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The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
The Sunday edition of the London-based The Mail newspaper. Articles cover current events, news, business, politics, sports, arts, and entertainment around the UK and the rest of the world.
Articles from April 17, 2011
17.04.11 You.Co.UK Contents
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FASHION AND BEAUTY 8 Fashion forward Hide gets sleek 10 Mimi Spencer says shop till you pop 14 The high street's top flirty Sizzling summer dresses 21 Style notes All white wow - it's the shirt to work 23 Beauty news Easy, breezy sunshine...
300,000 of Us Are in Negative Equity; in Wake of Fire Sale, Economist Warns There's No Sign of the Market 'Bottoming Out'
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Byline: Philip Ryan A STAGGERING one in three homeowners are feared to be in negative equity, a leading economist warned after Friday's fire sale property auction which showed house prices have dropped by as much as 70%. The worrying statistic...
999... and the Health Secretary Beats the Ambulance
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Byline: Stephen Houston WHEN James Kerr took a nasty fall in the street, no less a figure than Scotland's Health Secretary was on hand to help him. As the 79-year-old fell to the ground, hitting his head on the pavement, it was Nicola Sturgeon...
A 17th Century Cottage - Built Nine Years Ago
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Byline: Fred Redwood You could hardly find a better example of a traditional Devon thatched cottage than Nicholeston - the farmhouse belonging to David Bragg. It has everything - greenery around the door, stains on the ancient render, a sturdy symmetry,...
A Barking Idea from a Real Wag
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Byline: David Mellor OperaShots Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House, London *** Rachmaninov: Second Piano Concerto etc Yuja Wang DG ***** Liszt: Annees De Pelerinage Louis Lortie Chandos *** B Minor Sonata etc Marc-Andre Hamelin Hyperion...
A Blue Moon over Wembley; FA CUP SPECIAL Toure Makes Most of United Defensive Blunder to Take City to within Touching Distance of Their First Trophy in 35 Years
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Byline: Patrick Collins AT WEMBLEY Man City 1 Man United 0 AS THE final whistle cut through the bedlam, the long-suffering followers of Manchester City stood and screamed their fullthroated delight. And if most of them could scarcely believe...
A Blue Moon over Wembley; Toure Makes Most of United Defensive Blunder to Take City to within Touching Distance of Their First Trophy in 35 Years
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Byline: Patrick Collins AT WEMBLEY Man City 1 Man United 0 AS THE final whistle cut through the bedlam, the long-suffering followers of Manchester City stood and screamed their full-throated delight. And if most of them could scarcely believe...
A Blue Moon over Wembley; Toure Makes Most of United Defensive Blunder to Take City to within Touching Distance of Their First Trophy in 35 Years
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Byline: Patrick Collins CHIEF SPORTS WRITER AT WEMBLEY Man city 1 Man united 0 As the final whistle cut through the bedlam, the long-suffering followers of Manchester City stood and screamed their full-throated delight. And if most of them...
A Blue Moon over Wembley; Toure's Goal Leaves Elated City Faithful Dreaming of First Trophy for 35 Years
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Byline: Patrick Collins CHIEF SPORTS WRITER AT WEMBLEY THEY stood shoulder to shoulder in ranks of blue; singing and screaming their full-throated delight. And none could deny them their celebrations. For after decades of brave failures and broken...
A Cocktail of Drink and Food Winners
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Byline: Helen Loveless FOOD and drink producers are facing ever tougher times, squeezed on one side by rising costs and on the other by pressure from retailers and restaurants to cut prices. According to credit reference agency Experian's index,...
A Death Cell in Vietnam, Some Disgruntled Ex-Colleagues, a James Bond Style Chateau. and the Endless Ambitions of Paddy McKillen; He Won a Lot of Scraps on His Way to Becoming a Millionaire.But in Fighting Nama, Has Jervis Centre Builder Finally Bitten off More Than He Can Chew?
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Byline: by Niamh Walsh PADDY McKILLEN ought to be a happy man. Running an empire worth billions, he is married to a former Miss Ireland and runs a property business that stretches from Mayfair to Vietnam. He has a vineyard in the south of France...
AIB Hired a Firm of Private Detective to Snoop on Files of Its Own Customers
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Byline: Ken Foy CRIME CORRESPONDENT AIB employed private detectives to snoop on some customers' social security files, the Irish Mail on Sunday can reveal. AIB is one of two banks raided by officials from the Data Protection Commissioner as part...
