The Irish Government said that it was closely monitoring the health of pension funds and was preparing long-term plans for the sector, in the wake of reports that it expects some schemes to collapse. A memo sent by Mary Hanafin, the Minister for Social and Family Affairs, above, said that a number of high-profile pension schemes were expected to collapse as Ireland's total pension deficit reaches €20 billion to €30 billion (£16billion to £25billion), The Sunday Tribune reported.

Edith Hall, Amanda Wrigley (ed.), Aristophanes in Performance 421 BC-AD 2007: Peace, Birds, and Frogs, London - Oxford: Legenda, 2007, xx-390p. Isbn 13 (ean): 9781904350613Recension par Lee T. Pearcy (The Episcopal Academy and Bryn Mawr College) dans Bryn Mawr Classical Review: 2008.11.33 Présentation de l'éditeur: Flying to Heaven to demand an end to war, building Cloudcuckooland in the sky, descending to Hades to retrieve a dead tragedian - such were the cosmic missions on which Aristophanes, the father of comedy, sent his heroes of the classical Athenian stage. The wit, intellectual bravura, political clout and sheer imaginative power of Aristophanes' quest dramas have profoundly influenced humorous literature and satire, but this volume, which originated at an international conference held at the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama at Oxford University in 2004, is the first interdisciplinary study of their seminal contribution to the evolution of comic performance. Interdisciplinary essays by specialists in Classics, Theatre, and Modern Literatures trace the international performance history of Aristophanic comedy, and its implication in aesthetic and political controversies, from antiquity to the twenty-first century. The story encompasses Jonson's satire, Cromwell's Ireland, German classicism, British Imperial India, censorship scandals in France, Greece and South Africa, Brechtian experiments in East Berlin, and musical theatre from Gilbert and Sullivan to Stephen Sondheim. Edith Hall is Professor of Classics and Drama at Royal Holloway, University of London, and Co-Director of the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama. Amanda Wrigley is Researcher at the Archive for the Performances of Greek and Roman Drama at the University of Oxford. Edith Hall, "Introduction: Aristophanic Laughter across the Centuries"Ewen Bowie, "The Ups and Downs of Aristophanic Travel"Matthew Steggle, "Aristophanes in Early Modern England"Edith Hall, "The English-Speaking Aristophanes, 1650-1914"Rosie Wyles, "Publication as Intervention: Aristophanes in 1659"Charalampos Orfanos, "Revolutionary Aristophanes?"Phiroze Vasunia, "Aristophanes' Wealth and Dalpatram's Lakshmi"Amanda Wrigley, "Aristophanes Revitalized! Music and Spectacle on theAcademic Stage"Gonda van Steen, "From Scandal to Success Story: Aristophanes' Birdsas Staged by Karolos Koun"Angeliki Varakis' "The Use of Masks in Koun's Stage Interpretations ofBirds, Frogs, and Peace"Bernd Seidensticker, "'Aristophanes is Back!' Peter Hacks's Adaptationof Peace"Mary-Kay Gamel, "Sondheim Floats Frogs"Betine van Zyl Smit, "Freeing [...]

