Clare Short

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Steve Martin and Martin Short. Photograph: Bryan Derballa/New York Times
Steve Martin and Martin Short: ‘I have about 800 cousins coming to the Dublin show’

Martin Short first met his partial namesake and friend Steve Martin when he went to the latter’s house to collect the script for Three Amigos, the hit(...)

Novena of poems: Caitríona Ní Chléirchín reads “In Memory of My Mother” at the graveside of Patrick Kavanagh in Inniskeen, Co Monaghan, as part of a tribute to mark the 50th anniversary of his death. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times
Poems and pipes: Kavanagh commemorated thus beautifully

It was “a day for the long johns”, as one of the older men present said to his neighbour. Nevertheless, 50 years after Patrick Kavanagh’s death on Nov(...)

Supporters of the Support Palestine group hold placards and protest in Washington. Photograph: Andrew Biraj/AFP/Getty Images
Author of controversial UN report to address Cork talk on Israel

The author of a controversial UN report which accused Israel of operating an apartheid-like regime towards Palestinians is among the speakers due to a(...)

George Galloway, the former British MP, has said he is in favour of an “Ire-exit” from the EU. File photograph: Darren Staples/Reuters
Ex-MP George Galloway urges ‘Ire-exit’ EU referendum

Former British MP George Galloway has said he is in favour of an “Ire-exit” from the EU which should be put to a referendum. The left-wing politician(...)

Katie McCabe: “I’m really excited about it. The whole thing is very full-time professional.” Photograph: Ryan Byrne/Inpho
Katie McCabe eager to grasp big opportunity at Arsenal

She will, says one FAI official “rip it up in England”. Even if her energy and enthusiasm were the only things that Katie McCabe was bringing to Arse(...)

Rebkekah Brooks tells trial she sanctioned payments to officials
  • UK
  • February 27, 2014, 15:35

Rebekah Brooks, Rupert Murdoch’s former British newspaper boss, has told a London court she had sanctioned payments to public officials but de(...)

White Dee (Deirdre Kelly): at home on ‘Benefits Street’
Benefits Street: the controversy rages on

I landed back in my home city of Birmingham the day before the first episode of the now-notorious Benefits Street, aired on Channel 4. I didn’t watch (...)

Angela Merkel holds a BlackBerry Z10 smartphone featuring high security software, used for governmental communication, at a computer fair in Hanover in in March this year. Photograph: Reuters
I spy with my little eye something that looks like hypocrisy
  • US
  • October 31, 2013, 12:01

On Wednesday last week, German chancellor Angela Merkel telephoned Barack Obama and protested in reportedly robust terms against the hacking of her mo(...)