Article Archive

April 12th 1997

• • News

  • Two charged over robbery News
  • New Brunswick PM to visit News
  • 20th fishing vessel held News
  • Garda treated for injuries News
  • Bail revoked at father's request News
  • Aintree fiasco and Bruton put pressure or Sinn Fein News
  • Greens plan to field only 90 candidates. News
  • Portillo queried on pay rise News
  • Heaven on earth, naturally News
  • Leaders woo Asian vote News
  • Senate confirms envoy to Hanoi News
  • April 12th-18th News
  • Two allegations of rape at jail News
  • Report due on violence. News
  • £6m extension for RTC News
  • Poultry trading to restart News
  • Benefit concert cancelled News
  • Badger-baiting is disgusting, says judge News
  • Six freed in Guerin inquiry News
  • Farmers given drought warning News
  • West Cork RTC plan welcomed News
  • Psychiatrist admits error of judgment News
  • Smyth sex abuse victim cannot sue State over extradition News
  • Presumption of innocence stressed News
  • Player struck during match News
  • Court dismisses assault charges News
  • Sex case accused suffers stroke News
  • Sewage plant group formed News
  • Order for new dump is given News
  • Litter play to tour schools News
  • Hearing of Dunne will appeal set for June News
  • Man fell from ledge in fire, court told News
  • Burton approves £550,000 grant News
  • Workers at Erin Foods agree LRC settlement News
  • NI man gets life sentence for murder News
  • Girl killed by bus in Cork News
  • £10,000 award for lost tooth News
  • Anti abortion candidates News
  • Cox added to list in Galway News
  • NUJ members suspend action News
  • Former "Irish Times" editor Fergus Pyle (62) dies after a short illness News
  • Bouncer kicked in toilet door News
  • Motorist forced car to stop News
  • Man on 22 charges robbed PO News
  • Tory walks off in protest News
  • Advance party of international mission to Albania lands News
  • `IRA unit' on London bomb charges News
  • Van Mierlo in talks with Arafat News
  • Turin Shroud safe after fire News
  • No agreement in oil rig dispute News
  • Protesters harass maverick MP News
  • Historic Earhart flight emulated News
  • Leaning tower's tilt `halted' News
  • Pilot may have killed himself News
  • EU summit decision News
  • Security chief shot dead News
  • `White ensign' lowered News
  • Parking move upsets envoys News
  • Double suicide feared News
  • Lafontaine: unpopular candidate News
  • Schroder: main rival to Kohl News
  • 3,000 Iranians protest at Berlin court ruling News
  • Parking mad News
  • Knitted plastic News
  • Sing it to me News
  • Campaign tales News
  • Armstrong's brawn News
  • Such a drag! News
  • What's it all about, Harold? News
  • RUC arrests seven men in Armagh security swoop News JIM CUSACK
  • Many co-op members expected to oppose £600m merger offer News DICK GROGAN
  • Governor says overcrowding in Mountjoy hits all-time high News CATHERINE CLEARY
  • First playing president has a sense of showmanship News SEAN MORAN
  • THE WORDS WE USE News DIARMAID O MUIRITHE
  • Flames of the forest News BRENDAN MCWILLIAMS
  • Gardai get TV eye over central Dublin News JOHN MAHER
  • GRA move may stop ballot of gardai News JIM CUSACK
  • Health board's committees vote for vasectomy News PATSY MCGARRY
  • Department informed dead woman had CJD News DICK AHLSTROM
  • Court fines Spanish skipper after fatal collision with Irish vessel News DICK HOGAN
  • Man awoke to find teenage rent boy dead in bed beside him News RICHARD BALLS
  • Father tells coroner son did not intend suicide News RICHARD BALLS
  • Tribunal applies to discover foreign bank documents News CAROL COULTER
  • One-third of girls in survey have low iron levels News SEAN MACCONNELL
  • Public health doctors to discuss strike vote News CATHERINE CLEARY
  • Spring sets face against Fianna Fail coalition News MARK BRENNOCK
  • Motion on military alliance adjourned News MARK BRENNOCK
  • Mixed fortunes for fest News MARTIN ADAMS
  • NSO/Vladimir Altschuler News MICHAEL DERVAN
  • IRA returning to long war strategy - Spring News MICHAEL O'REGAN
  • Kemmy warns that there are "plenty of little Maggies" News MICHAEL O'REGAN
  • Ahern perceives four FF coalition options News ARTHUR QUILAN
  • Grant aided fishing boats recommended News LORNA SIGGINS
  • Placatory post Budget pay outs will cost millions News GERALDINE KENNEDY
  • Deflector groups demand right to broadcast News UINSIONN MACDUBHGHAILL
  • Licensing of TV relay system is considered News GERALDINE KENNEDY
  • Two ways to transmit TV News MICHAEL FOLEY
  • Fighting fire with fire .... News NUALA O'FAOLAIN
  • To infinity and beyond News LOUISE EAST
  • Trash town? News HUGH LINEHAN
  • An unlikely adviser News MAEVE BINCHY
  • Escape from the wounds of time and place News ANNA MUNDOW
  • Tuppence ha'penny looking down on tuppence News DICK WALSH
  • Taking to the rues and avenues News NICHOLAS FRASER
  • A Cuirting in Galway News EILEEN BATTERSBY
  • THE MEN'S MOVEMENT News MIC MORONEY
  • THE BALD GUY GETS IT News EDDIE HOLT
  • With a view to a vote News HUGH LINEHAN
  • Tracey in the Underworld News JACK HANNA
  • Recuperating Wagner News ARMINTA WALLACE
  • The Atrocities of the Pirates, by Aaron Smith (Prion £8.99 in UK) News BRIAN FALLON
  • The Magic Christian, by Terry Southern (Bloomsbury, £6.99 in UK). News EILEEN BATTERSBY
  • Barthes for Beginners, by Philip Thoday and Ann Course (Icon Books, £8.99 in UK) News ARMINTA WALLACE
  • The Richer, The Poorer, and The Wedding, by Dorothy West (Virago, both £6.99 in UK) News ARMINTA WALLACE
  • Classic texts in another tongue News POL O MUIRI
  • Up jumped a bagman News PATRICK SKENE CATLING
  • An island floating off its own horizon News ANGELA BOURKE
  • Gender jargon in the groves of gobbledegook News JOHN BOLAND
  • When the Orange pike was in the thatch News RICHARD ROCHE
  • Science lost and found News MARY MULVIHILL
  • "Rice is born in water and its dies in wine" News MARY DOWEY
  • VENETO'S VINEST News MARY DOWEY
  • Have a happy ending. . . News ALEX DUVAL SMITH
  • Formula for lots of fun News GARRETT ROWE
  • The daffodil host News JANE POWERS
  • An end to peanut riots News MICHAEL VINEY
  • Gardening that makes scents News JIM REYNOLDS
  • A very Fiennes story News PENELOPE DENING
  • Tories reckon the tables are for turning News FRANK MILLAR
  • Tory candidates flaunt opposition to single currency in defiance of Major News FRANK MILLAR
  • Blair sets out to win over leaders of industry News RACHEL BORRILL
  • Labour victory would keep door open to vision for EU News PAUL GILLESPIE
  • Political crisis in India as PM loses vote of confidence News RAHUL BEDI
  • Pope to call for coexistence and forgiveness in Sarajevo News PADDY AGNEW
  • Effective Palestinian action against Hamas gang fails to mend relations with Israel News DAVID HOROVITZ
  • Huge debt to UN doesn't stop Uncle Sam exploiting his veto News SEAN CRONIN
  • Is this the beginning of a renewed Intifada? News MICHAEL JANSEN
  • Kohl determined to make a big contribution to German history News DENIS STAUNTON
  • Mitterand phone tap accusations multiply News LARA MARLOWE

