07 August, 1999 Digital News Archive

An Irishman's Diary

By By KEVIN MYERS

Banks saga draws to uncertain close

By Lara Marlowe

Hell has not gone away, but like so much else it's not what it used to be

German dies in guesthouse

Pub staff vote to end dispute

The way we were

By By BRENDAN O CATHAOIR

Williams concert on Internet

ICC employees may swap 14.9% stake for shares in new owner

By By BARRY O'KEEFFE

Keanest musicians

By By JUDY MURPHY

Dunnes to close over new year

A slave to easy liberalism

By Vincent Browne

Stocks slide as jobs report feeds rate fears

Kiwi graft pays dividends

Call to free Pinochet criticised

Builders provider freed from jail

Residents warning for Parades Commission

By By CLARE MURPHY

Giving them the slip

By Johnny Watterson

Weasel Words From The IRA

The Words We Use

By By DIARMAID O MUIRITHE

Death On The Roads

Serb minister warns on force

Classical

A life in limbo for our forgotten asylum-seekers

By By CHRISTIANE FROHLICH and JAMIE SMYTH

A legend who had to rebuild his legend (Part 1)

Council story fails to impress in Courtown

By Chris Dooley

Nothing on for summer

By Hugh Linehan

Telecom share certificates sent out in error

By Colm Keena

Long haul begins in first gear

By By JON BRODKIN

Painter claims 10% payment for going bail

Ahern welcomes victims' report

Lyons's horse Flowing River claims Laidlaw Cup again

Atrocities by former `good guys' seen as `understandable' desire for revenge

By Seamus Martin

Classical

By Michael Dervan

Taking Wing: Archaeopteryx and the Evolution of Bird Flight by Pat Shipman (Phoenix, £7.99 in UK)

By Dick Ahlstrom

The Solar Eclipse

A master of swing

By By RAY COMISKEY

A legend who had to rebuild his legend (Part 1)

Wenger's buys show his wiles

By By MARK LAWRENSON

PKK surrender `unrealistic'

Bang. Bang. It's a hit

Bell tolls at Drimcong House

By By GERRY GALVIN

Exercise in expediency to get Sinn Fein off the hook

Where Winter Can Be Agreeable

Legal rights call on prostitutes

A new Russian master - from Germany

By Eileen Battersby

Sports Speak: The Week In Quotes

By Johnny Watterson

No need to get excited about `Irish dust bowl' says Met Eireann expert

Statement from IRA contains signs of `positivity' - Ervine

By By DICK HOGAN

Irony in the soul

By Tony Clayton-Lea

Go for Kodabad

By Brian O'Connor

Account shortfall leaves shares applicant stranded

By By RORY KELLEHER and COLM KEENA

Swiftcall joins telecoms market

The legendary car that took on motoring giants

Philippines monsoon leaves at least 30 dead or missing

Upmarket Aberdeen

By Johnny Watterson

Retirement village to get new owner

By By PADRAIG O'MORAIN

AIB and Telecom rise in lacklustre session

By By EIBHIR MULQUEEN

Four killed in accidents on road

Let things run their course

British rescue team sent to Sierra Leone reported to include SAS men

Vote to Kill by Douglas Hurd. (Warner Books, £5.99 in UK)

By By VINCENT BANVILLE

Home Tasting For £10 A Head

By By MARY DOWEY

Permission for development at Spencer Dock given subject to significant reduction in scale

Munster may have the edge

By Gerry Thornley

Ireland's Kosovar refugees return home

By Paul Cullen

Sligo Tasting Dinner

By By MARY DOWEY

Sari stuff

Drought-stricken US states are fining the water wasters

Quannum leap

Fallon denies all

Princely dinner, with bodyguards

Horsing around with the old traditions of the Aga Khan

By By ROISIN INGLE

Jo Mell the pick

The diverse reasons for a destructive deluge

By By BRENDAN MCWILLIAMS

Bottle Of The Week

By By MARY DOWEY

Ebola scare ends with death from yellow fever

By By HANNAH CLEAVER

Lack of special treatment unit for boy criticised

Fact File

Corrections And Clarifications

Growth set to exceed economic forecast

By By SEAN MAC CARTHAIGH

Methodist Notes

Seasonal rise in numbers on live register

By By EIBHIR MULQUEEN

Operation dessert storm

By By JOHN MCKENNA

Reality Of Crime

Hope for survivors fades

Dream Story and Beatrice and Her Son both by Arthur Schnitzler (Penguin, £5.99 each in UK)

