GAA finally closed the door on an age-old grudge the decency to make a phone call." For the Irish fans still trying to come to terms with Henry's handball, Roy's reckless recalling of the traumatic events leading up to Japan-Korea 2002 was almost too much. While the nation was u

neared closure, and she was forced to step back, with the Unionists accusing her of bias towards Sinn Fein, she quipped to the then president Bill Clinton: "Didn't you know? I'm the new tea lady around here."

Once called the 'defender of the Arab world; Hussein's invasion of Kuwait in 1990 sparked international concern and the subsequent Gulf War. Hussein and his sons imposed domestic repression and brutality on the Iraqi people. After the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq, Hussein escape

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Some predictions just didn't quite come true for us, writes Damian Corless There's something about the approach of a new millennium that gets the soothsayers out in droves. As the year 1000 neared, all of Europe got into a tizzy over predictions that the anti-Christ would appear

When the drains get clogged, we know we need a plumber, but when the wall needs painting, we think about doing it ourselves. We discover that some of the shops we wouldn't have been caught dead in during the boom years are not that bad. And that own-label goods work in pretty mu

4 . BIG PLANS: Eating healthily and going to the gym are much easier said than done