Set List

Such is the popularity of Dublin sisters Heathers, that even uber DJ David Guetta wants them to write a song for his new album.
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Food

For the truly hungry it's an aroma that's right up there with the smell of sausages frying on a camp fire.
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Stream Solutions, Ireland's Apple experts are proud to be leading the way for the iPad for education and learning revolution, collaborating with many schools and colleges around the county.
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Motoring

Jaguar has officially revealed the all-new F-TYPE.
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Regulars

During divorce, who thinks of the kids?

Newshound Posted on 04/10/2012 by Jonathan Healy

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Ireland has always struggled with the concept of divorce. In what must seems like a different age to many younger voters now, the passing of the 15th amendment in 1995 (which allowed for the enactment of divorce legislation) was preceded by a battle of biblical proportions, with the Catholic church to the forefront of the defence of the institution of marriage. A majority of Irish voters decided against Church advice that divorce was, in many cases, a necessary end to an unhappy union.
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I don't know what a tracker mortgage is

Newshound Posted on 27/09/2012 by Deirdre O'Shaughnessy

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Do you remember the guy on the bus? In the ad? The guy who stood up and announced to the world: “I don't know what a tracker mortgage is!” That could have been me. In fact, it was me, until one day in 2007, here at Coogan towers, we got a letter from our mortgage provider.
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Some are more equal than others

Newshound Posted on 20/09/2012 by Jonathan Healy

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I had to check. One of my favourite stories, Animal Farm, is still being taught in secondary schools. Its more memorable quote is from the period after the prize pig Napoleon alters the rules to include the line “all animals are created equal – but some animals are more equal than others.
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Swanky think-ins are inappropriate

Newshound Posted on 13/09/2012 by PJ Coogan

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As a reporter who covers politics, and especially local politics, and their relevance (or otherwise) on the national stage, I have built up a very solid working relationship with most, if not all of our elected representatives in Cork over the years.
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Holding the line.

Newshound Posted on 06/09/2012 by Jonathan Healy

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I happened upon a quote the other day which sums up where Ireland has gone wrong when it came to those elected to govern us. I had not previously heard of James Paul Clarke (a United States Senator and the 18th
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Holidaying at home? Must try harder

Newshound Posted on 30/08/2012 by PJ Coogan

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And so it came to pass that in 2012, the Coogan family chose to 'Staycation' for the first time since 2000. All things considered, it just suited us this year, to stay at home, so instead of an apartment in Spain, a cottage in Kerry was booked, and off we toddled.
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Oh, to be young....

Newshound Posted on 23/08/2012 by Jonathan Healy

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We spend most of our lives reminiscing about youth. Times were better, summers were sunnier, pints were cheaper. When I started college in the early 1990s, the country was beginning to emerge from what we once considered to be a deep recession.
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'I'll get the bus down'

Newshound Posted on 16/08/2012 by Jonathan Healy

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I know I am not alone when I say I am suffering from withdrawal. For over a fortnight, my television viewing was restricted to just three TV channels, with the odd pressing of a red button if I wanted a stronger fix.
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A chip off the old block

Newshound Posted on 09/08/2012 by PJ Coogan

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I read a great blog this week from David McCarthy, who continues the excellent work of his late father, John, as the new director of Mad Pride Ireland. John, as regular readers of this newspaper will know, was not just a colleague, but to many of us also a dear friend and confidante, before his all too untimely death last January.
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Back to school blues

Newshound Posted on 02/08/2012 by Deirdre O'Shaughnessy

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In an expensive world, in times when wallets are more likely contain cobwebs than cash, and when, for so many people, there is far too much month left at the end of the money, as it were, generic is good.
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The demon drink

Newshound Posted on 26/07/2012 by Jonathan Healy

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A few years ago, over the course of a Christmas, I distinctly remember one major supermarket chain trying a new promotion. Up until this point, there had been cheapish boxes of bottles and occasional reductions on six packs, but now they had decided to appeal to customers using 24 cans of a leading brand of beer for just €24.
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Liking a drink

Newshound Posted on 19/07/2012 by PJ Coogan

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I like a drink. On occasions, I like a few drinks. On perhaps a half a dozen occasions in any given year, I will get shamelessly plastered. I am, however, probably Ireland's most harmless drunk, because there comes a point where I'll just sit down and dose off.
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What is it with young people?

Newshound Posted on 12/07/2012 by Jonathan Healy

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One of the benefits of living in Ballintemple was the proximity to Pairc Ui Chaoimh. Yes, you had people parking across your driveway on matchdays (still happens, by the way) but you also could sneak into the second half of matches without having to pay, and more importantly, they used to let you into the tail-end of concerts for free.
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Answers

Newshound Posted on 05/07/2012 by PJ Coogan

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I know Douglas like the back of my hand. I practically grew up there. I remember the first shopping centre that opened there. It had a Quinnsworth, a butcher, a fruit and veg shop and a laundry shop that on a warm day, stank the place out of it in those days before sophisticated extraction systems.
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To err is human, to really foul things up requires a computer

Newshound Posted on 28/06/2012 by Jonathan Healy

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Banking with Ulster Bank used to be easy. You would spend months filling your portly 'Henry Hippo' money box, and then bring him to a branch where his innards would be counted and lodged into a savings account.
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