Walter Mitty
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20 great travel movies to take you around the world while you’re stuck at home
- Travel
- March 30, 2020, 10:48
Real-life adventures Wild (2014) Cheryl Strayed decided to walk the Pacific Crest Trail to face her demons, and her memoirs were turned into this upl(...)

Eddie Izzard: I like to think I kicked the trans door open
- Film
- September 15, 2017
Where do you start with Eddie Izzard? The first activity mentioned in any potted biography will still be “stand-up comedy”. In the early 1990s he gain(...)

Euromillions winner’s son given £1.6m, but sues dad for more
- UK
- May 19, 2017, 16:45
A man who was given nearly £1.6 million (€1.86 million) by his father after the latter and his stepmother won £101 million in the Euromillions has had(...)

Arrests of alleged Islamist extremists show threat to Ireland is real
- Crime & Law
- May 10, 2017, 01:30
The arrests of four suspects in operations targeting suspected Islamist extremists in Ireland have generated significant media coverage. But are two s(...)

One question stands out among the many that arise in the Denis O’Brien versus Red Flag Consulting legal action. Why did O’Brien give the USB memory st(...)

The Irish spoofer who was Churchill’s right-hand man
- People
- July 1, 2016, 06:00
Brendan Bracken, Winston Churchill’s closest friend in politics and minister of information in his wartime government, is unique as the only person b(...)

Bigamist jailed after cheating dying wife out of £30,000
- UK
- August 25, 2015, 16:42
A lorry driver has been jailed for cheating his terminally ill wife out of £30,000 of incapacity benefits and committing bigamy by marrying a new brid(...)

Karen Buckley: Prosecutor went to Cork to brief family
- Crime & Law
- August 13, 2015, 01:00
Scotland’s most senior law officer travelled to Ireland last month to meet the family of murdered Cork nurse Karen Buckley and brief them on the ca(...)

O’Donnell accused of ‘being perched in his tower in the castle’
- High Court
- March 6, 2015, 01:00
Nothing about Brian O’Donnell’s confident demeanour suggested he was the common-or-garden subject of a trespass order. He took his seat in the barrist(...)

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
- Film
- December 27, 2013
In an era of cookie-cutter movies, each tailored to a one-word genre, it’s actually a little stirring to encounter a project so deeply mired in an ide(...)