Faster, Higher, Stronger – A History of Irish Olympians

“Faster, Higher, Stronger – History of Ireland’s Olympians” is back from the printers and will be available in all good shops soon, price Eu23 (or online at www.ashfieldpress.com).A feature of the book is the statistics section – everyone with any Irish connection who ever competed at an Olympics Games gets a mention. You wouldn’t want […]

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Explaining the Irish

SIGMUND Freud famously claimed that the Irish were the only people on earth beyond the reach of psychoanalysis, writes the brilliant Frank McNally (in the Irish Times of Saturday 21 June) We don’t know what exactly he meant by this (and at the rates he was charging, we sure as hell weren’t going to ask). […]

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