..the stories which caught my eye:
- This is a scary statistic. Can this upward swing be stemmed? Should Northern Ireland be smug?
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2011/1212/breaking22.html
- Gosh…….I must look under our stairs to check what Banríon Éilís sent me.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2011/1210/1224308869811.html
- This will excite Assembly portrait painter Noel Murphy who has lived out the life of wild man Caravaggio for most of this year.
- I would like a peek at some of the paintings he reportedly bought on impulse.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/dec/12/michael-jackson-auction-sale.