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Wednesday, February 22, 2012

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Solving the Greek puzzle

The Greek deal will make its debts a priority but it has lost the trust of the EU leadership and its fellow member states, writes Europe Correspondent Ann Cahill

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Global future of Europe’s crisis

‘Politics beyond borders’ will become a global necessity, writes Kemal Dervis

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Economic wasteland now a blank canvas

Ireland’s blighted socio-economic landscape is interpreted by four artists in a fascinating new exhibition, says Carl Dixon

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Don’t call us hippies

Just because US indie act Grouplove met in a commune in Greece doesn’t mean they’re flower children, says Ed Power

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Where coding is child’s play

An informal group helping children and teens develop their skills as computer coders started in Cork last year — and it’s just about to go global, writes Tommy Barker

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A helping hand

After the controversy surrounding Dr Tony Humphreys’ remarks on autism, Dr Penny Rogers outlines the varied signs of the spectrum

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Doing the best for our children

A diagnosis of ASD is a start to dealing with the challenges that lie ahead, says Bernie Cahill

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State’s services must catch up with what parents already know

IT’S nearly two weeks since psychologist Tony Humphreys sparked outraged by saying children on the autism spectrum were shutting down because of an “absence of expressed love” from their parents.

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Finding a light in the dark

After Erbie Underwood overdosed last month at 18, his mum was determined his story would have a positive outcome, says Joe McNamee

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The naked truth about the real calendar girls

An idea about posing nude for charity led some ladies to create a calendar that outsold Pirelli’s that year, says Claire Droney

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Making fun of it all

Dara Ó Briain’s Irish wit is loved in England where he is a big hit as a TV host, but stand-up is his first love, writes Carl Dixon

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The good, the mad and the great Ennio

The Spaghetti Western Orchestra recreate the soundtracks of Italy’s legendary film composer, says Richard Fitzpatrick

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Her look is on the money

IMF director Christine Lagarde arrived at last month’s World Economic Forum on a mission.

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Government loses face over Vatican and we lose faith

GOD-hating, priest-baiting, loony leftie Eamon Gilmore secured a key plank of his evil secular masterplan to make us a nation of pagans by shutting down the Vatican embassy.

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Flight of the Wild Geese II

Up until a few years ago, Derek Quinlan epitomised the property bubble that had engulfed Ireland. With his empire now mostly in the hands of Nama, Michael Clifford profiles the man who once flew the Tricolour over London

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Girls’ twitching ‘an inconvenient truth’

When a bunch of US girls began twitching, theories differed about the cause, from mass hallucinations to toxins, writes Nancy Haas

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The killer instinct

Shane Geoghegan was one of ‘us’ but cultivating an ‘us versus them’ mentality just adds to social divide which has allowed gun crime to flourish, writes Michael Clifford

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Fracking pollution claims ‘unproven’

A team of Texan scientists has studied the much-criticised ‘fracking’ method of extracting natural gases, writes John von Radowitz

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Master of the black arts ...

The darkest of colours is the focal point of Dubh, an exhibition of contemporary objects that moved from New York to Dublin, says Tina O’Sullivan

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Mellow, melancholy deep sea dive

Bap Kennedy talks to Gerry Quinn about the changing course of his music and the thrill of working with Mark Knopfler

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Should I stay or should I go?

GO - Catherine Shanahan

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Playing the blame game over stars’ deaths

Partners of celebrities such as Whitney Houston are not to blame for addictions, says Suzanne Harrington

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Plunging into the depths

The rush to build an aquatic centre resulted in a faulty building, an unsustainable business model, and also costly and still unresolved legal disputes, writes Investigations Correspondent Conor Ryan

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Pieces of her heart

Melissa Etheridge’s ballads are infused with her liberalism, her loves, and her fearless outspokenness,says Ed Power

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The ex-IRA man who died a Nazi collaborator

Frank Ryan fought in the Irish and Spanish civil wars but became a Hitler stooge. A new film tells his story, says Richard Fitzpatrick

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An Irishman, a KGB spy, and a great escape

Sean Bourke broke out ‘traitor’ George Blake from prison in 1966, enabling him to flee to Moscow, says Richard Fitzpatrick

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Soldiers of mixed fortune

We have fought bravely and died brutally in wars ranging from the Napoleonic to the Boer to World War 11. The Fighting Irish is the story of our finest, says Richard Fitzpatrick

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Mr Scissorhands

From a Frankfurt office tower he masterminds a team that has downgraded eurozone countries’ credit ratings 36 times. Mark Jones profiles Standard & Poor’s Moritz Kraemer

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Stance typical of anti-Israel activists

Dervla Murphy’s call for a boycott of Israel is one-sided and shows a misunderstanding of the facts, writes Boaz Modai

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Better educated but still lagging in pay and power

Better qualified than their male counterparts, women in Ireland earn less, are grossly under-represented in politics, and barely register in engineering, manufacturing and construction, according to recently published data from the Central Statistics Office (CSO).

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Where women rarely go...

A few females are plying their trade in male-dominated sectors hit by recession, says Sue Leonard

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One man stand against beastly neighbours

In Eugene Ionesco’s classic play, Rhinoceros, the hero must resist succumbing to the law of the jungle, says Colette Sheridan

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Analysis of dream career

Viggo Mortensen explores the many facets of Sigmund Freud’s character in A Dangerous Method, writes Declan Cashin

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