Handmade cheeses, exquisite silky chocolate, fragrant honey, tender dry-aged beef, succulent mountain lamb, traditional bread freshly baked by hand, Irish salmon smoked over woodchips from noble oaks felled in local woods. This is not exactly the usual fare on a supermarket shelf. At any of the farmers’ markets that have sprung up around the country [...]
The past year has seen a number of events celebrating the life of Grace Kelly, who died in 1982. To commemorate the 25th anniversary of her death, Prince Albert, Grace Kelly’s son, opened the palace archives in Monaco to provide manuscripts, photographs and other objects for a new book that attempts to give an insight [...]
Charlie’s dead. But before you offer your condolences, nobody’s been bereaved. “Charlie’s dead” is a nice little euphemism us girls used among ourselves as a sort of secret code to let each other know that there was a bit of slip showing. A sneaky little half-inch or so of white lace dipping below the hemline. [...]
By the time you read this, you will hopefully have recovered from the Christmas and New Year’s break, back ‘in the saddle’ again. I hope that you have all eaten and drunk sensibly and have not had too much recourse to PPIs! I presume that many of you will have received bottles of wine from [...]
The National Gallery of Ireland now temporarily holds two highly controversial pictures, Omai, by Joshua Reynolds, and Reclining Nude, by Modigliani. Omai has already caused a major row with the Tate Gallery in London and also with the British government. The subject of Omai, was born near Tahiti in 1751 and was brought to England [...]
Many headwinds face Irish equities in 2008, including slowing economic growth, declining house prices, the elevated cost of wholesale funding and the rising Euro. At Goodbody’s, we remain below consensus in both Irish GDP estimates and key stock metrics in the market to reflect these perceived risks. Whilst valuations have fallen precipitously through 2007 (ISEQ [...]
Where does this expression ‘Chicken soup for the soul’ come from? Chicken soup, in its purest form, as a clear broth with vegetables and chicken meat is also known as ‘the Jewish Penicillin’ and must therefore be as old as the hills themselves. There is even a website called jewishpenicillin.com which claims that “Dr Stephen [...]
This week, the first week of January, is possibly my favourite week of the year. I like the notion of new starts; new beginnings. I hate the months of November and December and I’m always heartily glad to see the back of them. Even in early January, it’s possible to see ever such a small [...]
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