and Third. The path is just wide enough for two able-bodied people to squeeze through. It's a canyon really, a small canyon along the footpath, snow piled high on either side. On the street – a quiet street at the best of times, if anything can be quiet in New York – the cars are buried under snow. The telegraph wires sag. The underside of the tree branches appear like brushstrokes on the air. Nothing moves. Silence in the city. The brownstones look small against so much white. In the distance sounds a siren, but that is all, making the silence more complete.
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Mistress of Kerala
Darina Allen has just returned from South West India, where she discovered Bibi Baskin running a beachside guesthouse in Kerala, and lots of superb food
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No reasons to believe Lourdes hospital horrors not going on elsewhere
There are a few startling observations in Maureen Harding Clarke's superb report on her inquiry in peripartum hysterectomy at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda. On page 23 of her report she quotes a sister of the Medical Missionaries of Mary (“Sr B”) as saying: “Let me say that I was aware that hysterectomies were done in Ireland more often than was necessary because sterilisation was ethically not acceptable”.
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An intervew with JP Donleavy
Fifty years after its publication The Ginger Man is being made into a film. Brian Lavery talks to reclusive author JP Donleavy as he approaches 80, anything but gingerly
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