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  • Exploring the competitive spirit

    Sounding board: Antti Siirala (left), winner of the 2003 Dublin International Piano Competition, and Philippe Cassard, winner of the first event 20 years ago, in the National Concert Hall, Dublin. PHILIPPE CASSARD has been a favourite with Irish audiences since he won the first Dublin International Piano Competition back in 1988. But he's not just a popular figure; he's also what you would have to call a musicians' musician. p

  • Face to face with murder

    Confronting the past - the entrance to Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp STANDING BEFORE A two-ton mountain of human hair, shorn from the heads of women about to be killed in the gas chambers, all talk of exam modules and weekend discos ceases. p
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  • Asylum can mean hope, not fear

    JOE WAS AFRAID to leave the house, apart from the "daycare" he attended at a mental health facility halfway across the city a couple of times a week, when his mother managed to get him on to the public bus. p

  • A penalty that can never be reversed

    RAY KRONE IS lucky to be alive. He spent 10 years in an Arizona prison, two of them on death row, for a murder he did not commit. p

  • Reviews

    Irish Times writers review William Dowdall/David Adams at the Hugh Lane Gallery; Maps at Dublin's Button Factory; Trentemøller at the Tripod in Dublin. p

  • TOPLESS MEETING

    CON TEXT:  I'll be there. What time? Easy, tiger. It's not that kind of meeting. They're called topless meetings, but I can assure you that everyone attending will keep their shirts on. p
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