A month of apples
LAST MONTH'S harvest is now in full swing. There are still some soft fruit pickings to be made, but these will soon give way to top fruit: apples and other tree-grown fruit. The old country orrchards are now brimming with that old reliable dessert apple, Beauty of Bath, which will be ready for plucking shortly. In more recent planntations, this apple has been replaced by the variety George Cave, a seedling of Beauty of Bath and generally regarded as being superior. Some gardens are fortunate eno...
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How to get rid of your spouse
Marianne Heron unravels the bewildering complexity of Irish marriage law
FAMILY LAW is in no way geared to deal with the reality of marriage breakkdown in the 26 Counties today. Tens of thousands of couples have parted irreevocably and have sought access to our inappropriate legislation to deal with the problems of broken marriage. The 50 1 a women currently receiving deserrted wife's payments, the 1386 petitions for church nullity being processed at the end of last year, and the 5000 approx c
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Racing - How to beat the bookie
VIRTUALLY EVERY betting office harbours at least one individual who atttributes his marked lack of success enntirely to the villainy of others. After each losing wager he launches into a diaatribe against the trainer, the jockey or the horse. Any suggestion that his own method of selection might be faulty would strike him as preposterous. by Joseph Doyle ...
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The de Valera Divine Right to Rule the Irish Press
THE SHARES AND control structures of The Irish Press Ltd. reveal the most brazen concentration of power in the hands of one individual known to the newspaper industry anywhere in the Western world. For although the de Valera family owns only a minority of the share holding in the company, the Articles of Association make it absoluutely impossible for any outside indiviidual or group of individuals to wrest any measure of control from it....
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The National Concert Hall Fiasco
ON 1ST JUNE Mr. Pearse Wyse, T.D., Minister for State at the Department of Finance, was pleased. Pleased to annnounce that Messrs. Cramptons would shortly be moving into the Great Hall of UCD in Earlsfort Terrace to convert it into a Concert Hall. Presumably Crampptons were pleased, too, since the conntract is reputedly for over a million pounds, and particularly because they built the original facade of Earlsfort Terrace in 1914. Nice to be back.
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The Greeks and a County Wicklow lady
WHEN YOU'VE SEEN one Greek resstaurant you've seen them all. Is that your idea? Suppose you've just come back from a never-to-be-forgotten holiiday on a deserted Greek Island - with a traditional taverna frequented only by local musicians, donkeys and you, and deserted by everyone except you, and a cast of thousands. You want to relive the memory of the 'valley of the nighttingales', the "cicada twilight", or whattever twaddle the tourist operators have filled your mind with - and you want to re...
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Horse-racing, RTE, Shannon Development, Wexford Opera and Eamon Coghlan
A chip off the old chip:
IT PROBABLY escaped the attention of all but the most rabid of Irish racing fans that a certain Wally Swinburn won his first race in England the other day. The Swinburn in question is not, of course, the same Wally who appears to have a mortgage on Ireland's flat-racing jockey's championnship. Instead, it's Wally junior, a l7-year-old stripling who weighs a mere six stone. That may seem fairly light but Wally senior only tips the scales at eight stone seven pounds....
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The Fingerprint affair continued
THERE HAVE BEEN yct further revelations in the fingerprint affair which raises even further doubts about the credibility of several key offiicials in both the Garda and the Department of Justice and, in particular, raises serious questions about the deetermination of the Minister for Justice, Gerry. Collins, to expose the cover-up....
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