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divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/86420?ns=guardianpageName=Sport%3A+Wales+glitter+as+Wallabies+fall+to+earthch=Sportc3=The+Observerc4=Autumn+internationals%2CWales+rugby+union+team%2CAustralia+rugby+union+team%2CRugby+union%2CObserver%2CSportc5=Not+commercially+useful%2CRugby+Unionc6=Eddie+Butlerc7=2008_11_29c8=1126436c9=articlec10=GUc11=Sportc12=Autumn+internationalsc13=c14=h2=GU%2FSport%2FAutumn+internationals" width="1" height="1" //divpNovember finished with a sparkle, with a sensational match at the home of the grand-slam champions of the Six Nations. a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/walesrugbyunionteam"Wales/a at last raised a cheer for the European game as they saw off a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/australiarugbyunionteam"Australia/a in a thriller. /ppIt went to the wire. Australia had apparently been dispatched when Stephen Jones landed a penalty to increase the gap to eight points with very little left on the clock. But there was time for the Wallabies to hit back with a try through Digby Ioane, and time left in seconds for referee Alan Lewis to order the restart and allow Australia to launch one last desperate series of attacks. /ppThey did not get far out of their 22, but it was with huge relief that Wales managed to drag them to a halt and the game to an end. It was a dramatic conclusion to a game that never slackened in pace. /ppRight from the start, it blossomed. Wales started as if the second half against New Zealand - the period in which they had gone from masters to pupils - had never happened. They set off here in magisterial form, the difference this time being that they managed to score tries. /ppAustralia had been rocked after a couple of minutes by the departure of captain Stirling Mortlock. His shaven head clashed with that of Jamie Roberts - the Welsh centre would not survive the half, either - and collapsed on the turf. It was a worrying moment, but Mortlock was able to view the game from the sidelines. /ppWhile he was still groggy, he watched his team rocked again, this time by a sweeping movement that started with Shane Williams. The wing spotted a mis-match in the centre - he danced past a prop - before offloading to Roberts. /ppThe centre did not make it to the line, but from the ruck the ball was fired wide to Lee Byrne, who plucked it superbly off his toes to feed the winger who had started it all. Try number 44 for the world player of the year. /ppJust before half-time, Wales scored another try, started by the storming Andy Powell and including the mercurial Shane, who slanted across the field, inviting defenders to him, before passing to Byrne, who timed his straight run to perfection. Two tries: Wales at their very best. /ppThe trouble was that in between this pair of sublime moments the Welsh line-out fell apart. A fingertip touch from Alun Wyn Jones fell only to Mark Chisholm, who looked up to see Mark Jones and Byrne positioned for attack in midfield. The second-row put his head back and galloped in from 60 metres. /ppIt triggered ongoing problems at the line-out. Wales stepped back and forth, jostled for position and threw, only for Australia to win the ball. The balance of the game swung the visitors' way, confirmed by Matt Giteau's drop goal. The superiority was challenged only when they lost Stephen Moore to the sin bin and when the home team discovered Ian Gough at the front of the set piece. /ppThe second Welsh try reversed the trend of the half. Now Wales had to survive the changing-room interruption to their rhythm. Second halfs have been an issue this month. /ppThey kicked off and won a penalty, but Stephen Jones missed it, and then another after Phil Waugh was penalised again. Australia's line-out, meanwhile, was still in perfect working order and play switched to the other end of the field. /ppWales were now on the back foot. Powell, for example, was no longer the rampaging menace from the back, but a threat to his own team as he gave away penalties at the breakdown. Giteau landed one to cut the gap to two points. /ppThose remained the only points of the second half until, with 13 minutes to go, Jones scraped a drop goal over the bar. It was a moment that rose above the importance of the points garnered; it was a use of time, eating into what was left for the inevitable Australian counter. Every moment of relief - a tackle by Alun Wyn Jones, a turnover by Martyn Williams - was greeted like a trophy won. Every little mistake by Australia led to a massed sigh of relief. /ppFinally, cheers and sighs combined as Jones landed a final penalty, only for the Australians' launch of mission impossible. It was a rousing end to a month of gloom, a spray of