  • Sport

  • Faldo, Norman exit stage left Sport
  • Serious can give Bailey a good start at Ascot Sport
  • FAI reject Hamman Sport
  • Burns hoping Falkirk do not add to his woes Sport
  • J'accuse Liverpool Sport
  • AC Milan need good result after 6-1 defeat Sport
  • Cosy win for Pas de Reponse Sport
  • Woods set target for chasing pack Sport DERMOT GILLEECE
  • Crotty and Elwood miss out on tour Sport EDMUND VAN ESBECK
  • Ryan's a man for the hard road Sport TOM HUMPHRIES
  • The rule makers must be vigilant Sport SEAN KILFEATHER
  • Dublin under 21 appeal rejected Sport SEAN MORAN
  • Playing it off the cuff Sport SEAN MORAN
  • League at last wins live TV debut Sport GERRY THORNLEY
  • Gormley does the job for Patrick's Sport GERRY THORNLEY
  • Local hero Derry's rock of ages Sport GERRY THORLEY
  • Ireland are caught out by Scotland Sport DAVID TOWNSEND
  • Old boys of Belvedere and Wesley face afternoon of relegation worry Sport EDMUND VAN ESBECK
  • Chelsea may fall at final hurdle Sport DAVID LACEY
  • O'Neill gives McCarthy options Sport PETER BYRNE
  • A season's work on line for Rix Sport MARTIN THORPE
  • Polltric can score off this mark Sport BRIAN O'CONNOR
  • Desert King can pass crucial test Sport BRIAN O'CONNOR
  • Jordan ready for 100th Grand Prix Sport MARTIN MCCARTHY
  • Formula Vee in limelight Sport BRIAN FOLEY
  • Cronje to make Ireland debut against Middlesex Sport KARL JOHNSON
  • Irish team is named Sport MARY HANNIGAN
  • The Bear claws to safety, the Shark bites the dust Sport DERMOT GILLEECE