Aintree National Mustn't Surrender to the Protests of the Race-Wreckers
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Byline: John Martin The inside track on racing THERE IS no compromise in the 'Great Grand National Debate'. You either have the race in its current format - or not at all. This is the stark reality of the situation in the wake of the outcry over...
Airline 'Refused to Help Heart Attack Passenger'
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A BBC radio presenter who suffered a heart attack while flying home from covering the Japanese tsunami may take legal action against the airline after it refused to divert the jet to the nearest hospital. Max Pearson had to endure the 14-hour Singapore...
Ajax Left in Another Jam as Cruyff Issues Demand for Change; World SOCCER
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Byline: Ben Lyttleton soccer around the globe JAN OLDE Riekerink, who took his first coaching job at Ajax in 1995 and has been head of the youth academy since 2007, has seen the struggles which the Dutch side have had to endure since the Bosman...
A Jeeves for Your Lawn; GUEST REVIEW; How to Make the Lawn Go to Automatic (and Save Your Manual Strength for a Shiny New Shovel.)
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Byline: Chris BEARDSHAW A smartly mown lawn is one of the key elements to any attractive garden, and you'd be surprised how much e[bar]ort can go into creating it. But with the help of modern technology, a lot of that e[bar]ort can now be reduced,...
A LIFE LESS ORDINARY; Having Had to Cope with His Own Family Heartache, Mickey Harte's Presence at Ronan Kerr's Funeral Was a Potent Symbol for a Changed Northern Ireland
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Byline: Philip Lanigan WHEN the GAA commemorated its 125th anniversary in 2009, the year's first high profile event featured All-Ireland champions Tyrone and the box office draw of Dublin. Nearly 80,000 packed into Croke Park that cold January night...
Ali G Dizaei; in Wraparound Shades and Street-Cred Puffer Jacket, Jailed Police Chief Back on the Streets
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Byline: Amanda Perthen LOOKING like an older version of spoof character Ali G, the man who was once one of the most powerful police officers in Britain walks incognito around the streets of Bristol. But Ali Dizaei - in wraparound shades and puffer...
Amanda Was Mistaken Joanna Lumley. Her Ears Started to Smoulder; Britain's Got Talent Returned to ITV Last Night - without Its Two Most Colourful Judges. So Does the Show Still Sparkle?
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Byline: by Liz Jones SO HERE we are again: obscene limousines spewing coiffured, pan-sticked millionaires on to the dirty, chewing gum-splattered pavements of Britain in search of the Next Big Thing; the baying audience, like something out of ancient...
Anand Homes in on Hidden Continental Gems
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Byline: ? Stephen Womack ASIA may be the powerhouse of global growth, but some of the rewards of its expanding economies are being enjoyed a little closer to home. Little-known companies dotted across Continental Europe are exploiting their technical...
An Archer in Adrenaline Country. Actor Tim Bentinck Swaps Ambridge for Stunning New Zealand, Land of the White-Knuckle Ride; Suddenly I Was in a Narrow Canyon Doing 52mph - in 4 Inches of Water
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Byline: Tim Bentinck ARCHERS listeners can be forgiven for asking whether I screamed like Nigel Pargetter when I flung myself off the 629ft Auckland Sky Tower in New Zealand last month. As fans of the radio soap will know, my fictional brother-in-law...
An Ugly Aftermath
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Byline: Robert Verkaik THe mother of the barrister who wrote the controversial 'misery memoir' Ugly is in danger of losing her home due to the half-millionpound costs she incurred in her unsuccessful libel challenge to her daughter's bestseller....
A Private Debt Collector Would Never Write Anything as Threatening as This
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Byline: by Tony Hetherington FINANCIAL MAIL READERS' CHAMPION MY FIRST thought was that the tax collector's letter was a fake. Its bizarre mixture of pleading and threats is unlike anything I have seen from Revenue & Customs. And yes, it would...
A Private Debt Collector Would Never Write Anything as Threatening as This
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Byline: byTony Hetherington FINANCIAL MAIL READERS' CHAMPION MY FIRST thought was that the tax collector's letter was a fake. Its bizarre mixture of pleading and threats is unlike anything I have seen from Revenue & Customs. And it would be...
