Article Archive

April 19th 1997

• • News

  • Horrid things to ponder News
  • 61% of teenagers attend Mass News
  • Man remanded on murder charge News
  • Court remands drugs charge man News
  • New trial for man on murder charge News
  • Woman strangled, coroner's court told News
  • NB: this tribunal could go anywhere News
  • Sandal-shod devotees News
  • Korean version of Danny Boy News
  • Mortar bombs seized News
  • Man killed in train accident News
  • Woman's body washed up News
  • Out of hours dispute settled News
  • Consultants level of income defended News
  • Prisoner has baby in Belfast News
  • BTSB appeals for blood donations News
  • Theatre of the young News
  • A Fiennes outing News
  • Big bucks come to town News
  • Tortured talkers News
  • Pro Mo-Mo News
  • Guarded response News
  • Unnamed allies News
  • Dream sequence News
  • Out to launch News
  • Zoo rhino shot dead News
  • Loyalists blamed for attack News
  • A Security guard sentenced News
  • Binchy book poised for Hollywood treatment News
  • Man on wife murder charge seeks bail News
  • State "shut its eyes" in case of wrongful conviction - Taxing Master News
  • Athlone man on murder charge News
  • Widow of publican granted bail on murder charge News
  • Man alleging sex abuse by priest denies telling lies News
  • Romanians get Probation Act after taking money News
  • Tight security for Sinn Fein Ardfheis News
  • Hilton Hotel case adjourned News
  • 2m stolen cigarettes seized News
  • Funds for limbless child News
  • Woman awarded £28,396 News
  • Lord Howe condemns Tory advert News
  • Ashdown claims nurses `gagged' News
  • Rival paper hires sacked writer News
  • 3 patients infected with HIV virus News
  • US criticises China on rights News
  • North Korea famine alert News
  • Grenade found in bomb alert News
  • Cholera kills 200 in Nigeria News
  • Tear gas used to end protest News
  • Dehaene acts on missing children bungles News
  • Dead woman stowed on bus News
  • Police hunt for illegal immigrants News
  • Mass said for hostages News
  • PEOPLE News
  • Algerian fears cause tighter security News
  • 77 years jail for gang rape News
  • Yeltsin takes beach break News
  • NATO-Russia optimism News
  • Bulgarians go to the polls News
  • Privates on peyote News
  • Israeli politicians unite in tribute to Herzog News
  • Berties masses troops to dethrone prince News MAOL MUIRE TYNAN
  • Dunnes tribunal team in secret trip to Caribbean News GERALDINE KENNEDY
  • Spring rules out Labour coalition with Fianna Fail News NUALA HAUGHEY
  • Hour approaches but for whom will Big Ben toll? News SEAN MAC CARTHAIGH
  • THE WORDS WE USE News DIARMAID O MUIRITHE
  • Coroner warns of toxic reaction to ecstasy News RICHARD BALLS
  • Politicians should meet jobless - Bruton News PADRAIG YEATES
  • Feeling under the weather News BRENDAN MCWILLIAMS
  • Qualified privilege to be given to civil servants News PADRAIG YEATES
  • Bus station on quays opposed News DICK GROGAN
  • One small step for Spring as a spaceman came calling to Tralee News DICK AHLSTROM
  • Goodman allowed £7.6m tribunal costs News RICHARD BALLS
  • Exiles carry legacy of guilt to US News BRENDAN O CATHAOIR
  • Inquest on murdered woman adjourned News RICHARD BALLS
  • Health workers' strike on Monday likely News PADRAIG YEATES
  • Noonan refuses to say how much hepatitis victims fund will contain News ALISON O'CONNOR
  • Slurry in Cork river causes big fish kill News ANN CAHILL
  • North can ill afford sectarian madness, says UUP leader News CARMEL ROBINSON
  • University disclaims chancellor's remarks on single religion schools News GERRY MORIARTY
  • Anissimov appointed to conduct NSO News MICHAEL DERVAN
  • No place in FF for those receiving large sums of money, says Ahern News MAOL MUIRE TYNAN
  • Decision by Mitchell not to retire would be boost for FG News MAOL MUIRE TYNAN
  • Christian Solidarity party sets sights on abortion vote News MICHAEL FOLEY
  • Garda figures show crime rate is falling News JOHN MAHER
  • Woman focus on crime and offer strong support for zero tolerance News MICHAEL O'REGAN
  • O'Rourke backs NESF jobs plan News MICHAEL O'REGAN
  • Line in sand may not hold back tide for Ahern News GERALDINE KENNEDY
  • Documents contained detailed accounts of £1.1m payments News CLIFF TAYLOR
  • Haughey back in limelight after an uneasy retirement News DENIS COGHLAN
  • Analysis of constituencies points to a hung Dail News MAOL MUIRE TYNAN
  • Abraham Lincoln inspires favoured man News SUZANNE BREEN
  • Greens campaign for PR News GERRY MORIARTY
  • Women seek mandate for work of coalition News CAROL COULTER
  • Tiger's victory reveals patchwork progress News JOE CARROLL
  • Setback for talks as rebels urge Mobutu to surrender News JOHN CHIAHEMEN
  • Irish visit is cancelled after police detain human rights activist News PATRICK COMERFORD
  • Efforts to bring together Turks and Greeks have mixed success News MICHAEL JANSEN
  • Netanyahu fights for political life as erstwhile allies start to fragment News DAVID HOROVITZ
  • Chirac ponders election options News LARA MARLOWE
  • Chile flinches as Pinochet swirls his cape in outburst of regal rage News HUGH O'SHAUGHNESSY
  • Whither the weather? News BRENDAN McWILLIAMS
  • Stella makes the name her own News PENELOPE DENING
  • They're all here between covers News LOUISE EAST
  • The town's gone book-mad News MAEVE BINCHY
  • Abel fables News JOHNATHAN ROMNEY
  • The Famous Five News KEVIN COURTNEY
  • Gift of the Gab News KEVIN COURTNEY
  • When things go wrong News JANE COYLE
  • Viewer as voyeur News EDDIE HOLT
  • A hero for the times News HELEN MEANY
  • A poet against the grain News BRIAN FALLON
  • A tale from the dark side News JIM CUSACK
  • Eight German Novellas, trans. Michael Fleming (OUP, £6.99 in UK) News BRIAN FALLON
  • The Life and Times of Mary Ann McCracken 1770-1866: A Belfast Panorama, by Mary McNeill (Blackstaff Press, £9.99 in UK) News BRIAN FALLON
  • Classic American Short Stories, selected and introduced by Douglas Grant (OUP, £5.99 in UK). News BRIAN FALLON
  • Snaring the Other Tiger, by Ian Ward (Media Masters, Singapore, no price given) News ARMINTA WALLACE
  • Love's Work, by Gillian Rose (vintage, £5.99 in UK) News EILEEN BATTERSBY
  • Red Mercury Blues, by Reggie Nadelson (Faber & Faber, £5.99 in UK) News ARMINTA WALLACE
  • Blue Genes, by Val McDermid (Harpercollins, £5.99 in UK) News ARMINTA WALLACE
  • The World According to Mike Leigh, by Michael Coveney (HarperCollins, £6.99 in UK) News ARMINTA WALLACE
  • Elisabeth Schumann, by Gerd Puritz (Grant and Cutler, £14.99 in UK) News BRIAN FALLON
  • The Imaginary Girlfriend, by John Irving (Black Swan, £6.99 in UK) News ARMINTA WALLACE
  • Trotsky: The Eternal Revolutionary, by Dmitri Volkogonov (HarperCollins, £12.99 in UK) News BRIAN FALLON
  • Twilight's last gleaming News EILEEN BATTERSBY
  • Astray in the shadow of the Duke News RAY COMISKEY
  • Another writer under sentence News JOHN BOLAND
  • In the bag News ROBERT DUNBAR
  • Under the hill News BRIAN LYNCH
  • A full catch News MICHAEL SMITH
  • Thanks, I'll eat it at home . . . News JOHN McKENNA
  • Sunshine in a glass News MARY DOWEY
  • Stepping onto the ICE News LORNA SIGGINS
  • Fear as a fact of life News MICHAEL VINEY
  • Ireland beats the world's best News GARRETT ROWE
  • A memsahib under the Raj News FERGUS PYLE
  • Soldiers of Destiny v Rainbow Warriors News RENAGH HOLOHAN
  • Explosions and bomb alerts that cripple UK transport condemned News RACHEL BORRILL
  • Gardai seize counterfeit revenue stamps News NUALA HAUGHEY
  • Long shadow of Black Wednesday falls on Major News FRANK MILLAR
  • Mayhew, ex UUP leader named as life peers News RACHEL DONNELLY
  • Labour says new Tory tactics show their desperation News RACHEL BORRILL
  • Hume and Adams meet for TV debate News GERRY MORIARTY
  • Mallon calls on governments to act on North News MARK BRENNOCK

