Throughout my teens and even now in my early twenties, Bridget Jones has always been somewhat of a role model. Between her high-flying job in the media, her snazzy central London apartment and penchant for Chardonnay, cigarettes and power ballads, she was successful, funny but also flawed. Therefore, it’ll come as no surprise that I consider Bridget Jones’s Diary, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason and Bridget Jones’s Baby both literary and cinematic masterpieces. And I am relieved to report that the latest instalment, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, is no exception – even if it has fewer of…
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I stared out the window of Genghis’s van, wondering how I had ended up kidnapped. I had been in the house but 10 minutes ago. Then I had wellies shoved in my face and we were gone; to chop up two felled trees. As we passed the field where they lay, I wondered why we didn’t stop but the mystery was solved as we pulled into Genghis’s yard. “Take you the wee Massey up. Put the trailer on.” I was startled. “I don’t know how to do that.” “A bloody child could drive that thing. Keys are in her.” And…
Internet giants Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent joined forces this week to combat online trading in wildlife parts, an illicit practice that continues on e-commerce and social media platforms. Internet giants Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent joined forces this week to combat online trading in wildlife parts, an illicit practice that continues on e-commerce and social media platforms. Internet giants Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent joined forces this week to combat online trading in wildlife parts, an illicit practice that continues on e-commerce and social media platforms.
Despite the biting easterly winds of late, spring continues to subtly stir. Bird song is increasing in volume, variety and pitch, welcoming the earlier morning light. Prime breeding territories are sought, while green shoots of celandine begin to carpet the places of their eventual flowering. Swelling buds too, defy winter’s waning grip, calling spring to step forward with hope and renewal. We must wait a little longer however, until the season is secure, when chiffchaffs call and hedgerows flourish. I watched A Complete Unknown at the cinema last week, the film charting Bob Dylan’s early development as folk singer, writer…
Finding a solution for frizzy hair can be a challenge and works for someone else may not work for your hair. There are serums, creams, sprays and gels that promise the world, but depending on your hair type you might need to trawl trough more than one beauty buy on your quest. Today’s top videos There is however, one buy that seems to work across lots of hair types from fine and light to thick and heavy. It has another version for curls, and then there is a third that you might not know about, and it’s tending at Sephora…
I fell out with John Hume fairly often. He was the local MP and I was the editor of the local paper. He thought everything he said should be the lead story. I tended to think that was my decision, not his. We had a massive row one time about the Haagerup Report. If anyone reading this can remember what that was, go to the top of the class. Assuming that the vast majority, including myself, have only a vague notion, let me fill you in. The Haagerup Report was commissioned by the European Parliament in 1984. Basically, it was…
Both teams have one win each from three League outings so far.
SHANE DOOLEY expects the young guns to embrace the chance to fire Offaly to another Croke Park triumph over Dublin. This evening’s National League fixture is the first meeting of the teams at HQ since the visitors emerged victorious in January 2018. Shane Dooley believes Offaly have every chance of beating DublinINPHO/Dan Sheridan He was part of the side that hammered the Dubs in 2018Tyler Miller/Sportsfile On that occasion, Dooley bagged 1-5 for the Faithful, who subjected Pat Gilroy to a 13-point hammering in his first game in charge of the Dubs. Gilroy’s side exacted revenge later that season with…
Kate Hudson is opening up about turning down The Devil Wears Prada, which starred Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, and Meryl Streep. In a new interview, Hudson regrets not making her schedule work to star in the film adaptation of the Lauren Weisberger novel of the same name. “That was a bad call. And it was like […]Kate Hudson is opening up about turning down The Devil Wears Prada, which starred Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, and Meryl Streep. In a new interview, Hudson regrets not making her schedule work to star in the film adaptation of the Lauren Weisberger novel of the same…
The 78-year-old was coughing up blood when she attended University Hospital Galway – two days after she received her second dose of a coronavirus vaccine
Just as Ireland have the mental edge over Scotland, so the Scots have developed one over their auld enemy England and that’s what makes this latest championship instalment a must-watch
Team USA and Canada will meet once again in the 4 Nations Face-Off final Team USA and Canada will meet once again in the 4 Nations Face-Off final Getty Images Team USA and Canada will square off once again in the 4 Nations Face-Off final on Thursday, and if it’s even half as good as their last tilt, hockey fans are in for a treat. The Americans won a heated battle Saturday, and the Canadians will be looking for revenge in the championship game. In the round-robin matchup between these teams, the first true best-on-best meeting since 2016, the rivalry…
February 22 1975 We, the natives and inhabitants of this island, are occasionally inclined to smile at or write clever little articles about the tremendous ballyhoo which goes into the celebration of St Patrick’s Day in New York. The great polyglot city is given over from dawn to dusk to people festooned in harps and shillelaghs; whose names they are proud to claim begin with O or Mac; and who have never been, nor will ever come, nearer to Ireland than the banks of the East River. Their emotional attachment to Ireland, we often feel, is in inverse proportion to…
Three Ireland is to sponsor Doireann Garrihy’s new drivetime programme on 2FM, which launches on Monday.
