Fear in the Suir Valley
Some say it's the factory, some say it's not. But the animal deaths, the human illnesses, the rumours continue- and the fears. By Colm Toibin.
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How the Amendment works
Except for the way it has undermined confidence in Garret FitzGerald the Amendment will not make a big difference. It will just affect things in a small way. These are just. two examples of things which have already happened. There have been others and there will be more.
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Feeney Rides Again
On Thursday May 5 1983 big ignorant John Feeney wrote a story in the Evening Herald which had no basis in fact.
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Actual Grace
It was about fice to ten on Radio I and Mike Murphy had just about finished interviewing Brendan Grace. There was the sound of a door opening and Grace asked Murphy if this was the coffee. "No." said Murphy, "it's the Fish Market Report. "
The interview ended and the Fish Market Report began with an account of fish and where fish had been caught and in what quantities. Cod was plentiful.
Suddenly there was the sound of, a dog barking. "Hhhhrrruff!" Fish Market Report continued. The cod, it emerg
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Great Gas
The day the gas pipeline started going through his land, the story goes, the farmer got an idea. He began by saluting the men who were working on the line, then he began talking to them and buying them drinks in the local pub. His wife brought them out tea. But it took him a while to raise the subject.
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The Provos at the ballot box
Vote Jon Hume for a better Londonderry", say the mocking slogans in Derry's Bogside. "SDLP = the Stoop Down Low Party" reads a wall-slogan near Free Derry corner. The SDLP denounce the Provisionals as fascists and mafia, embezzlers, thugs and kneecappers. Bishop Cathal Daly of Belfast says a vote for Sinn Fein could be seen as a vote for violence. Bishop Edward Daly of Derry calls on Catholics to examine their consciences before voting for candidates associated with violence.
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A portrait of Patrick J. Hillery as President
He's standing there at the top of the steps, waiting. Eyes squinting, staring off into the distance, fingers plucking at the hem of his jacket. The few dozen people in the garden have seen him, are turning, standing, looking, waiting.He stands there. He cannot simply step down into the garden. There are protocols.
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As Time Goes By - June 1983
In his first year as Director (of the Arts Council), 0 Briain gave a memorable lecture/performance at the National Gallery in Dublin. Sitting in a dentist's chair and wearing a crash helmet he held forth on the state of the arts in Ireland. The same year he opened the Living Art Exhibition sitting in a deck chair with his back to the audience, wearing a pair of swimming trunks. Sunday Tribune May 8...
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The Wide-boy
A Profile of Tim Pat Coogan by Risteard O Muirithille...
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"We are going to give it one right blast this year"
There were Kerry folk walking about the streets of Dublin and in and out of pubs, and it still hadn't fully registered with them that their heroes had been unceremoniously knocked from their pedestal. They couldn't believe that Seamus Darby had delivered a coup de grace in the final seconds of last year's All-Ireland final. Months afterwards Mikey Sheehy used to lie awake at night wondering had it really happened. He still finds it hard to believe. By Eamon Horan.
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Michael Mulcahy: Images of the Navigator
Last year's exhibition of paintings by Michael Mulcahy at the Lincoln Gallery was a patchy affair, consising of a handful of large pictures which had bold, direct magic, and others that were less penetrating. One felt that Mulcahy was not really in command of his talent, that he was a prolific painter who was occasionally seized by a spirit and moved by it. When the spirit chose to make an appearance the pictures hit their mark; when the artist himself tried to summon inspiration, the mastery wa...
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