Article Archive

February 17th 1996

• • News

  • Bottle of the week News
  • Cybermage Darklight Awakening News
  • China sentences five to death News
  • Battle on to avoid a pollution catastrophe News
  • Spelling it out News
  • Hurd's hurt News
  • A taste of the genuine articles News
  • Border divides Lotto winnings News
  • Bishop to return by Wednesday News
  • Arts Council to allocate £1m News
  • Customs Service seizes tobacco News
  • Appeal for help to find woman News
  • Woman's body found in bog News
  • Old fears emerge from wreckage of IRA bomb News
  • Recovery of lost fishing boat ordered News
  • McKenna seeks equality for gays News
  • Boys' home may be closed News
  • Alcoholic soft drinks withdrawn News
  • Concern over flood of low priced salmon News
  • Couple jailed for role in inner city heroin network News
  • Two men freed because of judge's silence on legal advice News
  • Order to possess family home returned to court News
  • Assaulted lawyer's award increased News
  • Soldier charged with 10 church thefts News
  • Grandmother in hospital after attack News
  • Court test to supermarket News
  • Harney predicts 1997 election News
  • Yates criticises EU committee News
  • Zaire troops surround second camp News
  • Zia heads for landslide News
  • Gulf War TV film attacked News
  • More Timorese `want to go' News
  • Deal may empower Turkey's Islamists News
  • Imagination and intuition of Kasparov win out News
  • US train crash kills 6 News
  • Winter kills 150 homeless News
  • Berlusconi trial opens News
  • Portugal to keep Irish time News
  • Peace accord signed in Chiapas News
  • Officer slips back into coma News
  • Efforts to rescue Bosnian peace News
  • Gonzalez may outlaw ETA's political wing News
  • PEOPLE News
  • War babies News
  • Rocke steady News
  • Saving the best wine... News
  • Connolly resigns as FAI chief executive News PETER BYRNE
  • Adams in `frank' talks with officials News DENIS COGHLAN
  • Gardai investigate failure to charge sex abuse priest News ALISON O'CONNOR
  • Fast film industry needs reform News CONOR O'CLERY
  • Buchanan emerges just in front after debate News CONOR O'CLERY
  • Nothing so exceptional about Irish nationalism News FRED HALLIDAY
  • Border closure increases poverty of Palestinians News MICHAEL JANSEN
  • April poll likely as parliament dissolved News PADDY AGNEW
  • Court orders school to enrol black children News EDWARD O'LOUGHLIN
  • Tories cannot risk Scott ambush News FRANK MILLAR
  • Rattling the cages of the `liberal cult' News MAOL MUIRE TYNAN
  • Politicians and public react to breakdown of IRA ceasefire News CAROL COULTER
  • Shock effect is elemental News BRENDAN MCWILLIAMS
  • Rise in "angel dust" leads to crackdown on farmers News SEAN MACCONNELL
  • Plane facts revealed about Stena's new "flying" ferry News LORNA SIGGINS
  • Scientists says Ireland should seek better fishing deal from EU News LORNA SIGGINS
  • McDowell says prison system is a "shambles and financial scandal" News JOHN CONNOLLY
  • Farmers lose EU challenge to quotas News PATRICK SMYTH
  • Casino central to park plan, developers concede News FRANK MCDONALD
  • Media, aid agencies censured for Third World coverage News MARK BRENNOCK
  • Argument holds up talks on teachers' £70m deal News PAUL CULLEN
  • Trainee dismissals cause concern among gardai News JIM CUSACK
  • Minister pledges to protect coastline News LORNA SIGGINS
  • Union defends four hour strike in Dublin hospitals News PADRAIG YEATES
  • Christian Brothers make learning more rewarding News PAUL CULLEN
  • White peace ribbons fly high at Wild Geese ball News KATHRYN HONE
  • Call for IRA to renew ceasefire at Belfast peace rally News SUZANNE BREEN
  • Police in Britain hold four in bomb inquiry News RACHEL BORRILL
  • Firms support unions in stoppage for peace News PADRAIG YEATES
  • Spring launches peace ribbon News JOHN MAHER
  • Down couple gets massive response to `postcards for peace' appeal News MARIE O'HALLORAN
  • People feel cheated over talks, says Ahern News DENIS COGHLAN
  • Nothing much is changed, students say, and a chance has been wasted News MARIE O'HALLORAN
  • Back in the shadows News NUALA O'FAOLAIN
  • Why mums actually liked Take That (well, until that Robbie one left) News KATHY SHERIDAN
  • Mighty eco power rangers News MAEVE BINCHY
  • Stop the clocks News ROBERT O'BYRNE
  • Richard the Lionheart News PENELOPE DENING
  • Art from the Ghetto News VICTORIA WHITE
  • MEDITATION ON DEATH News MICHAEL DERVAN
  • FORGOTTEN BABIES News KATHRYN HOLMQUIST
  • Ringmasters run risk News EDDIE HOLTS
  • In pursuit of a single flame News JOHN MCGAHERN
  • The unimportance of being Irish News JOHN BOLAND
  • An existence on the edge of oblivion News EILEEN BATTERSBY
  • Whose music is it anyway? News GERALD DAWE
  • Money, Modernism and the Big Five News BRIAN FALLON
  • Tapes et the River Delta, by Peter Cunningham (Arrow, £5.99 in UK) News ARMINTA WALLACE
  • On Trial For Murder, by Douglas Wynn (Pan, £6.99 in UK) News ARMINTA WALLACE
  • Real Life, by Marsha Hunt (Flamingo, £6.99 in UK) News EILEEN BATTERSBY
  • Three Weeks, by Elinor Clyn; The Sheik, by E.M. Hill; The Way of an Eagle, by Ethel M. Dell (Virago, £6.99 each in UK) News BRIAN FALLON
  • Fighter and Blitzkrieg, by Len Deighton; Why the Allies Won, by Richard Overy; Riding the Retreat by Richard Holmes (all Pimlico, £10 each in UK). News BRIAN FALLON
  • The Count of Monte Christo, by Alexandre Dumas; The Swiss Family Robinson, by J.D Wyss (Puffin Classics, £3.99 each in UK) News BRIAN FALLON
  • Five Minutes in Heaven, by Lisa Alther (Penguin, £8.99 in UK) News ARMINTA WALLACE
  • Autopsy on a fraud News JIM DUNNE
  • A touch of the blarney News HUGO HAMILTON
  • A transatlantic Irish poet News FRED JOHNSTON
  • Wok right back to happiness News JOHN McKENNA
  • Renaissance masters News MARY DOWEY
  • Tempest makes a stormy return News GARRETT ROWE
  • In a land of painters and foodies News MARY DOWEY
  • Nature's great egg timers News MICHAEL VINEY
  • Gardens as battlefields News JIM REYNOLDS
  • THIS WEEK IN THE GARDENS News JIM REYNOLDS
  • Well spotted News MICHAEL DWYER