  • Sport

  • Spencer cup win for Garda Sport
  • Traffic delays to be expected Sport
  • Confidence in Act The Wag Sport
  • Walsh denies taking drugs Sport
  • McGinley survives ambush of "Angels" Sport
  • Eubank on the receiving end Sport
  • IOC advance for curling Sport
  • Price holds one shot lead Sport
  • Wild card Parnevik's only hope Sport
  • Tense draw Sport
  • Jones sues over free contracts Sport
  • Hamilton may get Everton post Sport
  • Lama faces ban for cannabis use Sport
  • Sleepytime finds an opening too late Sport
  • Meditator off the scrapheap Sport
  • Support for Entrepreneur Sport
  • Swan to ride Bishop's Hall Sport
  • Tough draw may wipe Hendry out Sport CLIVE EVERTON
  • United hold all the cards Sport MARK LAWRENSON
  • Not all rosy in hurling garden Sport SEAN KILFEATHER
  • Solid Cork and improving Laois set for final Sport SEAN MORAN
  • Blackrock and St Mary's finely matched Sport JOHNNY WATTERSON
  • Loss of European Rallycross event a blow for Mondello Sport BRIAN FOLEY
  • In the kingdom of the quiet man Sport TOM HUMPHRIES
  • Ireland start in dominant fashion Sport MARY HANNIGAN
  • Rovers eke out a crucial point Sport PAUL BUTTNER
  • Drive to put swing analysis in motion Sport DERMOT GILLEECE
  • The man of the moment Sport MICHAEL WALKER
  • United's delaying tactics move on to a higher plane Sport MARTIN THORPE
  • Shell Ginger may be one of six O'Brien winners Sport BRIAN O'CONNOR
  • Labour of love for a festival of fun Sport BRIAN O'CONNOR
  • The Spirit of the Brandywell Sport GERRY THORNLEY

