Kindness, Understanding and Compassion
LAST EASTER KATHLEEN and Dick Magennis of Maghera County Derry discovered that their sixteen-year-old daughhter Elaine was pregnant. Elaine was a fifth year student at the local Catholic school, St Patrick's High School and was preparing to do ten 00level subjects in June this year....
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Merck, Sharp & Dohme - Fear in the valley
THE IDA HAS WELCOMED the decision by Merck, Sharp & Dohme to establish its new £1.5 million developmental laboratory alongside its £35 million manufacturing facility in Ballydine near Clonmel, Co Tipperary....
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The war in Fine Gael
There were rumours of Trouble before the Fine Gael Parliamentary meeting on Sept 22. It was the first such meeting since the referendum and Tom O'Donnell was said to be preparing an assault on the FitzGerald wing. The meeting opened with Fitzgerald being conciliatory biding wounds, reminding the TDs that there was a real world out there with real problems and it was time to get down to work, to climb every mountain, ford, every stream. The dissident TDs who had walked all over FitzGerald in the ...
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Who is James Delaney?
Kerry Dougherty writes about the American millionaire who helped fund the Amendment campaign and who is to visit Ireland this month....
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Barring Orders
Gene Kerrigan reviews the first official report of the proceedings of one of the new Dail committees - proceedings which three TDs described as farce.
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Inside Mountjoy
THERE ARE SOME 450 IRISH PEOPLE IMPRISONED IN MOUNTJOY. These people are robbed of their dignity, they enjoy no privacy and they are subjected to a petty authoritarian regime which hasn't changed essentially for over a century. Pat Brennan has the inside story on Mounjoy. ...
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Druid's Spell
On Tour with Druid Theatre in Lisdoonvarna and Inishmaan, by Kevin Dawson ...
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As Time Goes By - October 1983
Do we really need Leitrim? It's not an easy question to ask. People's feelings can be hurt. The issue may prove divisive. Nevertheless, the Spontaneous Aggravation Party (SAP) has earned its reputation of grasping the nettle by the horns of the dilemma. And last month's Execuutive meeting of SAP did that very thing - and in the process forged a new economic concept....
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Computers - October 1983
For most business concerns, whether manufacturing or addministrative, the task of stockktaking is a laborious and timeeconsuming chore. Related tasks such as stock distribuution and ordering are equally toilsome and cause financial losses where not carried out accurately and efficiently. Enter the computerised Stock Control Package. ...
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Motoring: Nissan, Volvo and Land Rover
Nissans grass is greener
Nissan Datsun's town and country Prairie does not have an equal vehicle type worldwide. It's new, it's innovative, and it's designed to fill a marketing void. And no doubt it will succeed. But the name Prairie belies this estate car's true attributes in as much as it carries out its suburban duties in an efficient, comfortable, and very driveable fashion, and yet will outperform some saloon cars, carry heavy, large and awkward loads, and convey the family complete with...
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Marathon Notebook 1983
Kerry Dougherty talks to eight marathon runners about the 1983 Dublin City Marathon. ...
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Brian Friel and the Three Pamphleteers
In Derry on the evening of sept 20 six bombs exploded in a local fertiliser factory and Field Day launched its fourth dramatic productiuon in the stately Guildhall. In this city, as in most of Northern Ireland, it is impossible to separate politics and culture. Brian Friel and the five other directors of the three-year od Field Day Theatre Company, all writers or arttists from the north, sem subtly aware of this fact. THeir current choice of Boesman and Lena, Athol Fugard's play on the evils of ...
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Business Forum October 1983
CARA Data Processing Limited has won a major order from the Bank of Ireland to revolutionise the bank's data processing facilities....
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Magill Diary - Oct 1983: Criminal Justice, Maurice Manning and James Delaney continued
IN SEPTEMBER 1983 AN article appeared in Magill entitled "The Seeds of a Police State" in which commpelling evidence was put forward that Osgus Breathhnach, Nicky Kelly and Brian McNally were ill-treated by members of the gardai. Eviddence was put forward in the article that not alone did a significant number of gardai perjure themselves in the subb~equent trial but that there was a conspiracy among cerrtain gardai to commit perjury.
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