BULLYING, IN its various manifestations, is one of the most common and destructive social practices experienced by children and adults.

Think you're well travelled? How many of these achingly hip cities have you been to?

A joke about the Fiscal Treaty had all the impact of a damp campaign poster

Like property, Irish art prices have fallen sharply. Is now a good time to buy, asksMICHAEL PARSONS 

‘The IT Crowd’ is at an end, but his ‘Ladykillers’ is a West End hit. Now the ‘Father Ted’ writer is preparing a new sitcom – and it involves working with another Arthur, he tellsJAY RICHARDSON 

ROADTEST KIA OPTIMA: AS TWO HOODIE-CLAD teenagers approached the Kia in the rain-sodden Quickpark car park at Dublin airport, my first thoughts were not that this was going to be a discussion about the growing popularity of the Korean brand. It was a dirty, wet night and, with my luggage in the boot I resorted to the usual middle-aged response: frantically look for the central locking switch.

AIB AND Bank of Ireland have announced long-awaited details of voluntary redundancy payouts on offer to about 3,500 staff who could leave the two “pillar” banks.

RUGBY: THIS IS it then. Move over the rest of Europe, as for one day at any rate, a little green corner of south west London will be Irish. That it is Twickenham which is hosting this historic first meeting of Leinster and Ulster in the blue riband of the European club game merely adds to the barefaced Irish cheek of it all. You gotta love it.

In Ireland and across Europe, youth unemployment has become a social emergency, retarding economies and blighting lives. Job-creation policies are failing. Can anything reverse the trend?

In the throes of recession, new eateries are turning up all over Dublin, as restaurateurs streamline their offerings and people spend their nights out at the table rather than the bar

Was Uhura a spaceship's officer or a 23rd-century switchboard operator? The pop-culture portrayal of women in space - grounded in suburban homes but capable of crossing the galaxy in the blink of an eye - is perplexing, writesJOHN BYRNE 

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DEIRDRE MCQUILLAN meets artist, illustrator and fashion designer, the mysterious, elusive and inimitable Kitty Moss, creator of Maud Minet

Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson has scored several films, but his haunting music, as heard on his new album, ‘The Miners’ Hymns’, stands up alone, writesSINEAD GLEESON