... his own happiest memories are from union. They are kept in a scrapbook filled with yellowing clippings and other keepsakes - a letter notifying him of his selection for the Lions tour to South Africa in 1968, a menu from the Royal Hibernian Hotel on the ...

... might think that a world where oxtail was always soup du jour was a less complicated place, but accompany it with the only French wine on the list. Le Piat d'Or, a couple of the German giants or the only New World wine in the world, Paul Masson's California ...

... operetta created with composer/sound designer Hans Peter Kuhn and students from theatre schools in Germany and Italy, which came to the Belfast Festival directly from its world premiere in Berlin. Saints and Singing is one of what Stein called her landscape ...

... Negro dance act has ever done before. From now on I'm going to walk on to the stage. He had as a - kid kept Sinatra scrapbooks, and now he was playing the same circuit. Davis made good in the white showbiz world, on Broadway, in Hollywood, in Vegas and ...

... season Premiership anomalies, the old guard should still retake their mantles as the top three clubs in the league Stew Ibsen from the top of the tree. Yet in the space of one weekend there was a sense of the old order being restored. After Arsenal brushed ...

... of 17 and went on to win the Military Cross. HE is in some ways the old-fashioned newspaper baron who leads from the front. When the Third World nations boycotted last summer's Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh and the finances of the event were in chaos ...

... of the state of judicial mind which, British critics of the 1 •Now- No 40( • Clockwise from left: The real culprits were the IRA, one of whom has spoken to ITV's World in Action. Frank Skase: the forensic scientist who admitted lying. George Reade: nothing ...

... international caps, two World Cups and a victorious Lions test series - you'd imagine his memories of the 1990 Ireland schools team would be a little hazy. But it only takes him a matter of seconds to rattle off the names from one to 15, including the ...

... BOOKS Hitting the right notes MUSIC MATTHEW MAGEE FROM the hundreds of music related books that are published each year. we choose a selection that should cover all tastes and interests. First off are the diaries of Kurt Cobain -Momls (Penguin £3) UK) ...

... great laugh —except for John. He was deeply upset by the incident and all it did was confirm his growing feeling of alienation from normal life. He had masterminded an historic Lions' success in New Zealand and he was the hub of a superb Welsh side, but he'd ...

... heroin and anything else The second made the idea a shoo-hi. And as Yoko saw the millions pouring in from the sales of the album and the subsequent world tour - she was allowed on stage briefly at each concert - it became clear to her that John was a niilch ...

... be made playing 1 nestling on the banks dubs and bars in college of the Ohio. its tree-coveted 1 towns. I sang eve ry thing from hills a backdrop to magnolia- James Taylor to Billy Joel lined avenues. It's old south, (Brooks rendition of Joel 's not Johnny ...