Sunday Independent (Ireland) - 2017-08-06

• Varadkar plots spring election
• Now Leo takes over the world
• David Davin-Power says ‘racial diversity’ the real problem at RTE
• BREAKFAST WITH TRUMP
• MOLLY’S WAIT TO HEAR HER FATE
• WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN
• Government to appoint ‘Health Tsar’ to overhaul HSE
• Micheal Martin interview,
• ‘Body shaming of beauty pageant models is all down to jealousy’
• Taoiseach plans to double Ireland’s embassy presence
• Gardai believe man stabbed 40 times was a Polish national
• Clampdown on ‘rent-a-womb’ surrogacy under new regulation­s
• Martin looks at Bernie Sanders for the answers
• It was Fianna Fail who made real progress on pensioner poverty
• Freed Beagles prove there’s life after the laboratory
• London society burns Myers — but why did the Sunday Times publish toxic rant?
• Almost half of population do not believe ‘waste watchdog’ will do the job
• Frank Fitzgibbon
• Sacked ‘pay gap’ columnist insulted all women
• Majority believe State cannot prevent jihadi terrorist attack
• New empty houses database goes live as national homeless crisis worsens
• THE DEFENCE CASE
• THE STATE CASE
• Dear Bridget,
• Growing to love the drop-dead gorgeous cornflower
• Dear Dave Allen,
• To the biological mother of my five adopted children.
• To the mother I wish I had.
• Forget Noughties nostalgia — we’ve made our fashion mistakes
• A child-rearing gender gap storm rages over St Helen’s Bay
• Extra jail time for repeat offenders would protect public
• ‘I wouldn’t inflict this illness on my worst enemy, never mind my child... Now I might not have to’
• Midsummer madness strikes for guilt-ridden working mothers
• Milo makes the good times better
• Tall spikes and magenta flowers
• ‘AXIS OF ADULTS’ TAKES CONTROL
• ‘What a place to talk of war...’
• You’d wonder about the people who join political parties that tolerate no dissent
• Venezuela edges closer to pariah status as democratic norms are dissolved
• Poet’s words live on to ring out across world
• Time for a new immigratio­n ballad— lamenting the lack of it
• Zuckerberg and the infinite peril of voting for a catchy word
• Varadkar and Coveney are dancing too close to Adams
• Spin the wheel — or reform libel lottery to protect society
• Border issue means that customs union must stay
• QUOTES OF THE WEEK
• ‘I was once proud of RTE, but I’d be ashamed to be involved now’
• It’s easier to get blood from a stone than openness from RTE
• ‘My hero Elvis became my soul-saver, my spirit guide’
• When a food crisis is so bad that direct involvemen­t is needed
• Creative approach to putting a provincial town back on its feet
• Velar’s lofty unveiling
• Beware of brutal rural Rambos in the night wood
• CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
• Sam Shepard
• Gretel Bergmann
• Robert Hardy
• Opportunis­tic programme
• SUNDAY INDEPENDEN­T QUIZWORD No321
• SDLP’s role in peace process underlined
• THIS WEEK’S BIRTHDAYS
• Brian Cowen’s degree backlash
• Martin and Varadkar face to face again with the SF question
• Lightsourc­e plans massive €60m solar farm for Dunboyne
• Dublin firm plans €3bn developmen­t in Chicago
• Keeping your investment safe, Your Money,
• Mondelez’s Eoin Kellett on Brexit, growth — and chocolate,
• Gina London on how to avoid ‘death by PowerPoint’, Your Work,
• Game on at Limerick’s Troy Studios
• Huge currency moves causing havoc with equity prices and returns
• Dubliner’s medtech in focus to save eyesight
• TransferMa­te beefs up management team as it gains US regulatory approval
• Mexico financial watchdog at war with antitrust body
• Bono and The Edge’s hotel fears bad vibes from new civic plaza
• Building projects ‘concentrat­ed in Dublin and east’
• Volkswagen turns to Tesla for inspiratio­n
• McCabe and Hobbs pump cash into software firm FieldAware after €16m losses
• E+I Engineerin­g hired UK advisers over sale
• Winter is coming if Brexit focus not on common goals
• MTV-owner Viacom under pressure as subcribers fall
• We can’t lay all the pay-gap blame on our firms: society needs a culture change too
• Store wars: is the force still with German discounter­s?
• Fed bond sell-off on horizon as strong US job figures beat forecast
• Brands and retailers need to up their digital game JOHN McGEE
• Digital dark arts now targeting voters
• MARKETING PEOPLE
• Consumers short-changed by official figures that don’t reveal true costs are rocketing
• USEFUL RESOURCES
• Must I sign public patient waiver form?
• Bubble wrap inventor pops up as leader in high-tech food packaging
• ‘I haggled over tea in China and was terrible at it’
• Ecocem laying foundation­s for its UK expansion plans
• Irish Firms Need to Be in pole position for CETA Start Date
• Does American opportunit­y Knock for West of Ireland?
• Will passing up a promotion when my children were younger ruin my chances this time?
• Activity apps to help you stay healthy
• Former GAA stars on a roll with their innovative resistance-training tool
• For club or country? PSG signing is boost for Qatar as well as France
• Your choice: disrupt or disappear
• Brace yourselves for more green taxes in years ahead
• Syndicates back in business as horsey set feels flush
• The treats that make our summer
• I will always be the fat imposter
• What’s the biggest lie you’ve ever told?
• I keep a tidy house but dusting is ridiculous
• Busy driving myself around the bends
• ‘I did hate journalist­s for a while, but I’ve moved on’
• My new girlfriend’s colourful past is making me have second thoughts
• We end up fighting every time he hits the bottle
• Meet the first family of Puck
• Make me an offer. Any offer. I can’t refuse
• At long last, everything’s Rosie in the garden
• ‘I was so much more sorted as a child...’
• MY CULTURAL LIFE
• Love and romance is still the write stuff for so many readers
• BEST-SELLERS
• Marriage, divorce and origami in New York City
• France’s tiny powerhouse in Ugg boots
• ‘I’m so thankful to have been given all of this in the year I turn 50’
• FILM OF THE WEEK
• Jimmy’s story is worthy, but uneven
• Keep the car running for Arcade Fire
• WHAT LIES BENEATH
• At peace in incredible India
• Once upon a time in Westport
• Of slow burners and teenage angst
• PODCASTS — LISTEN AT YOUR LEISURE
• The hardest-working man in RTE?
• The art of asking rhetorical questions
• CATCH-UP TV - IN CASE YOU MISSED IT...
• TV HIGHLIGHTS
• FILM HIGHLIGHTS
• Top 20 Street Food
• Paul Galvin
• The Loves of My Life
• Heat and dust
• Tommy Tiernan
• Georgian elegance in inner-city Dublin
• Maria Walsh’s unusual guilty pleasure
• Stefanie Preissner can’t sleep
• Life after breast cancer
• The return of the dress
• Paul Flynn’s Kerry
• THE THING IS... Your 30-second guide to everything
• Hospital tennis
• Asian noodle salad with chicken and shrimp
• South Americanst­yle beef salad with avocado, orange and watercress
• Amuse bouche... Visiting Yank
• Life by numbers
• The social drinker
• Finn Ni Fhaolain

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