Design Centre's spring/summer collections. Earrings, necklaces and brooches which are priced from £3.95 to £9.95 are handpainted, then glazed with a clear varnish. Zany, colourful and cheap, it's on sale at the centre in Dublin as well as Cork.

the horse which may win the £62,700 which awaits the first past the post in tomorrow's Jameson Grand National at Fairyhouse. If Bankers Benefit did win Fowler would be entitled to feel pleased with himself for he recognised the possibility many months ago: "There are not that ma

OPERATING as the Shamrocks, Andy Kershaw's Irish Under-21 squad are spending Easter in Edinburgh, which offers good class hockey on synthetic pitches playing against teams with silly names. On Friday, for instance, the Pinkies (sic) dented Irish pride by inflicting a 2-1 defeat,

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chauvinistic western art preoccupation with the female nude . He would seem to have proved his point. AS IF Dublin theatres didn't have enough to bother about, the shortage of suitable rehearsal space is becoming a major problem. Even the Gate and the Abbey have difficulties fin

Sean MacMathuna: story readings with piper Peter Browne. Cafe Gorm, Sandford Restaurant, Ranelagh, Thursday 8-12. Nicaragua: Socialist Workers Movement talk by Mike Gonzalez. Carpenters Hall, Cork, Friday, 8 pm. The State Art Museum, Bruges: Talk in Great Collections of the worl

1. The Moth. Catherine Cookson. Corgi. (2) 2. A . Perfect Spy. John Le Carre. Coronet. (2) 3. The Bourne Supremacy. Robert Ludlum. Grafton. (3) • DAVID Attenborough 4. Cyclops. Clive Cussler. heading the hardback non- Sphere. (-) fiction list 5. The Fraternity Of The Stone. Davi

THE exchequer is collecting almost £6O a week in PRSI payments from both employer and employee in respect of workers earning £3OO per week gross. But the maximum amount of pay related benefit which may be claimed by a redundant worker following the MacSharry budget is just under