Patrick Mccabe
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Sideline Cut: Dublin, the big bad wolf of summer, has feelings too
- Sport
- September 5, 2015, 10:00
And what about Dublin’s football ghosts? Let us not suppose here, as the world and the circling planets warms hands on the fire that will emanate from(...)

Garda wants name taken from Dáil record
- Crime & Law
- March 7, 2015, 01:00
Ceann Comhairle Seán Barrett was asked by members of An Garda Síochána to stop TDs from making allegations which they deemed to be damaging to members(...)

The L factor: a literary ambassador for Ireland
- Books
- November 5, 2014, 01:00
Ireland will get its first Laureate for Fiction in January 2015, chosen from a longlist of 34 writers announced recently. The €150,000 laureateship(...)

Darragh McKeon on standing in the margins, beyond influence or affiliation
- Books
- August 6, 2014, 12:00
Darragh McKeon has worked as a director with theatre companies such as Rough Magic in Dublin, the Royal Court and Young Vic in London, and Steppenw(...)

Five people’s treasures are an auctioneer’s trash
- People
- August 5, 2014
You have finally got around to clearing the attic. While leafing through yellowing copies of An Claidheamh Soluis and The Illustrated London News s(...)

A murder cover-up most foul
- Heritage
- July 25, 2014, 01:00
US readers of yesterday’s diary might be forgiven for thinking that 98 Avenue in Clones, which I mentioned in passing, was part of an American-style g(...)

Don’t tamper with the perfection of Clones on Ulster final day
- Sport
- July 19, 2014, 02:00
Is the GAA seriously about to end the tradition of Ulster final day in Clones? Say it ain’t so, Joe. To do so would be madness.Yes, the logic of movin(...)

The Border’s unofficial maps and crossings
- Culture
- July 12, 2014, 01:00
Maps have an air of authority about them: they have always been a way of defining territory, setting out the lie of the land. They chart how things ar(...)

Car premises sold for €3.4m
- Commercial Property
- May 7, 2014, 01:00
Two motor showrooms and garages owned by car dealer Patrick McCabe at Drogheda and Ardee have been sold by Brendan Smyth of DTZ Sherry FitzGerald on t(...)

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(...)