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    • Bush and Blair meet in Belfast

      The dramatic news that President George Bush and Mr Tony Blair are to meet in Belfast on Monday and Tuesday is a welcome confirmation that the British Prime Minister continues to influence United States policy on Iraq as the war reaches a critical juncture. p

    • A congestion charge

      The Dublin City Business Association has reacted angrily to the preposterous suggestion that a congestion charge be imposed on motorists traversing the capital. "Fatuous" was the word it used to damn any such proposal -- and with some reason. p
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    • Delivering some home truths about home births

      BBA. Born before arrival. That's what is jotted on the charts of women who deliver before they make it to a maternity hospital. According to reports, recommendations by the Medical Manpower Forum could result in the closure of 12 of the country's 22 maternity units, writes Breda O'Brien p

    • PDs' radical agenda resets parameters of political debate

      Fianna Fáil backbencher John McGuinness purported to reveal this week that the PDs were exerting "subtle" influence in government to the extent that they were diluting Fianna Fáil's "centre-left" political outlook. He suggested this has been going on for about a year, writes Mark Brennock p

    • Short-term economic management trips us up

      During the past two years our economic growth rate has fallen back to the same low level as in the rest of the EU. But whereas in the rest of the European Union growth has merely been halved, in our case it has been cut by four-fifths, which is a very dramatic deceleration, writes Garret FitzGerald p

    • Ultimate goal of stability in the Middle East may well prove elusive

      WORLD VIEW: 'One more victory and I am lost.' So said Pyrrhus, king of Hellenistic Epirus after he defeated the Romans in 280BC, having suffered huge losses. Ever since the term Pyrrhic has been used to describe any victory so costly as to be ruinous, writes Paul Gillespie p

    • US supremacy due to high expenditure, advanced research and skilled manpower

      Adaptability to the fast-changing requirements of war is the critical difference between US and Iraqi forces, writes Col E. D. Doyle p

    • Time to halt SF's dance of the seven veils on policing

      Drapier had a rotten week. War has a way of diminishing the human spirit; so despite the April sunshine Leinster House was gloomy. p
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    • An Irishwoman's Diary

      Mitzi. She had to be called Mitzi. She had the look of an eager young girl. There was something 19th century about her - she could have been a red cheeked Viennese lass who had recently arrived in the city from the provinces to work in a pastry shop on the something or other Strasse, writes Eileen Battersby p
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