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# EXTRACT

All time
Michael Palin in North Korea: 'I realise almost immediately that I have gone too far. Quite a long way too far'
Opinion: 'Are you criticising someone because they're mirroring something you don't like about yourself?'
'My great-aunt Chrissy left home at fourteen to go join a convent. That was in 1954'
'Bright, brilliant, educated young women from South County Dublin... don’t end up with a gypsy boxer from Limerick'
'Paul Merson once rang in the middle of the night because, while asleep, he’d poked himself in the eye'
'It must have been television gold for the watching millions. Was I ranting? Yes, I suppose I was'
'If I could do all that, I would hold a world record... I was 11 years and 333 days old'
'Johnny – the biggest balls on the planet'
'He’s been shot, he’s been stabbed, he’s been crippled, and here he is defending a world championship after 15 months out'
'Bright, brilliant, educated young women from South County Dublin... don’t end up with a gypsy boxer from Limerick'
'He is sick with the fear... Waiting for them to get to the part where they discover that €294,000 is missing'
'I promised her it wasn’t the end for me. Even if the surgery didn’t work and my career was over'
The day child prodigy Tiger Woods appeared on national TV with legendary US actor Jimmy Stewart
An Irish science-fiction story predicted the plot of Back to the Future
Extract: Don't fear the reaper - an immunologist on why we shouldn't be so afraid of death
Book details Boston crime boss Whitey Bulger's relationship with his right-hand man from the Galway Gaeltacht
Opinion: How to stay steady in turbulent world - without blaming others
Irish Country music and dancehalls: 'The cause of the ruin of hundreds of young girls'
Kindness: Change your life and make the world a kinder place
The Free-Time Formula: 'Your 'priorities' are making you less productive'
How to have a great life: 'We rarely give thought to the legacy we’re creating'
Tara Flynn: 'Dear fellow Feminazis. I write this from The Bunker'
Success-oriented culture: 'Many people chase goals that are not theirs'
Column: 'What is holding you back from getting the results you want?'
'Our parish universe straddled two counties and two States. We forged an identity as borderers'
Eileen Paisley: 'I think there was a quietness and shyness about Martin. He was good company'
The Cattle Raid of Cooley is our national epic - and still has resonance for modern rural life
Irish in Nottingham: 'We created a little Gaeltacht by the games cabinet of an old English pub'
'People who brag about being busy will always be average. They'll never accomplish anything'
'I got a telephone call from Cork City who said they would look after me and help me get fit'
'Cantona lit the flame, but it was Keane who kept it burning for more than a decade'
'Absolute disbelief consumed us. How could this be happening to Cormac, of all people?'
'I like horses because they have never caused me pain'
'He studied to become a Jesuit priest. Now he was one of the most famed people in racing'
'My boots were endorsed by the moustachioed Liverpool and Ireland winger... This sales pitch worked'
'The band was so unprepared for an Irish victor that they played God Save the Queen'
'Some of the Irish team were spat on as they made their way to the team bus'
'I was asked dozens of times in the aftermath what was it like to lose £2 million on a rugby match'
'I thought we would win it in my time... From there on you would have expected to go forward'
'Bad guys are supposed to lose. I change that. I win'