The secret world of the SFWP Part 2
Political Lobotomy - How the Workers' Party came to abandon the policies for which it stood a decade ago by Vincent Browne
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The organisation now known as The Workers' Party has in previous periods been known variously as Sinn Fein, Official Sinn Fein, Sinn Fein (Gardiner Place) and Sinn Fein The Workers' Party. In these articles we have used the name most appropriate to the period being described.
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SFWP's Strategy for Infiltration
This document was written in the mid-seventies by Eamon Smullen, the director of the industrial section of Sinn Fein The Workers Party. It details how trade unions can be infiltrated in a classic strategy, virtually patented by the Communist Parties of Western Europe - Smullen presumably learnt these lessons as a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain.
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AnCO's £200,000 bundle
AnCo, business
An inoperable productivity deal has cost AnCo at least £200,000 - a result of bungled negotiations which date back to 1972. The Federaated Workers Union of Ireland negotiaated a lump sum payment of between £1,300 and £3,000 for 100 of its members in return for, as yet, nothing. AnCo management is currently and anxiously awaiting the trade union ressponse to a Labour Court recommendaation on the deal....
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The Senate: A last refuge for scoundrels?
The new Senate - like most before it - is a mixture of failed TDs, would-be TDs, party hacks and hopefuls. It contributes little to the affairs of the nation. Is the Senate ... a last refuge for scoundrels?
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Cashman's Diary- May 1982
Saturday 17th
Mr Gay Byrne invites me to preside over his Late Late Show which is to consist of "the cream of Cork's talent". He apprehends outtrages. I take his point. This menage of harlequins may be relied upon to give frequent and matchless performances of all that is loutish and seedy, withhout provocation or pay....
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Hale and farewell
Northern Ireland's only holy roller evangelist has failed. His grand plans for a massive 'Faith Cathedral' with its own recording studio, audiitorium, motel and sports centre have produced only one small building and some £180,000 worth of debts to banks, building societies and finance houses. Leslie Hale has moved to a small town in Florida where he has bought a house and a church. In Bellfast and Moira small groups of disspirited and confused followers try to make sense of the apparent c...
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As Time Goes By - May 1982
Sometimes it all gets to be too much. Too many stones in the shoe of happiness, right? In an effort to improve my mood I spent a day wandering around the city, tearing up Wet Paint sings. The yelps of outrage from subsequently smudged gentlefolk should have helped raise the gloom there's nothing cheers me up like playying a particularly nasty trick on someeone - but, no, it needed more than that. Things have been closing in.
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Gaelic Football: The Fifth Coming
They said that Cork and Kerry could and would play 'real gaelic football': that this National Football League final would herald a renaissance of the game. They were spoofing. The affair, apart from flitting intrusions of eclat, was another instalment of joyless drudgery, as gripping as 'Flamingo Road', as original as 'Dyynasty', as subtle as 'Dallas'....
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Day with Denis Auburn
There'll be no 20/1 about this fellow today." Nick O'Connor, travelling head man to the Jim Dreaper stable, was reflectting on how the stable's runner today at Punchestown had started and won at the renumerative odds of 20/1, last time out at Navan. Denis Auburn is the horse's name and since he comes from the same stable, and is owned by the same owner, as the mighty Arkle, well then young Dennis has some awesome hoofprints to follow....
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The World Cup - West Germany: Only a Schuster away from immortality
If West Germany do not win the 1982 World Cup, it will not be for the want of preparation. In four years of systematic and careful development, Jupp Derwall, has completely reshaped and continually evolved one of the most disappointing sides in Argentina into arguably the strongest European side of the moment....
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John Kelly - Why I went to the backbenches
In the last while you have increasingly identified yourself as an opponent of big Government, against State enterprise and a champion of the entrepreneur, especially the small entrepreneur....
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Wigmore: John Feeney, the media and Dail Eireann, the Malvinas crisis
MEDIA COVER of Dail Eireann is likely to be suspended if a row between the superintendent of the House and the Press Gallery isn't settled soon. Superintendent Eamon O'Donoghue doesn't believe in making life too easy for reporters and is refusing to sign the 1982 membership cards for the Gallery without a guarantee that only 50 journalists will in future be allowed in for big occasions like budget day. Gallery membership is three times that and if O'Donoghue - a brother-in-law of Mark Killilea -...
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