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Charlie Haughey - Immobilised by Indecision (Dec 1981)

Haughey: watching and waiting, By Olivia O Leary
Paisley's walk on the wild side, By Gene Kerrigan
A body has been discovered, by Paddy Agnew
One small strike, by Gene Kerrigan
Back Tracks on Tax? by Brendan Dowling
Bobby Ballagh's Dublin, by Paddy Agnew
Rugby: going down under, by Paddy Agnew
Soccer roulette, by Paddy Agnew
As time Goes By, by Gene Kerrigan
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Charles Haughey: Waiting Watching and Waiting
The Fianna Fail leader is immobilized on his front bench on policy and on the future of his party. Like an arthritic vulture he sits poised on the opposition benches waiting for government to fall down dead. By Olivia O'Leary....

Football Roulette - Soccer World Cup Hits and Misses
November 18 was a night of soccer injustice. Two bad British teams, England and Northern Ireland, qualified for the World Cup finals on a night which saw two much better sides, Holland and the Republic of Ireland, knocked out of the competition. The lottery of the initial draw for the various groups was never more obvious. The clumsy, incompetent efforts of both England and Northern Ireland contrasted sharply with the majestic quality of the Group 2, France v Holland game. The gulf in standard b...

Going Down Under
There are some simple truths about Irish Rugby which need to be re stated again and again. We have relatively few players from which to select an international side. The standard of these players is generally mediocre. Any chance of success depends on exploiting to the maximum whatever genuine talent we have available and bringing a degree of organisation and tactical ingenuity to the side which will compensate somewhat for the absence of overall ability....

Ault & Wiborg - One small strike
Five weeks on the picket line, three days occupying the factory, one night in jail — and finally something had broken. And it wasn't the Ault & Wiborg strikers. They came out of the High Court on Tuesday November 10 wearing wide smiles. “Thumbs up!”, said the photographer from the Independent, and five of the six obligingly raised their thumbs. The sixth striker, Bryan O'Duffy, gave a mischievous smile and raised two fingers in a victory sign. By Gene Kerrigan.
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Paisley's Walk on the Wild Side
For a minute it looked like there might be a run on the Trustee Savings Bank. Dozens of anxious looking people crowding around the branch of the bank that sits across the road from the Harland and Wolff building down at the shipyards on Queen's Island. Well over a hundred people, stamping their feet against the cold. The press was back in Belfast for the Loyalist Day of Action, many of them for the first time since Bobby Sands died. The Europa Hotel was booked out....

Taxation Once Again
The economist who drafted the Fine Gael taxation policy prior to the election argues that the budget deficit will have to be eliminated by means other than more indirect taxes in the 1982 budget. By Brendan Dowling...

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