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Last bus out of hell
The late-night revellers on the Nitelink aren't as wild as you
might think - until it comes to the last bus, writes
Kate Holmquist p
Route and branch
How to get home during the Christmas period p
Puppets acting to save the day
From Afghanistan to Indonesia, puppeteers are preparing children
to cope with disaster, reports
Fiona McCann p
Badu company: how Kathy Mullen fell for the puppet world
She's been Yoda's right hand, learned with the greats, such as Jim Henson and Frank Oz, and worked on much-loved shows such as Fraggle Rock and The Muppets , but Kathy Mullen came to puppetry almost accidentally. p
Other Features
Feeling bruised by these mean streets
It's a Dad's Life: I can't sleep because my ribs are killing me. Cycling through Fairview the other night a genius in a parked Almera decided to fling open his door as I trundled past. I threw the bike to the right but still caught the door with my midriff going by, landing in a bundle in the bus lane. A taxi skidded up, then just sat there with his beams on me, haloed like a lummox, sitting in the road. pThe path back to the Midlands
Visual Arts: Geraldine O'Reilly's exhibition, A Circuitous Line , at the Civic Theatre Gallery in Tallaght, is a tale of four landscapes. In fact, you could say five landscapes, though the fifth, Inisheer, doesn't appear in the show. O'Reilly spent three rewarding years on the island, making drawings in Conté crayon. The very term "Conté crayon" has genteel associations, but not in this case. Her drawings were won directly from nature, made out in the open, exposed to the weather coming in from the Atlantic. pReviews
Snow White: the Cheerios Panto at Liberty Hall, Dublin and Can You Catch a Mermaid? at Pavilion Theatre, Dún Laoghaire are reviewed by Irish Times writers p
