Lifestyle

Berna Cox is delighted and flattered that she still has what it takes to make hotel staff think the worst of her and her husband.

Shirley Lanigan writes that the fragile-looking snowdrop will brighten up any winter garden and happily multiply to form a ‘snowdrift’ for future years.

Giovanni Morelli writes that even experts can be fooled when it comes to recognising true quality, and this applies to wine as much as other areas Now that the festivities are over and all the New Year’s resolutions have been made (or broken), it’s time to look back at the wines we drank in 2008.

Jack Lynch – A Biography, by Dermot Keogh (Gill and Macmillan, €26.

Berna Cox is a dab hand with a shovel when it comes to whipping up a dinner for the family.

Dr John Wallace looks at the career of Academy Award-winner Greer Garson, star of Random Harvest, Mrs Miniver and the superb Goodbye Mr Chips.

Last year was a ‘once in a lifetime’ year.

Berna Cox writes that children who, until now, have been reaping the benefits of their parents’ Celtic Tiger lifestyles will have to learn how to squirrel away some savings for a rainy day.

Dr John Wallace looks at one of the great cerebral heroes of the 20th century, Ludwig Wittgenstein, a philosopher who had a deep attachment to both medicine and Ireland Philosophers are not expected to be heroic, but two certainly are.

June Shannon finds out why the festive season is one of the busiest and most stressful times of the year for many doctors around the country.