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Sunday 19 May 2013

Slam heroes glam up 

The Grand Slam heroes of our women's rugby team were welcomed at a special reception at Farmleigh yesterday by Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Leo Varadkar. Captain Fiona Coghlan, from Clontarf, led her side's success, and the Irish team has now confirmed their place in the 2015 Women's Rugby World Cup. Fiona, along with Siobhan Fleming of Munster, Alison Miller of Connacht and Ashleigh Baxter of Ulster, left behind their grubby rugby gear and glammed up for the occasion.

 

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The Beatles started a revolution back in the USSR

If ever a band has been well served by the literary world it's The Beatles. Practically every aspect of that revolutionary body of work has been dealt with in book form... or so one would have thought. From Hunter Davies' The Beatles, through Philip Norman's Shout, Bob Spitz's humongously detailed history and Ian McDonald's brilliant Revolution in the Head, which offered a musical and contextual analysis of every song they ever recorded, surely there's nothing left of interest to diehard fans of the Fabs. Well, think again.