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Friday, March 19 2010

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Sinead Ryan: Sharpen those scissors, our love affair with the money-off coupon is only beginning

We all have our own ways of trying to beat the recession but, according to the National Consumer Agency, more of us are once again turning to cutting out coupons -- beloved hobby of the 1970s, to save a few bob.

Sinead Ryan: 'Fingers' Fingleton has feelings too? Oh, give me a break

Who knew bankers were such a sensitive lot? Take Michael 'Fingers' Fingleton for a start (someone, please etc). He's smarting after being called a bad word in the creche (er, Dail) recently and wanted his 'good name' defended. On the basis that he had to have one to start with, his demand was turned down and parliamentary privilege won out to fight another day in the playground.

Sinead Ryan: It's so irksome getting into taxis when the driver is clueless

How often have you had the infuriating experience of getting into the back of a taxi and giving the driver your destination, only for him to turn around and ask you, "Any idea where that is, love?" The only answer is, of course, "No, that's why I'm in a bloody taxi" and, as a by-the-way, "I'm not your love".

Sinead Ryan: Tracey Fay was our Baby P and someone must be held to account

What is more outrageous? What happened to troubled teenager Tracey Fay during her short life or the fact that we're only getting the report into it after eight long years?

Sinead Ryan: Thanks Bill, but I think we know how to raise our own children

I'm annoyed at Bill Cullen's latest comments which, once again, harp on about the soft children he believes we've created today compared with his Penny Apples history.

Sinead Ryan: Is this our next Lord Mayor? Let's hope not

Be afraid, be very afraid. I'm talking about the forthcoming election of the new Dublin mayor due to be held this year.

Sinead Ryan: It's time our TV scruffs brushed up

We're all agreed that news reporter Paul Cunningham looked a complete twat when he appeared wearing what some have described as a woolly condom to present a serious news story recently.

Sinead Ryan: Please Charlie, no more documentaries, we know what you eat for your breakfast

We've had Charlie Bird up to his knees in the Ganges. We've seen him up to his elbows in snow in the Arctic and over his head in the Amazon. Now it seems he has had it up to his neck in Washington.

Sinead Ryan: Well done Saoirse, but I've never felt so inadequate next to a 15-year-old...

Saoirse Ronan might not have won a gong at the Golden Globes, but she's already picked up the Critics' Choice award and looked absolutely stunning...not a bit like 15 in a fab dress.

Sinead Ryan: Shop till you drop -- it's good for you

You've shopped till you've dropped between Christmas and the January sales and are now probably feeling more than a bit knackered after all the exertion -- the same as a couple of hours at the gym and, in fact, you wouldn't be far wrong.

Sinead Ryan: Happy birthday Mary Harney, now give yourself the gift we all want for you and quit

FEW will know - and fewer will care - but it's Mary Harney's 58th birthday today. And let's hope she's having a lovely time with hubby Brian languishing on a State-sponsored fortnight in New Zealand. Well, here's another 58 she can ponder on while she's enjoying the winter sun: 58,000 x-rays never looked at by a radiologist, languishing in Tallaght hospital.

Sinead Ryan: Liz, you look way too good for a 44-year-old pig farmer

Right then -- we're all agreed Liz Hurley looked fabulous launching her new swimwear shop in Kildare Village. I'm not casting aspersions, but as a 44-year-old organic farmer, the IFA has a lot to live up to, that's all. Farmer Liz explained the sideline: "I've always been obsessed with holiday clothes ... it's an area where women, regardless of shape or size, can look amazing or really get it wrong."

Sinead Ryan: I can't believe a New York surgeon says he'd let Ronan Tynan die on the table

Ronan Tynan has accomplished so much in his life -- as a double amputee he went on to become a paralympian, medical doctor and one of the world's greatest tenors. Now, however, a throwaway remark has left him faced with leaving his home in New York, after receiving death threats and hate mail, accusing him of anti-semitism.

Sinead Ryan: Bishop has driven us all to boycott the collection plate

Bishop has driven us all to boycott the collection plateIt's actually hard to know where to start when it comes to expressing the horror and outrage at the decision by Bishop Brennan of Ferns to ask parishioners to foot the bill for child sexual abuse in his diocese.

Sinead Ryan: Give us back our water before we regain our Dirty Dublin nickname

Even though the forecasted snow never arrived this week, I felt time-warped back to early January when reading about people who STILL haven't got their water supply back.

Sinead Ryan: Don't ask me to feel any pity for Terry's WAG Toni

Did anyone else see the hellish conditions that poor old Mrs Terry has been forced to endure this week? There she is in a hailstorm of media attention, and all the deprived WAG has going for her is a pink bikini and a five-star resort in Dubai. Yes, when the hubby plays away, the WAGs get going ... in luxury, of course.

Sinead Ryan: Taxpayers' €2.5m bill for woman's IVF court battle is outrageous, but don't blame her

All you taxpayers out there are no doubt delighted that your hard-earned but dwindling euro are probably going to be wasted yet again picking up unnecessary court costs caused by the inability of our elected representatives to legislate properly or, as you might put it, do their job.

Sinead Ryan: Why can't we adopt the orphans of Haiti now

Watching the news over the last few days, it's almost impossible, as a parent, not to want to take every single crying, bleeding and hurt child home from Haiti.

Sinead Ryan: Free pre-school scheme smacks of amateurism

Did you wave your little three-year-old off to 'big school' this morning?

Sinead Ryan: What a great lesson to our children -- at the slightest challenge, just pull the covers over your head and stay in bed

There's a JC in the house. Admittedly, not quite as serious as an LC, but stressful nonetheless. And the very last thing that any Junior or Leaving Cert student needs right now is less study time.

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