Who wants yesterday's papers?
Discarded tabloids and broadsheets are not only picked up by papier maché enthusiasts. Billy Leahy discovers an intriguing exhibition at the Kerlin Gallery
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Asylum in Ireland - the facts
Individuals who seek asylum in Ireland may be recognised as refugees at either the first instance - by the Office of the Refugee Applications Commissioner (ORAC) - or on appeal - by the Refugee Appeals Tribunal (RAT). If unsuccessful at appeal, they may apply to the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform for "leave to remain". (Ireland does not yet have a formal system of "complementary" or "subsidiary" protection for people whose protection needs are not covered by refugee conventions.) If refused leave to remain, people who sought refuge may be deported, regardless of how long they have lived - legally - in Ireland.
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Craic at
BirdWatch Ireland is inviting members of the public to experience the dawn chorus at locations throughout the country
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Sinatra & Reagan
Two books to be published shortly, Sinatra: The Life by Summers & Swan and Reagan's White House Diaries. Alexander McCall Smith's In the Company of Cheerful Ladies, Cervantes' Don Quixote and Paolo Coelho's The Zahir are also included this week.
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Motoring into mid-summer
A few more weeks of school and then Maxine Jones will bundle her boys into the camper van and set off for France
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Freewill
Another of the book's short-listed for the 2005 Bisto Book of the Year Awards and another journey through the angst-ridden, teenage world.
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Ireland's aid must foster a free press
Development aid may be withheld from countries where the judicial system is corrupt or where serious violations of human rights go unchecked. But requiring Third World nations to foster a free media comes well down the list, writes Conor Brady
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Lenihan, the kebab, and overseas aid
During a Dail debate on 18 May, Conor Lenihan, Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs with responsibility for overseas development intervened to tell Joe Higgins he should "stick with the kebabs".
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Manchester United and the unfair society
John Magnier and JP McManus made a capital gain of €100m from their recent sale of their shares in Manchester United. In return for this spectacular enrichment they contributed nothing, nothing at all to the club. Their initial investment merely bought out previous shareholders. Their money did not go into the club kitty, they brought no expertise to the club, they brought nothing to the board of the club. This massive enrichment came about solely from speculation in the shares of the corporation.
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Opting for what the doctor's mother takes
Brought up as I was amid scapulars, relics, holy water, holy wells, the three secrets of Fatima, the prophecies of St Malachy, dock leaves for the nettle stings, men in agony waiting for appointments to see Joyce the bonesetter, going into the jeweller, Mr Ruttle in Ennis for a cure for ringworm, witnessing whitlows being lanced and boils being poulticed by the neighbours; sprinkling Flahavan's porridge oatlets on newborn calves so their overwrought mothers might lick them, I am, and where's the surprise, completely amenable to complimentary medicine.
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'Western stories revisited
The book is in no way autobiographical, but every now
and then you get the sense that Elmore Leonard, who is now pushing 80,
may be reflecting on the nature of his own vocation. By Charles McGrath
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Ireland of the unwelcomes
Frostbite, hypothermia and savage beatings. Polar exploration or tales of conquest in the Americas? Actually, it's Ireland
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Catholic church raises the dead
The Catholic Dioceses of Clogher has begun legal action to force Fermanagh District Council and two members of a family to exhume the body of Vincent "Vin" O'Connor, who is buried in a cemetery at Muleek in West Fermanagh.
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Public baths' protesters deemed 'insane' by 'hapless' ex-minister
An "insane" protest is how the cathaoirleach of Dún Laoghaire Rathdown Council labelled a march by 1,200 of her constituents last weekend. These loonies were protesting at a proposal by the council to fill in a huge part of the sea along the sea front at Dun Laoghaire and fund a public park on the site by building a ten story high carbuncle which would be out of place almost any where in the world except Las Vegas.
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Fragments 19-05-2005
John McCormack was resented by Athlone. Son of a Scottish "blow-in" and a mere workman at that. Hardly commemorated in his home town. In this, the 60th anniversary of his death there is little sense Athlone appreciates the extraordinary talent that rose among them.
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Battlefield Ireland
As those opposing the decision on the route of the M3 motorway gear up for a last, desperate fight over the Tara-Skryne valley, William Hederman revisits some of the major struggles to save Ireland's heritage during the past half century.
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Hugh Brady : doctoring UCD
The president of UCD is ruffling a lot of feathers in the college by introducing radical reforms designed to bring it into the twenty-first century. But is he up to the job? John Byrne reports.
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Little Opposition to IRA Disbandment
Republicans on the ground in Northern Ireland have accepted that the decision has been taken to disband the IRA, with no great resistance from the ranks of either Sinn Féin or the IRA. By Anton McCabe
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A bloody no man's land
The war will go on in Iraq because no community has got what it wants and none of them has given up hope
of getting it, writes
Patrick Cockburn
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