glitter on a dark background. /ppstrongMillennium Stadium 74,500/strong/ppstrongGame rating /strongstrong||||||||||/strongbr /strong Referee /strongAllan Lewis (Ireland)/ppstrongWales/strong Byrne; M Jones, Shanklin, J Roberts (Bishop 28), S Williams; S Jones, Cooper; Jenkins, Rees, A Jones, Gough, AW Jones, R Jones, M Williams, Powell (D Jones 61) /ppstrongTries/strong S Williams, Byrne strongCon/strong S Jones strongPens/strong S Jones 2 strongDrop goal /strongS Jones/ppstrongAustralia/strong Mitchell; Hynes, Cross, Mortlock (capt) (Cooke 3), Ioane; Giteau, Burgess; Robinson, Moore (Freier 61), Baxter, Chisholm, Sharpe, McMeniman, Waugh (Smith 65), Brown (Mumm 67) /ppstrongTries/strong Chisholm, Ioane strongCon/strong Giteau strongPen/strong Giteau /ppstrongDrop goal/strong Giteau/pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/autumn-internationals"Autumn internationals/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/walesrugbyunionteam"Wales rugby union team/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/australiarugbyunionteam"Australia rugby union team/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/rugbyunion"Rugby union/a/li/ul/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/mAxTCCg5eDx1Cnvd08BA53uZYA4/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/mAxTCCg5eDx1Cnvd08BA53uZYA4/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/65513?ns=guardianpageName=Sport%3A+No+surprises+as+indisciplined+England+outplayed+by+All+Blacksch=Sportc3=guardian.co.ukc4=Autumn+internationals%2CEngland+rugby+union+team%2CNew+Zealand+rugby+union+team%2CRugby+union%2CSportc5=Not+commercially+useful%2CRugby+Unionc6=Michael+Aylwinc7=2008_11_29c8=1126368c9=articlec10=GUc11=Sportc12=Autumn+internationalsc13=c14=h2=GU%2FSport%2FAutumn+internationals" width="1" height="1" //divpAn honourable defeat was about all England were hoping for and in the end they did not even get that. This was their second-worst defeat at Twickenham, to go with the first-worst last week, and, if truth be told, it could have been worse even than that./ppDan Carter was missing kicks left, right and centre, and there cannot have been many All Blacks leaving the field without having dropped the ball at some point or other. The All Blacks, as they have done all autumn, were sauntering around in a half-interested fashion – half-interested and 30 points to the good. It has been a depressing month for those in the northern hemisphere./ppEngland did not help themselves by losing four players to the sin bin – nearly a third of their team – in a game that became the Alain Rolland show. IRB protocols are not necessary with this guy around – he'll ping anything that moves, always has. The penalty count was up around the 30 mark yesterday – maybe that free-kick sanction was not such a bad idea after all./ppSo Martin Johnson walks away from this autumn series with a whole load of headaches, the main one being that his players are just nowhere near as good as those in the southern hemisphere. The analysis board will get quite a pounding from him and his coaches between now and England's next opportunity to work off some steam in the Six Nations, but the nub of his problems is as simple as that – and as impossibly difficult./ppThere was no shortage of effort here, and at times in the first 50 minutes or so New Zealand were rattled, spilling balls and losing line-outs as the decibel level rose and England continued to tear into them. Their efforts reached their high point just after half time when England's two best players, Delon Armitage and Nick Easter combined with Riki Flutey, and Easter was haring towards the tryline from beyond the 22. He seemed certain to get there, but an extraordinary tap tackle from Mils Muliaina felled him just short./ppIt was still on and England were swarming round, but New Zealand regrouped heroically – nothing half-hearted about them at that point – and the danger was snuffed out. England were forced back into that futile pick-and-go stuff they have laboured with all month and then some of that even more futile pass-catch-and-run stuff./ppRichie McCaw hit his opposite number, Michael Lipman, with a ferocious tackle, the ball was spilt, Jimmy Cowan broke, Toby Flood took his head off with a clumsy tackle, another yellow card came out, and, instead of a try that would have brought them back to within two points of the All Blacks, England were down to 13 for the second time in the match. It was a long day./ppEngland did manage to squeeze a penalty out of Mr Rolland a few minutes later to get the score back to 12-6 with 50 minutes gone, but that was it. New Zealand took it away with three tries in the last quarter, all of them brilliant, effortless and so far removed from what England had been doing as to