Archive for February, 2005

What next for Sinn Fein? There seem to be three general theories doing the rounds. The first is that the doves succumb, in their own parlance, to the hawks, and the IRA goes back to war.

Luxury apartments went on sale in Dun Laoghaire in Dublin last week, and punters queued up overnight to buy them. This reasonably common occurrence has been repeated all over the country for the past ten years.

The entire hullabaloo this week in the media about babies, fertility, marriage and parents should focus our minds on a most puzzling development in Ireland over the past few years: we are having a lot of children. Why are we experiencing our second baby boom since the late 1970s?

In Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Chronicle of a Death Foretold, the story of a gruesome murder unfolds. A young woman marries, but on her wedding night it is found that she is not a virgin.