Nuala and Nell have been part of the nation's life, through the women's movement that liberated Ireland, and through the stories of their own lives that are part of our fabric

By Susan McKay 

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It is an interview that will be replayed and remembered. Extraordinary. Haunting. Shot through with fragments of desolate beauty which have the resonance of poetry. Hard to listen to without tears. Hard to listen to without cringing, occasionally. Hard to imagine the impulse of a dying woman to confide her most private thoughts, not in those she loves and who love her, but across the airwaves, in the nation.

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Forbes Magazine names 6 Irish citizens in its Top 400 wealthiest people in the world. By Tom Rowe
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The enormous disparity in age and economic wealth are fundamental issues in Ó'Searchaigh's relations with Nepalese boys.

By Mary Raftery 

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He is Ireland's best talk broadcaster by far. Fluent, intelligent, informed, focused, relaxed, his radio programme is a model of professional broadcasting.  All the more so since he curbed a tendency to over-talk, to show-off his erudition and to answer his own questions.
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He was one of the few players at the Rugby World Cup to have had a full time occupation outside rugby (“Jannie” du Plessis a prop-forward for South Africa, is a qualified and practicing physician). And yet Felipe Conteponi was one of the most accomplished players in the tournament, by far the most accomplished of the rugby players who play their rugby in Ireland.


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It was the year of the metamorphis in Northern Ireland. On 8 May Ian Paisley of loyalist extremism and Martin McGuinness of republican paramilitarism took office together as First Minister and Deputy First Minister in the new power-sharing executive in Northern Ireland. t was the year that Bertie Ahern triumphed at the polls for a third successive time, while his own political destiny was challenged by the Planning Tribunal.....

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Tony Clare was one of the best debaters to come from UCD. Ever. Effortlessly fluent, witty, persuasive, commanding. He and his close friend of the 1960's, the late Patrick Cosgrave (who later served as an adviser to Margaret Thatcher) dominated university debating here and in the UK during their era. Tony Clare seemed destined for politics early on because of his rhetorical skills and the joy he took in performance. But he was serious about medicine and then about his chosen specialty, psychiatry. He was a brilliant director of Swift's St Patrick's hospital, much as a predecessor, Norman Moore had been.

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The recovery of the Munster and Leinster players, who played so poorly in the Rugby World Cup, notably Ronan O'Gara, has been so striking that the fingers pointing at Eddie O'Sullivan have got even longer and more insistent. If Declan Kidney (Munster) and Michael Cheika (Leinster) can get so much more from the players that Eddie O'Sullivan failed with so spectacularly, doesn't that say something? And among the thing it says is that Declan Kidney should be preferred as the national coach. And soon.
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