Diary - July 1984: Map Reading, Much and the National Front
PLEASE LOOK CAREFULLY at the map of Cork. The field, marked Camp Field, is separated from the barracks by a very wide road. It is clear that there is no bridge or other connection between the two. To get to the barracks you have to cross the road; there are no two ways about it. By Colm Toibin
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1984 in Mountjoy
IN MOUNTJOY JAIL ON SUNDAY MORNING, 3 June Patrick Ennis, a prisoner serving a five year sentence for larceny found a black polyythene rubbish bag in the A3 landing which he subsequently discovered had been put there by a fellow prisoner who had taken it the previous day from the censor's office along the landing. There were two bags taken from the office that day: the other was placed where rubbish is collected on D3 wing, also close to the censor's office. By Colm Toibin
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Broken Promises from a broken party
In November 1982, before the last general election, the Labour Party published its election programme. We have identified thirty-one major commitments from this programme and, as the following article shows, progress has been made in only six of these. By Colm Toibin
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From whom all mercies flow
MARBLE. MARBLE STAIRways and marble banisters. Marble balustrade. Marble walls and marble halls, marble pillars and marble arches. Hard and cold and streaked with lines and patches of something coming through. By Gene Kerrigan...
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Time and Patience in the Suir Valley
"Is dioxin a dangerous substance?" one councillor asked.
"We're talking about things we know nothing about," said another.
What was the point, the councilllor wanted to know, in attendding a conference on sheep-dipping when the problem .was dogs. You might as well stay at home, he added. Dogs were roving the countryside killing sheep. Was this matter raised at the conference on sheep-dipping? Was it? No, it wasn't....
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As Time Goes By - July 1984
Profiles in Courage: 2.
Dermot Metcalf, Fianna Fail TD for Dublin West Central
It all started with a bad bottle of Guinness. Chesty Culliton ran a somewhat decrepit pub in the village of Cligeen, Co Wexford, back in the Forties. And one night he served that selfsame bad bottle to one Trigger Metcalf. Trigger was out in '16, put seven notches on his Webley .38 during the War of Independence and in the Civil War stood by the man he always called The Chafe. A hard man; Trigger, and not one to be...
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The politics of heart surgery
OVER THE PAST' THREE months, Minister for Health Barry Desmond has given an increased allocation of £2 million to the cardiac surgery unit in Dublin's Mater Hospital. The Mater unit is the only one in the country where open-heart surgery can be performed on adult patients. It is under severe pressure, as the demand for surgery far exceeds the unit's ability to provide it. By Mary Raftery
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Sweet William, Bug Maggie and the Ascot Gavotte
IN THE LAST FORTNIGHT, ONE BEgan to feel very like the pussycat ... who came to London to see the Queen. They work the poor woman very hard at this time of the year. Almost everywhere you ,go, there she is, surrounded by bearskins, and royal buglers; riding sidesaddle on a lively horse, or waving wearily from a royal coach. The Queen is big tourist business, and now that Mrs Thatcher's Britain has rediscovered society and The Season, the Queen is the focus of an energetic new Royalism. Fro
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Eamon McCann - July 1984: Shane Ross
Shane No More:
The most significant result in the European election was John Noonan's victory over Shane Ross in Dublin. With 14,604 first preferences the Sinn Fein man had a thumping majority of 6,505 over the wasp-waisted flibbertigibbet from TCD, a decisive outcome in this crucial struggle for the soul of the capital city and one which has not been given nearly as much attention as it deserves, probably because the media are terrified to face up to the implications, whatever they are.
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Big Brother comes to town
The IDA's most risk-laden gamble to date is its £16m backing for a now struggling multiinational, Trilogy, started from scratch to build in Dublin the most advanced computer technology yet seen. ALAN MURDOCH describes Gene Amdahl, the pioneering scientist behind the project, his revolution in micro-electronics, and the company's international strategy for tax avoidance. By Alan Murdoch ...
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A Fair Day
Fintan O'Toole, who has written the text for a book of photographs of the West of Ireland, writes here about the photographer and his art....
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The Last Word - July 1984
Nobody was especially looking forward to the European Championships. It had been a long hard season. Taking a rest from soccer seemed like a good idea....
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Wigmore - July 1984: European elections, The Real Results
NOW that the dust has settled and the losers have been consoled and the winners are deciding what to do with all the money they can fiddle on their expenses, it's time to assess the real results of the Euro elections. The newspapers and the parties have given us the cooked version of the figures, Wigmore is as usual ready with the real story....
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