What’s the story?

..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.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2011/dec/12/caravaggio-andrew-graham-dixon-portrait.

• 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.