Hercule Poirot
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Cycling’s Grand Tours have taken on new meaning this year
- Other Sports
- October 17, 2020, 06:00
Some were last seen properly battered, some just badly bruised, others appearing to simply vanish overnight in what later proved suspicious circumstan(...)

The Pale Horse: Deliciously atmospheric Agatha Christie adaptation
- TV, Radio, Web
- February 9, 2020, 22:30
Sarah Phelps’ latest Agatha Christie adaptation (BBC One, Sunday, 9pm) has something for everyone. Suspicious deaths, a coven of witches (headed by a (...)

Floating Man, Liberland: A tiny festival in one of the world’s newest (and smallest) states
- Europe
- August 28, 2019, 11:47
Mud, mosquitos and music – the original ingredients for a festival. Add in an airstrip, riverboats, cryptocurrency, Croatian police and a new micro na(...)

A new Star Wars trilogy isn’t far, far away
- Film
- May 10, 2019, 05:45
Walt Disney, which recently took over 21st Century Fox, has unveiled a schedule that includes films opening deep into the third term of Donald Trump’s(...)

Albert Finney, who helped change face of British film, dies aged 82
- Film
- February 8, 2019
Albert Finney, one of the actors who helped change British theatre and film in the early 1960s, has died after a short illness, at the age of 82. He (...)

Crime fiction round-up: Man Booker nominated Snap by Belinda Bauer leaves no trace behind
- Books
- September 8, 2018, 06:00
The best news of the crime fiction season is that Claire DeWitt, Sara Gran’s irresistible private detective, is back in a much-anticipated new adventu(...)

A bad scented candle can linger for weeks but this Irish-made one smells lovely
- Fashion
- April 21, 2018, 06:45
My superpower is an acute sense of smell. I can detect and identify all kinds of stuff and could do a Hercule Poirot/Sherlock Holmes deconstruction of(...)

Johnny Depp and Judi Dench can't save Murder on the Orient Express
- Film
- November 3, 2017
There’s not a lot you can do with Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express. Though blessed with one of the great denouements in golden-age crime(...)

One More Thing: Luxury Irish train holidays at loco prices
- Companies
- April 24, 2015, 01:00
Plans announced this week by Belmond Ltd to launch luxury train holidays in Ireland from August 2016, from €3,160 per person for a two-night clicke(...)

Modernist home in D18 for €1.295m
- New to Market
- August 28, 2014, 01:00
From a distance, Ballybride House could be just another sprawling Celtic Tiger extravaganza. It has long, low sleek lines, security cameras, electri(...)