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Ireland's leading ragtime pianist plays tributes to piano legends at NCH
1 week ago

COLM "Stride" O'Brien is to play the National Concert Hall featuring the works of ragtime and stride piano legends Scott Joplin, George Gershwin, and Fats Waller.Colm (www.colmstrideobrien.com) is Ireland's leading exponent of ragtime piano. Tributes to
Excelebration gets off to the perfect start for O'Brien in Curragh stroll
1 month ago

Excelebration made a successful start to life with the Aidan O'Brien stable yesterday when easily winning on his seasonal debut at The Curragh.A Group One scorer for Newmarket-based Marco Botti but three times put in his place by the brilliant Frankel, E
Excelebration can show star quality
1 month ago

As the Ballydoyle juggernaut continues to gather pace ahead of the first Classics of the year in a fortnight's time, Excelebration can crank things up another notch at the Curragh tomorrow.An immensely exciting acquisition by the Coolmore conglomerate th
O'Hora calls on Longford to raise bar for final test
1 month ago

LONGFORD manager Diane O'Hora insists that her players must improve considerably to tackle Limerick in the Bord Gais Energy National Football League Division 4 final on May 5.The midlanders beat Offaly by 3-17 to 1-8 in yesterday's semi-final at St Loman
Comical Phil should resign
1 month ago

Madam -- The hapless "comical" Phil Hogan has now left the era of Screwgate and has entered his Marie Antoinette phase.As you report, when a constituent of "comical" Phil's had the temerity to text him about the unfairness of the household tax he respond
Fine Gael must stop its blustering on Denis O'Brien
1 month ago

Enda Kenny has been making eyes at Denis O'Brien. That's the public perception. That is why the Taoiseach's high polls and buttery boosting from his fair-weather media friends will eventually melt away unless he distances himself from Denis O'Brien and b
Some drivel is best left unpublished
1 month ago

Upset by the domestic revelations in her son's novels, Colm Toibin's mother threatened to write a book of her own. Nora Joyce got round the problem through the simple expedient of not reading her husband's work, but Edna O'Brien's family were so scandali
All-Ireland hero suing Tesco over 'wine for children' claim
2 months ago

A FORMER All-Ireland winning hurler told a court yesterday that he was "absolutely mortified" when a Tesco employee accused him of trying to buy a bottle of wine for a minor.Patrick Moroney (33), a practising solicitor, is suing the UK retail giant for d