Marx at Warwick
A UNIQUE conference was held at Warwick University early in July. It was jointly sponsored by Ink Links, a new Marxist publishing firm in Britain, and by the Lipman Trust, a socialist education fund : associated with the annual Socialist Register Review....
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Some Summer
WHEN IT COMES to the weather, people's memories seem to let them down badly. Right now, while the geneeral public suffers under the illusion that this is the worst summer since the Flood, the Meteorological Office is calmly churning out statistics to prove us all wrong.
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How the Supreme Court has Muddled the Censorship Issue
THE Supreme Court decision in the case brought by the Irish Family Planning Association against the Censorrship of Publications Board marks an important watershed in this country's legal and social history. Although the present system of book censorship has been in existence for almost fifty years, this case is the first in which a ban imposed by the Board has been challenged and overridden by the courts. By Alan Shatter
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Pay Policy - Why Suffer Just Because I Come From Belfast
IF the wage claim now being pressed by two hundred teleecomunications engineers in the Belfast area is successful the British government's policy of holding pay increases in the coming year to 5% will, as far as the North's 500,000 workers are concerned, be in tatters.
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Employment in Northern Ireland - Unionist Hegemony Gone Forever
FIGURES just released by the British Government show that since the abolition of Stormont in 1972 and the imposition of direct rule in the North the number of people working for the state has jumped by nearly 40%. In 1972 just under a quarter of the workkforce held jobs in the public sector but by the end of 1977 one in every three workers, 165,000 in all, were dependent either directly or indirectly on Westminster for their weekly wage packet. As either civil servants, teachers, doctors, or uti...
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Dr. John O Connell Takes Labours Pulse
THAT enfant terrible of the Labour Party, Dr. John O'Connell, has fought with his colleagues in the party throughhout his career in politics. He has done so with relish and resourcefulness, and though on several occasions there have been murmurings about expullsion, and about even worse things like promotion to party office, he has managed to hold on....
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How Dalkey Finally Got Its MultiDenominational School
WHEN the Dalkey School Project opened the doors of its new school to the first hundred pupils at the beginning of this month, it became the first multi-denominational national school to be recognised by the Department of Education since 1922, with the exception of those for some handicapped children. For those involved, it represents a triumph over prejudice, intolerance and polite stone-walling on' the part of the Coalition Government lasting four long years....
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The Brian Maquire case - Questions for an inquest
IT seems that the issue of Brian Maguire's death will continue to bother Northern Secretary of State Roy Mason for some time yet. His attempt to speed the inquest into the death of the Castlereagh prissoner was stymied by the family's solicitor, Pascal O'Hare, who requested more time to examine evidence and assemble witnesses....
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Itinerant Encampment in Bourgeois Dublin
A caravan bought for £20 standing on a patch of waste ground can seem like heaven after a year in the Sherrif Street flats. That was the McCann family's verdict when they moved to the corner of Hadddington and Norththumberland Roads in January this year..
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The Liffey - Dirty Old Town
DUBLIN City and County Councils are spending a total of £25 million in a mammmoth plan to save the Liffey. The Government granted much of the money after the Water Pollution Act of 1977 gave local authorities power to carry out mecessary improvements in their own areas. The plan invollves a new drainage and treatmet works, a new sewerage tunnel, pumping station, and ancillary works. All this will come into operation in the early eighties....
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Taxi Drivers
Inga Saffron writes on the sub culture of the Dublin taxi world ...
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The SAS in Northern Ireland
Ed Maloney investigates the role of the SAS and of the British Army generally in Northern Ireland as a counter insurgency force
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The Making of a Pope
The election of Albino Luciani as the Catholic church's 263rd Pope was the product more of intense pre-conclave lobbying than of divine inspiration. Vincent Browne has been to Rome to examine the problems facing the new Pontiff, to analyse the uneasy coalition of forces that now constitute the Catholic church and to probe the electioneering and arm twisting that resulted in the surprise swift election.
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Eamon Coghlan - What Went Wrong in Moscow?
"The race went perfect for me, I was always where I wanted to be, and even at the bell I thought that I was going to win. My strongest point as a runner is usually my ability to kick at the end of a race, but in the last lap of the 5,000 metres I just dragged. I gave it everything but I had nothing left… I guess I just wasn't destined to win." ...
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The pulsating nerve of Irish cricket
THERE'S a ten-minute break between innings. Ireland has declared, leaving Denmark 224 to win. While the handful of spectators (about 20) tune into the radio commentary of the big match across the water- England v. New Zealand, the groundsman and his team of assistants embark on one of those curious rituals which are so much part of the game of cricket. By Selwyn Parker...
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Smuggling and the Pig Carousel
Rorie Smith has been exploring the exotic multi-million pound smuggling rackets, from pigs to Mercedes and from grain to spare parts for lorries...
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The Property Price Explosion
Land: PROBABLY the smartest investment in the years before Ireland joined the European Economic Community was farm land. Since 1973, and especially in the last two years the price of agricultural land has soared than 150 percent....
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A SORT or SOCIAL Column
PRESIDENT HILLERY has been on the dry for years ... but when it comes to entertaining in Aras An Uachtarain, he goes straight for taste. That's why An tUachtarain has stocked a crate of Genuine Russian Vodka in the Aras....
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The Latest Movie-Movie
YOU'D better shape up because need a man," purrs Olivia Newton John. "My heart is set on you. You're the that I want. Feel me."
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The Beit Collection at Russborough House
Russborough House was really rather fortunate to survive at all. It was built by Joseph Leeson in the mid-eighteenth century, and was principally the work of Richard Castle, the German architect who came to Ireland in the late 1720s, and was responsible for Leinster House, Powersscourt House, Hazlewood in Sligo, and Summerhill in County Meath, as well as Carton, where he died in 1751. He was then in the middle of work on Russsborough, and his colleague and assistant, Francis Bindon, then finishe...
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All the food thats fit to eat
WRITERS should go to Reuters, where the 'changes hum on wires, and where the food is delivered to the table, clickety-clack, with all the inspiration and efficiency of a typewriter or teleprinter. Journalists do, in fact, go to Reuters, since it is literally around the corner from the offices of the Irish Times, around only two corners from the Irish Press, and just across the river from the Irish Independent. And, cleverly, the owner has paid some tribute to at least two of these newspapers by ...
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Wigmore in Rome
ONE of the most curious elements in the election of the new Pope was the amazingly swift publication of L'Osservatore Romano within an hour of the first official announcement. The officiel Vatican newspaper heralded the election of Albino Luciani with a large front page photoograph, another photograph on page 2 (both taken long preeviously), and a detailed bioography of John Paul I....
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