Friday 12 August, 2022
Rory McIlroy’s toothache is just the latest in a long line.
Calling all chocolate affecionados: do you really know your Quality Streets from your Roses? Only one way to find out…
Get the lowdown on North Korea’s leader, from the quest for the perfect pizza to giant rabbits…
Stick a pot of coffee on and put your feet up. Here’s some gems you may have missed this week.
Opinion polls in two of tomorrow’s newspapers show Fine Gael with a healthy lead – but Micheál Martin’s the most popular leader.
The end of the Civil War? If Fine Gael pledge to enact the Four Year Plan, Fianna Fáil would return the Tallaght Strategy.
An army unit secured the Egyptian Museum in Central Cairo, but not before two mummies are ruined, reports say.
Trisha Eisel, from Tullamore, bought her lottery ticket after her flight home for Christmas was cancelled by snow.
The monk is the first person to be charged under Bhutan’s anti-smoking legislation.
Half of men would forgive a girlfriend for cheating with another woman – and are more than twice as forgiving as women.
Cheltenham’s card has just survived an inspection and there’ll be plenty to glean from today’s action ahead of the March festival.
It’s trophies not cash that motivate El Nino, writes Paul Ring.
The Finance Bill will finish its passage through the Seanad today, allowing dozens of on-hold TDs to take Saturday night off.
Muhammad Hosni Mubarak sacks his government and promises economic and political reforms, as protests continue.
A 29-year-old woman dies in a fire in her apartment on Grenville St, while a 93-year-old is injured after a Donnybrook blaze.
Brian Kirk is locked in an Octagon and he’s not coming out until we get answers on the latest UFC action.
South African fears for Mandela’s health eased when news broke the 92-year-old had been released from hospital and was “well”.
Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny says he didn’t travel to Brussels to negotiate, but did not indicate if Barroso had suggested rengotiation was on the table.
Humanitarian aid agency says the already-volatile situation in eastern DRC has deteriorated further, as new reports of mass rape emerge.
Demonstrators target police vehicles and state offices as they defy curfew and stay on the streets of Cairo.
Irish student who was seriously assaulted in a late-night attack in Chicago last year has contracted a superbug after undergoing brain surgery.
Brazilian man stabbed his flatmate to death at their home in Co Offaly in 2009.
Reds get their man at last as Ajax accept latest offer.
Meanwhile, he allegedly live in the house upstairs with another woman. Police found his wife naked and locked in filthy basement after anonymous tip-off.
Bertie’s in Fagan’s buying a round for the lads. Ivor’s heading for West Cork with a bit of Springsteen on the stereo. Enda and Noonan are on the town in Brussels. Here’s how to never work again.
A major backlog of X-ray delays in the Northern Irish health system meant at least there two late diagnoses of cancer.
Office of the Revenue Commissioners says laptops are encrypted, but it will investigate what kind of information was stored on them and how secure it is.
Warren Coakley says you shouldn’t underestimate the power of Facebook, after someone who saw a status update about the theft located the stolen vehicle.
Four Irish riders are set for another year in the peloton with Sean Kelly’s An Post team.
Micheal Martin dismisses Bertie’s “obsession” with National Stadium as Fianna Fail says Ahern interview is “irrelevant” to the future of the party in Election 2011.
Steven O’Rourke takes a look at the biggest shocks in Super Bowl history.
The ‘Tourism Opportunity’ confederation launches a report promising jobs if we change how we market Ireland.
Ospreys physio is not optimistic of winger facing France a week after trip to Italy.
The controversial Senator retires in the same way he lived: annoying pretty much everyone else in Seanad Éireann.
Bertie Ahern says he regrets not securing a National Stadium in his tenure. Do you think we should have built one?
