... An illness that dare not speak its name Iwas 22 and life was just about perfect when I was first struck by the illness. I now know that it's depression. Then I thought I was going insane. I was physically healthy, thriving in a course I enjoyed at university ...

... FGs SPEAK FIRST AND THINK LATER Fine Gael's young bucks have proved the old adage that sometimes silence is golden. First, Lucinda Creighton couldn't help phoning up RTE's Marian Finucane to declare her love for having more social housing in the tree-lined ...

... Most of the passengers refused to speak unfa- vourably of the tour organisers, with one man saying he had been On 10 ...

... Violence that dares not speak its name Leona O'Rourke talks to Margaret Martin, Director of Women's Aid, about the scourge of domestic violence ...

... Carla Bruni speaks of marriage plan CARLA BRUNT described reports of a secret wedding with French President Nicolas Sarkozy as a hurricane of madness, but said yesterday that marriage was in our plans. - In her first comments since reports last week ...

... doesn't speak a line. But what was offered, though, was one of the most unforgettable slices of theatre Irish audiences have been privileged to witness. Beckett may have written Eh Joe for television but he would have been delighted at the ingenious way ...

... Bertie is dead in the water, politically speaking THIS weekend both the British and Irish Governments are in quite severe political trouble. Fianna Fail, being the largest political party in the Republic and dominating the present inter-party Government ...

... Speaking waterford: Lesson N°2 „ understand what's going on at all, one must of course grasp the fundamental place that the letter r occupies in this region. Although r clearly does not occur either in Well or Blah, and is muted in Ussur, it ...

... First Ocean's 11? Frankly speaking, Those turning to the original 1960 version of Ocean's 11 expecting to find a motherlode of charm and frothy wit that inspired the recent Clooney/Soderbergh franchise are in for a bit of a disappointment. Though mildly ...

... Church-speak and how to recover from CCASIONALLY, when I see the Catholic Church handling their public relations with startling ineptitude, I experience the urge to offer them a bit of media advice. Not that I think public relations or spindoctoring ...

... Ahern to donate speaking fees to charity Aine Kerr Political Correspondent FORMER Taoiseach Bertie Ahern is to donate most of his €60,000 speaking fees to two Irish charities. The new Washington Speakers Bureau recruit is expected to earn in excess of ...

... WHAT LANGUAGES CAN YOU SPEAK? Despite the fact that English is probably recognised as the international language of business, it should not be forgotten that doing business in a client's own language is always going to instil more confidence and go that ...