David Walsh on the Tour de France with Sean Kelly
It was the seventh day of the Tour de France. Sean Kelly's massage went on until about eight-thirty; it was going to be one of those long days. He said he would finish his meal in a half an hour but in France you don't eat quickly and it was ninethirty when Kelly returned.
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TD's and the abuse of Dail Questions
An examination of over seven thousand Dail questions processed during forty sitting days this year shows that only four out of every ten questions asked could be considered legitimate. The majority of the questions are designed to increase the electoral prospects of the TDs asking them. Over a full year, with the average number of sitting days of 87, the misuse of parliamentary questions costs the tax payer almost half a million pounds and contributes to the distortion of the democratic process. ...
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Death in the valley
The death has occured of Mr Bertie Kennedy of Ballyneale, Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary. Mr Kennedy was 37. He became ill last August, suffering from pains in the chest and breathlessness. In all, he was seen by six doctors. According to his wife, all the doctors asked him where he came in contact with chemicals. Mr Kennedy did not smoke and when lung cancer was diagnosed one of the doctors remarked that he had never seen this sort of cancer i...
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Justice behind closed doors - the Malcom MacArthur Case
 Whether or not justice is being done these days, it is certainly not being seen to be done. The “deal” system, in which lawers work out what's best for their clients or most expedient for the legal establishment, has been thrown into the limelight by the MacArthur case and the failure to prosecute for the murder of Donal Dunne. Inside the MacArthur case, we look at how the deal was done and in whose interests. And how the deal backfired.
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Haughey's Strategy
Mary Holland examines the behaviour of the Fianna Fail leader in the Forum for a New Ireland. What is Charles J. Haughey up to at the New Ireland Forum? Some people who have attended the private sessions fear that he sees it less as an instrument for promoting Irish unity, than for spreading egg all over the face of Garret FitzGerald. Position papers prepared by the Forum's fulltime secretariat have been dismissed by the Fianna Fail leader as irrelevant. Meanwhile, members of his party hav ...
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The accusing finger of Raymond Gilmour
Magistrate John Fyffe said dispassionately: "If there is any disruption by any member of the public, or any relative — any person guilty of disruption or harassment will be excluded from the court." He sat back and the door in the wall to his right, a few steps up, opened. Three men in civilian clothes came out and down, quickly, smoothly, and were in place below the magistrate, still on his right, within seconds. The third man was Raymond Gilmour.
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The Last Word
The omens for the 1983 tour of New Zealand by the British Isles and Ireland were not exactly propitious. The tours committee of the Four Home Unions had made yet another bodge of the match programme, despite the fact that it is such a simple exercise that it would not take anyone who knows anything about New Zealand and New Zealand Rugby more than an hour to get it all right, including travel and choice of hotels. ...
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Lisdoonvarna
She was maybe seventeen. Faded denim and a combat jacket. He was an adjacent age and wore similar clothing. Her hips were swaying, shoulders twitching, her left hand working in a little counter-rhythm, drumming on his back. He was bent over, ninety degrees, and vomiting like a one-armed bandit paying off a Jackpot....
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As time goes by August 1983
Things being what they are, holidays and stuff, I'm a bit pressed for time this month and so I've roped in a couple of guest stars to help out with the column. Like you to meet two of the finest people it's been my pleasure to know - Ira Ellenthal and Lou Porterfield. Big hand for Ira and Lou - thank you. ...
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