  • Business

  • Isotron to invest £1m in new plant Business
  • MARKET REPORT - EUROPE Business
  • Laundry group cleans up with sales, profit growth Business
  • The hard sell of insurance Business
  • Pact a blow to Telecom partners Business
  • Mining firm raises £0.25m Business
  • Hardware marketing group Business
  • New FINEX contracts Business
  • Top Germans split over tough stance on EMU Business
  • Italy pins EMU hopes on mini budget Business
  • MARKET REPORT - LONDON Business
  • MARKET REPORT - NEW YORK Business
  • RDS clears its fences with £582,000 profit Business
  • Banking eagle lands on building society nestegg Business
  • Oil company name defies flow testing Business VICTOR KUSS
  • Waterford seeks clarification of terms Business BRENDAN MCGRATH
  • Qualceram founders to share £4.5m on flotation of firm Business SIOBHAN CREATON
  • Norwich Union flotation approved Business SIOBHAN CREATON
  • Lyons' share of North tea market rises Business BILL MURDOCH
  • Cabinet not to intervene in Tesco bid for Quinnsworth Business BARRY O'KEEFFE
  • THIS WEEK IN THE MARKETS Business BRENDAN MCGRATH
  • MARKET REPORT - DUBLIN Business JANE SUITER

  • Opinion

  • THE ASYLUM SEEKERS Opinion
  • TAIZE: LITTLE SPRINGTIME Opinion
  • BIRDS, BUTTERFLIES AND PARTITION Opinion
  • ABOUT TIME Opinion
  • ADOPTION RIGHTS Letters HELEN GILMARTIN
  • SOCIAL CHARTER FOR YOUTH Letters COLMAN BYRNE
  • IRISH ECONOMY Letters JOHN F HIGGINS
  • BRUTON AND SF Letters CATHERINE BRUGHA
  • STREET WAIFS Letters MARY BLACKWELL
  • VASECTOMY Letters H E COUNIHAN
  • CAMP SURVIVOR Letters EAMON O CUIV
  • ROISIN McALISKEY Letters RICHARD DEASY
  • BEST FRIENDS? Letters JOHN O'CONNOR
  • TAXING CARS Letters CONOR LAWLOR
  • TIMES SQUARE Letters PATRICK NOLAN
  • THE ASGARD Letters G F HEALY CAPT
  • Opposition suspects Spring is behind plot Opinion DICK WALSH
  • Balancing prosperity with end to poverty Opinion GARRET FITZGERALD
  • Ahern facing greatest challenge in weekend's make or break ardfheis Opinion MAIRE GEOGHEGAN QUINN
  • AN IRISHMAN'S DIARY Opinion KEVIN MYERS

  • Life & Style

  • Culture

  • Bluthner upright piano for over £800 Culture
  • Selling the family Victorian furniture Culture
  • Rosewood bonheur du jour for £3,500 Culture
  • A chance to buy art on a budget Culture
  • Pollard oak sideboard may fetch up to £10,000 Culture
  • William IV dining chairs for £4,000 plus in Clare Culture
  • Irish Georgian side table may sell for over £2,000 Culture
  • Bellinter Tables fetch stg £595,000 Culture
  • Stradbally's leading lot goes west Culture
  • George III tallboy chest makes £3,200 Culture
  • Top price of £3,100 for damaged Beleek figure Culture
  • Charity event to be held in Malahide tomorrow Culture
  • Attempt to provoke a last bang of the crozier failed to work Culture
  • Trouble as business and beauty collide Culture ROISIN INGLE
  • Sound of the future Culture MICHAEL DERVAN
  • Leslie Dowdall Culture KEVIN COURTNEY
  • Congo recalled as Irish watch the battle for Zaire Culture PAUL CULLEN
  • Sex change: anatomy of a dilemma for society Culture ROISIN INGLE
  • Leading Vatican official denies any offence was caused by visit Culture PADDY AGNEW
  • Images aimed at tourists attract refugees as well Culture PAUL CULLEN
  • PDs accuse Coalition on "flood of economic migrants" Culture PAUL CULLEN
  • Better here, say Romany gypsies Culture NUALA HAUGHEY
  • Selling the silverware from racing days of old Culture ORNA MULCAHY