A Quiet Revolution; MOTORING
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Byline: The Picanto is another little beauty from Kia, writes Philip Nolan Quietly and without a lot of fuss, the Hyundai-Kia group has become the world's fourth-largest car-maker, trailing only Toyota, Volkswagen and Ford. It also is one of the...
Aras Candidate Kelly Got [Euro]2k from O'Brien
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Byline: Ken Foxe PUBLIC AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT FINE GAEL MEP and presidential hopeful Sean Kelly received a [euro]2,000 donation from tycoon Denis O'Brien, even while the Moriarty report into Mr O'Brien's allegedly corrupt payments was being finalised....
Astronomical Debt Keeps Skyrocketing. A WICKEDLY FUNNY TAKE ON MODERN IRELAND
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Byline: Anne Gildea I remember watching the last phase of developments sprout up along the lower Liffey in the mid-2000s. Whoosh, up they mushroomed, like, er, mushrooms. Where once were warehouses and the derelict detritus of long-gone shipping...
At Least We Know the Truth Now. and All the Chickens Can Have Their Heads Back; COMMENTARY
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Byline: PHILIP NOLAN YESTERDAY, the breakfast tables of Ireland reverberated to chatter about the subject that has become our greatest taboo - property prices. The fire sale by an English auction firm of 'distressed' properties (a great deal less...
Audi RS 5 Coupe
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Byline: James Martin You know you're getting old when you're celebrating the 30th anniversaries of things you thought only just happened. It seems like yesterday I was watching the World Rally Championship's Michele Mouton thrashing the competition...
Avoid These Twisted Sisters; ALSO PLAYING
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Byline: by Georgina Brown One of the cruellest cuts in funding to theatre companies is the axing of the entire grant to Shared Experience, which has pioneered a style of storytelling that combines physicality and text to bring some literary classics...
Ayr Muzzle Melrose to Claim Scottish Cup
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Byline: ByDavid Barnes MELROSE 21 AYR 25 AYR saw off a spirited fightback by Melrose to retain the Scottish Cup at Murrayfield yesterday and head coach Kenny Murray said afterwards that being written off by everyone outside the club was the...
Balance, the Secret of a Good Holiday; A Little Tired of Twee Cottages? Joanna Tweedy Discovers a Daring Alternative Tucked Away in the Suffolk Countryside
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SHORTLY after we had tucked into poached eggs and Suffolk sausages, the first car pulled up. 'They're getting out. They're having a proper look,' said my 13-year-old niece Eloise, pressing her nose against the window and eyeballing some curious passers-by....
Ballydoyle's Best Jockey Policy Not an Issue for O'Donoghue
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Byline: Paul McNulty COLM O'Donoghue is one of the quiet men of Irish racing. Despite his high-profile position as one of Aidan O'Brien's jockeys, he's not one to look for the limelight or seek the headlines. Yet, he was widely touted in recent...
Be as Diverse as You like, but Not Christian
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THE smiley slogan of our vast public sector is 'Equality and Diversity'. At first sight, it seems hard to object to such aims. Who would favour inequality and intolerance? But things are not always as they seem, and words do not always mean what...
BEAUTY BULLETIN; What You Need to Know About
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TOASTED SKIN SYNDROME Many of us are parents of children with laptops, and I would venture that a lot of us are probably not too happy with how long they like to spend on them. But did you know about an associated risk called Toasted Skin Syndrome?...
BECKY BACKS BRITAIN; INTERIORS CLARE NOLAN&; Textile Designer Becky Oldfield Reveals Her Passion for Reviving Vintage Treasures - from Union Jacks to Military Prints - in Her Lovingly Restored Family Home
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Byline: Words ALI HEATH THE OWNER With a love of London and a passion for all things patriotic, textile designer Becky Oldfield, who launched her interiors range Lost and Found in 2006, has created a home in Greenwich, Southeast London, that...
Being a Model Is Tough - You're like a Doctor on Call; She's the Darling of the Catwalk and Ireland's Only Supermodel - So Why Have So Few of Us Heard of Kiera Gormley?
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Flicking through a high-fashion magazine can be a disheartening experience: all that structured beauty, those dazzling smiles, the perfect bodies. But every so often, a glossy page presents a model with such potency you stare in wonderment. Ink-black...
Benhaffafs' Struggle Has Only Just Begun
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Byline: Mary Carr WHO can forget the joyous homecoming of the Benhaffaf family to Cork almost a year ago? Those two miracle babies, the extraordinary serenity of their mother, Angie, their father's fierce pride. They lifted the spirits of the country...
