AT a time when resignations from the Dáil and Seanad have further eroded the public’s confidence in our political system, it is salutary to recall that 25 years ago our national parliament heard one of the finest and most principled speeches since its foundation.
TG4 screened one of my favourite films the other day – Klute, made in 1971 and starring Jane Fonda as Bree Daniel, a high-class call girl.
THE Catholic Church is a house divided.
SEX, lies and football – now where did we hear that before?
ONE of my favourite radio programmes is The Moral Maze on BBC 4.
SO what was she supposed to do – wave a tube of lipstick at them?
WE arrived in Las Vegas tired but excited. It had been a long drive from New Orleans, but then you do get to see an awful lot when you travel by road. We didn’t get the bad news until the following morning.
By TP O’Mahony
THE old newspaper adage that a picture is worth a thousand words is as true today, perhaps even more so, than it was 30 or 40 years ago.
By TP O’Mahony
IN Britain in 1984, a woman named Victoria Gillick took the Department of Health and Social Security (DHSS) to court over its guidance to doctors on the provision of contraceptive advice and treatment to young girls.
By TP O’Mahony
SEX is definitely off the menu in the Tiger Woods household this Christmas. And the new year could be erotically bleak as well for the world’s number one golfer.