Article Archive

May 8th 1999

• • News

  • Bottle Of The Week News
  • Diary Dates News
  • Garden Work News
  • Third Class on the Gravy Train (Part 1) News
  • Third Class on the Gravy Train (Part 2) News
  • Reform of expenses now deadlocked News
  • £15,000 libel award for ex-chairman of GAA board News
  • Alarm at racist threats to Irish soccer players News
  • Garda seize drugs worth £850,000 after car chase News
  • Tensions raised by Sheedy affair refuse to go away News
  • Two killed in road crashes in Limerick News
  • Fire outbreak at Kilkenny hotel News
  • Socialists to seek PfP referendum News
  • Three suicide verdicts returned News
  • Men held over cattle purchase News
  • Burke the likely basis of Ahern inquiry News
  • Marine found guilty in Italian cable car trial News
  • Freeing of prison chief complicates war crimes prosecution process News
  • `There's no training for scooping up child bodies' News
  • `Heavenly Serbia' senses hell News
  • Clinton's budget doubled for NATO bombing campaign News
  • War Briefing - Day 44 News
  • Chinese Embassy staff shocked and angered by NATO missile attack News
  • Polls offer cold comfort to prophets of post-nationalism News
  • Power returned to Scots after a wait of 300 years News
  • Local polls give SNP, Labour a rough ride News
  • Campaign failed to grip the Welsh imagination News
  • Church Of Ireland Notes News
  • Presbyterian Notes News
  • Factfile News
  • Abducted missionary released News
  • Call for increase in overseas aid News
  • Youth in Need founder dies News
  • Move will not endanger lives - BTSB News
  • Rape case judge criticises `failed' sex education News
  • £701,512 bond placed on Scottish trawler News
  • £1,790 for employee over needle jab stress News
  • Brothers found guilty of injuring man at Zoe party News
  • 10% of those in EU traffic accidents on drugs News
  • Man is jailed for attack on Bosnian boy News
  • Man remanded on sex charges News
  • Four years' jail for robberies News
  • Army discharge ruling deferred News
  • Piggery permit is overturned News
  • Court challenge to motorway News
  • Journalist tells High Court he was `staggered' by Dunphy article News
  • 2020 visions News
  • Rock/Pop News
  • Classical News
  • Traditional News
  • Taxi man says MI5 tried to recruit him News
  • Trimble supports murder inquiry News
  • Amnesty begins NI visit News
  • Belfast man (19) shot in ankles News
  • Witnesses to be identified News
  • Gun attack on RUC station News
  • Some alterations to RTE listed schedules over the weekend News
  • Orangemen march through Lurgan to back Drumcree News
  • Taking America by storm News
  • The record of a legendary failure News
  • Millionaire in jail News
  • Millennium Matters News BRIAN BOYD
  • Ahern silence about Sheedy query strains Coalition ties News KITTY HOLLAND
  • Stepping into the shoes of Uncle Gay News BRIAN BOYD
  • Musical approach lacked internal clarity News MICHAEL DERVAN
  • Stereophonics News COLIN HARPER
  • Unit at hospital affected by virus is closed News KEVIN O'SULLIVAN
  • Cowen says nurses' pay claim cannot be treated in isolation News PADRAIG YEATES
  • Dublin Bay Rockall Loftus to retire from local politics after 25 years News RODDY O'SULLIVAN
  • Overcrowding being reduced, says Minister News JIM CUSACK
  • Job risks arising from drug abuse by prisoners stressed News JIM CUSACK
  • Support for further action on prevention of suicide News JIM CUSACK
  • Coalition not working - Bruton News LORNA SIGGINS
  • End to dual mandate pledged News LORNA SIGGINS
  • FG launches blueprint for Galway city News LORNA SIGGINS
  • President praises Belfast accord in US News PATRICK MARKEY
  • Dillon House opened News THERESA JUDGE
  • Latest GM foods `to benefit the consumer' News KEVIN O'SULLIVAN
  • Harney says she heard allegations from JMSE director News CHRISTINE NEWMAN
  • Board attempt to oust Gogarty `foiled' News TIM O'BRIEN
  • Offer to phone Murphy refused, tribunal told News CHRISTINE NEWMAN
  • Plan to assist disabled issued News GORDON DEEGAN
  • Adams seeks deadline on implementing pact News GERRY MORIARTY
  • Report on NI's new equality commission is welcomed News CLARE MURPHY
