• Words on the air

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• Illusion of informality

  According to solicitor Muriel Walls, cohabiting couples fall into three main categories: p
  

• To love outside the law

  In the last Census, in 1996, more than 30,000 couples described themselves as living in a cohabiting family unit. Of those about 40 per cent had children. This figure is likely to have increased significantly since then, when the question was asked for the first time. p
  

• Fianna Fail moves the goal posts

  According to the Sunday Tribune, Beverley Cooper-Flynn got a lot of sympathy at the Fianna Fail parliamentary party meeting last Wednesday, "particularly when she referred to Irish Times columnist Fintan O'Toole, a long-time bete noire of Fianna Fail. p
  

• Emphasis of third-level education is unashamedly on vocationalism

  Recently we have seen major changes in the role of higher education in society throughout the world. Once the domain of the intellectual elite, the modern university now seems to be abandoning its traditional role of education in favour of providing the industrial skills necessary for the development of national economies. p
  

• Printing of Ireland's first book, the `Book of Common Prayer', to be commemorated

  The 450th anniversary of the introduction of the Book of Common Prayer into Ireland and of the printing of the first book in Ireland is being marked by church and State with special services and commemorative stamps. p
  

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