Blackpool Are Left Reeling as N'Zogbia Weaves His Magic Spell
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Byline: Bill Thornton BLACKPOOL 1 Campbell (83) WIGAN 3 Rodallega (3), N'Zogbia (45), Eardley (67 og) CHARLES N'ZOGBIA played a big part in a victory that gives Wigan's bid to stay up a massive boost. The question is, will N'Zogbia stay...
Blackpool Are Left Reeling as N'Zogbia Weaves His Magic Spell
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Byline: Eardley (67 og) ByBill Thornton BLACKPOOL 1 Campbell (83) WIGAN 3 Rodallega (3), N'Zogbia (45), Eardley (67 og) CHARLES N'ZOGBIA played a big part in a victory that gives Wigan's bid to stay up a massive boost. The question is,...
Blackpool Are Left Reeling as N'Zogbia Weaves His Magic Spell
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Byline: Bill Thornton BLACKPOOL 1 Campbell (3) WIGAN 3 Rodallega (3), N'Zogbia (45), Eardley (67 og) CHARLES N'ZOGBIA played a big part in a victory that gives Wigan's bid to stay up a massive boost. The question is, will N'Zogbia stay...
Blackpool Rocked by Wigan Peers; ROUND-UP
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CHARLES N'ZOGBIA made one goal and scored another as Wigan moved out of the relegation zone with an impressive 3-1 win away at Blackpool, whose freefall has seen them plummet into the bottom three. The visitors went ahead in only the third minute...
Blue Moon Rises over Wembley at Long Last; Balotelli Wink Sparks Bedlam at the Finish as United Treble Bid Bites Dust
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Byline: Rob Draper MANCHESTER CITY 1 Y Toure (52) MANCHESTER UTD 0 CHIEF FOOTBALL WRITER AT WEMBLEY MANCHESTER CITY'S FA Cup semi-final victory over neighbours United descended into chaos last night, with a series of clashes between both...
'Bob Diamond Is in the Same Pay League as Rooney. Is He Worth It? of Course Not'
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THE Independent Commission on Banking - made up of a panel of financiers and banking experts - outlined proposals for a fairer, safer and more competitive industry. They will now be subject to three months consultation. Even then, changes may take...
Bohs Could Be the Next Club to Go Bust, Says Rossiter
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Byline: Darragh Murphy BOHEMIANS' Mark Rossiter has hit out at the club's hierarchy for failing to deal with its financial problems, warning that their future remains in doubt even though they managed to raise sufficient funds to begin the season....
BOY OH BOY OH BOY! as Victoria Beckham Awaits the Birth of Her Fourth Child - a Longed-For Girl That She Can Dress in Pretty Clothes - Fanny Blake Describes the Unexpected Delights of Having an All-Boy Team
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When I heard the words, 'It's a boy,' I was sure the midwife had made a mistake. It was inconceivable to me that I'd have a boy. I am one of two sisters whose mother is one of two sisters. A month earlier, my sister had just had her first daughter...
Brady Inspires as Cavan Clinch Date with Galway
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CAVAN 1-10 WEXFORD 0-8 BY CIAN MURPHY ALL-IRELAND U-21 FC SEMI-FINAL PARNELL PARK NIALL McDERMOTT'S crucial goal sent Cavan into their first All-Ireland under-21 football final last night. After a nervy opening the sides were level at...
Bridging the Medal Gap
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Byline: Darragh Murphy MARCO TARDELLI is backing Jonathan Walters and his fellow Ireland internationals at the Britannia Stadium to become the first Irish players to win an FA Cup medal since Steve Finnan starred for Liverpool in 2006. Walters...
Calderwood Won't Keep Towell Hanging on Future
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Byline: Gerry McWilliams HIBERNIAN manager Colin Calderwood has revealed he is planning talks with Celtic in a bid to hang on to on-loan youngster Richie Towell beyond the summer. The 19-year-old's temporary switch expires at the end of the season...
Camels on the Run as Circus Boss Returns to Old Tricks
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Byline: Cormac McQuinn and Isobel Conway IT SEEMS that shamed circus boss Alexander Scholl just can't resist a trick, even when it's an old one. He ran into trouble when his Circus Sydney was touring Ireland over the socalled 'Llama Drama', when...