  • Respect differences - Hume News CLARE MURPHY
  • The Words We Use News DIARMAID O MUIRITHE
  • Close the door, it's coming in the window News BRENDAN MCWILLIAMS
  • Confessions of a phone phobic News LOUISE EAST
  • The government that almost fell News RENAGH HOLOHAN
  • A traditional Irish Euro-election News RENAGH HOLOHAN
  • Senator's tall tales News RENAGH HOLOHAN
  • Name that city News RENAGH HOLOHAN
  • The Bruton family tree News RENAGH HOLOHAN
  • Telecom's bark is worse than its bite News RENAGH HOLOHAN
  • In like Flynn? Not so fast News RENAGH HOLOHAN
  • Media bashing News RENAGH HOLOHAN
  • 1,000-year plans News RENAGH HOLOHAN
  • New Men at war News KATHRYN HOLMQUIST
  • She'll take Manhattan News JOE CARROLL
  • Some very stripped-down strife News ROISIN INGLE
  • Talent on parade News HUGH LINEHAN
  • Cheques and drugs and rock 'n' roll . . . News JOE JACKSON
  • Rock chick of ages News LUCY O'BRIEN
  • Lone Star songster, coming back to Roots, is waiting patiently for the next number News JOHN KELLY
  • Johnny, we never knew you News BRIAN BOYD
  • Images of war News EDDIE HOLT
  • Smile and smile and still be a villain News DEIRDRE FALVEY
  • Lyric be proud! News HARRY BROWNE
  • My Writing Day News JULIE PARSONS
  • Derangers of the senses News JOHN BANVILLE
  • Not quite done with apple-picking News PETER CUNNINGHAM
  • Moral life in the concentration camps News BRENDAN BARRINGTON
  • Cleaning up Cromwell News KEVIN WHELAN
  • A legend in his own letters News JACK HANNA
  • Romance? You cannot be serious . . . News KATHY CREMIN
  • The language of rage News EILEEN BATTERSBY
  • Not such an Albright past News JOE CARROLL
  • Indian odyssey News FRANK MILLER
  • About a Boy Nick Hornby (Indigo, £6.99 in UK) News EILEEN BATTERSBY
  • Elizabeth Bowen by Hermione Lee (Vintage, £7.99 in UK) News JOHN BANVILLE
  • Representing Women by Linda Nochlin (Thames and Hudson, £14.95 in UK) News BRIAN FALLON
  • Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (Penguin, £7.99 in UK) News BRIAN FALLON
  • Mary Robinson: the Authorised Biography by Olivia O'Leary and Helen Burke (Sceptre/Lir, £7.99 in UK) News ARMINTA WALLACE
  • The Long Falling by Keith Ridgway, Faber and Faber, 305pp, £6.99 in UK News ROBERT O'BYRNE
  • John Wayne: The Politics of Celebrity by Garry Wills, Faber & Faber, £12.99 in UK News VINCENT BANVILLE
  • Wheels meet again News DERVLA MURPHY
  • Chili's cool as ever News VINCENT BANVILLE
  • Sex, lies and surrogacy News MARY HENRY
  • Pukka wines in chi-chi bars News MARY DOWEY
  • Women in the winery News MARY DOWEY
  • The Empire Expands News JOHN MCKENNA
  • All Aboard News JOHN MCKENNA
  • Brewing Up News JOHN MCKENNA
  • In Season: Mushrooms News JOHN MCKENNA
  • Take her up to Pronto, Pronto, Pronto News ORNA MULCAHY
  • Carluccio and Carluccio News LOUISE EAST
  • Secret ingredient News JOHN MCKENNA
  • Atlantic jewel News JUDY MURPHY
  • Travel Log News JOAN SCALES
  • The glory of Killruddery News JANE POWERS
  • Why is the shark basking? News MICHAEL VINEY
  • Eye On Nature News MICHAEL VINEY
  • Manhattan transfer News EMILY O'SULLIVAN
  • Beuys oh Beuys News EMILY O'SULLIVAN
  • From `the Last Supper' to Sotheby's News EMILY O'SULLIVAN
  • Man Behaving Nicely News EMILY O'SULLIVAN
  • Watch that space News EMILY O'SULLIVAN
  • What woeful wooing News EMILY O'SULLIVAN
  • Antz II - the sequel News FRANK MCNALLY
  • Labour denied majorities in Scotland and Wales News FRANK MILLAR
  • Harney evidence to tribunal increases pressure on Ahern News GERALDINE KENNEDY
  • Chinese embassy hit in Belgrade air raid News ELAINE LAFFERTY
  • Pope fosters link with Orthodox churches on Romania visit News PADDY AGNEW
  • Struggling through night when bad food and big stars collide News JOE CARROLL
  • Barak thriving in polls as Netanyahu flounders News DAVID HOROVITZ
  • Turkish prosecutor tries to ban Virtue Party `vampires' News MICHAEL JANSEN
  • Intimations of political mortality in Strasbourg News PATRICK SMYTH
  • First batch of 150 Kosovan refugees to set out for Kerry on Monday News PATSY MCGARRY
  • China calls for emergency UN Security Council session News CONOR O'CLERY
  • Plaid Cymru leaves Labour licking its wounds in Wales News RACHEL DONNELLY

