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Lifestyle: October 2007
Support your local Shakespeare
Berna Cox | 26 October 2007 | Culture and society, Entertainment
There was a rumble in the media lately about theatre-goers not minding their manners. There were letters in the national press giving out about noisy punters who spoiled the theatre experience for others by clinking glasses, rattling ice and, of... Read more
Pension contributions give tax breaks and asset control
Conor White | 26 October 2007 | Finance
As the 31 October deadline for 2007 tax returns is fast approaching, I thought that it might be useful to recap on the changed landscape of retirement funding in Ireland. Retirement funding is also becoming increasingly important, given that pension... Read more
Fantastic flower's sorry history
Thecla Scully | 26 October 2007 | Culture and society
Every drug company has a list of historic blunders, but only one can lay claim to the mass marketing of heroin. Synthesised first in 1874 by Alder Wright, an English chemist working at St Mary’s Hospital Medical School in London,... Read more
Dinosaurs and disease
Dr Robert O'Sullivan | 19 October 2007 | Culture and society
Born in 1755, James Parkinson would go on to lead an extraordinary life of achievement, endeavour and controversy. He is best known for the disease that now bears his name, but barely remembered for his contributions to geology, society and... Read more
The devil-may-care doctor and writer
Dr Patrick Rowan | 19 October 2007 | Literature
Like many before him and after him, Charles Lever qualified as a medical doctor in early life but later forsook medicine for writing. His lively devil-may-care stories enthralled the public and in his day his novels were as popular as... Read more
A life of quiet tragedy
Dr John Wallace | 19 October 2007 | Art
Walter Osbourne was born at 5 Castlewood Ave, Rathmines in Dublin in 1859 to a family that produced doctors and the occasional writer or painter. His father, who was also an artist, specialised in painting animals and made a modest... Read more
Sometimes it's hard to be a woman
Berna Cox | 12 October 2007 | Culture and society
Sometimes, when I’m wearing my lecturing hat, enthusiastic students ask me what’s the best thing about being a journalist. What is it really like as a job? Who have I met? Who have I interviewed? What were they like? Do... Read more
The forecast for the cream of the crop in European investment
Conor White | 12 October 2007 | Finance
Kingspan €15.65 Last month Kingspan reported a very strong set of H1 2007 results, with adjusted earnings per share (EPS) up 32 per cent to 52.8. The numbers were ahead of expectations and reflected better than expected results from the... Read more
The story of your life
05 October 2007 | Literature
Introduced by Maeve Binchy, LifeStory is a unique book which has been created to enable Irish families, couples and individuals to begin the process of compiling and writing their own life histories. It was launched by television and radio presenters... Read more
Its days are numbered but its history is rich
Dr John Wallace | 05 October 2007 | Culture and society
The British NHS has handed over the keys of the Radcliffe Infirmary to Oxford University. A new book casts an affectionate backward glance at two centuries of outstanding medical achievement by Oxford’s first hospital. Some of the greatest innovators in... Read more