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Jeff Wayne was the guy who composed the famous 1970s Gordon's Gin ad jingle that was sampled by the Human League so often ( recognise th...

Sometimes you meet a character so outstanding, courageous and powerful that they make you breathless with humility. One such person is Rose ...

What happens when an ordinary person gets caught up in the whirlwind of a national news story? With news available from so many different so...

Hello! It's been a while since I posted my goings-on - partly because there have been so many goings-on. You might like to look at an ex...

My Twitter handle is 'Biddy Early' - I chose it because I wasn't sure what exactly Twitter was when I joined and wanted to deper...

Olympians, political activists and TV reporters -- people with Down Syndrome are living their dreams The condition was recently highlighted ...

Call me old-fashioned, but a hen party's not a hen party without a good selection of Willies. Oh, unshield thine eyes. It wasn't THA...

By Susan Daly Wednesday Sep 15 2010 Even the wealthy, the beautiful and the famous need a hand to be happy from time to time. Religion, afte...

Again, this is a post-dated, er, post. This was printed on September 8 as the fourth series of Mad Men began on BBC4. Looking forward to it ...

I wrote this piece on September 6 to coincide with the television premiere on RTE1 of Blind Man Walking, a documentary by Ross Whitaker abou...

This is the cover story I wrote for the Irish Independent's Weekend magazine of September 4 last. Hard to report on, but not half as har...