By Eileen Battersby

Turning a smile into a science

By Frank McNally

Club-By-Club (Part 2)

Government on target for surplus of £5.82bn new head

By By PATRICIA LEAHY

Darkness: moral, religious, preternatural

By By MARY MAHER

Adding up the laughs

By Brian Boyd

Defeat Into Victory by Field Marshall Viscount Slim (Pan, £7.99 in UK)

By By BRIAN FALLON

Party time on a Victorian barge

By By EDWARD POWER

Restoring Asgard

Overlord by Max Hastings (Pan, £7.99 in UK)

By By BRIAN FALLON

Club-By-Club (Part 1)

Ulster can up the pace

By Gerry Thornley

Dunlop's faith in spin misplaced

Solving the puzzle of the monkey puzzle tree

By Michael Viney

Dublin Taxis

Show in good shape as Bertie pulls down shutters

Comedy

By Brian Boyd

Byrne blocks out worst day

Small crowd, big money

By Johnny Watterson

Getting to know you

By By SEAN MAC CARTHAIGH

Decision to let £6m development go ahead angers Lahinch residents

By Gordon Deegan

First steps in wine criticism

By By MARY DOWEY

This Week They Said

Nora Wall Case

Both sides try to match people with the jobs

A kiss is not just a kiss

By By LOUISE EAST

Irish concerns grow as the Premiership goes cosmopolitan

Injuries may leave Offaly exposed

By By EAMONN CREGAN

Man is charged with assault on Italian student

Horse trainer wins action

Mixing it with the stars

By By EDWARD POWER

Candy is just dandy in Encarta

Ulster remains coy on its feelings for ICC

By Dominic Coyle

Fasliyev set to confirm Group credentials

By Brian O'Connor

Goodbye, drunken ghosts

By By JOHN BOLAND

Telecom investors' mettle put to test

By Dominic Coyle

Key notes

Warning over unsafe spectacles

Soft music and sun-drenched beaches, and a touch of frost

By Arminta Wallace

Extradition sought over Galway death

$23 million for drug damages

Els shares lead in Michigan

Out of one's depth at the RDS

By By EDWARD POWER

Carroll sets sights on Irish two-mile

By By IAN O'RIORDAN and PETER BYRNE

Arts Council accused of censorship

Pay data likely to cause US rate rise

St Patrick's Park

Rock/Dance

A laid-back leader in waiting ready to don the Lib Dems' mantle

By By RACHEL DONNELLY

Stern quest

By By KARL JOHNSON

Murder mystery with a hi-tech repertoire

By Brian Boyd

Footsie claws back some US data losses

New lottery for US visas

Traditional

Folk/Roots

By Tony Clayton-Lea

Tayto staff revel in their good fortune

By By JAS KAMINSKI

Closure of Louth private nursing home

By By ELAINE KEOGH

GAA critics need to look at themselves

By By SEAN KILFEATHER

Dublin Airport Costs

Trinity and Mirror increase profits

Johannes Brahms: A Biography by Jan Swafford (Papermac, £15 in UK)

By By BRIAN FALLON

Jacklin never made fortune from golf

Ten ways to protect your privacy

Victims of Hiroshima bombing are remembered

By Kitty Holland

Driver (90) jailed over death of 2

There were always whispers

By By EAMON DELANEY

O'Briens Branches Out

By By MARY DOWEY

Songs of the Dove

By By ROBERT POTTS

Court showdown in Nationwide spat

By Dominic Coyle

RUC seize 15,000 ecstasy tablets

The cupboard looks bare as Auntie loses an evangelist

By By JIM WHITE

Dutch turn their early dominance to a long-awaited win in Aga Khan

By By GRANIA WILLIS

Favourites

By By ROBERT O'BYRNE

Curtailment of docklands scheme puts conference centre in doubt

By Frank McDonald

Loyalists to renew protest

Let's look it up

Lloyd George On Tax

Following Gaybo

By By HARRY BROWNE

Ulster deserve to start

By Gerry Thornley

Andrea gives the Garda an image makeover

By By EDWARD POWER

Tired of scorning his bosses at the BBC, the old smoothie has signed for the opposition

