The West Cloud with outbreaks of rain. potentially thundery. Some brighter interludes. Rain at times on Monday . Moderate or fresh wind. Daytime high of 16°C falling to 7°C overnight and rising to 14°C tomorrow. The North: Possibly bright at first. Becoming dull with showers, po

BY tomorrow evening 47 • young pianists will have been eliminated from the first round of the GPA International Piano Competi'don. The remaining 20 will go on to compete in the sec: and round on Tuesday. Not only will the competitors be disappointed not to qualify but their host

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attracted when they look at me...but they're actually afraid of it' met her in a very dim nightclub. Her Rebecca suspects that woman have a Ross and moved to Dublin. Ross Tallon she's an unfortunate woman trapped in mannish jaw is a giveaway, and her head hidden agenda when they

when uttered by an urbane and insouciant political torturer. Within its very banality lies the central conceit of Pintees play: beneath social and political kitsch lurks an appalling violence. Evil (in this case political torture) is more horrifying because it is ordinary: pract

generation liberated by Donough O'Malley's revolutionary 1968 free secondary education scheme. When he edited the Picador Anthology of Irish Literature he very deliberately took 1968 as his starting date. "Free education didn't just open the way for new writers, but new readers