Camels on the Run as Circus Boss Returns to Old Tricks
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Byline: Cormac McQuinn and Isabel Conway IT SeeMS that shamed circus boss Alexander Scholl just can't resist a trick, even when it's an old one. He ran into trouble when his Circus Sydney was touring Ireland over the socalled 'Llama Drama', when...
Cameron Had the Answer: A Bill of Rights; One of Britain's Most Distinguished Liberal Lawyers Condemns the European Convention of Human Rights as 'Euro-Centric, Euro-Prosaic and Euro-Dishonest', and Calls for a Surprising Solution
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Byline: GEOFFREY ROBERTSON QC THE STAGE is set for an almighty clash between Europe and the British Parliament in October. That is the date, set by the European Court of Human Rights, by which the Government must devise a law to allow prisoners...
Cameron Had the Answer: A Bill of Rights; One of Britain's Most Distinguished Liberal Lawyers Condemns the European Convention on Human Rights as 'Euro-Centric, Euro-Prosaic and TMOS_Masthead_ Euro-Dishonest', and Calls for a Surprising Solution
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Byline: GEOFFREY ROBERTSON QC THE stage is set for an almighty clash between Europe and the British Parliament in October. That is the date, set by the European Court of Human Rights, by which the Government must devise a law to allow prisoners...
Care Homes Talk on Standards to Get NHS Patients
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Byline: MARK FOXWELL THE bosses of Britain's four major private healthcare groups are to meet next month to set new standards for looking after NHS patients in an attempt to persuade the Government to use their services more. Dr Peter Calverley,...
Carter the [Pounds Sterling]4m Man; All Black Star to Be World's Best-Paid Player as Racing Metro Offer Three-Year Deal EXCLUSIVE
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Byline: Paul Morgan DAN CARTER, widely acknowledged as the best rugby player in the world, is on the brink of becoming the highest paid as well. All Black Carter, 29, has been offered a near-[pounds sterling]4million, threeyear deal by Jacky Lorenzetti,...
Carter the [Pounds Sterling]4m Man; All Black Star to Be World's Best-Paid Player as Racing Metro Offer Three-Year Deal; EXCLUSIVE
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Byline: Paul Morgan DAN CARTER, widely acknowledged as the best rugby player in the world, is on the brink of becoming the highest paid as well. All Black Carter, 29, has been offered a near-[pounds sterling]4million, threeyear deal by Jacky...
Cash-Conscious New Breed of Hillwalkers Have Fuelled a Boom. in Calls to Mountain Rescuers
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Byline: Nick Bramhill THE recession has driven thousands of people to the hills - literally. But as more and more people discover the hidden gems of Donegal, Mayo and Wicklow, the emergency services are feeling the pinch. Mountain rescue bosses...
Cats' Horr's How; Keeper's Howler Allows Larsson to Start the Rot
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Byline: Chris Moore BIRMINGHAM 2 Larsson (41), Gardner (55) SUNDERLAND 0 STRUGGLING Sunderland were dragged into the relegation dogfight as Birmingham took a significant step towards safeguarding their own top flight future. The Black...
Champions League Carrot Tempted Adam
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Byline: James Melville CELTIC'S new addition Adam Matthews has admitted the attraction of Champions League football was a major factor in his decision to move from Wales to Scotland. The promising 19-year-old Cardiff City full-back has signed...
Charlie Deserves to Be the New King
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Byline: Graeme Croser CRAIG LEVEIN has endorsed Charlie Adam's nomination for the English PFA Player of the Year award and claims the Blackpool midfielder deserves to win the prestigious prize. Adam is among the seven names shortlisted by his fellow...
Charting the Rise and Fall of a Pop Phenomenon; KITCHEN SINK DRAMA
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Byline: Fiona Looney I'm delighted that the BBC are rerunning Top Of The Pops, mainly because I'll probably be dead by the time they get to the stuff that used to baffle me. I never really did that whole Outraged Parent thing at TOTP -- I can still...
Childless British Couples Will Get Eggs from America
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Byline: Jo Macfarlane A FERTILITY clinic has become the first in Britain to import human eggs from America to ease a growing shortage of donors. The deal means that hundreds of women in the UK who are waiting up to 18 months for the chance to...
Childless Couples Will Get Eggs from America
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Byline: Jo Macfarlane A FERTILITY clinic has become the first in Britain to import human eggs from the US to ease a growing shortage of donors. The deal means that hundreds of women in the UK, who are waiting up to 18 months for the chance to...
