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The Provos settle down for a 20 year war
The Provisional IRA has now acquired the capacity for a limited and sporadic bombing campaign in England, as a oprelude to a sustained onslaught there, which forms an integral part of its strategy for a 20 year war....
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How the IRA planned the Bombing in England
Sean MacStiophain was opposed to the campaign in England from the beginning. There were repeated arguments at army council level in the early years over this issue, especially in August 1971 after internment, in Feb 1972 after Bloody Sunday and, more particularly, in August 1972 after Operation Motorman. Several members of the IRA army council believed at the latter time that the most effecitve response to the massive British operation in Northern Ireland then would be a bombing campaign in Engl...
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Tourists Tighten the Purse Strings
This is shaping up as the worst in a series of bad years for the tourist industry - probably the most disappointing since 1972 when tourists were scared away by IRA violence. The problem is not so much the numbers of visitors, but the fact that inflation combined with world recession means that those who still take holidays will spend less money....
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The man who would be King
From Ballinasloe to the Burlington, Charlie Haughey presides over the rituals of the tribe, By Gene Kerrigan.
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Dailwatch - August 1982
Alan Shatter was talking about the Social Welfare Bill, second stage. It was 2.25pm, there was one other Fine Gael TD in the Chamber, one Labour and five Fianna Fail. ...
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Cashman's Diary - August 1982
Tuesday 6th
My permission is sought for Michael O'Leary to retire to Cork, when the Labour Party comes to its senses and disbands next autumn. The Parnassian cast of my reflection and occupation leaves me benignantly indifferent to such neighbours as do not possess dogs or wireless machines. But this loutish and ignoble jobber and coxcomb I shall not tolerate....
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Noodles
A.P. Keaveney taught mathematics at Castleknock College for several years. He was a regular contributor to "Dublin Opinion".
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Network - August 1982
Unemployment, the Equal Rights Amendment, Herpes, Gay News, PRSI and more. EDITED BY KERRY DOUGHERTY
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Ray Flynn - no longer Number 2
In the middle of July of this year, Ray Flynn was back in his home town of Longford to stay with his family. During his visit, he came across some old acquaintances, one of whom assured him, "You're doing all right, Ray. You stick at it and you'll make it to the top, yet ... " by Paddy Agnew ...
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The Holy Ground once more
Can Kilkenny or Galway stop the Cork blitz? By Kevin Cashman
The Thurles stage vindicated the iridescent dreams and memories of all its panegyrists. The rest was an astringent reminder that the play must be a travesty when only half the actors know their parts....
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Players of the Western World
"It was with a loy the like of that I killed my father."
"You've told me that story six times since the dawn of day."
"It's a queer thing you wouldn't want to be hearing it and them girls after walking four miles to be listening to me now."
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The Rolling Stones at Slane
Rock'n Roll star Mick Jagger appeared at Slane Castle in an innovatively presented Greek-style drama, "The Eighties Meet the Rolling Stones". In an intriguing twist on the traditional spare format of the drama, the chorus alone took the stage, and the main action in this allegory about accepting the passage of time was presented by a very large cast on a grassy hillside before the chorus. Unfortunately , the size of the production left little room for the audience, only ten or fifteen in number,...
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Magill Music - August 1982
Blame it on the Stones.
For those in the aromatic multitude who looked like they'd still be wearing flowers in their hair if they'd still been wearing hair, Micko's magic bash at Slane was a juddering joy-ride back to the dear, dead days when they really believed Route 66 was the Ammerican Road To Socialism. And us kids enjoyed it, too. So that's all right. ...
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Wigmore - Sunday Tribune, the Sunday World's Bill Stuart, Fianna Fail and the ESRI
THE FUTURE of The Sunday Tribune continues to be uncertain. At a staff meeting in July the editor, Conor Brady, said that negotiations were takking place with a British research group and with The Irish Times with a view to partnership or take-over. We have since learnt, however, that both these options have now been closed. The British research group involved was AGB Research, one of the largest consumer research organisations in the world - they have also an in terest in business magazines and...
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