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Christmas Special (Dec 1981)

Which politician has the biggest annual income? How many votes did Charlie lose the election by? The Political Quiz, the Review of the Year, and sunndry other goodies.
The Political Mists of Mayo - Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's the flying Canon Horan of Knock, swooping and diving among the frightened politicians. You will believe a man can fly.
Behind the Ardmore Screen - Since 1976, The National Film Studios have made annual losses totalling £2.5 million. Magill looks into the reasons why Ardmore has become a white elephant.
A Body Has Been Discovered - An analysis of the killers and the killed in the North in 1981. Page 16
and the political mists of Mayo by Gene Kerrigan
A body has been discovered ... by Paddy Agnew Christmas Special incorporating The Political Quiz, the Review of The Year, Predictions for 1982 What The Papers Don't Say etc.
Behind the Ardmore Screen by Paddy Agnew Business Forum
Rugby: Willie Duggan by Paddy Agnew

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Editorial - Womens rights
The cause of women's rights must command the support of all those who believe themselves to stand against injustice and inequality. By Vincent Browne...

Canon Fodder - Canon James Horan and the political mists of Mayo
The road from Charlestown to Kilkelly rises, swoops, twists and turns with all the whimsy of a starling's flight. The sun reflects from the countless million snowwflakes carpeting the Mayo countryside. Suddenly, rising from the hills and trees, like a tightly woven white net cast skyward by a giant hand, a mist makes a mockery of the sun, reduces the road to a stretch of tarmacadam that peters out twenty yards ahead, and sucks the colour and substance from all it leaves visible. Within seconds B
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Northern Ireland's Dead
From January 1 to December 13 of 1981 one hundred and twelve people lost their lives in Northern Ireland because of the political conflict. Paddy Agnew and Vincent Browne

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The year of the punk
Private eye Sam Wall stumbles through the political chaos of 1982...

As Time Goes By - Christmas 1981

And so this is Christmas. And what have we done? Another year over, a new one ... "

Nice way to start a Christmas column - or so I thought when I wrote that one December day last year. And woke up next morning, rollled over, switched on the radio and 'heard Ronan Collins talking about something bad that had happened in New York City. After that it didn't seem the thing to do to mess about with John Lennon's Xmas song.

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Behind the Ardmore Screen
In their six years as the National Film Studios of Ireland, Ardmore Studios have proved to be a commercial disaster. Is Ardmore about the development of the Irish film industry or is it merely a "Government Showcase"? By Paddy Agnew...

Willie Duggan - The Forward's Forward
A profile of the Irish number eight and probable captain for the coming season. Paddy Agnew
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The Art of Auguste Rodin
When August Rodin exhibited his first freestanding figure "The Bronze Age" in 1877, it caused a furious controversy. Faced with the precision of its anatomical detail and its uncannily lifelike sense of moveement, many spectators claimed that it was almost certainly cast from a live model. It wasn't. They were simply unprepared for the shock of encounntering the work of the greatest sculpptor since Michelangelo.
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Wigmore - The RTE Authority, John Boland and Maurice Manning
THE RTE Authority was finally given an opportunity on Thursday, December 10 to meet the Minister for Transport and Communications, Pattrick Cooney, to press its case for a massive hike in the licence fee increase which the Authority claims is urgently necessary to save RTE from financial collapse. It was most unfortunate therefore that the Chairman of the
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