The Bravery Of Charles Haughey
OVER THE PAST YEAR the leader of the opposition Charles Haughey has been meeting senior executives in the newspapers and RTE in an effort to' improve the coverage he receives in the media. Those who previously would have taken the view that breaking bread with C.J. Haughey could be compared only to supping with the devil have been converted.
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Downhill 16
THE BLOKE BESIDE US hadn't seen Des Foley for a long time. Not in fact since he was standing in the husttings for Aontacht Eireann back in the early seventies, fighting for the fourth green field. Our friend remembered him from the Dublin team of the sixties: a hero, a gentleman and a fior gael. Underrstandably, when Michael 0 Hehir introduced him as one of the Senior All-Ireland Foottball Surviving Champions, many of the boot boys on Hill 16 mistook him for a Kerryyman. "Get off the pitch ya fu...
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The Farmers and Land Tax
"Joe Rea seems to regard socialism as any transaction in which the state tales money from the farmers; when the farmers get money from the state, that's what he calls free enterprise" - Ruari Quinn
Story by Olivia O'Leary. Additional reporting and research by Mark Brennock ...
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The Paper Chase
Three Dublin newspaper companies are today under severe commercial pressure. With intense competition for scarce advertising income and a costly new technology package in the pipeline (leaving aside what mayor not be in other pipelines) Independent Newspapers are seeking redundancies throughhout their Abbey Street operation. The Irish Press Group, faced with declining sales and dwindling revenues, is embarking on a radical and still largely unndefined overhaul on which its long term survival dep
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The crime and punishment of Michael Kinsella
The Crime
There were four houses at the crossroads. The McCooeys, the O'Harts, the Kinsellas and the Halls. This was at Legnakelly, a crossroads about a mile and a half outside Clones, County Monaghan. Just yards from the border. Two cars came across the border from Ferrnanagh, each carrying four men. The men were armed. When they got to the crossroads they donned masks, left the cars and split up, four at the front of the McCooey home, four at the back.
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As time goes by - October 1984
(The plinking music fades and we hear the voice of Ireland's Most Civilised Man, Sir John Bowman, for it is he.)
Welcome to Day By Day, and on this evening's . . . sorry, this morning's programme we have our usual collecction of items, em, all the, em, topics which are, em, topical. So to speak.
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The league problem
Whenever two soccer followers meet they generally don't talk about Pat Grace's Famous Chicken League of Ireland. The League has what might be described as an image problem. Worse than that, the Chicken League has a reality problem. By Eamon Dunphy...
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Business - October 1984
DETAILS of the sponsorship of the 13th Annual Management Competition for Schools were announced by Mr John McNally, Area Director, Ulster Bank, at a reception held in Ulster Bank, College Green, Dublin on Tuessday 11th September....
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Marathon Notebook - October 1984
For many people who complete a marathon it is the most meaninggful event in their lives. Successful completion of the 26-odd miles will be the result of months of hard, often lonely, endeavour. The run itself will bring enormous physioloogical and psychological stress that only the most completely prepared runners will overcome. Even after the months of preparation that have gone into training for the event the conditions and how the runner feels on the partiicular day will have a considerable b...
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Wigmore - October 1984: Paddy Madigan, Irish soccer, Rangers, Nicky Kelly
A FEW years back I was being cross-examined during a criminal trial in Dublin when I noticed an unkempt man at the front of the court. The man clearly felt deeply emotionally involved in the exchanges between myself and the fleshy lawyer who, I had been warned by impressionable people, was a hot-shot brief capable of demolishing even as formidable and transparently honest a witness as myself. The unkempt man would smack a fist into the open palm of the other hand as the brief wound himself up fo...
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