Article Archive

December 27th 1997

• • News

  • A hero and a villain News
  • Playing the artist with a true story News
  • Cool places and hot trends News
  • Bottle Of The Week News
  • Good stuff from the US News
  • Boring Conversational Topics of the Year News
  • Nuptials with cachet News
  • Quiz Answers News
  • News Quiz News
  • This Week They Said News
  • Factfile - David Ervine News
  • FF pressed on tobacco ads News
  • Long-term IRA prisoners still in UK News
  • Infectious disease added further to death toll News
  • Opposition party disbands News
  • Shilling power could be a decisive factor in Kenyan election victory News
  • Pope gives tribute to Jews in Christmas address News
  • Coke first for Pizza Hut News
  • Wild Christmas storms claim at least five lives News
  • Trinity withdraws private Bill aimed at board changes News
  • Two die in storms as emergency crews drafted in News
  • Man (78) and daughter die in house fire News
  • Pollution blamed for storms by TD News
  • Witnesses to accident sought News
  • Sit-out Dean raises £175,000 News
  • Christmas tree recycling offer News
  • Mice for racing plan condemned News
  • Radon danger a new year priority News
  • Victim-friendly policy welcomed News
  • A year with its share of drama and trauma News
  • Today: the most extensive, biggest ever, nationwide guide to the Sales News
  • Gardai believe man shot in error News
  • Woody and wife Soon-Yi tour News
  • Algerian killings eclipse elections News
  • Le Pen fined over `gas chamber' remark News
  • Two toddlers have `bird flu' News
  • Two Jewish extremists held News
  • Yeltsin warns reformers News
  • Gifts flown to Iraqi children News
  • Kaunda on hunger strike, held in secret location without charge News
  • People News
  • Greeks repel incursion by Turkish jets News
  • Cyprus officials reject criticism News
  • Child left at petrol station News
  • Move to limit marriage costs News
  • Vandals attack Jewish cemetery News
  • Iran appoints women judges News
  • Heat wave proves fatal for penguins News
  • Nine die after prison escape News
  • Vietnam war remembered News
  • Pictures of joy and woe drawn upon to paint new royal image News
  • Women bring flowers and candles to funerals of Chiapas massacre victims News
  • Bright Sparks News
  • Watch this space News
  • Going his way News
  • Eyecatchers among the Irish News
  • Books, books and more books News
  • We don't know how we got to where we are News
  • 1922 and all that: why did we bother? News
  • No blacks here: Irish only need apply News
  • Reading between the tiger's lines News
  • Winners & Losers News
  • Where are they now? News
  • White-collar suspects fly like fish News
  • Holding on to the cutting edges of small screen life News
  • Ten good quotes from 1997 News
  • Recognising human face of east Asia's financial crisis News MARY VAN LIESHOUT
  • Former radical prompts Famine memories News SEAN CRONIN
  • Don't count on the weather News DICK AHLSTROM
  • Visual Arts News BRIAN FALLON
  • Sport News TOM HUMPHRIES
  • Who's who and where to be News LOUISE EAST
  • Trends for 1998 in the homes market News JACK FAGAN
  • Eight for 98: what to keep an eye on financially News SEAN MAC CARTHAIGH
  • Happy New Movies News MICHAEL DWYER
  • The sound of things to come News MICHAEL DERVAN
  • Stages ahead News GERRY COLGAN
  • The end of the year show News KEVIN COURTNEY
  • Name-dropping and talent-spotting News BRIAN BOYD
  • The reluctant frontman News BRIAN BOYD
  • An Original who invented himself News EILEEN BATTERSBY
  • The Faber Book of Christmas, edited by Simon Rae (Faber & Faber, £9.99 in UK) News ARMINTA WALLACE
  • Peter Cook Remembered, by Lin Cook (Mandarin, £7.99 in UK) News ARMINTA WALLACE
  • A Lifelong Passion: Nicholas and Alexandra Their Own Story (Orion, £9.99 in UK) News BRIAN FALLON
  • Francis Bacon: Anatomy of an Enigma, by Michael Peppiatt (Phoenix Giant, £14.99 in UK) News BRIAN FALLON
  • Sons & Mothers, edited by Matthew and Victoria Glendinning (Virago, £7.99 in UK) News ARMINTA WALLACE
  • When the Sacred Ginmill Closes, by Lawrence Block (Phoenix, £5.99 in UK). News VINCENT BANVILLE
  • Ballyknockan: A Wicklow Stonecutters' Village, by Seamus O Maitiu & Barry O'Reilly (Woodfield Press, £9.99 News VINCENT BANVILLE
  • Lloyd George, Vols 2 and 3, by John Grigg (Harpercollins, £12.99 in UK) News BRIAN FALLON
  • Edmund Wilson: Centennial Reflections, edited by Lewis M. Dabney (Princeton Paperbacks, no price given) News BRIAN FALLON
  • Fragments, by Binjamin Wilkomirski (Picador, £5.99 in UK) News BRIAN FALLON
  • Lessons from a more modest generation News JACK HANNA
  • Voices from the inside News RAY COMISKEY
  • Mind over matter News MIC MORONEY
  • Memories and echoes News FRED JOHNSTON
  • A monument to French culture News FRANK MCLYNN
  • The year that was in it News JOHN BOLAND
  • Splash out the salsa verde News JOHN MCKENNA
  • Raising a glass to Argentina News MARY DOWEY
  • Look out News ROBERT O'BYRNE
  • Oriental chic News CONOR O'CLERY
  • The Words We Use News DIARMAID O MUIRITHE
  • Governments try to allay loyalist anger on prisoners News FRANK MCDONALD
  • Cruel works of nature News BRENDAN MCWILLIAMS
  • Articulate loyalist who stays true to his roots News SUZANNE BREEN
  • Anti-hunt group says saboteurs are coming from UK News PAUL CULLEN
  • Three days without electricity as area waits on the ESB News CAROL COULTER
  • Public bodies alerted - Met Eireann News CAROL COULTER
  • Miracle after 18 hours in the dark News FRANK KILFEATHER
  • ESB repairs the damage as winds die down but more storms are on the way News CAROL COULTER
  • North's electricity engineers try to reconnect 500 homes News SUZANNE BREEN
  • North Munster counts the cost of Christmas winds News ARTHUR QUINLAN
  • Estimated cost of port tunnel almost doubles to £196m News FRANK MCDONALD
  • Drugs linked to fatal stabbing News JIM CUSACK
  • Mighty Quinn takes on noble Wran News MICHAEL O'REGAN
  • Austria offers neutral venue for intensive North talks News GERALDINE KENNEDY
  • Plan to reduce troop numbers delayed News SUZANNE BREEN
  • Church leaders stress role of hope and realism in Northern talks News ANDY POLLAK
  • Poor should have priority `over GAA' Empey News ANDY POLLAK
  • Twink on a winner News HARRY BROWNE
  • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs News GERRY COLGAN
  • The Ten Golden Rules Of Sales Shopping News ROBERT O'BYRNE
  • Cork and Down schools plan joint curriculum News ANDY POLLAK
  • Nearly 500,000 dead by 1848 News BRENDAN O CATHAOIR
  • Research points finger at dogma and neglect News BRENDAN O CATHAOIR

