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Philip Nolan

Leinster

Staff Columnist at Daily Mail

Staff Columnist at The Mail on Sunday

Journalist. @irishdailymail, @irishmailsunday, and @BusinessPlusMag. Current affairs opinion, motoring, television, travel. Likes a bit of scran.

Articles

  • 1 month ago | businessplus.ie | Philip Nolan

    There’s a city in central Mexico you probably have never heard of, even though it has a population of over one million. San Luis Potosí has a beautiful cathedral in the main square, side streets with cafés and restaurants under porches to protect those eating outdoors from sun and heat, and many parks that bring greenery at almost every corner. Leave the city limits, though, and that greenery disappears. Aside from irrigated fields for farming, the landscape becomes dusty and arid.

  • 1 month ago | businessplus.ie | Philip Nolan

    When the Skoda Kodiaq made its debut in 2017, one of its main selling points was that it was available as a five- or a seven-seater. Admittedly, the seats in that back row were made for young children and, like theme park rides, they might just as well have put a height restriction sign on them. But it was handy to have them all the same.

  • 1 month ago | evoke.ie | Philip Nolan

    It was a case of third time lucky. When Jack Woolley was competing in taekwondo at the Paris Olympics, his partner Dave Stig planned to propose if Jack won Gold. When that didn’t happen, his intention was to do it on live television last Sunday if Jack won Dancing With The Stars, but Rhys McClenaghan lifted the glitterball instead. So Dave thought he would wait until this weekend, as the two arrive in Tenerife for a well-earned holiday. Fate had other plans.

  • 2 months ago | businessplus.ie | Philip Nolan

    When is an Audi A5 not an A5? Well, when it's also an A4. As you probably know, in a bid to make everything clearer, Audi has slightly muddied the waters instead. It now reserves even numbers for its fully electric cars, and uneven for the more traditional petrol and diesel models.

  • Jan 18, 2025 | irishcentral.com | Philip Nolan

    When Archie Naughton was two, he had meningitis, pneumonia, and septicaemia, and nearly died. "He didn't, thank God, but he was left with this kind of a limp, and he was having occupational therapy and physio, and he improved greatly," his mother Paula says. "We all assumed that was because he had meningitis and, you know, when you're told your child might die, you do a lot of bargaining with God.

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7 Apr 25

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Philip Nolan @philipnolan1
5 Apr 25

That’s pretty cool. The straight line on the floor is the prime meridian running through the lobby of the InterContinental Hotel at the O2 in Greenwich, dividing the eastern and western hemispheres. #PhilipLondon https://t.co/awb0J20skP

Philip Nolan
Philip Nolan @philipnolan1
5 Apr 25

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