Last week Manchester United were linked with teenage Brazillian twins. They aren't in their late teens like Theo Walcott or even Wayne Rooney. Rafael and Fabio are under-15s and will actually arrive at Old Trafford in three years' time. Twenty or 30 years ago, both kids would really need to have played international football to have caught the eye of Alex Ferguson or the club scout. But the kids are middle-class enough to have agents at that age, and the club sharp enough to find them.

Little of any lasting good has ever been achieved through predictability. The best minds are both a thorn and a salve. T...

Why has Rachel English been allowed to go from Five-Seven-Live on RTÉ Radio One? I don't know whether it is because she wants to leave the slot or because the RTÉ authorities want her to leave the slot, but, one way or another, it is a mistake and a disillusionment.

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Mondays at Gaj's traces the lives of the eclectic women who founded the Irish Women's Liberation Movement. Gaj's was the Baggot Street restaurant where the IWLM met every Monday night. Rosita Sweetman was one of the sisters, albeit a little one

An English farce about Sigmund Freud fails to appeal to Colin Murphy's ego or his id

Government employees must rank as Irish newspapers' most avid readers, with the various departments spending over €650,000 on papers in 2005. According to the figures released, the Irish Times is by far the most popular daily for civil servants, with Government departments spending over €150,000 on this title alone in 2005.

Tony O'Reilly is set to add to his fortune a further €1.4 billion from the development of oil and gas prospects off the west coast of Ireland, a resource given to him for virtually nothing by the State and from which the Exchequer will gain almost nothing. By Frank Connolly

Edward O'Hare speaks to Mamo McDonald, organiser of Bealtaine, a festival celebrating creativity in older age.

Andy O'Mahony remains one of RTÉ's best broadcasters. Correction, one of radio's best broadcasters. A wonderfully mellifluous voice, great intelligence, coherence and fluency. His Off the Shelf programmes on Saturday evenings are one of the joys of radio. His programme of 6 May, was a particular delight. It was a discussion of Postwar: A History of Europe by Tony Judt and the participants were Alan Dukes and two historians, Judith Devlin and Michael Laffan.