Editorial - October 1985
On Sunday 29 September, Archbishop Kevin McNamara watched and listened as Dr Donald Caird was enthroned as Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin. He listened as Dr Caird made a careful and gentle plea to the southern state to "accommodate within its legislation the varying views and beliefs of its citizens as far as these are consistent with the good ordering of society and the freedom of the individual." Dr Caird, on the issue of divorce, tried to separate the functions of church and state: "T...
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Diary October 1985 - Stardust, Dunnes Stores Strike,
"A bit of a PR job"
THE INITIAL HOPE OF A settlement to the Dunnes Stores strike would seem by now to have completely faded. The proposal to phase out South African goods sugggested by Minister for Labour Ruairi Quinn, has seemingly failed. This, despite Minister Quinn's suggestion that he is still in consultation with supermarket owners about the issue....
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The Extradition Fiasco
In recent weeks, the American Senate have had hearings relating to a proposed extradition treaty between Britain and the US. Dominic McGlinchey, extradited from the Republic eighteen months ago is appealing his conviction for murder. Two months ago, John Quinn was freed by a London court following extradition from Dublin last March. Very soon, even more controversial cases are likely to come before the courts....
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A View To Kill
As the long-awaited consultants' report by RTE and Atlantic Satellites prepare for a massive assault on the airwaves, who will survive the business of broadcasting?...
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SCANDAL - The Million Pound Government
Politicians'pensions are being improved; the wage bill for Ministers alone has topped £1m; it costs over £2,000 a day to put state cars under Ministers; the politics of degeneracy continues. By Gene Kerrigan ...
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A CRITICAL CONDITION
Failure to tackle vested interests is turning a sick health service into a dangerous one.
This year over a billion pounds of our money will be spent on the health service, yet cutbacks are making the hospitals dangerous and public patients can't get urgent operations. One in twenty people in the Irish workforce works in the health system, yet wards full of geriatric patients are left unattended/
Fintan O'Toole, Mary Jane O'Brien and Mark Brennock find out why....
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A portrait of the actress as Mother Ireland
Siobhan McKenna, the grande dame of the Irish theatre, has just returned to the Dublin stage in "Arsenic And Old Lace". She is, at 62, a living symbol of Romantic Ireland. By Fintan O'Toole...
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Edvard Munch at The National Gallery
It is a truism of art history and critiicism to say that Edvard Munch's best work was done prior to his severe mental breakdown in 1908. Before that there are the claustrophobic visions of tortured emotional life, destructive passions, anxiety, arguuments, fights and the notorious inciident involving a gun which led to the artist losing part of a finger. After the pivotal six month stay in a Copenhagen clinic during the winter of 1908-9, all is changed. There is an apparent withdrawal from a vol...
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As time goes by October 1985
Sticky Sullivan, by Owen Smullen, Abbey Theatre.
Another triumph for the old firm. With raw material consisting of only a dramatised argument about the relationship between religion and politics, director Tomas McGiolla has had to work hard to give his actors something of substance to get their teeth into. Patiently the director has created space between the author's lines to allow his cast rollick around the stage, dragging their vowels and crunching their consonants, rolling their eyes and t
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The Kingdom Reigns on
At half-time in the All-Ireland final, the overwhelming majority of people in my vicinity felt that the match was already won by Kerry and irretrievably lost as a spectacle; that Dublin could not possibly make a game of it, much less threaten Kerry's clear superiority.
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Barry McGuigan - You can run but you can't hide
"Rather you than me," the taxi driver announced as he dropped his fare at Connolly Station. "Never liked the place . . . even before the troubles ... a kip ... don't like 'em . . . any of them, Catholic or Protesstant. They're different from us."...
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