Sign up to The Irish Times Archive (1859 - 2008)My Account »

For some relief from the recession, try surfing the web for real life stories that are stranger than fiction, suggests ORNA MULCAHY

ALL THIS staring into the vortex is depressing, so this week, instead of dwelling on headlines of a trillion being sunk here, and billions wiped out there, and job losses everywhere, the eye has been allowed to drift to the margins of newspaper websites, where real life stories are played out, frequently under the “Most read” or “Most curious” banner.