Patrick Mccabe
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Mad men and women in fiction
- Books
- May 2, 2014, 01:27
Reviewed by Eileen Battersby in The Irish Times this Saturday, Em and the Big Hoom by Jerry Pinto (Viking, £14.99) is a near-perfect account of a p(...)

An Irishman's diary: a game of two hemispheres
- Music
- April 2, 2014, 02:00
After writing about Japan’s cherry blossom season last week (Irishman’s Diary, Friday), I received an e-mail from a young Laois man named Paul (...)

Your favourite opening lines in literature
- Books
- March 28, 2014, 01:00
“Call me Ishmael.” Herman Melville, Moby Dick (1851), Posted by Austin Duffy “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was t(...)

Marie Fleming’s compelling story
- The Health Centre
- February 22, 2014, 01:00
I came to Marie Fleming’s book knowing just a few facts about her. I knew that she suffered from multiple sclerosis. Faced by the certain prosp(...)

Car dealer Patrick McCabe fails in bid to stop fast-tracking of €16m judgment
- Retail & Services
- January 15, 2014, 01:01
A car dealer aged in his 70s who ran garage businesses in Co Louth over four decades has lost a bid to prevent the fast- tracking of a bank’s applicat(...)

Television: Culinary egos clash in blind taste test, passion fuses strangers on a train
- Culture
- January 11, 2014, 01:00
If The Taste (Channel 4, Tuesday) proves a hit for Nigella Lawson, it will be a case of revenge being a dish best served with a spoon. In the new cook(...)

What lies beneath
- Stage
- September 10, 2013, 14:00
PondlingBoys’ School, Smock Alley****Madeline is a lady, impeccable in presentation, delighting in all things beautiful, with a taste for the finer th(...)

Garda Commissioner expresses ‘regret’ at handling of abuse claims in Murphy report
- Religion & Beliefs
- July 15, 2013, 01:00
Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan has expressed regret at how gardaí referred to in newly published chapter the Murphy report dealt with allegations (...)

Chapter 20 of Murphy report distils horror of world that had lost its moral compass
- Religion & Beliefs
- July 13, 2013, 01:00
You could say that chapter 20 is a 62-page distillation of all the horrors revealed in the Murphy report, in general.It illustrates vividly a world wh(...)

Catholic Archbishops castigated by Murphy report for handling of McCabe abuse allegations
- Religion & Beliefs
- July 13, 2013, 01:00
Chapter 20 of the Murphy report, “encapsulates everything that was wrong with the [Dublin] archdiocesan handling of child sexual abuse cases,” it said(...)