The fingerprint affair - Now up to Gerry Collins
THE NON-PROSECUTION of officers formerly in the fingerprint section of the Gardai is in spite of a finding that several "mistakes" were made by these officers in fingerprint identification over the last several years.
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The anti-pornographers
THE DEATH OF J. B. Murray P.C. last month from a surfeit of Spikery has left the Irish ultra-right without its guiding star. J. B. Murray had symbolised the reaction against sexual liberalisation since he founded the League of Decency in the wake of the Supreme Court's decision allowing the importation of contraceptives.
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Wrong direction in Aer Lingus
Here we examine the two major industrial disputes now afflicting the country. In the Aer Lingus dispute we analyse critically strikers "strategy, and in the P & T dispute we examine the underlying issues.
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Whats happening in P+T
THE TECHNICIANS dispute in the Post Office has done the country and the Government one great service: by highlighting the gross deficiencies in the way the country's telecommunications service is managed, it has created the public climate in which the Government's election commitment to reform the Post Office can be speedily executed.
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The legalities of illegal broadcasting
THE LEGAL POSITION ON unlicenced broadcasting, according to authorative legal sources, appears to be as follows: while it is a summary offence, it seems likely that the confiscation of apparatus would be held to be unconstitutional and there is no question of advertisers being in breach of the law. In addition, it seems that new legislation will have to be introduced simply to provide the mechanism for the issuing of licences to commercial entitles.
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The making of Fine Gael
In this pre-Ard Fheis survey of Fine Gael, Vincent Browne writes about the electoral challenge, the organisational changes and policy directions.
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Garret FitzGerald - Radical intellect and cautious instinct
An analysis of the politics of Garret FitzGerald.
AT THE COMMENCEMENT of his tour of the constituencies on September 19, in Cork, Garret Fitzgerald delivered a keynote address entitled "The Role of Fine Gael". The speech summarised most of his recent political thinking on the kind of society we should be trying to create. It has been published and circulated throughout the country and thus it merits special analysis.
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The Split: the first item on the agenda?
THE SOCIALIST LABOUR PARTY, through a clerical error (if Noel Browne will forgive the pun), holds its connference on the same week-end as the Fine Gael Ard Fheis. And, though an estimated one-tenth of the Fine Gael attendance will turn out, the omens are that Ireland's newest and smallest political party with Dail representation will reveal significant divergences of view on key issues. By MARY MORRISON.
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The Bold Martin O Donoghue
In the last issue of Magill, UCD economist, Paddy Geary, critically annalysed the Government's economic strategy. Here Martin 0 'Donoghue, the Minister for Economic Planning and Development, replies in the course of an interview with Magill.
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In Dublin City in 1913
1913 was the year of the heroic uprising by the Dublin prolateriat. A new book, "Divided City" prepared by the Curriculum Development Unit of the VEC, chronicles the struggle, and here, with the permission of the publishers, O'Brien Press, we publish a precis of the text and some of the book's most, outstanding photographs....
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Soccer - An all Ireland eleven
If John Giles could choose a team on a 32 County basis the Irish team would be one of the best in the world, writes Peter Ball.
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Motoring: Facts on oil
IT'S ONE OF THE stranger facts about motoring in Irelland that many dealers don't stock the type of oil reecommended by their own manufacturers. This means that your car, which may run best on (say) Castrol GTX 20W-50, could receive instead a transfusion of Shell Super at its regular service. Now, Shell Super is an excellent oil but it may not be right for your car....
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Wilkinson at Eurovision
ISRAEL'S WIN OF THE 23rd Eurovision Song Contest at the Palais des Congres on Saturday 22nd April 1978 was the greatest upset for the form books virtually since the launching of the contest in 1956.
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Pub review: O Briens, Sussex Terrace
O'BRIEN'S PUB in Sussex Tce., off Upper Leeson St., Dublin, has become one of the "in" swinging pubs of late, primarily because the lack of seating accommodation in the lounge encourrages social intercourse, as they say.
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