Whats at stake in election 82
How big a mess are we in?
This election campaign has done a great deal to get us out of the mess. For the first time, there will now be a democratic mandate for whatever Government is elected to take whatever action is needed to get us out of the econoomic crisis. The campaign has also witnessed another breakkthrough - the public is no longer prepared to accept unncritically bland election promises for the political parties. Politicians are now being forced into an accountability which previou...
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Election 82: We predict a coalition victory
Predicting the result of Election '82 is very much more hazardous than usual. Normally one canrdetect the drift of public opinion from the trend of the opinion polls over a year or so prior to the election and the preevailing level of price increases over this time span is also a useful guide - Govvernments lose when inflation has run high for a year to 18 months previously....
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As Time Goes By, Feb 14 1982
It's been a nightmare. I could put a gloss on things and say that the Spontaneous Aggravation Party has been working like a well-oiled machine, that our people are getting an enthuusiastic response from the constituenncies, that if one interprets the variious polls accurately it ts obvious-that there is a massive swing to our point of view. The usual crap....
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Why All the Haughey bashing?
The media and Magill in particular have been perceived as being biased against the leader of the opposition. We therefore offered Fianna Fail the right of reply - and herewith its submission in its entirety. By Fianna Fail
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A quiet night in Dublin
It's the time of night when you can hear the wind colliding with, richocheting off, the trees, the statues, the buildings in O'Connell Street. No trafflc-noises. What else you hear are the alarms, tripped or malfunctioning here and there in the sleeping city, whinging petulantly, incessantly.By Gene Kerrigan
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Triple Crown 1982: A five horse selling platter
Winning the Triple Crown for Ireland on the rugby field is like winning the treble chance in Enggland on the football pools, and it happpens about as often. This season, Ireeland have already done the difficult bits, like beating Wales at Lansdowne Road and England at Twickenham. Now all they have to do is beat Scottland in Dublin and the Triple Crown is theirs for the first time since 1949. By John Reason
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Wigmore - Fianna Fail, teh auctioneers in the election campaign, Tom McGurk and the Sunday World
THE LOW point of the election cammpaign was reached on Thursday, Febbruary 11. In the Shelbourne Hotel Michael O'Leary, flanked by five civil servants, unveiled the National Development Corporation to an inncredulous press which discovered that the new body would do nothing that was not already being done by other agencies and that anyway there was no money left ower once the losses of the semi-state bodies under its aegis were absorbed. Hardened reporters broke down in tearful and uncontrolllab...
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