Inside the Marriage Tribunal
YOU had intercourse with your husband before you were mar¬ried; how many other people did you have intercourse with before that? When was the first time you had intercourse'? Are you going with some¬one now? Do you have intercourse with him? Where do you have it? Do you have it in a car?"...
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Barrie Cooke : The Moment Of Seeing
In several senses, Barrie Cooke occupies the middle ground in Irish art. He lives in Kilkenny. At Jerpoint near Thomastown, with Sonja Landweer, and he is one of the few artists in the country to have earned the near universal approbation of his peers. The quahty. range and consistency of his work have engendered wide and genuine respect.
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The golden voice of Tommy O'Brien
THE TWO HANDS TENSE AS HE HOLDS THE script; when each piece of music is coming to an end he raises his left hand and quickly lowers it to his chest, with a look of professional pride and ease, as the red light comes on. The script is per¬fectly rehearsed. "Good evenin' listeners," he begins and even the ‘g' in "evening" is missing in the script. He has timed the introductions and the music so that his pro¬gramme runs to just over 29 minutes. Every single pause, or inflection, or la...
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Garret FitzGerald in Government
WATCHING GARRET FITZGERALD IN THE DAIL LATELY ONE GETS THE impression of a boy who has learned to ride a bicycle all by himself. He still wobbles -.the fumble factor will never be entirely under control - and he can't help glancing warily over his shoulder at the school bully on the opposition benches ready to send him sprawling. But he's piloted his government's first independent budget through and the New Ireland Forum, has the merit at least of keeping Fianna Fáil quiet and showing FitzGeral ...
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The confession of Christy lynch
The debate on the Criminal Justice Bill raises questions about the wider powers being given to the police. The powers and methods which are now being legitimised by the Bill barged their way into Christy Lynch's life and tore a family apart....
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Diary - Feb 1982: Northern Ireland reform, James Shannon, Cardinal O Fiach
The Politics Of The Dolly Mixture
ALL ROADS LEAD TO THE Forum and all roads lead the refrom. It is the filter that will refine everything that nationalist politicians have been doing and saying for the past fifteen years. And at the SDLP Conference in Belfast last weekend, speakers exxpressed their gratitude to Fianna Fail, Fine Gael and Labour for joining them in the Forum, for spending time and energy in the search for peace and reconciliation among nationalists and mayybe, eventually, among...
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Diary - Feb 1982: Why the Russian Diplomats were expelled
THE EXPULSION OF THREE SOVIET DIPLOMATS LAST September resulted from espionage activities involving NATO nuclear Submarines, according to a US State Department report. The Irish government has consistently refused to give the reasons for the expulsions and a government source was this week unable to say why the State Department should apparently have inside information on the incident....
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Noraid: the last Hurrah?
HARD BY THE SUBWAY STATION in downtown Queens, suburban New York, lies the Astorian Manor. A confection of neon and plaster, it offered, on this below freezing night in late January, shelter from the kind of cold that drives people insane. Within the haze of its baby-blue womb lay comfort and Aid. Irish Northern Aid. From Marie Crowe in New York
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Computers - Feb 1984
The application of computers as means of performing banking transactions made considerable progress last month when three of the four main banks linked their automatic teller machines (ATMs) to a central network. The new system affords users of Bank of Ireland's P ASS machines, Ulster Bank's Service-tills, and Northern Bank's Autobank, the convenience of using the ATMs of all three banks, although they may have an account with just one....
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As Time Goes By - February 1984
It's some years since I got onto the Readers Digest's hit list. About 1978, maybe. They sent me a letter saying I had been specially chosen, by computer, because of my fine intellect, social sophistication, personal charm and all round gee whizz goodness, to participate in a fun experiment they were organising. Love that kind of flattery, except that at least three-quarters of the people I know received similar letters, and a good two-thirds of them are well-known hairbags and dog breaths (Mick ...
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Down on one knee
Among the IRish pack, Fergus Slattery is almost the last man I would have thought of as being most deserving of selection to fulfill the function of the unfortunate Admiral Byng who was shot at Portsmouth Harbour in 1757 pour, as the French put it so delicately, encourager les autres.
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Wigmore - Feb 1984: Fianna Fail, RTE radio, Justin Keating and the SFWP
THE SHAFTING of Ken Ryan has revealed hitherto unplumbed depths of gutlessness in Fianna Fail and hypoocrisy in other places. What did Ryan do wrong? He asked FF members to keep an eye out for wrongdoing and deviousness by opposition parties, to check out any stories they heard and send the results to HQ.
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