Recently added articles from Sunday Independent (Dublin, Republic of Ireland):
Joe laughs all the way to bank.
Sep 28, 2008 ... JOE Higgins twinkled. The former socialist TD was back in Leinster House on Tuesday. "The system is collapsing," he told me triumphantly, surveying the shell-shocked faces of TDs and senators all around him. Joe was trying to get up my nose. Joe was having ...
Desmond takes profit from his speedy Curanum punt.
Sep 28, 2008 ... WHILE stockmarkets have crashed over the last year, wily financier Dermot Desmond appears to have made a multi-million euro profit buying and selling shares in listed German healthcare outfit Curanum AG. In June of last year, Desmond's investment group IIU Nominees notified ...
FAS chief pockets '35,000 as spending probe starts.
Sep 28, 2008 ... RODY Molloy, chief executive of troubled state agency FAS, received a payment of '35,458, for his "performance-related bonus" last year. The figure is not itemised in the FAS annual accounts, but has been uncovered by the Sunday Independent following a refusal by FAS to release the ...
Gemma Hussey.
Sep 28, 2008 ... GEMMA Hussey will turn 70 in six weeks. The one-time bete noire of Ireland's teachers will celebrate with seven grandchildren. That is, if the Minister for Education of the Eighties has time. Gemma left public life nearly 20 years ago. Brought into politics by Garrett ...
MI6 'spy' firm hires Niall Fitzgerald.
Sep 28, 2008 ... THE name's Fitzgerald, Niall Fitzgerald. The Sligo-born businessman who rose to the top of British corporate life has become chairman of controversial "spy" firm Hakluyt. Fitzgerald, a former Bank of Ireland director, ran Unilever for a decade before moving to chair Reuters. ...
FitzPatrick deal dashes hopes for Nationwide bid.
Sep 28, 2008 ... ANGLO Irish Bank chairman Sean FitzPatrick gave the clearest signal yet that that bank's interest in Irish Nationwide had evaporated. On Tuesday, FitzPatrick spent close to '1.1m buying Anglo Irish Bank shares. FitzPatrick could not buy shares if Anglo was about to announce a ...
She's part of the international trad sensation Grada. While still relatively low-profile here at home, Grada have been steadily building up a massive international reputation. The band, whose other members are Alan Doherty, Andrew Laking, Gerry Paul and Colin Farrell, played to more than 15,000 people at a festival in Michigan last year and spend most months of the year touring the world.
Sep 28, 2008 ... She's part of the international trad sensation Grada. While still relatively low-profile here at home, Grada have been steadily building up a massive international reputation. The band, whose other members are Alan Doherty, Andrew Laking, Gerry Paul and Colin Farrell, played to more than ...
zEITGEIST.
Sep 28, 2008 ... tHE RECESSIONISTA Avril has found a great little beauty salon that is slashing 50 per cent off a selection of its favourite treatments. She has sent an email out to all her friends: "Dear girls, no excuses for chipped nail varnish in these trying times . . . nothing provides a ...
THE BITCH.
Sep 28, 2008 ... Fresh out of Failte Towers, Jennifer Maguire has been getting a bit of stick recently about her nascent celebrity status. A participant in The Apprentice 2008, Jennifer won notoriety as a reality-TV star capable of actually doing something useful. The BBC show is one of a small handful of ...
page 16Top, DKNY, Harvey Nichols.
Sep 28, 2008 ... page 16 Top, DKNY, Harvey Nichols Skirt French Connection Shoes, Kurt Geiger, House of Fraser and Arnotts Tights Marks and Spencer page 18 Dress, Nanette Lepore, Arnotts Tights Marks and Spencer ...
Gambon plays it for laughs.
Sep 28, 2008 ... He doesn't normally do interviews, and once removed a poster of himself that was too flattering, yet beneath the self-deprecation and modesty, Michael Gambon loves to laugh, especially at himself. As the Dublin-born actor takes Pinter's 'No Man's Land' to London, he has a chuckle with ...
Stiller, the reluctant comedy king.
Sep 28, 2008 ... Despite the pc protests, Ben Stiller was never going to alter his new film 'Tropic Thunder', says Evan Fanning Ben Stiller walks into the room carrying a giant piece of traditional knitwear he's just been given by a Norwegian journalist. Were this one of Stiller's movies then he ...
Larkin to amuse Jen.
Sep 28, 2008 ... NOW that Celia Larkin has sold all but her Dublin beauty salon there should be more time for her to be Jen Kelly's muse. Well, we'll know soon enough. Jen will show his haute couture collection at his house at 50 North Great George's Street on Thursday (champagne call at 7pm) and nobody ...
Designs on a dream wedding.
Sep 28, 2008 ... IT was a case of Howth couture, Howth cuisine and Howth society last Saturday in -- you guessed it -- Howth, when pillar of the community Syl McClean gave away his beautiful daughter, Nicola. The groom was Paul McCormack, a Donegal man who is one of the higher-ups -- as high up as Howth? ...
IT'S TIME FOR BYRNE TO THINK GLOBE-ALLY.
Sep 28, 2008 ... THERE'S nothing I like better than to spend a little of my Sunday at Woody's. No, you fools, not laying lino (or anything else either), just worshipping at the altar of Woody Allen's aphorisms. Last Sunday's Emmys bore out his line that the locals in Los Angeles don't throw out their ...
Smurfit pats her bump and points finger at Eamonn Holmes.
Sep 28, 2008 ... THINGS went bump in the night last Friday in London. Dressed in a figure-hugging little black number to accept an award at the Irish Post Awards at the Hilton in Park Lane, Victoria Smurfit proudly patted her bump and said she blamed compere for the night, Eamonn Holmes. Relax, ...
Simon Carmody community sans Bono.
Sep 28, 2008 ... AFTER a brief hiatus, the Simon Carmody Community was out in force again last Friday night. Sans Bono, alas, but it's still early autumn -- I mean are the swallows back in Capistrano yet? Simon was in Residence (no, he was in Residence -- the place) on Stephen's Green with property tycoon ...
Farewell to Paris for topdiplomat WE'LL always have Paris. But not, apparently, the American Ambassador to Ireland, Tom C Foley. It looks as if the romance between gorgeous Australian actress Paris Jefferson and the dashing diplomat is over.
Sep 28, 2008 ... Farewell to Paris for top diplomat WE'LL always have Paris. But not, apparently, the American Ambassador to Ireland, Tom C Foley. It looks as if the romance between gorgeous Australian actress Paris Jefferson and the dashing diplomat is over. Paris, lest the luvvies ...
Let's keep pushing the brown envelope.
Sep 28, 2008 ... The good news is that Ireland has moved up one spot from 17th to 16th place in the worldwide corruption league. The bad news is that we have no idea how we've done this, so can take no lessons from it on how to keep climbing the table in the future. It's worth noting at this point that the ...
Heather hits back after Paul's boast.
Sep 28, 2008 ... Say what you like about Heather Mills -- and believe me, people do -- you have to admire her indomitability. It took one squeak out of her ex-husband to unleash a torrent. Sir Paul McCartney attending a charity event with his new amour, US heiress Nancy Shevell, took the ungallant step of ...