  • Sport

  • Connolly's statement Sport
  • Dwyer's 30 to 1 double Sport
  • Smiths sets new Irish time Sport
  • Johnston loses out to Price Sport
  • Watson, Daly survive cut as locals lead way Sport
  • Drogheda improve, but not enough Sport
  • Galway in deep water Sport
  • Bohemians close in on St Patrick's Sport
  • Johnson keeps up good work Sport
  • Lord Relic is set for a winning return after injury Sport
  • National time change Sport
  • New route into ranks of professionals Sport
  • Feherty thinking bug after a dream return Sport
  • West Indies ruthless Sport
  • The travelling McQuilkins Sport GERRY THORNLEY
  • Irish must upset French right from start Sport DONAL SPRING
  • Last hurrah at the Parc des Princes Sport EDMUND VAN ESBECK
  • Davidson and Clohessy fit Sport EDMUND VAN ESBECK
  • Canny Scots on third leg of Grand Slam Sport STEVE BALE
  • Support for Cork outside Munster Sport SEAN MORAN
  • A happy go lucky bunch with steel of winners Sport TOM HUMPHRIES
  • The rights of the individual versus the rights of the club Sport SEAN KILFEATHER
  • Connolly resigns post as FAI turmoil goes on Sport PETER BYRNE
  • Ferguson hoping for match of the round Sport PHIL SHAW
  • Shelbourne take to the road again Sport EMMET MALONE
  • Night of thrills and spills in Inchicore Sport EMMET MALONE
  • Danoli has easy task with only three rivals Sport MICHAEL O'FARRELL
  • Ventana Canyon will be hard to beat Sport MICHAEL O'FARRELL

