... impressive performer in the Dail as youth affairs spokesman and is growing in confidence all the time. A UCD science graduate, he speaks with authority and nobody in the party doubts that he will make it on to the front bench in due course. Likely to be a junior ...

... 'chucker' so is every second bowler in international cricket. The 24-year-old, who has been dubbed the Rawalpindi Express, was speaking at a press conference in Perth yesterday after he was suspended indefinitely by the International Cricket Council (ICC) while ...

... city, there were few incidents among United's 40,000 travelling supporters. There was barely any tension. It's not usual to speak of football fans from England enjoying a lighthearted build-up to such a major event, but it was as if they were confident ...

... by an unrefusable carrot offered to a CCE executive, who in this matter represent only themselves. But though CCE may not speak for professional traditional musicians, one might have reasonably expected it to hold principles dearer than the £375.000 pledged ...

... Parker, Bud Powell, Al Haig, Dexter Gordon, Fats Navaro and the other modern pioneers truly were 'setting the limits', so to speak (just as Art Tatum had previously set the limits of the technically possible). To this superb ideal, such fantastic artists ...

... whose family runs a grocery store near Manger Square, has mixed feelings about the Israeli tourists. When I hear them speaking Hebrew in the streets, it manes me nervous, says Ice. She feels resentment that an Israeli can travel through any checkpoint ...

... that O'Connell's evidence actually shocked and horrified him, and that it was careless and reckless, quite appalling. Speaking on TV3's Agenda programme the same day, Mitchell said in the period in question, inflation never exceeded 4%, we had two ...

... which won them the All Ireland title last year, he found himself on the losing side, and the All Ireland gone. Offaly hurling speaks for itself. We've only been around 20 years, but we've given great, great memories. I hope it's not going to be a hundred ...

... the difficulty about representation on RTE programmes. O'Malley wrote to Lynch, is the broader question of the order of speaking in the House. I spoke to the Ceann Comhairle and he feels that it is not appropriate that I should put down a motion for ...

... jazz is a conversational art. The soloist constructs a line which is a direct and personal communication - one to one, so to speak Of this soloistic 'conversation', it is true to say, just as devotees of Bach's fugues have often observed, that 'the beauty ...

... you were. Mick never rings, neither do I. You could never understand that; how two friends can go weeks or months without speaking to each other, then carry on as though there had been no break, when one walks through the door of the other. I hope now ...

... difficulties (2,7,2) 12. One straying from Wolverhampton (8) 14. & 21. Free time for a convict (7,4) 17. Dwelt with intent, so to speak (6) DOWN 1. Fall to the ground (4,3.4) 2. Celtic priest (5) 3. Hope (8) 4. Cheerless (6) 5. Fragrant ointment (4) 6. Appease ...