The Pirates Merry Dance
"AISLING DRURY-BYRNE talks about and plays some of the 'cello pieces set for this year's Intermediate Certificate Examination." (RTE Guide for 3.01 pm 28th January.)
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New Socialist Alliance
THE IRISH LEFT has been characterized by a sectarianism of its own for several decades - Brendan Behan said of republican organisaations that the first item on the agenda at all their inaugural meetings was 'the split' - so perhaps it is salutory that two such groups are contemplating fusion over the next few months. By Gene Kerrigan
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Fitness in plush surroundings
HEALTH STUDIOS offer the opportunity to achieve physiical fitness in plush surroundings under expert guidance. Of course, the task of shedding those extra pounds and firming sagging muscles will still involve a certain amount of hard labour but with facilities like saunas, solariums and massage available on the premises; health gyms succeed to some extent in sugaring the pill.
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The thoughts of Chairman Jack Lynch
Geraldine Kennedy presents a glossary of Jack Lynch's statements on Northern and constitutional policies over the last decade, revealing that he has maintained a consistency - almost - on the Northern question but has vacillated on the constitutional issue....
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Jack Lynch continued - Fianna Fail's Policy on the North
ISSUED ON OCTOBER 28, 1975:
A central aim of Fainna Fail policy is to secure by peaceful means, the unity and independence of Ireland as a democratic Republic. We totally reject the use of force as a means of achieving this aim.
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Fianna Fails Precarious Majority
There was a 5.72% swing* to Fianna Fail in the June election, but their majority is dependent on their performance in Government, writes Richard Sinnott. ...
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The Rise and Near Fall of George Colley
IN A SENSE George Colley was born into politics - though not into one of the founding dynasties. His father, Harry Colley, had been in the Volunnteers from 1913 and fought in 1916 when he was wounded and left for dead. He was interned, first in the Castle Hospital and later at Frongoch. He became adju-tant in the Dublin Brigade of the IRA and took the Reepublican side in the Civil War during which he was jailed. He was a founder member of Fianna Fail although he only stood for the Dail for the f
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Tom Roche - the tough hard man of Irish Business
THE RESIGNATION of Tom Roche as an executive director from the board of Cement Roadstone Holdings marks the end of the story of 'how one man built up' Ireland's largest industrial enterprise from nothing. Roche was' a tough man but of course, he had to be to achieve what he did. That he has not lost: any of his ceaseless drive and enterprise is evident from' the many business activities he is now deeply involved in, the most notorious being Bula and, the most unusual being his plan to ,build a p
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Horce-racing: Uncompetitive Prize-money
EVERY ASPECT of Irish racing is booming. Racecourse attendances last year were estimated at a record 1.1 milllion people who bet £39.73m with the bookmakers and the tote. The yearrling sales average at Goffs has quaddrupled in four years and one in five of the top 148 horses trained in Europe last year was Irish bred. New landdmarks were set by such as Vincent O'Brien, Dermot Weld and Wally Swinburn. By: JOHN CRIMMINS
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Magill Holidays: Ferry to France or UK
ONE OF THE nicest ways to begin a holiday is sitting down to the palatial buffet which they serve on Irish Continental Lines' two ferries from Rosslare to Le Havre or Cherbourg. The food is excellent, the setting ideal as, with any luck at all, the sun reflects off a flat calm sea through the seascape-hugging windows. By Howard Kinlay
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Magill People - Feb 1978
BBC's program 'An Irish link with Terrorist International', the Coalisland Conference and Bruce Arnold's Novel...
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