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Honda's Insight into a hybrid future

2010-03-14T00:00:00+01:00

By Ferdia O’Dowd, Motoring Correspondent

While Toyota first got into the commercialisation of hybrid cars with the Prius back in 1997,Honda was already working on perfecting its own different hybrid system, showing a concept vehicle, the JX-V, at the Tokyo and Los Angeles Motor Shows that year.

Off Message

2010-03-14T00:00:00+01:00

By Jennifer O’Connell

Taxpayers reject government's efforts to lumber them with years of debt due to the failure of private banks - why Ireland could learn lessons from Iceland

A letter to my mother

2010-03-14T00:00:00+01:00

In his semi-autobiographical novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, German World War I veteran Erich Maria Remarque writes of visiting his dying mother while home on leave: ''Ah, mother, mother! How can it be that I must part from you? Who else is there that has any claim on me but you? Here I sit, and there you are lying; we have so much to say, and we shall never say it." With mothers, it's complicated. Whatever the state of our relationships with them, as Remarque knew, it is common to leave a lot unsaid. To mark Mother's Day, a collection of people in public life - the media, politics and the arts - along with some Sunday Business Post journalists, share here their letters to their mothers.

Service is not included

2010-03-14T00:00:00+01:00

By Ross Golden Bannon

It is heartening - not tomention extraordinary - that so many restaurants are still opening despite the economic crisis. Equally extraordinary is that so little has been learned by some restaurateurs, despite the downturn.

Bite Size

2010-03-14T00:00:00+01:00

By Tina-Marie O’Neill

Make your mother's day magic at the Four Seasons Hotel in Dublin 4 with a Sunday brunch in the Seasons Restaurant or afternoon tea in the Lobby Lounge.

St Patrick's Day countdown

2010-03-14T00:00:00+01:00

By Cathal Kavanagh

A couple of St Patrick's favourite tipples

The Chef

2010-03-14T00:00:00+01:00

By Richard Corrigan

You know the way fashionable restaurants are mad keen on making 'crushed potatoes' - made with olive oil and crushed peppercorns and God knows what?

A perfect platform

2010-03-14T00:00:00+01:00

By Ruth O'Connor

From painting shoes to designing them, Nina Divito has never had trouble putting her best foot forward

Medical matters

2010-03-14T00:00:00+01:00

Dr Nina Byrnes

When to act pregnant

Going the extra half-stone

2010-03-14T00:00:00+01:00

By Martha Kearns

If you're trying to shift those last stubborn few pounds, then a personal trainer can make all the difference

Dissent of man

2010-03-14T00:00:00+01:00

By Stephen Price

Harassed by tech? Tintin can help

Green is good

2010-03-14T00:00:00+01:00

By Susan Morrell

I have learned the hard way that passion alone doesn't result in a beautiful garden or a vegetable harvest of more than two tomatoes.

The patriot game

2010-03-14T00:00:00+01:00

By Garvan Grant

This year, St Patrick's Day looks like it's going to be even quieter than last year, when we just sat around in the pub and shook our heads in disbelief at what had happened to our country.

The mark of success

2010-03-14T00:00:00+01:00

By Nadine O’Regan

Michael Nyqvist, star of the film adaptation of the Stieg Larsson bestseller The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, feels fans should stop seeking to unearth the 'truth' behind the late author's life and work

Artistic Licence

2010-03-14T00:00:00+01:00

By Nadine O’Regan

Suffering an art attack

Immigration inspires new Irish poetry anthology

2010-03-14T00:00:00+01:00

Reviewed by Gerald Dawe

In 1988, the year he died, the wonderfully gifted Irish playwright Stewart Parker wrote a foreword to a trilogy of plays which included Northern Star, Heavenly Bodies and the play widely regarded as his masterpiece, Pentecost.

Murdered for exposing Russia's rotten heart

2010-03-14T00:00:00+01:00

Reviewed by Ed O'Loughlin

When not on the road, Anna Politkovskay a brought a never ending stream of visitors to the offices of the Novaya Gazeta, Russia's leading independent newspaper.

One for the knacker's yard

2010-03-14T00:00:00+01:00

Reviewed by Kevin Power

A few years ago, Martin Amis began his review of Robert Bly's trenchantly heterosexual masculinity manifesto Iron John by pointing out that 'iron' ('iron hoof ') was Cockney rhyming slang for 'poof'.

Powerful tale of dark events is a book of two halves

2010-03-14T00:00:00+01:00

Reviewed by Declan Burke

The conventional crime novel tends to unfold over three acts, but Louise Welsh's fourth novel, Naming the Bones, is very much a novel of two halves.

Counterculture London - from Soho to so what

2010-03-14T00:00:00+01:00

By Andrew Lynch

Barry Miles has a lot to answer for. As co-founder of the Indica bookshop and gallery, a focal point for the 1960s London underground scene, he organised an exhibition by a controversial Japanese artist called Yoko Ono.

Listen, look, play

2010-03-14T00:00:00+01:00

Latest CD, DVD and Game Reviews

Scorsese takes us to the Island

2010-03-14T00:00:00+01:00

By John Maguire, on film

In Shutter Island, Martin Scorsese's first dramatic feature since he won Academy Awards and box office esteem with The Departed, he turns Dennis Lehane's creepy novel of the same name into a dark, intense thriller about madness, trauma and violence arranged as an elaborate homage to Hollywood's less respectable genres.

Documentary

2010-03-14T00:00:00+01:00

Reviewed by Helen Boylan

For the uninitiated, Banksy is an anonymous British graffiti artist who is revered across the art world. Underground street artists admire him for his satirical creativity, artistic talent and prolificacy.

Hallé breathes new life into Mahler's classic

2010-03-14T00:00:00+01:00

Reviewed by Dick O'Riordan

The Hallé Orchestra from Manchester came to Dublin for the second time in as many years, as part of The Sunday Business Post International Concert Series.

Opera

2010-03-14T00:00:00+01:00

Reviewed by Dick O'Riordan

I Capuleti e I Montecchi - the second of the Romeo and Juliet pair of productions in the Opera Ireland spring season - looks more like a Wexford 'long-lost gem' offering.

Rude Health

2010-03-14T00:00:00+01:00

By Margaret Smith

The flush of health

Return to Oz

2010-03-14T00:00:00+01:00

With its mix of urban attractions and good weather, vibrant Sydney has enough to tempt even the most weary traveller, writes Kieron Wood

Well Travelled

2010-03-14T00:00:00+01:00

By Helen Boylan

Enjoying the luxury of regal Adare manor

TV Review

2010-03-14T00:00:00+01:00

By Emmanuel Kehoe

One aspect of change over the past 40 years is the way people go to the pictures.