  • Business

  • Advertising pays cost of free telephone calls Business
  • Sterling surge pushes pound down Business
  • MARKET REPORT - EUROPE Business
  • Welcome from IFA but some concerns Business
  • Amalgamations have benefits Business
  • £992,000 for Avonmore board Business
  • Marketing firms to create 150 jobs at Shannon Business
  • Waigel rejects `soft' tag Business
  • O'Reilly earnings top £40m at Heinz Business
  • Third takeover wrapped up by print company Business
  • Small beer with large ambition Business
  • Lunatic fringe insurer falters at `Heaven's Gate' Business
  • Losing a good result for Manchester United finances Business
  • Farmed salmon row test for EU fisheries policy Business
  • EU and US strike deal over Cuba Business
  • MARKET REPORT - LONDON Business
  • MARKET REPORT - NEW YORK Business
  • Avonmore's merger plans could face Waterford dissent Business BRENDAN MCGRATH
  • Waterford yet to be convinced by merits of any get-together Business BRENDAN MCGRATH
  • Farmers and workers face uncertain times ahead Business DICK GROGAN
  • Prospect of deal would present industry with major challenge Business MARY CANNIFFE
  • Pre-tax profits fall by 20.6% as operating margins slip Business MARY CANNIFFE
  • Competition Authority forces climbdown by travel agents Business SEAN MAC CARTHAIGH
  • Telecom appoints UK's Morgan Stanley as adviser in sale to union Business BARRY O'KEEFFE
  • Officials delve into EU law on Tesco deal Business BARRY O'KEEFFE
  • Banks braced for heavy once-off EMU costs Business SEAN MAC CARTHAIGH
  • Legal eagles still hover over Ernest Business VICTOR KUSS
  • Putting the PC at the heart of the home Business LOUISE KEHOE
  • THIS WEEK IN THE MARKETS Business BARRY O'KEEFFE
  • MARKET REPORT - DUBLIN Business BARRY O'KEEFFE

  • Opinion

  • CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS Opinion
  • AVONMORE AND WATERFORD Opinion
  • ROOK PIE AND FRIED SNAILS Opinion
  • CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS Opinion
  • Agony and Ecstasy Opinion
  • ADOPTION RIGHTS Opinion
  • BEEF EXPORT REFUNDS Letters DESMOND O'MALLEY , TD
  • VASECTOMY Letters MARJORIE CASEY
  • VASECTOMY Letters DR E M A BOYD
  • VASECTOMY Letters EILEEN O'DRISCOLL
  • POPE AND PRESIDENT Letters LIAM O'DRISCOLL , SEAN COLLINS , EAMONN McCARTHY , THOMAS STACK , AUSTIN FLANNERY , TOM O'KEEFE , ELTIN GRIFFIN , SEAMUS RYAN , MICHAEL HURLEY
  • POPE AND PRESIDENT Letters MICHAEL CURRAN
  • POPE AND PRESIDENT Letters DR ANTHONY KELLY
  • POPE AND PRESIDENT Letters CONOR HICKEY
  • LEOPARDSTOWN MOTORWAY Letters P W BEIRNE
  • FIRST SWALLOW Letters ELIZABETH SULLIVAN
  • SECOND CLASS Letters CAROLYN SWIFT
  • British voters may preside over the demise of politics Opinion MAIRE GEOGHEGAN QUINN
  • Issues key to centre left, centre right poll choices Opinion DICK WALSH
  • Basic income system has merit Opinion GARRET FITZGERALD
  • AN IRISHMAN'S DIARY Opinion KEVIN MYERS

  • Life & Style

  • Culture

  • A chamber of past horrors as ghosts return to the Dail Culture
  • Irish marble side tables may Fetch £200,000 plus Culture
  • From furniture to china and jewellery Culture
  • Early Belleek vases in Tipperary convent sale Culture
  • Vintage Irish whiskey in Meath auction Culture
  • Georgian chest on chest may sell for £3,000-plus Culture
  • Contents of Ballycrystal House to be sold Culture
  • A thousand years of coining it Culture
  • Antique jewellery on offer at Dublin Castle Culture
  • Top price of £38,000 for de Vesci dining table Culture
  • Bookcase with gothic touches makes £3,600 Culture
  • Threatened TV cut off deflects attention from snip that dare not speak its name Culture PATSY MCGARRY
  • Operation is quick, easy and popular Culture ALISON O'CONNOR
  • Drug abuse leads to sex and violence in Phoenix Park Culture RICHARD BALLS
  • Appeals to conserve precious resource are like water off a duck's back Culture ROISIN INGLE
  • The `black Bardot' says fashion still prefers blondes Culture ALISON DANIELS
  • Openness to replace public service secrecy under new information law Culture MICHAEL FOLEY
  • Gun attack in Derry a new threat to loyalist ceasefire Culture GERRY MORIARTY
  • IRA sniper unit killed 11 soldiers and police in Armagh Culture JIM CUSACK
  • DUP withdraws candidates to prevent split vote Culture CARMEL ROBINSON
  • IRA actions may not dent "bullet proof" SF voting base Culture DEAGLAN DE BREADUN
  • A "safe pair of hands" ready to grasp power in the heartland of establishment unionism Culture SUZANNE BREEN
  • Rich furniture feature of Stradbally Hall sale Culture ROBERT O'BYRNE