FEATURES AND PUBLISHED ARTICLES
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Body snatchers of New York...
My sisters ashes reside in an urn in my Dublin flat. But are they Ursula's
ashes at all? It emerges that something very strange happened to my late
sister's remains...
Irish Independent: 27 January 2007
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The Champagne Queen...
As young journalists in the 1970s, we would sit under a picture of a grand dame
in Fleet Street's El Vino. The lady was La Veuve Cliquot, now recognised as an
icon for businesswomen everywhere, and historically seen as...
Irish Independent Magazine: 28 April 2007
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Did sex begin in 1963...?
The novelist Ian McEwan has claimed in an interview that honeymoons were
misery before the 1960s sexual revolution. But surely sexual response is
more a matter of disposition than of date...?
Irish Independent Magazine: 14 April 2007
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Yes, the woman's right to choose is the just solution...
When a man and a woman disagree about conserving the embryos they have
jointly created, the woman’s desire for a pregnancy should take
precedence....
The Guardian: Comment is Free: 10 April 2007
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Nature versus nurture...
I lived with a foster-mother from the age of seven to the age of 15. Her
influence on me has stimulated interest in the nature-nurture debate…
Irish Independent Magazine: 3 March 2007
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Nuns - all kinds of everyone...
The life of a nun has some advantages over that of a wife, and convents
have attracted a diversity of female characters...
Literary Review: March 2007
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The great Chanel...
Probably the most beautiful boutique in Dublin is the Chanel shop at Brown
Thomas. When I pass by I often think of the life of the countryside orphan
Gabrielle who became the great Chanel...
Irish Independent Magazine: 6 January 2007
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Ireland's fast breeders...
Although family size is smaller in Ireland than it used to be, the Irish
are still at the top of Europe's fertile league...
Irish Independent: 18 November 2006
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Fascists and racists are not interchangeable insults...
A fascist may be a racist but is not necessarily so. A racist may be a
fascist, but may not even understand the meaning of the concept...
The Times: 17 November 2006
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The Year that Changed my Life
In 2003, my sister Ursula died of cancer. It was a sorrowful parting…
Daily Mail 31.12.03.
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