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    • A calibrated policy on crime

      The latest crime figures, published by the Minister for Justice yesterday, make for sobering reading. Overall "headline" or serious crimes are up 22 per cent on last year. Even more seriously, when this is compared with the 2000 figures, the increase over the past two years is 40 per cent. p

    • Slow train coming

      The Minister for Transport, Mr Brennan, has laboured mightily on a strategic review of the State's railway system and brought forth something of a mouse. When all the grandiose language and political aspirations are stripped away, the short term result will be a continuation of existing rail policies, with investment levels remaining largely unchanged and the focus of development fixed firmly on the Dublin commuter belt. p
    Opinion

    • Review's vision of railways' future will worsen dominance of Dublin

      The rail review has effectively torn up the Government's National Spatial Strategy, writes Frank McDonald , Environment Editor p

    • Major issues in children's advertising code

      The preparation of a children's advertising code is the first important initiative of the Broadcasting Commission, writes Conor Maguire p

    • New myths thrive as memories recede

      Myth and counter-myth are being spun already in Iraq: history for the past century is rewritten in Northern Ireland from day to day, with special reference to the past five years. Versions of the truth will clash with a vengeance next week, to mark the fifth anniversary of the agreement concluded at Stormont on April 10th, 1998. p
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    • An Irishman's Diary

      I was quite taken aback to see Emily O'Reilly, rather more amply upholstered in the flesh than I had remembered, singing at Lansdowne Road last Sunday. What a girl! Our ombudsman who is now - we learn - to be our ombudswoman is in addition our ombudsthrush, warbling with the best of them. Moreover, the added avoirdupois suited her. p
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