Magill File: October 1978 - Crime, European Parliament, Linenhall, Loyalists
They lied about Bugsy:
AT one pm, Thursday, August 31, 19 people from the Sean McDermott Street-Summerhill area left Dublin airport for a holiday in Benidorm, Spain, booked through Joe Walsh Tours. Their holiday trip was to trigger the most disgraceful outburst of journalistic gutterrsnipery seen in Dublin for some time.
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The North - Ten years of violence
From the first riots of the Northern troubles, October 5, 1968, violence in Northern Ireland was brought before the eyes of the world by the cameras of press and television journalists. It was the first occasion in Irish history to be fully documented visually. We present here a visual account of these ten years by some of the world's outstanding cameramen.
(See PDF document of this edition for photographs)
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Robert Kennedy - A Reassessment
Ten years after the assassination of Robert Kennedy his career is examined in the light of a newly published biography by Arthur Schleisinger Jr.
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The October conclave
The last great medieval rite of the modern world is about to be reinacted as over a hundred aged bachelor men of similiarly confined and blinkered backgrounds meet in secret to appoint from among themselves the leader of the world's largest religious community....
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A Bogside woman and Provo justice
THE Provisional IRA recently tied a 22-year-old mother of three children to railings outside a pub in Derry City and poured paint and feathers over her shaved head. She and the 17-year-old girl who was similarly punished alongside her had admitted to the armed robbery of two shopkeepers who had asked the IRA to intervene....
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Prices and Promises
SEVEN months after the Dail passed tough truth-in-advertising legislation creating a consumer affairs office, a director has not yet been appointed and no action has been taken against offenders of that law....
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Irish Rugby: What Needs to Be Done
AT a time when other team sports are becoming better organised in Ireland, rugby at an international level remains in a state of chaos and indiscipline with inevitable consequences in international championships. Ireland has won just one match in the last two years and we were lucky at that....
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Rugby Season Preview - Wales weakened; Ireland expectant
WALES, as I said at the end of last season, were flattered. by their grand slam of four victories in the international rugby championship last year. They were not that good. They were worth five or six points in the international table, rather than the maximum of eight which they collected, because they owed their victories over England and Ireland to some distinctly favourable turns of refereeing fortune....
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The administration of Irish racing
IRISH racing, a major sport . and industry, is governed by three organisations whose powers and responsibilities are barely understood by the racing public they serve. Despite this ambiguity, they are the ones entrusted with facing the problems of Irish racing today, and improving the breed in the future.
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The Stock Exchange clobbers the small fry
LIKE any institution, the Stock Exchange has rules and regulations which govern the behaviour of its members and those companies quoted on it. Unlike in the USA where the Market is governed by a statutory body, the Securities and Exchange Commission, markets in these islands are supervised by self-regulatory bodies like the Quotation's Committee and Takeover Panel. The decisions of these bodies sometimes seem arbitary and unfortunnately are not readily amenable to any judicial appeal machinery. ...
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Finance Diary November 1978
In introducing a £5 weekkly job subsidy for everybody employed in the textile and shoe industry, George Colley is really only fiddling about with a much larger prooblem in an ad hoc manner tyypical of most politicians of all shades. Of course he had been I put up to this by the British Government with its now two-year-old £20 a week temmporary employment subsidy. ...
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Supermarket shop around
THIS month Magill begins a new Consumer Affair's department. Each month we will examine some aspect of the consumer market in Ireland. We begin this month by examining the kind of choice and value for money the shopper can expect when buying groceries in Dublin.
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Cecil King on Lord Longford
Longford-a bigraphical portrait by Mary Craig published by Hodder and Stoughton £5.95p.
THOUGH this biography is short - only 200 pages - it must have been difficult to write. Frank Longford has appeared in so many roles that it is exceddingly difficult to present a coherent picture....
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