  • Sport

  • English FA Premiership Previews Sport
  • Always fated to be a central figure Sport
  • High flyer still fully grounded Sport
  • Wexford v Longford - New Ross, 3.30 Sport
  • Daliapour can point Cumani towards Epsom Sport
  • Ancient game had fishy Sport
  • Hingis puts the record straight Sport
  • Duval fails to make cut Sport
  • Turner turns on style Sport
  • Ferguson turns up heat in title race Sport
  • Terenure finish stronger and get away with draw Sport
  • Cork suspend celebrations Sport
  • A man of many talents Sport
  • What The Bosses Say Sport
  • Brown is destined for greater things Sport
  • Troubled league to end well Sport SEAN MORAN
  • Finn Harps favoured to break cup drought Sport EMMET MALONE
  • Sidelines Sport JOHN O'SULLIVAN
  • Starting young Sport JOHN O'SULLIVAN
  • Mind the ref Sport JOHN O'SULLIVAN
  • The hump Sport JOHN O'SULLIVAN
  • Maiden name Sport JOHN O'SULLIVAN
  • Kerr beefs up squad Sport EMMET MALONE
  • Peak practice pays off for one woman Sport MARY HANNIGAN
  • Genuine contenders in each province Sport JOHN O'KEEFFE
  • County-by-County guide - Connacht Sport SEAN MORAN
  • County-by-County guide - Leinster Sport SEAN MORAN
  • County-by-County guide - Ulster Sport SEAN MORAN
  • County-by-County guide - Munster Sport SEAN MORAN
  • Chance to vindicate serious approach to the league Sport JOHN O'MAHONY
  • Carlow v West Meath, Carlow, 3.30 Sport KEITH DUGGAN
  • John's turn Sport BRIAN O'CONNOR
  • Rafayda set to put record straight Sport BRIAN O'CONNOR
  • Profligate Irish scrape a draw with McVicker goal Sport MARY HANNIGAN
  • FAI lack grounds for complaint Sport SEAN KILFEATHER
  • Todd reigns supreme Sport GRANIA WILLIS
  • Sports Speak Sport JOHN O'SULLIVAN