CHRIS EVANS Here's the Thing
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Byline: CHRIS EVANS As the years pass by, your reserves of time stare back at you with a question that becomes more pertinent every day: 'What are you going to do with me?' Especially at the weekend. Like any commodity, the less of something...
Chris Evans, the Coalition's Latest Secret Weapon
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Byline: James Forsyth FOR Tony Blair's Government, the GMTV sofa was the home of the national conversation. A policy only cut it if it could be explained there. Now, Downing Street's new communications director Craig Oliver has decided who the Cameron...
CIA Spies Who Deal DEATH FROM THE SKIES; since 2004, US Unmanned Drones Are Reported to Have Killed a Staggering 2,283 People in Pakistan. How Many Were Really Terrorists? and Is It Another Spectacular US Own Goal? SPECIAL DISPATCH
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Byline: From David Rose IN ISLAMABAD The assembly, a traditional Pathan jirga (tribal council), was being held in the open, on flat ground close to the Tochi river, on the Pakistani side of the Afghan border in tribal North Waziristan. There were...
C.K.'S Brilliantly Bitter; COMEDY CDS
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Byline: by Mark Wareham An audio compact disc in our multi-media age feels positively retro. But consider: a comedy CD has no extras, no 'making of' interview, no deleted scenes, all of which hardly anyone has the strength to wade through anyway....
Clarke Claims Title Win at Croke Park Could Make Up for Last Year's Disaster
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Byline: Mark Gallagher LOUTH return to Croke Park next Saturday with the smell of silverware in their nostrils. It may only be the Division Three final but if any ghosts linger from last summer's controversial Leinster decider, this will be an opportunity...
Classy Frankel Now Red Hot for Guineas; Racing
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Byline: Jonathan Powell FRANKEL heads to Newmarket as the shortestpriced 2000 Guineas favourite since Celtic Swing (4-5) in 1993 after breezing through a crucial public trial yesterday. Bookmakers were running for cover as he romped clear in...
Classy Frankel Now Red Hot for Guineas; RACING
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Byline: Jonathan Powell FRANKEL heads to Newmarket as the shortestpriced 2000 Guineas favourite since Celtic Swing (4-5) in 1993 after breezing through a crucial public trial yesterday. Bookmakers were running for cover as he romped clear in...
Claw-Hand Didn't Stop Maggie or Me; Broadcaster Sir John Tusa Tells of His Battle with This Debilitating Condition
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Byline: Angela Epstein Few things have challenged Sir John Tusa in the course of his distinguished career. Yet as he strug- gled to fasten his shirt, it seemed the veteran journalist was having difficulty getting dressed. The former Newsnight...
Cockerill Is Furious with Easy Tigers; Record Premiership Draw Highlights Leaders' Defensive Frailties
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Byline: ByLee Nolan LEICESTER 41 GLOUCESTER 41 LEICESTER Tigers' director of rugby Richard Cockerill accused his league-leading team of playing 'testimonial' rugby after they threw away a 14-point lead on their way to a 41-41 draw with Gloucester....
'COOKING Makes Me Feel So Calm and Happy'; Never More Content Than When in the Kitchen, with a Tea Towel over Her Shoulder, Hollywood A-Lister Gwyneth Paltrow, Whose New Cookbook-Cum-Family Memoir Is about to Hit the Shelves, Tells Elaine Lipworth That She's Actually a 1950s Housewife at Heart
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Byline: Elaine Lipworth I had always assumed that Gwyneth Paltrow was a bit of a fanatic when it came to food. I imagined the beautiful and willowy actress following a rigid vegan diet consisting of brown rice and lentils, and spending her time...
Could My Low Income Exempt Me from Dirt?
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Q [bar] My late husband and I had savings of [euro]100,000 in a credit union and [euro]9,000 in a bank. We understood that we had to pay Dirt and I'm still paying it. I'm 78, am on a widow's contributory pension and have another pension of [euro]50...
Cowen's Shameful Hirings Must Not Be Allowed Stand
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ONE of the greatest observations ever made on the nature of human morality came from an Irishman. For it was a Dubliner, Edmund Burke, who in the 18th century declared: 'All that is necessary for evil to triumph is that good men do nothing.' It seems...
