TOP Flat jockey Seamie Heffernan is looking forward to teaming up with Fen Game for Edward O’Grady in the Pierse Hurdle at Leopardstown tomorrow. Heffernan, who had three Irish Classic victories in 2008 for Aidan O’Brien which included the Derby ...

9 Jan 2009

1 Jack Bauer has killed 198 people over the six-and-a-half series of the show. Day Six, during which he dispatched 50 "hostiles", was his busiest so far and also included his most imaginative killing when he bit the neck of a terrorist, ripping out ...

9 Jan 2009

A Harvey teen-ager who admitted to detectives that she put a baby in a clothes dryer so she could watch television without disturbance was indicted Thursday on a charge of second-degree murder. The Jefferson Parish grand jury also indicted Lon Adams ...

9 Jan 2009

Stephen Green, national director of Christian Voice, complained to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) yesterday, saying the adverts break the ASA’s codes on substantiation and truthfulness… ‘There is plenty of evidence for God, from ...

9 Jan 2009

A tweaker (Drew Wall) helps the town’s gravedigger (John S. Davise) dispose of the bones of the departed in Martin McDonagh’s twisted comedy A Skull in Connemara . Life is slow on the west coast of Ireland, with little industry or culture to ...

9 Jan 2009

I received the most expensive and the most useless book I know of as a New Year’s gift. Price—Rs 12,500; name of the book— Kama Sutra by Vatsyayana; publisher and donor—Pramod Kapoor of Roli Books. Besides being an expensive old hack, it is ...

9 Jan 2009