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OFFALY'S dreams of a historic All-Ireland U-20 hurling title may have went up in smoke in a blistering, bubbling Thurles on Sunday but they went down fighting, ...

Collectors of his work ranged from Bertie Ahern and the Swiss Bank Corporation to Robert De Niro and Sylvester Stallone

Philip Larkin’s poem, ‘This Be the Verse’, (“They f**k you up, your mum and dad/They may not mean to, but they do”) would have resonated with Rufus Wainwright. In 1975, when Rufus was two, his father, Loudon Wainwright III, wrote ‘Rufus is a Tit-Man’, a jealous song about breastfeeding that Sigmund Freud would have had a field day with.

Noel Gallagher is remembering going home to Manchester in the mid-1970s after family summer holidays at his granny’s house in Mayo. If the IRA had bombed somewhere in England when the Gallaghers were away, the family would notice a distinct shift in mood on their return. On one such occasion, Gallagher remembers the family car being searched by British army soldiers with sniffer dogs.

Noel Gallagher is remembering going home to Manchester in the mid-1970s after family summer holidays at his granny’s house in Mayo. If the IRA had bombed somewhere in England when the Gallaghers were away, the family would notice a distinct shift in mood on their return. On one such occasion, Gallagher remembers the family car being searched by British army soldiers with sniffer dogs.