From kathleen barrington: Sunday, February 28, 2010
By Kathleen Barrington
Here’s a question for Hugh Cooney, chairman of the government’s Mortgage Assistance Group. Should the taxpayer be called upon to help fund the mortgages of troubled borrowers such as Twink?The actor has said that she is ‘‘actively working on a solution’’ after Bank of Scotland [...]
From Bibliocook: All About Food:
Sometimes, in this house, baking is not just for the bigger members of the family and, along with the Flapjacks and Shortbread, there’s even a tin marked with Little Missy’s name. It’s currently filled with these twice-baked Banana Spelt Biscotti, which I love because they are easily made, contain no [...]
From I Have Grave News » Music:
Coming to The Kiosk on Phantom 105.2 this weekend is the first in our new, monthly music makeover series, Dr Beat. Named after the Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine classic, we’re giving one Phantom listener per month the chance to revitalise their jaded record collection.
Our first ‘patient’ is [...]
As of 2pm today, the footballers of Cork City FC, a club that finished third in the League of Ireland last season, will be unemployed. After a disastrous catalogue of spiralling debts and broken promises, the club is being wound up in the High Court.
With it go the contracts of its players – and the [...]
From Bibliocook: All About Food:
It’s that time of the year again. The Irish Blog Awards longlist has been issued and it’s great to see Bibliocook getting a mention in the Best Food/Drink Blog section, again this year sponsored by Bord Bia. Last year’s awards took place in the International Airport Hotel in Cork so off [...]
From Bibliocook: All About Food:
I swore I wouldn’t get sucked in. Ah, the promises I make to myself!
This whole social networking thing can be like a black hole, whole chunks of the morning – work time for me while Little Missy sleeps – disappearing while I catch up on Kieran Murphy’s ice cream tweets [...]
From Bibliocook: All About Food:
If ever your grandmother knew how slow cooking turned beef cheeks meltingly tender, could tell her Rhode Island Reds from Marans or was able to grow, harvest, preserve and cook her own runner beans, you’ll nod knowingly at Forgotten Skills of Cooking and enjoy leafing through the pages. If you [...]
From Daly Planet: My op-ed from Saturday’s Evening Herald on news that Simon Cowell might be getting hitched at last…WE knew it – the X-Factor’s Simon Cowell is just a big softie underneath it all. A ‘close pal’ has been telling newspaper reporters that Mr Grumpy has gotten engaged to his artist girlfriend. Not only [...]
From Jennifer O’Connell:
Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism,
By Natasha Walter
Virago
Reviewed by Jennifer O’Connell
It’s always a pleasure to hear someone else admit they were wrong. And when that someone else is a pre-eminent feminist, playwright and Guardian journalist, there’s not so much pleasure in some quarters, as barely-disguised glee.
Natasha Walter is most famous as the mouthy [...]
From kathleen barrington: 21 February 2010
By Kathleen Barrington
During 2006, I contacted a number of solicitors in a new west Dublin suburb to enquire about what sort of debts they saw buyers assuming when a property was being conveyed.One said he had seen cases where a first-time buyer couple would take out a mortgage of, [...]
