Gerry Anderson
Gerry Anderson: How Chinese fireworks dazzled watching world
Lin Miaoke mimes her way through the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics
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Gerry Anderson: It’s all going up in smoke
Saturday, 9 August 2008
This week, a bearded man stood up to be counted. Like many a native of this
island before him, his stand was noble as it was hopeless. His bravery ranks
with that of the lone Chinese student who stood, shopping bag in hand, in
front of a bristling army tank in the friendless vastness of Tianenmen
Square all those years ago, before the onset of Olympics made everything all
right.
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Why women enjoy singles nights more than men
Saturday, 2 August 2008
Last week, a Belfast cinema cancelled its first singles night due to lack of
interest from certain quarters.
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Gerry Anderson: Those terrific factory girls and their lazy, useless men
Saturday, 19 July 2008
I read an interesting article the other day about female employment in Derry
in 1939. It seems that over 15,000 local women and girls enjoyed full-time
employment in the business of making shirts whereas there was no work at all
for the men.
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Breaking News
- 17:57 Ministers warn of tough Budget
- 17:31 Almost 50 applications made for repossession of homes and land
- 17:28 Fast-track European approval of bank aid schemes promised
- 17:24 Chief exec Wells sacked by IFA
- 15:54 EBS stops offering tracker mortgages
- 15:36 Armstrong to compete in Giro d'Italia
Top stories from Monday, 13.10.08
- 17:24 Chief exec Wells sacked by IFA
- 15:36 Armstrong to compete in Giro d'Italia
- 15:14 Kinnear sees Newcastle confidence growing
- 14:32 Northern Ireland call-up for Gault
- 14:28 Italy's FA bans fans from travelling to away games
Top stories from Monday, 13.10.08
- 17:57 Ministers warn of tough Budget
- 17:31 Almost 50 applications made for repossession of homes and land
- 15:54 EBS stops offering tracker mortgages
- 15:23 Teachers at Co. Down school strike over pupil assault
- 13:51 Italian police continue search for missing Irish woman
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- 17:28 Fast-track European approval of bank aid schemes promised
- 15:33 EU condemns Mugabe stance on Zimbabwe ministries
- 11:32 Obama leading by 10 points in latest US poll
- 11:26 Britain announces £37bn bailout for three banks
- 09:27 Thai PM refuses to resign after street clashes
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- Wife of footballer killed in car crash
- IRA funds worth up to €200m put at risk in United States
- Sacked teacher moves in with teenage former pupil
- Republic faces ‘tough’ budget calls, warns Cowen
- Eoghan stuns X-Factor judges with John Lennon hit
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- Family beat smoker to death
- Top Irish developers see asset values dive two-thirds
- Strike after pupil attacks teacher
- Fury over "Punch Neil Lennon" game
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- IRA funds worth up to €200m put at risk in United States
- Eamonn McCann: What if Mormons are right and Catholics and Protestants wrong?
- Monkey works as waiter in Japanese restaurant
- Discovery of the decade? Injection 'could cure Alzheimer's in minutes'
- Top Irish developers see asset values dive two-thirds
- Sacked teacher moves in with teenage former pupil
- Bosses mimic behaviour of monkeys
- QE2 in Belfast
- Republic faces ‘tough’ budget calls, warns Cowen
- Ill passenger forces Belfast jet to divert
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- Eamonn McCann: What if Mormons are right and Catholics and Protestants wrong?
- Sarah Palin is a joke, says Rushdie
- IRA funds worth up to €200m put at risk in United States
- Why haven’t the arguments of these atheists really evolved?
- ‘Pay cut’ as teachers refuse to teach bully
- Strike after pupil attacks teacher
- Obama leading by 10 points in latest US poll
- Republic faces ‘tough’ budget calls, warns Cowen
- Fury over "Punch Neil Lennon" game
- Eoghan stuns X-Factor judges with John Lennon hit
Columnist Comments
• Robert Fisk: 'Collateral damage' or targeted killing, the effect is much the same
All kinds of horrors flop on to my Beirut doormat. There's the mobile phone bill, a slew of blood-soaked local Lebanese newspapers – "Saleh Aridi's blood consolidates [Druze] reconciliation", was among the goriest of the past few days – and then there are files from the dark memory lane through which all Middle East history has to pass.
• Steven Beacom: We must still build team around Healy
One point from six. That’s Northern Ireland’s tally in the World Cup qualifying campaign so far. Not too healthy, is it?
• Ed Curran: The travesty of Toulouse
Patrick Bamford was just another face in the crowd packed into Belfast's Ravenhill rugby ground on Saturday for the European Heineken Cup match. He was much more than that 21 months ago at another game in the south-west France city of Toulouse.
• Pol O Muiri: Glenn’s tale that should touch us all
They say that the victors write the history. However, I doubt that I will ever read anything by the DUP's born again Ulster-Scotch poets or Sinn Féin's radical scribes and Pharisees that will ever match writer Glenn Patterson's Once Upon A Hill: Love in Troubled Times (Bloomsbury).
• Hamish McRae: So will anything shift the economic gloom?
It is a classic financial crash. Another week of mayhem in the markets, another week of despair among bankers, another week of rising concern for the rest of us. The world's monetary powers sought to reassert their authority last week by cutting interest rates, while individual governments, in particular our own one, continued to unwrap national rescue packages. Their aim was to restore confidence – and they failed.
• Laurence White: Will we have any cash left after world market crash?
The financial turmoil currently gripping the world is of such a magnitude that it is over-shadowing what until a couple of months ago was the biggest story in town — the race for the White House. Now Barack Obama and John McCain find themselves a side-show.
• Eamonn MCann: Was it fair to jail Shahra Marsh but let greedy bankers go free?
Nobody is immune from this banking crisis. Not Shahra Marsh. Not Mother Teresa.
Odd Box
- Monkey works as waiter
- Ban for viewing sci-fi film while driving truck
- Man punches shark to save pet dog
- Politician and pilot spot UFO in Meath
- Dog rescues owner by calling police
- Police use Taser on nude man walking his dog
- Burglar attacks with sausage and spices
- Man with 86 wives vows to marry more
- Outback mayor urges 'ugly' women to move
- Spanish monarch replaced by Homer Simpson
- Pooh blocks drains in Ballymoney
- Britain's smallest burglar: It's a tall man's world
- Couple fined over 'sex games' at war memorial
- Nevada brothel entices visitors with free petrol
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Financial Crisis
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Castration for Sex Offenders
Should the UK follow Poland's lead and force sex offenders to be chemically castrated?
Cancer treatment
Should cancer drugs be free for all patients?
Next US president?
Who do you think is likely to become the next president of the United States?
Who do you think is likely to become the next president of the United States?
| John McCain |
 45% |
| Barack Obama |
 42% |
| It won't make a difference |
11% |
| I'm still holding out for Ron Paul |
3% |
Sport legends
Who is Northern Ireland's greatest sports person of modern times?
Who is Northern Ireland's greatest sports person of modern times?
| George Best |
32% |
| Tony McCoy |
2% |
| Darren Clarke |
3% |
| Barry McGuigan |
4% |
| Mary Peters |
4% |
| Willie John McBride |
3% |
| Peter Canavan |
6% |
| Joey Dunlop |
39% |
| David Healy |
5% |
| Alex Higgins |
2% |
Poll: Tasers and the police
Do you support the use of Tasers by the PSNI?