http://www.irishtimes.com Articles from The Irish Times - Weekend en-ie Copyright 2009, irishtimes.com. The Irish Times 2009-11-07T00:00:00 http://www.irishtimes.com/ http://www.irishtimes.com/feeds/rss/rss_logo.gif Search for articles on irishtimes.com keywords http://www.irishtimes.com/search/index.html?rm=listresults http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/1107/1224258254452.html According to two reports this week, young Irish people - and men in particular - are bearing the brunt of the recession, with potentially devastating effects on their lives and the economy. Members of the so-called 'lost generation' discuss their plight. CARL O'BRIEN,Chief Reporter Text Weekend TopStories 2009-11-07T00:00:00 1224258254452 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/1107/1224258254538.html The new British Ambassador to Ireland, Julian King, arrived in the middle of the Lisbon debate (say nothing, he was told) and a rapidly-changing economy. He shares his impressions so far Text Weekend TopStories 2009-11-07T00:00:00 1224258254538 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/1107/1224258254519.html PRESENT TENSE:FEW INTELLECTUALS inspire such devotion as Noam Chomsky. Watching the esteemed MIT linguistics professor deliver a wide-ranging talk at the RDS last Monday, it was easy to understand why.  Text Weekend TopStories 2009-11-07T00:00:00 1224258254519 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/1107/1224258254690.html IN CORK, the news that the Lonely Planettravel guide had named the city as one of its top 10 cities to visit for 2010 was greeted not with an “oh, how nice”, but with a “shur why wouldn’t it?”. While there is much to admire in such pride, there is also a current of smug complacency, writes ALAN O'RIORDAN Text Weekend News features 2009-11-07T00:00:00 1224258254690 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/1107/1224258254591.html WHEN DRUG dealer John Kinsella was sentenced recently for conspiring to import cocaine and heroin, his barrister told Judge Tony Hunt that Kinsella’s guilty plea had saved the State the considerable expense of a lengthy and complex trial, writes CONOR LALLY,Crime Correspondent Text Weekend News features 2009-11-07T00:00:00 1224258254591 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/1107/1224258254461.html MOVE OVER Madonna, you old cougar you. Irish women aged 40 and older now share your taste for men in their 20s and 30s. One-third of single Irish women in their 40s are prowling for men at least five years younger, according to research by Parship, an internet dating site with 50,000 Irish members, writes KATE HOLMQUIST Text Weekend News features 2009-11-07T00:00:00 1224258254461 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/1107/1224258254480.html Expensive construction and farming machinery is being stolen in Ireland and the UK by organised crime gangs. It turns up in places as far away as Iraq and South Africa, writes MARK HENNESSY Text Weekend News features 2009-11-07T00:00:00 1224258254480 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/1107/1224258254502.html THE SYDNEY beachside suburb of Coogee entered the minds of Irish people with brutal force last week through the violent death there of Dubliner Gearóid Walsh (23), writes PÁDRAIG COLLINS, in Sydney Text Weekend News features 2009-11-07T00:00:00 1224258254502 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/1107/1224258254819.html PROFILE JOE COLEMAN:THE ROOM is small, cosy, comfortably cluttered, with a sweet fragrance. Two chairs are on either side of a low table on which there is a large, lit pink-coloured candle. Its base is surrounded by stones, some crystal-like. Joe Coleman lights a joss stick, carefully extinguishes the flame and places it near the candle as it adds to the sweetness of the air. Text Weekend News features 2009-11-07T00:00:00 1224258254819 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/1107/1224258254858.html IN A WEEK when it was announced that the partial-boil notice on drinking water in Ennis is to be lifted, waterworks of a different kind were drawing attention to the Co Clare town. The issue of public urination came to the fore recently when local shop owner John O’Connor was forced to install an electric fence outside his shop to deter would-be urinators, for whom the streets and lanes of Ennis have become an open bathroom, writes BRIAN O’CONNELL Text Weekend News features 2009-11-07T00:00:00 1224258254858 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/1107/1224258254802.html THE SATURDAY INTERVIEW: JACK O’CONNOR, President of Ictu Text Weekend News features 2009-11-07T00:00:00 1224258254802 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/1107/1224258254843.html A glance at the week that was

Text Weekend News features 2009-11-07T00:00:00 1224258254843 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/1107/1224258252366.html ‘A GIG of this nature is not a chore. It may be an obligation. It is, most certainly, a great entertainment,” says Daniel Figgis of Snakes and Ladders, a mini-festival of music, visual art and soundwork art. Text Weekend Arts 2009-11-07T00:00:00 1224258252366 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/1107/1224258252433.html THE ICONIC, ground-breaking gig which, if you believe every man in the pub, seems to have been attended by half the world’s population, is a constant of pop mythology. Only a few dozen people saw the Sex Pistols at St Martin’s College in 1975, but several thousand now claim to have been among the pogo-ing throng, writes DONALD CLARKE Text Weekend Arts 2009-11-07T00:00:00 