  • Business

  • New firm to sell mobile phones Business
  • B of I opens branch in IFSC Business
  • Irish Life names directors Business
  • MARKET REPORT - EUROPE Business
  • MARKET REPORT - NEW YORK Business
  • Desmond places marker at Barlo, Jones Group Business
  • Bookmaker canters past the winning profit post Business
  • Fyffes trades business pleasantries with Italians Business
  • Banker turned lager lout overdrawn on goodwill Business
  • Wall Street in retreat as rate fears weaken dollar Business
  • CountyGlen High Court case adjourned Business
  • Hewlett Packard buoyant Business
  • Central Bank appointment Business
  • CountyGlen ends pursuit Business
  • Lever wins award for campaign Business
  • Fokker to race time to survive Business
  • Lloyds TSB results fail to excite the market Business
  • MARKET REPORT - LONDON Business
  • Market share issue stymies Statoil's acquisition of Jet Business BARRY O'KEEFFE
  • Doubts surface over pricing policy Business BARRY O'KEEFFE
  • Indebtedness a friend to bank profits Business VICTOR KUSS
  • Q-Zar plans to grow as shares get US listing Business MARY CANNIFFE
  • Ewart acquires remaining 10% of Laganbank Business BILL MURDOCH
  • Change urged in auditors' liability Business BILL MURDOCH
  • Further cuts likely after TSB Bank trims its interest rates Business CLIFF TAYLOR
  • THIS WEEK IN THE MARKETS Business JANE SUITER
  • MARKET REPORT - DUBLIN Business JANE SUITER

  • Opinion

  • CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS Opinion
  • Rubbishing of Mitchell report by Major was the final straw Opinion
  • Becoming A Real Person Opinion
  • LAUGHING ALL THE WAY TO THE BANK Opinion
  • CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS Opinion
  • THE BISHOP'S DEMONS Opinion
  • Italian Election Opinion
  • Read with caution the commentary on London bombing Opinion DICK WALSH
  • Case for postponing direct talks with SF overwhelming Opinion GARRET FITZGERALD
  • AN IRISHMAN'S DIARY Opinion KEVIN MYERS

  • Life & Style

  • Culture

  • Smoking these vintage Havanas could cost a dollar per second Culture
  • China restoration course next week Culture
  • De Vere to give free valuations Culture
  • Collins brings publishers to book as chapter on celebrity novelist closes Culture
  • Clausen painting may fetch £12,000 Culture
  • Leading price for 18th century stools Culture
  • Quality Victorian desks pick of lots Culture
  • Putting a little sparkle into spring Culture
  • Dangerous territory for sovereign governments Culture
  • Talks cannot take place if bomb threats remain Culture
  • Making the links with lots of spirit Culture
  • Widow asks why a dream ended with a body ignored in a park Culture
  • Bruton must learn from past errors to become a custodian of the peace process Culture
  • Inner Sense Culture
  • Radon study fuels debate about risk from cancer Culture
  • Work out the difference between risks and dangers Culture
  • RDS silver cups in Dublin sale Culture
  • Another fair for Newman House Culture
  • English buyer weathers keen bidding for barometer Culture