http://www.ireland.com The Irish Times' News Features Top Stories en-ie Copyright 2008, ireland.com. The Irish Times 2008-05-03T12:15:06+00:00 daily 2 2008-05-03T12:15:06+00:00 http://www.ireland.com/ http://www.ireland.com/feeds/rss/rss_logo.gif Search for articles on ireland.com QUERY00 http://www.ireland.com/cgi-bin/dialogserver http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/weekend/2008/0503/1209737435618.html Josef Fritzl's imprisonment and abuse of his daughter went unnoticed for 24 years, as she raised his children in a secret cellar. How did he manage to hide in full view of the authorities? News Features 2008-05-03T12:15:06+00:00 http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/weekend/2008/0503/1209737435747.html The deaths of Diarmuid and Lorraine Flood and their children, Julie and Mark, appear to have come without warning, and experts admit that such catastrophic acts can be nearly impossible to predict or explain News Features 2008-05-03T12:15:06+00:00 http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/weekend/2008/0503/1209737435504.html This week's agreement by estate agents to stop misrepresenting property sale prices should have made reliable information easier to come by - but the agents say it will have the opposite effect News Features 2008-05-03T12:15:06+00:00 http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/weekend/2008/0503/1209737435540.html Its hero is a violent criminal who wanders a virtual city, stealing cars and killing bystanders, but GTA IV's defenders say it is a beautiful creation, rendered in increasingly realistic graphics. Is the computer game a cultural disease or an art form? News Features 2008-05-03T12:15:06+00:00 http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/weekend/2008/0503/1209737435517.html PRESENT TENSE: 'THERE IS, of course, no ending to history," Bertie Ahern told the joint Houses of Congress on Wednesday. History was a popular word in his speech, mentioned nine times. And history was a word commonly used in the run-up to his big moment. It would be, we were told repeatedly, an "historic" address. Afterwards, it was confirmed across the board that the Taoiseach had indeed "made history". News Features 2008-05-03T12:15:06+00:00 http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/weekend/2008/0503/1209737435513.html The Clontarf branch of Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann has spent 15 years working on the new Clasac centre. So why has Comhaltas HQ dissolved it just before the project reaches fruition? News Features 2008-05-03T12:15:06+00:00 http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/weekend/2008/0503/1209737435647.html Next week, Israelis will celebrate their country's 60th birthday. But even with one the world's strongest armies and a remarkable high-tech sector, their society is fragmented and fragile News Features 2008-05-03T12:15:06+00:00 http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/weekend/2008/0503/1209737435384.html Hannah Montana is a wholesome role model for pre-teens, but the teenager who plays her has posed provocatively in a grown-up's magazine, sparking a new outcry about sexualisation of young girls News Features 2008-05-03T12:15:06+00:00 http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/weekend/2008/0503/1209737435526.html A glance at the week that was News Features 2008-05-03T12:15:06+00:00