Croke Park Crowd 'Will Not Be Vetted' before President Obama Visit
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Byline: Ken Foy THE 80,000 people who pack Croke Park to see US President Barack Obama next month will not be vetted in advance, gardai have confirmed. Claiming it would be 'not practical' to check for criminal records or links to extremist or...
Cruyff's Blueprint for Ajax Threatens to Tear Club Apart
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Byline: EURO VIEW with Graham Hunter FOR Ajax, the prognosis for their salvation should have been no more difficult to understand or apply than offering water to a dehydrated desert survivor. Their greatest player, in fact the greatest football...
Cruyff's Blueprint for Ajax Threatens to Tear Club Apart; EUROVIEW
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Byline: with Graham Hunter FOR Ajax, the prognosis for their salvation should have been no more difficult to understand or apply than offering water to a dehydrated desert survivor. Their greatest player, in fact the greatest football brain Holland...
Cursing Cameron ...He's Just as Bad as Rooney
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Why did I ever vote for that clown David Cameron, who swore at a reporter for making an accurate report of what Cameron told him? Doesn't this fool realise he has now made his unintelligent gaffe - saying how Britain caused many of the world's problems...
Daley Has to Mind the Gap as Chinese Divers Rule the Pool; DIVING
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Byline: Gary Fitzgerald TOM Daley vowed to close the gap on the Chinese last night despite being forced to bow to their superior skills in Sheffield. Britain's great teenage Olympic hope labelled his Far East rivals 'diving machines' as his bid...
Davies Delights in His Donkeys as He Looks to Make Hay
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Byline: Rob Draper KEVIN DAVIES has finally found his match, two opponents who are stronger, more bloodyminded and more aggressive than even him. Bolton's durable centre-forward, 34 and with 14 seasons of football behind him, has played in all four...
Davies Swaps His FERRARI for the GOOD LIFE; ...with a Hilltop Farm, a Couple of Donkeys and the Chance to Make Amends for Missing out on an FA Cup Final 14 Years Ago; He's Committed More Fouls in the Premier League Than Any Other Pla Him as Well. Now Bolton's Experienced Centre-Forward Is on the Brin Ayer. and Had More Fouls against Nk of Fulfilling His Wembley Dream
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Byline: Rob Draper CHIEF FOOTBALL WRITER KEVIN DAVIES has finally found his match: two opponents who are stronger, more bloody-minded and more aggressive than even him. Bolton's durable centre-forward, 34 and with 14 seasons of football behind him,...
Davies Swaps His FERRARI for the GOOD LIFE ...with a Hilltop Farm, a Couple of Donkeys and the Chance to Make Amends for Missing out on an FA Cup Final 14 Years Ago; He's Committed More Fouls in the Premier League Than Any Other Player. and Had More Fouls against Him as Well. Now Bolton's Battle-Scarred Centre-Forward Is on the Brink of Fulfilling His Wembley Dream
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Byline: Rob Draper CHIEF FOOTBALL WRITER KEVIN DAVIES has finally found his match: two opponents who are stronger, more bloody-minded and more aggressive than even him. Bolton's durable centre-forward, 34 and with 14 seasons of football behind him,...
Davies Swaps His Ferrari for the Good Life; ...with a Hilltop Farm and a Chance to Make Amends for Missing out on Reaching the Final 14 Years Ago
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Byline: Rob Draper KEVIN DAVIES has finally found his match, two opponents who are stronger, more bloodyminded and more aggressive than even him. Bolton's durable centre-forward, 34 and with 14 seasons of football behind him, has played in all...
DEATH FROM THE SKIES; since 2004, US Unmanned Drones Are Reported to Have Killed a Staggering 2,283 People in Pakistan. How Many Were Really Terrorists? and Is It Another Spectacular US Own Goal? HOW CIA SPIES DEAL; SPECIAL DISPATCH
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Byline: From DAVID ROSE IN ISLAMABAD The assembly, a traditional Pathan jirga (tribal council), was being held in the open, on flat ground close to the Tochi river, on the Pakistani side of the Afghan border in tribal North Waziristan. There were...
Debt Forgiveness Is Not a Runner. Here's What We Should Do
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Debt forgiveness for mortgage-holders, as proposed this week by AIB boss David Hodgkinson, may well be a non-runner. While it may have been seen as politically advantageous to promote the idea, the plain fact is that it would be impossible to limit...
