Homeless Housing: No Room at the Inn
IT IS ALMOST five years now since Dr Dermot Ryan, newly installed as Archbishop of Dublin, decided that housing the homeless would be his primary social concern....
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PORTMARNOCK Golf Club - A Stroke of Snobbery
PORTMARNOCK Golf Club's executive has just passed through the traumatic exxperience of an election (almost unprecedented) to fill commmittee posts, although the same faces appear again on the Committee. It was not too democratic an experience as the club, built on the land of more than one hundred evicted fishermen at the turn of the century, has no women members Women cannot become members of Portmarnock. They cannot even enter the bar as guests of a member. Invited women can play on the fabled
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Laity Rules O.K.! ... but not yet
NINE YEARS AGO, the National Council for the Apostolate of the Laity was set up by the Irish Hierrarchy in accordance with the wishes of Vatican II. The Council was to redefine the role of the laity within the Church, giving the flock genuine, not merely connsultative, power....
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Garret FitzGerald: Profile of Expectation
A French Member of Parliament visiting Ireland last year stated that Garret FitzGerald was the most formidable public figure in Europe. Certainly he is preeminent in Ireland where his enormous intellectual and administrative abilities are unmatched anywhere on the political scene. By Vincent Browne
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Wife beating, baby battering, Irish style
Janet Martin reports how women suffer strangulation attempts and attacks with razors, knives, broken bottles and clenched fists and how children in Irish homes suffer battering and sexual assaults....
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Sex and the male response
A new survey on male sexuality shows that men want sex more than once a day, still want to marry virgins, are prone to cheat, prefer sexually active women and react with disbelief on hearing of their wife's infedility.
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Brooks Watson: the story of another shell company in trouble
IT IS EASY to understand why Fitzwilton should have attracted more attention than any of its imitators in Ireland. In the shell company pheenomenon in this country, Fitzwilton was by far the biggest. Its empire became so far-flung that the company is known well beyond these shores and, of course, it had the benefit of the golden aura of Tony O'Reilly to crown it all. But not that far behind Fitzwilton is another company, whose origin, structure and history is so similar as to make it almost an i
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Magills Financial Diary - Jan. 1978
UDT - From the way Willie Sandys (as in Braids) writes his chairman's report for U D T (Ireland), you would never think that this was a subsidiary of the second biggest U K finance house that was only saved from disaster by the 'lifeboat' the Bank of England launched in 1974.
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Youghal Carpets takes a beating
IN THE COURSE of 1977, Youghal Carpets (Holdings) has seen its stock market rating shot to ribbons. From a high of 80 1/2p early in the year, the share price fell to a low of 41p during the autumn - thus cutting market capitalisation by a massive £6.3 million. The one-time market favourite was discredited. By Sean Mitchell...
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Irish jockeys ride high in Britain
Tommy Stack, Ron Barry and Pat Eddery are among the most outstanding jockeys in the world, closely followed by [onio O'Neill, Paddy Broderick and John Burke. By Joseph Doyle
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The Paintings of Sean Keating
He sustained a belief in the dream world that could be created out of ordinary life as it surrounded him, writes Bruce Arnold in an evaluation of the work of the late Sean Keating. ...
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