The family of ‘vulnerable’ Co Tyrone teenager Columba McVeigh who was recruited to work for British military intelligence before the IRA killed and secretly buried him believe he was “exploited” by his handlers. The 19-year-old, from Donaghmore in Co Tyrone, was last seen in November 1975 and was later shot and secretly buried by republicans. He is one of the group of victims known as the ‘Disappeared’, whose remains have yet to be found despite going missing almost half a century ago. The Independent Commission for the Location of Victims’ Remains has carried out several searches of bogland in Co…
The Italian manager was able to restore Napoli’s winning mentality in a short time The Italian manager was able to restore Napoli’s winning mentality in a short time Getty Images It took less than a summer for Antonio Conte to guide Napoli back to prominence. One of the most successful European coaches of the last decade, Conte is a special manager and he showed it on the pitch as he was able to win almost everywhere he worked and in the shortest time possible. When former Juventus chairman Andrea Agnelli called him in 2011 to coach the club where he…
An investigation team established to probe the activities of British agent Stakeknife has confirmed he was not involved in the murder of IRA informer Caroline Moreland more than 30 years ago. The body of Ms Moreland (34) was found near Roslea, Co Fermanagh, in July 1994 – just weeks before the IRA’s historic ceasefire in August that year. She had been shot three times in the head and her body dumped on a roadside close to the border. A new book by veteran journalist Martin Dillon now claims the mother-of-three was having an affair with a senior republican who was…
Gardai have not responded directly to claims that one of its informers was present when Jean McConville was shot and secretly buried by the IRA. Mrs McConville was abducted from her west Belfast home, shot in the head and buried on a Co Louth beach in 1972. She was later accused of being an informer, a claim rejected by her family. While the IRA initially denied involvement in her disappearance, it eventually admitted its role in 1999 when the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims’ Remains (ICLVR) was established. Her remains were recovered from a beach in Co Louth…
Free agents were able to be signed starting Feb. 1 and there are a few marquee names still available Free agents were able to be signed starting Feb. 1 and there are a few marquee names still available Getty Images The 2025 WNBA free agency period has slowed down and only one player on CBS Sports’ list of the top-10 free agents remains unsigned: Breanna Stewart. She was cored by the defending champion New York Liberty, however, and there shouldn’t be any drama on that front. Elsewhere, the Phoenix Mercury made a big splash by pulling off sign-and-trade deals for…
An IRA man killed during an SAS ambush in Gibraltar almost 40 years ago was reluctant to go on the ill-fated operation, it has been claimed. Daniel McCann was one of three IRA members shot dead by the British army in March 1988. Along with Mr McCann, Sean Savage and Mairead Farrell were part of a team sent to the British overseas territory to kill members of a military band. The mission came to a deadly end when the trio were targeted in an SAS ambush which it is claimed was closely followed by then British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.…