Diary September 1985 - Travellers, Ted Nealon and the Arts
Apartheid: AT 11AM ON THURSDAY August 22, people were walkking in and out of Gardiner Street employment exchange to get their dole money. About twelve people who looked as if they were going to go in stopped at the gate and waited. Another eight stood about twenty yards from the gate....
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As Time Goes By September 1985
Garret was chalking his cue, sizing up a difficult but possible pink into the top left and the white off the side cushion and into a cluster of reds, so he didn't notice Jim Dooge coming in the door of The Long Rest. I gave Bobby the high sign and he was out from behind the counter like fast, feeling Jim bo's collar. Sorry, sir, members only, that kind of thing....
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Life and Death in a Traveller family
Thomas and Mary McCann have been moved on from place to place for the last 50 years. Mary McCann had 12 pregnancies. She had six miscarriages. Three of her six sons died recently, two bt drowning and one in a high speed car chase....
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Prolonging the Agony
The government has - in the cases involving PMPA, ICI and the alleged "IRA money" - shown itself capable of urgent measures when it believes them warranted. Four years later the Stardust case drags painfully on.
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Hush - two weeks in the life of the media
ACC user the law to restrict scrutiny of its affairs. The law is so broad that even ACC was censored. The Sunday Tribune was prohibited from publishing a story on ACC based on information that was already on the public record. Christy Moore tried to song about the pain caused by the fact that the Stardust case has not been resolved. He was censored - because the case has not been resolved. And censorship in RTE caused a case of jitters among journlaists and the backlash resulted in a strike.
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Alexis Fitzgerald and the traffic in power
For over 40 years, Alexis Fitzgerald played a central role in Irish political and economic life. He had 'more influence on economic policy than any politician or civil servant since the foundation of the state'. His appointment as Special Advisor to the Government was recognition of a kind never accorded to anyone before and unlikely to be accorded to anyone again....
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Michael Dwyer previews the Dublin Film Festival
Irish film critics spend half their working days watching movies and the other half complaining about what they have had to endure. With good reason - financial considerations aside, most of the movies released here were not worth making in the first place. For every Witness or Blood Simple, to name the only outstanding releases of the last four months, there are a dozen dumb sequels and another dozen or more inane, scrappily assemmbled teen sex comedies. Meanwhile, hundreds of potentially more
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Dunphy's Diary - September 1985
There won't be any English League soccer on English television before October. There may be no soccer at all on BBC and lTV this season, except for international matches and the FA Cup final.
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The fall from greatness
Jack Maloney assesses the quality of the Dublin and Kerry football teams and concludes that Gaelic football is in decline. ...
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Business September 1985
AT A RECEPTION last week to announce the opening of Ireland's first "Satellite Dish Store" a demonstration was given of the extra channels now beaming down into Ireland!...
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Wigmore September 1985 - RTE, censorship, Department of Justice
THOSE WHO seek an insight into the acceptance of Section 31 out in RTE might have a look at the March 18 issue of Fortnight. There, one of RTE's most respected and responsible prooducers, Peter Feeney, published a letter which defined the limits of what is "politically acceptable" in RTE.
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