Editorial: Fine Gael to blame for political inaction
"This election provided an opportunity to win the kind of specific mandate for the radical action that is needed to resolve the national crisis..this has not happened and Fine Gael is primarily to blame.." ...
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Ballymun: The making of a transit camp
 
In this article from 1982, Gene Kerrigan writes that what is needed for Ballymun (then as now) is "a housing policy based on the needs of the tenants rather than an expedient policy based on the political and economic needs of the authorities. Then Ballymun could grow as a community."
The kid is three years old and he's wearing plastic boots, bright red and waterproof; and they'd want to be, because he's standing in a stream. The stream is four foot wide and about thirty yards long, about thr ...
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Campaign Notebook
  Some things are still the same, third time around. The manners of some RTE camera crews, for instance.
Two kids on the main street in Carlow - hey, look, there's whatsisname, you know, the one with the fuzzy hair. And they're craning for a gawk at the guy who just might be the next Taoiseach and an arm comes in from the right and with one swipe knocks the two kids out of the way. Three feet out of the way, to be precise. Scram, kid, out of the shot. Too many goddamn extras on the set, screwing u ...
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Your TDs
The country is facing the most serious crisis since independence. Yet in it's eight months the last Dail met on only 51 days. The summer recess ran from 16 July to 27 October. Of the 166 TDs elected last February, more than 20 contributed not a word to a debate. Only about half made more than five contributions. ...
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Concern for Nicky Kelly
In 1976 at the request of relatives of persons held under the Offences Against the State Act, I was involved in monitoring allegations of maltreatment of those in custody. Having failed to obtain the interest of officialdom at the time I submitted a dossier of cases to Amnesty International and other human rights organisations. One of the cases was that of Nicky Kelly whose judicial appeal to the Supreme court against his conviction was turned down last week. Kelly is known to be an innocent man ...
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Independents
We had it all worked out. The posters were printed: Don't vote, it only encourages them, Whoever you vote for the politicians win, etc., all the usual stuff. ...
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Barry McGuigan: The fight goes on
For Barry McGuigan, arguably Ireland's most talented professional boxer, 1982 is the year when the worst thing imaginable happened. In a London fight in June, McGuigan knocked out a 20 year old Nigerian featherweight, called Ali Mustaffa. the Nigerian boxer fell into a coma shortly after regaining his feet and he now lies clinically dead in a Lagos hospital. Mustaffa has been kept alive only by the functioning of a life support system. ...
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Out of the dustbin of shattered illusions spring vindicated dreams
Analysis of the Ireland-Spain game. We are once more blundering towards exterior darkness. Against Spain we snatched a draw from the jaws of victory and, thereby, stumbled a little further away from the limelight. We will simply have to stop congratulating ourselves on having assembled our best ever squad, and get down to extracting the maximum from our limited ability and, so far, untapped potential. ...
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In Focus
Down a lane off Dublin's Pembroke Street there is a small theatre, seating seventy-one people whose contribution to Dublin theatrical life over the last fifteen years is far out of proportion to its size. Opened in August of 1967, the Focus Theatre has consistently presented productions of the great plays of turn-of-the-century drama, the output of Strindberg, Chekov and Ibsen, as well as the work of contemporary European and American writers, with an assurance and strength which are rare in Iri ...
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