  • Sport

  • September Sport
  • Year of little gain ends as it began Sport
  • Cyborgo bound to relish conditions Sport
  • The Football Business Sport
  • Villa grateful for Collymore's presence Sport
  • Brindabella keeps in touch with Nicorette Sport
  • Prodigious driving by Woods sets all targets Sport
  • Strath Royal makes it 18 Sport
  • More Christmas cheer for this Noel Sport
  • See More Business pays dividend for Barber Sport
  • Ill wind blows bookies good Sport BRIAN O'CONNOR
  • Christmas stuffing for Everton Sport MICHAEL WALKER
  • Cold turkey for Newcastle Sport JEREMY ALEXANDER
  • Chelsea get a dose of reality Sport RUSSELL THOMAS
  • Surprise and relief with lack of goals Sport DAVID HOPPS
  • National League Previews Sport EMMET MALONE
  • Derry's poor run continues Sport EMMET MALONE
  • West Ham: 1, Coventry: 0 Sport PAUL WEAVER
  • Coppell stands by his man Sport TREVOR HAYLETT
  • Liverpool give Evans a boost Sport DEREK POTTER
  • Arsenal go close to another nightmare Sport DAVID LACEY
  • Bolton fail to break the deadlock Sport MARK REDDING
  • On The Sidelines Sport EMMET MALONE
  • Neville Cup leads to festive fireworks Sport DERMOT ASHMORE
  • English reign ends on discordant note Sport CATHY HARRIS
  • The Moments That Mattered Sport JOHNNY WATTERSON
  • Ireland's World Cup win at Kiawah Island Sport DERMOT GILLEECE
  • Big dummy makes Dawson the stand-out guy Sport MALACHY LOGAN
  • Istabraq's Sun Alliance Hurdle victory Sport BRIAN O'CONNOR
  • The loneliness of a middle distance runner Sport TOM HUMPHRIES
  • Jamesie O'Connor's point for the Liam McCarthy Sport PHILIP REID
  • Young Irish come of age in the Malaysian heat Sport PETER BYRNE
  • Ken Doherty shows steel in Sheffield Sport SEAN KILFEATHER
  • Fitzgerald weaves some New York glory Sport SEAN MORAN
  • The year that was Sport PETER BYRNE
  • January Sport JOHN O'SULLIVAN
  • Ryhane should make the most of fast pace Sport BRIAN O'CONNOR
  • Dardjini romps home for Meade and Gaule Sport BRIAN O'CONNOR
  • Runabout to make up for lost time Sport BRIAN O'CONNOR
  • Repairs to track leave way open Sport BRIAN O'CONNOR
  • It's still difficult to desert Dorans Pride Sport BRIAN O'CONNOR
  • Sports Speak: The week in quotes Sport
  • Sports Speak 1997 Sport MARY HANNIGAN

  • Business

  • Market Reports - Europe Business
  • Japan considers credit package Business
  • Germans in optimistic mood for coming year Business
  • IMF Christmas `gift' gives South Korean market breathing space Business
  • Lightest trading of year on Wall Street Business
  • Government set to sell off ICC and ACC bank groups Business CLIFF TAYLOR

  • Opinion

  • A very different Christmas Opinion
  • President's Communion Letters
  • In Its Place Letters
  • Semi-State Remuneration Opinion
  • Teachers' Working Hours Letters
  • President's Communion Letters
  • President's Communion Letters
  • President's Communion Letters
  • Women In Sport Letters
  • The State Of Irish Rugby Letters
  • The State Of Irish Rugby Letters
  • Executive Bicycles Letters
  • Articles 2 And 3 Letters
  • Childhood Vaccinations Letters
  • In Power too Long Opinion
  • Winter Evening Opinion

  • Life & Style

  • Culture

  • The Teflon Taoiseach will hope his luck sticks Culture MAIRE GEOGHEGAN QUINN
  • Taxation policies could threaten the future of social agreements Culture GARRET FITZGERALD
  • Spoils go to Paul Henry in an upbeat year Culture ROBERT O'BYRNE