AIB completes Singapore alliance

Met Eireann dampens hope of hot August nights

By Joe Humphreys

Burning Bridget (Part 1)

Yeltsin move to end death penalty

Stockholm shines as most give up early gains

Eye On Nature

By Michael Viney

Ceausescu `end of season' sale

Dark things tend to brightness

By By MARCO SONZOGNI

Title stays in Leinster grip

Travel Log

By By JOAN SCALES

Burning Bridget (Part 1)

Theatre

By By GERRY COLGAN

Army might be used to guard Irish embassies

By By MIRIAM DONOHOE

Family of dead Belgian not to reclaim his body

By Gordon Deegan

AIB battered on euro index fear

By Dominic Coyle

IRA Statement

Getting there

A hidden landmine at heart of FF plans for PR

By By DENIS COGHLAN

Church Of Ireland Notes

Brad plays good, better, best

By By RAY COMISKEY

Winning formula

By Johnny Watterson

Sale of car parks business

Partnership For Peace

Home Taster's Starter Kit

By By MARY DOWEY

Big advance in accuracy of cervical cancer tests

By By EMMET OLIVER

Readymix confirms €24m Finlay buy

By By SEAN MAC CARTHAIGH

Washington faces major water restrictions

Clarence plays a blinder

By By JOHN KELLY

Governments urged to take stand on ceasefire

By By MIRIAM DONOHOE and SUZANNE BREEN

Montgomerie talks up the fear factor

A newsman in the best tradition

In the company of friends

By Eileen Battersby

Rebels claim 528 death toll after bombing raid by Sudan on villages

Kennedy could face battle in poll for leader

By By RACHEL DONNELLY

Lord of the lunch

By Orna Mulcahy

The rich get richer in the Premier League

By Dominic Coyle

`Asgard' enthusiasts fear for the future of Childers' yacht

By Lorna Siggins

History with a lid of lavender

What the developers proposed

Diary Dates

By By JANE POWERS

New operation for Schumacher

Uncertain future awaits first Kosovar refugees to return home from Ireland

Wife of anti-drug official charged

Unionists reject IRA statement

By By SUZANNE BREEN

Fans looking forward to cheaper kits

A big showing for Irish art in miniature

By By ROBERT O'BYRNE

North parties trapped by decommissioning ambiguity

By By GARRET FITZGERALD

`I have smelt the breath of Satan and heard the demons' voices. . . '

A home from home in Wicklow

Mother tells of stowaway's hopes

Painting on Death Row as wardens prepare `painless spaceship launch'

By By JOE CARROLL

`The hardest thing of all is to write when you don't want to'

By By JOHN MACKENNA

Secretive creator of the chocolate bar which helps you `work, rest and play'

Patron of the arts and many charitable societies

Deutsche Telekom buys One2One

Timor is `hell' as voters register - Belo

By By DAVID SHANKS

Wye implementation starts in three weeks

Hunters react to call for end to sponsorship

By By SEAN MAC CONNELL

Consolation for Fruit of the Loom workers

By Dominic Coyle

New Minister brings her sporty spark into the game of politics

Consequences of the Heart by Peter Cunningham (Harvill, £6.99 in UK)

By Arminta Wallace

Transplanting Transylvania

By By MARY RUSSELL

Garden Work

By By JANE POWERS

End of an era

By Johnny Watterson

Japan remembers Hiroshima

Conspiracy to defraud charges

Cinema

By Hugh Linehan

Cork move on up with hungry new breed

By By SEAN MORAN

2 charged with possessing drugs

Hidden in full sight

There was more to her than wisecracks

By By JEANANNE CROWLEY

Duffy's Circus

Mark Lawrenson's best summer buy

Taxing tales fail to take account of next century's pensions time bomb

IBM admits British audit

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