Deise Delighted to Get Brief Brush with the Professional Life
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Byline: Philip Lanigan IT'S NOT often that a Waterford hurler and a Kerry football manager share a common cause but Shane Walsh is with Jack O'Connor on this one: the value of a foreign training holiday. At 7pm last Saturday, Waterford's senior...
Disappointed Daley Denied Second Gold by China 'Machines'
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Byline: Gary Fitzgerald TOM DALEY vowed to close the gap on the Chinese last night despite being forced to bow down to their superior skills in Sheffield. Britain's great teenage Olympic hope labelled his Far East rivals 'diving machines' as...
DONS ARE A DREAM DATE FOR MCCALL; Well Boss Wants Brown Reunion; Dons Would Be a Dream Final Date for Boss McCall
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Byline: Fraser Mackie STUART McCALL last night declared Aberdeen and his former Scotland boss Craig Brown as a dream date for next month's Scottish Cup Final after Motherwell breezed past St Johnstone 3-0 at Hampden. First-half goals from Stephen...
Don't Expect Kroenke to Splash Cash like Roman
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Byline: Rob Draper ARSENE WENGER'S summer transfer strategy is unlikely to change despite the club having undergone its most momentous week for decades. With the death on Wednesday from cancer of their ground-breaking director Danny Fiszman,...
Don't Expect Kroenke to Splash Cash like Roman
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Byline: Rob Draper CHIEF FOOTBALL WRITER ARSENE WENGER'S summer transfer strategy is unlikely to change despite the club having undergone their most momentous week for decades. With the death on Wednesday from cancer of their groundbreaking director...
Don't Fear the Flowers; You Can Beat Your Hay Fever with Pills, Sprays and Even a Course of Acupuncture
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Byline: Dr Ellie Cannon Last weekend, the pollen count hit 220 in some parts of England - a dramatic rise from its normal level of 40 or so. For millions of Britons with hay fever this alarming spike - measured in grains of pollen per cubic metre...
Don't Get in a Fix When Your Deal Expires
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Byline: Neil Simpson We're half-way through the 24th month in a row that the Bank of England base rate has been held at just 0.5 per cent. But thousands of borrowers will get a nasty surprise if they think they'll pay an equally low rate when their...
Do You Know the Real Price of Your 'Ultra Precious' Bag, Posh?
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Byline: Liz Jones J'ADORE fashion journalists. The way they swallow what some idiot PR person tells them about a brand. In The Times yesterday was a puff piece about the new [pounds sterling]18,000 'superbag'. This has been 'designed' by Victoria...
Do You Know the Real Price of Your 'Ultra Precious' Bag, Posh?
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Byline: Liz Jones J'ADORE fashion journalists. The way they swallow what some idiot PR person tells them about a brand. In The Times yesterday was a puff piece about the new [pounds sterling]18,000 'superbag'. This has been 'designed' by Victoria...
Dreams of Home Glory Dashed by Beshabar; Merigo Loses out at the Finish as Two More Horses Die at Ayr
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Byline: Ed Watson at Ayr SO NEAR, yet so far. After waiting 28 years for a home-trained winner of our most prestigious jumps race, Merigo came within a few feet of repeating his victory from 12 months ago and becoming the first horse to successfully...
Drogba Proves a Point to Ancelotti
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Byline: Mark Ryan WEST BROM 1 Odemwingie (17) CHELSEA 3 Drogba (22), Kalou (26), Lampard (45) DIDIER DROGBA provided further proof of Carlo Ancelotti's catastrophic error in starting with Fernando Torres against Manchester United in...
Drogba Rubs It in for Ancelotti
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Byline: Mark Ryan DIDIER DROGBA provided further proof of Carlo Ancelotti's catastrophic error in starting with Fernando Torres against Manchester United in the Champions League last Tuesday. The Italian manager not only hinted that he was still...
Drogba Rubs It in for Ancelotti
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Byline: Mark Ryan WEST BROM 1 Odemwingie (17) CHELSEA 3 Drogba (22), Kalou (26), Lampard (45) DIDIER DROGBA provided further proof of Carlo Ancelotti's catastrophic error in starting with Fernando Torres against Manchester United in...
Drogba Rubs It in for Ancelotti
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Byline: Mark Ryan WEST BROMO 1 demwingie (17) CHELSEA 3 Drogba (22), Kalou (26), Lampard (45) DIDIER DROGBA provided further proof of Carlo Ancelotti's catastrophic error in starting with Fernando Torres against Manchester United in...