  • Business

  • Fears of US rates rise recede Business
  • Sellers dominate in anxious equity market Business
  • Wall St news fails to lift gloomy bourses Business
  • Late rally sends Dow index to record close Business
  • Margaret Doyle holds no shares in hotel group Business
  • ISME terminates Mulcahy contract Business
  • Lending by banks accelerates again Business
  • WGC criticises UK to sell stocks of gold Business
  • Warner Chilcott loss Business
  • Gains on Anglo Irish share sale Business
  • Figures show continued boom Business
  • Watchdog warns AT&T on take-over Business
  • Graduates lack relevant skills Business COLM KEENA
  • Bacon dismisses OECD plan to ease rising housing prices Business EIBHIR MULQUEEN
  • Treasury plans £50m electricity investment Business EMMET OLIVER
  • Surprise as index of house prices slows Business EIBHIR MULQUEEN
  • Advisory group to propose end of Bank regulation of financial services Business COLM KEENA
  • Esat's Cablelink dream in tatters Business DOMINIC COYLE
  • Time at last to pay our semi-state executives Business DOMINIC COYLE
  • Business running scared of rising labour costs Business DOMINIC COYLE
  • Dublin faces squeeze in stock market merger Business DOMINIC COYLE
  • Backing a growth strategy Business MARK DONNELLY
  • Unidare to buy US firm as profit fall is forecast Business JANE O'SULLIVAN
  • Brokers fear disclosure law plans may result in job losses Business JANE O'SULLIVAN
  • Staged payments unfair to home buyers - Law Society Business BARRY ROCHE
  • Second-liners catch that Friday feeling Business BRENDAN MCGRATH

  • Opinion

  • This Week They Said Opinion
  • Racism In Ireland Letters
  • Neutral Information Letters
  • Crisis In The Balkans Letters
  • Disputed Ordinations Letters
  • Going Ballistic Letters
  • Gogarty On The Stand Letters
  • Partnership For Peace Letters
  • Irish And White Letters
  • Charles Acton Letters
  • Nocturne Letters
  • Romano Prodi Letters
  • Electoral Airwaves Letters
  • Did We Need Divorce? Letters
  • Dare to doubt Opinion
  • O'Flaherty's Refusal To Explain Letters
  • Crex Crex And A Mouse Opinion
  • Republican Language Opinion
  • Beef Trade War Opinion
  • Recent data show extent of Irish demographic revolutions Opinion GARRET FITZGERALD
  • PDs are doing long-term damage to our democracy Opinion MAIRE GEOGHEGAN QUINN
  • Ahern hasn't had a bad week, he has had a bloody awful year Opinion DICK WALSH
  • An Irishman's diary Opinion KEVIN MYERS

  • Life & Style

  • Culture

  • Ahern's pragmatism may undermine him . . . complex, secretive and a pragmatist Culture
  • . . . as he fails to learn lessons from scandals of past decade Culture
  • How a Government was shaken and a Tanaiste stirred Culture
  • Dubliner ready to take on key role in Europe Culture
  • Brussels may declare trade war with US Culture
  • US First Lady to become the first free-woman of Galway next week Culture
  • Fundamental US - EU divide on hormone-treated beef Culture
  • Media frenzy on Reed death angers locals Culture
  • Investigation of consultants shows need for clinical audit Culture
  • A tough customer, still playing hardball Culture
  • Corrections and Clarifications Culture
  • Nostalgia-rich foods at risk Culture KEVIN O'SULLIVAN
  • Forthcoming Auctions Culture ROBERT O'BYRNE
  • Auction Results Culture ROBERT O'BYRNE
  • Forthcoming Fairs Culture ROBERT O'BYRNE
  • Henry's art finds its reward in hard labour Culture ROBERT O'BYRNE