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  1. Lindsay Lohan threatened by ‘gunman’ in Morocco
    November 03, 09

    Lindsay Lohan was threatened by a gunman while visiting Morocco over the weekend.

  2. 'All things come to an end': A last meeting with Samuel Beckett
    May 28, 09

    With the recent publication of the first volume of Beckett’s letters I started to recall the last time I met Beckett in Paris in 1988. We first met in April, 1985. It had been three years since our meeting at the café in the Hotel PLM. At noon. Noon being the time he had suggested. The suggested hour.

  3. The Road to McCarthy
    March 10, 09

    Pete McCarthy gave himself a very enviable task when he set out to write his first best-seller "McCarthy's Bar: A Journey of Discovery in the West of Ireland": visit every McCarthy's Pub you ever came across in Ireland. Raised in England, but with a mother from West Cork, McCarthy expands his horizons in "The Road to McCarthy." He visits McCarthy's pubs - and villages, and enclaves and even an Alaskan town with a population of 18 - all over the world.

  4. Vanity Thy Name Is Bono
    March 10, 09

    BONO'S newest gig guest editor of the new issue of Vanity Fair magazine has hit the newsstands in quite a stylish way.

    The rock star/activist selected a bunch of his pals you know, George Clooney, Oprah Winfrey, Madonna, Bill Gates, President Bush, Muhammad Ali, etc. to pose for 20 different covers to commemorate the special Africa issue, which aims to focus reader attention on the poverty and disease-stricken continent.

  5. Irish Student Wins Fulbright
    March 10, 09

    NEW York-based Irish playwright and film director Imelda O'Reilly has just been awarded a prestigious Fulbright Scholarship to travel to Morocco to make a new film.

    O'Reilly, a native of Maddenstown, Co. Kildare is currently attending Columbia University where she is a masters of fine arts candidate in film.

  6. Kingerlee's 30 City US Tour
    March 10, 09

    FROM the moment that he first set eyes on Ireland, artist John Kingerlee, 71, determined that it would become his home. The British-born artist first took a tour of Dingle Peninsula in Co. Kerry in 1981 and was immediately struck by the geological grandeur of the place, by the rocks and the sky, and he vowed to return as soon as possible.

  7. Sad Times as JRM's Mom Dies
    March 10, 09

    WE told you last week that Jonathan Rhys Meyers got himself into trouble at Dublin Airport because he showed up drunk for a flight to London, and this week's news, unfortunately, is far worse - the actor's 50-year-old mother, Geraldine Meyers, who lived in Co. Cork, passed away suddenly on Tuesday, November 20.

    The funeral was held three days later, and JRM surely did his mom, with whom he was extremely close, proud.

  8. The Richest of the Rich
    March 10, 09

    THE Sunday Independent in Ireland published its annual list of who's making what over there, and to absolutely no one's surprise, U2 top the list of wealthiest entertainers, with a healthy bank balance of ?900 million. Nice! "The band, which has traditionally split earnings equally among Bono, Adam Clayton, Larry Mullen, the Edge and manager Paul McGuinness, has begun to divide up its vast portfolio among their respective families," says the Indo. Clearly, the relatives won't have any financial worries in the future!

    Coming in second is Michael Flatley, who's said to have ?590 million to his name.

  9. Nurse Convicted of Murder
    March 09, 09

    AN Irish American man, who fled to Ireland in 2005 after murdering a University of Florida student was found guilty of murder in the first degree on Friday, May 23.Oliver O'Quinn, 29, was sentenced to life without parole for the murder of Michelle Herndon, 24, who he had become obsessed with in 2005. Prosecutors at O'Quinn's trial said he injected Herndon with a lethal dose of Propofol, a fast acting anesthetic, which resulted in her death.

  10. News Rendition Through Shannon Claim
    March 09, 09

    Taoiseach (prime minister) Brian Cowen's government has been asked for information relating to the use of Shannon Airport in the "extraordinary rendition" of a Guantanamo Bay detainee who could face the death penalty.

  11. Intelligencer
    March 09, 09

    Ireland Left Out In Visas

    THE annual list of successful applicants for the Schumer DV-1 diversity visas was released again this week, and it makes hard reading for anyone Irish and undocumented.

    The Schumer diversity visas called after Senator Chuck Schumer from New York who created the scheme was an Irish American initiative back in the early 1990s after the death of the Morrison and Donnelly visa programs. The idea was that a percentage of visas would go to countries that currently have no access to America.

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