The Noughties
From Glitz to Gloom
Published on 3. March 2010
251 pages
978-1-84889-047-3 (ISBN)
Description
A decade of easy living or a decade of broken dreams? Brenda Power chronicles the defining issues of the Noughties, covering a breadth of social, political and public interest issues. Her comments are frequently controversial and generate huge responses, such as her 2009 article on gay marriage. She tackles difficult and divisive subjects without fear or favour. Her views on the rapid changes in Irish society during the boom years are a fascinating commentary on the values and practices of that extraordinary period in Irish history. These snap-shots highlight issues that shaped our lives in Ireland in recent years.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
Ireland
Publishing group
Gill
File size
1,93 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-84889-047-3 (9781848890473)
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Person
Brenda Power, journalist and broadcaster, has worked as a reporter, feature writer, columnist and interviewer for newspapers, magazines and radio, including the Sunday Times, Sunday Tribune, Daily Mail, Image, RTE Radio and Newstalk. She also found time to become a barrister and mother of five.
Content
- Cover
- Title page
- Contents
- Introduction
- 2000-2002
- Robin Hood in reverse
- The 99p trick
- Appeasing the money god
- From Dunkirk to El Paso
- Sport, Booze and Shopping
- Drumcree: marching into the history books
- In defence of domestic slobbery
- Neutered ships and dancing grandads
- A sacrifice to drunkenness
- Finessing the ghosts of Fianna Fáil Past
- No such thing as living beyond your means
- Yes, it must be love
- A precious life lost or a PR victory gained?
- Keeping up with the babyJoneses
- Romance with alcohol
- Enda's stand-up act
- How did we get to here, from there?
- Twisting the rule of thumb
- Bob McCartney's Christmas cake recipe
- 2003-2005
- Grown-up pester power
- She was with her father ... of course she was safe
- War Babies
- 'Tipping is not a city in China'
- Someone else's war
- Conspicuous Compassion and covering your exposed ass
- Abortion: you can only make a choice with your eyes open
- A patently potty pose
- 'Dear Failed Breastfeeder ...'
- If money doesn't make you happy, begrudgery will
- A shallow grave
- Paid to stay single
- Branding the bullies
- The Points Race
- Commodity trading
- Return to the Dark Ages narrowly averted
- Protecting the brand: the Ferns Report
- The Childcare Paradox
- 2006
- Sentencing Robert's killer
- Box and Interview
- Remembering the Stardust
- Buy buy baby
- 'Turn that f***ing thing off'
- The kitten in the incubator
- Plucking and stewing the golden goose
- Mollycoddling the KIPPERs
- A nation of squinting villagers
- Anger mismanagement
- Keeping her feet on the ground in 29.99 shoes
- Moral SWAT team - 1
- Peter Stringfellow - 0
- When hanging is too good ...
- You can't unscramble an egg
- Settling down
- 2007-2009
- Putting the Frighteners on Those Uppity Wimmin
- A spell on the bold step for Bertie
- Don't mention the Communion
- Happily ever after?
- The glib vocabulary of Grief Lite
- Short shrift for dead gangsters
- Suicide and the Workplace
- It had happened before
- Chummy lawyers, matey judges and Guards in civvies ...
- Joan of Arc at the Mahon Tribunal
- Walking into doors
- 'The Ballad of Bobby Sands'
- Bubblewrapped kids
- Stop animal testing ... why?
- Nothing to stop the dead speaking ill of the living
- Holding a funeral for three dozen glass slides
- 'I Must Not Upset Gays
- I must not ...'
- The superglue strategy
- About the author
- Imprint page