be almost a different sport./ppWhen you are down, you are down, and the number of yellow cards England suffered summed up where they are. For the record they were awarded to Lee Mears and James Haskell in the first half, then Flood and Tom Rees in the second. The first three yellows overlapped, so England were down to 13 men twice across the very heart of the match. After that the capitulation towards the end was inevitable. In fairness to Mr Rolland, none of them was harsh. So discipline is another thing, along with quality of player, for Johnson to ponder over Christmas./ppAnd then there is the scrum. England were annihilated again as the match headed towards its denouement. The worst instance came just shy of the hour, with England twisting and retreating on their own ball. Cowan nipped in to whip the ball away, and in the blink of an eye Muliaina was in at the corner for the first of what would be a brace of tries./ppThat was the end of England's resistance. The scoreline now read 17-6 (Carter missed the conversion), but it might as well have been 42-6, so unlikely looked England to score a try. A touch of genius from Carter in the 66th minute, chipping a flat kick to Muliaina, brought the full-back his second try – 25-6 – then a brilliant break-out off turnover ball had Ma'a Nonu haring away and England flapping once again in the wake of an ugly scoreline./ppWhere England go now is anyone's guess. They will not be among the top four seeds for tomorrow's World Cup draw, and their deal with the Premiership clubs means selection is limited to those picked in the elite squad months ago. Last week half of Johnson's team were from Wasps – swaggering champions in the far-off days when the squad was picked, haunted relegation candidates now. Basing an international side around that is hardly going to work./ppNot that changing his side is going to help much either. Johnson's big change this week was not a success. Toby Flood came in for Danny Cipriani and looked even more diffident and unsure than his predecessor. Fly-half is a problem position for England once more./ppBut why pick on fly-half? Nowhere, other than full-back and possibly scrum-half can England claim to be inundated with options. They are inundated, rather, with youthful promise, which in theory should be good for the future. But only if they can make it to that future without suffering irreversible harm getting there./ppstrongEngland pens:/strong Flood, Armitage/ppstrongNew Zealand tries:/strong Muliaina 2, Nonu/ppstrongCon:/strong Carter/ppstrongPens:/strong Carter 4/ppstrongEngland:/strong Armitage; Sackey (Hipkiss 73), Noon (Cipriani 75), Flutey, Monye; Flood, Care (Ellis 61); Payne, Mears (Hartley 67), Vickery (Stevens 53), Borthwick (capt), Kennedy, Haskell, Lipman (Rees 58), Easter (Croft 67)/ppstrongNew Zealand:/strong Muliaina; Rokocoko, Smith (Toeava 6), Nonu, Sivivatu; Carter, Cowan (Weepu 70); Woodcock, Mealamu, Tialata (Afoa 55), Thorn (Boric 69), Williams, Kaino (Read 55), McCaw (capt), So'oialo/ppstrongReferee:/strong Alain Rolland (Ireland)/ppstrongGame rating:/strong 4/ppstrong/ppAtt:/strong 81,180/pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/autumn-internationals"Autumn internationals/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/englandrugbyunionteam"England rugby union team/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/newzealandrugbyunionteam"New Zealand rugby union team/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/rugbyunion"Rugby union/a/li/ul/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/1oydQx_TOCjjgT5KUqC1z9cRol4/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/1oydQx_TOCjjgT5KUqC1z9cRol4/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

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I had to return my iPhone 3G. It wasn't faulty, no flaws of any sort and the 3G was amazingly quick for the o2 Network here in Ireland. Unfortunately I had to because I couldn't afford it and I'll tell you why.

I chose the €65 a month option (with the phone for €169) which gives me 350 anytime, any network minutes and 150 any network texts and 1GB download usage per month. Sounds ok so far, the next thing is where is hurts (especially since I was told I'm get one of the options).

Now usually this is where the other offers kick is, like o2 texts for life of free talk and text to all networks on evenings and weekends - nothing, you don't get any of it. I switched from Meteor to o2 and back to Meteor in the matter of 6 days... any longer and they would have charged me for the whole 18 months, a small fee of around €950!

Great phone, but my god - the tarriffs are horrid. I had to sell my 2G to get the 3G, I'm now using a Nokia 6230 :eek:

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