1224258252433 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/1107/1224258252388.html ARTSCAPE:RECENTLY, THERE HAS been some sniping about the lack of hard information on the impact of culture economically (as opposed to its innate worth). Some off-the-wall figures have been thrown about, claiming that it has a massive economic importance and employs huge numbers of people, writes DEIRDRE FALVEY Text Weekend Arts 2009-11-07T00:00:00 1224258252388 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/1107/1224258252405.html CULTURE SHOCK:A FORTNIGHT AGO, the Minister for Education Batt O’Keeffe announced the formation of a committee to consider what is surely the most difficult public art commission in the history of the State. The Ryan report into institutional child abuse recommended, among other things, the erection of “a memorial to the victims as a permanent public acknowledgement of their experiences”, writes FINTAN O’TOOLE Text Weekend Arts 2009-11-07T00:00:00 1224258252405 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/1107/1224258254772.html POETRY: Life Is a Dream: 40 Years Reading Poems 1967-2007By Paul Durcan Harvill Secker, 586pp. £16.99 Text Weekend Book Reviews 2009-11-07T00:00:00 1224258254772 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/1107/1224258252633.html WITNESSING A CLASSMATE’S crushing treatment at the hands of a professor who pronounced his essay boring, the young Mary Beard resolved this should never happen to her. A commitment to be as interesting as possible, to entertain, has driven her since, through decades of classical scholarship, advancement to the chair of classics at Cambridge, prolific publication and, most recently, a blog for Times Online. A Don’s Life, as it is named, might appear to roam far from the ancient world, to popular culture, reality TV and politics, but it is always anchored in some parallel with the classical past, writes HELEN MEANY Text Weekend Book Reviews 2009-11-07T00:00:00 1224258252633 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/1107/1224258252462.html BIOGRAPHY: The Eitingons: A Twentieth-Century Story, By Mary-Kay Wilmers, Faber & Faber, 476pp. £20 Text Weekend Book Reviews 2009-11-07T00:00:00 1224258252462 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/1107/1224258254786.html MEMOIR: The Invisible Prison: Scenes from an Irish ChildhoodBy Pat Boran, Dedalus Press, 262pp. €24.99 (hbk) €13.99 (pbk) Text Weekend Book Reviews 2009-11-07T00:00:00 1224258254786 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/1107/1224258254760.html ANTHOLOGY: Commotions: New Writing from the Oscar Wilde CentreOWC Press, 188pp. €10; A Curious Impulse: New Writing from the MA in Creative Writing UCD 2009MACWPress, 146pp. €10 Text Weekend Book Reviews 2009-11-07T00:00:00 1224258254760 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/1107/1224258252619.html BIOGRAPHY: How to Be a Movie Star: Elizabeth Taylor in HollywoodBy William J Mann Faber and Faber, 406pp. £20 Text Weekend Book Reviews 2009-11-07T00:00:00 1224258252619 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/1107/1224258252477.html FICTION: So What If I’m BrokenBy Anna McPartlin Poolbeg, 328pp, €12.99 Text Weekend Book Reviews 2009-11-07T00:00:00 1224258252477 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/1107/1224258252491.html A literary roundup Text Weekend Book Reviews 2009-11-07T00:00:00 1224258252491 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/1107/1224258254728.html Where do saints rub shoulders with sinners, and eccentrics brush up against pillars of the community? In the monumental ‘ Dictionary of Irish Biography’, just published by the Royal Irish Academy, writes JAMES QUINN Text Weekend Heritage & Habitat 2009-11-07T00:00:00 1224258254728 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/1107/1224258254707.html ANOTHER LIFE:‘BIODIVERSITY” WAS NEVER a word to fire the heart. We know what it means – or do we? According to the Eurobarometer, half the Irish in 2007 had never heard the word and only one in five knew what it meant. But yes, we readers of The Irish Timescan take a bit of scientific shorthand, and the word is so much handier than “everything in nature: all the different species, all the patterns and systems of their lives.” Text Weekend Heritage & Habitat 2009-11-07T00:00:00 1224258254707 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/1107/1224258254750.html A herigate and habitat roundup Text Weekend Heritage & Habitat 2009-11-07T00:00:00 1224258254750 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/1107/1224258252670.html TV REVIEW: Into the StormBBC2, Monday, Beyond the Berlin WallRTÉ1, Tuesday, The ClinicRTÉ1, Sunday, The Schoolboy Who Sailed Round the WorldChannel 4, Thursday

Text Weekend Seen & Heard 2009-11-07T00:00:00 1224258252670 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/1107/1224258252649.html ‘OF COURSE,” the old man goes, loud enough for the entire Horseshoe Bor to hear, “what you’ve been reading over the last few days is only half the story, writes ROSS O’CARROLL-KELLY Text Weekend Seen & Heard 2009-11-07T00:00:00 1224258252649 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/1107/1224258252685.html RADIO REVIEW:THE PROSPECT of a cosy chat with Miriam O’Callaghan on Miriam Meets(RTÉ Radio One, Sundays) didn’t exactly turn my dial. But it did when I heard Fianna Fáil TD Mary O’Rourke was on live with her nephew, Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan. It was illuminating and entertaining with (almost) no talk of Nama, writes QUENTIN FOTTRELL Text Weekend Seen & Heard 2009-11-07T00:00:00 1224258252685