Editorial - Reject The Kerry Babies Report
It is now three weeks since the publication of Mr Justice Kevin Lynch's Report on the Kerry Babies case. For those involved directly in the tribunal of inquiry, for the public which has followed it, for the journalists who covered it and for the politicians who established it, the publication of that Report should have been the end of the matter. Unfortunately, however, the case which has domiinated the Irish media for most of this year can not be allowed to rest. In this issue of Magill we publ
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Death on the Waiting List
In the last issue of Magill, we highlighted the case of Marie Flannery, a young woman in her early thirties who was on the waiting list for an urgent heart operation for sixteen months. We said that cutbacks were making the health service dangerous. Five days later Marie Flannery died of a heart attack. Mary Jane O'Brien reports....
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Today the world, tomorrow the globe
Gerry McGuinness has come a long way from the collapse of Creation Group to the success of The Sunday World. Now he is about to take his chances against the big boys of British tabloid newspaper market. By Robert Mayes and Fintan O'Toole.
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Business News - November 1985
SALES HAVE MORE than doubled since the beginning of summer at Seery's Biscuits Ltd of Tullow, County Carlow. The company expects to conntinue its phenomenal growth, as a result of the recent addition of four new lines to its product range....
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As Time Goes By - November 1985
Experts have predicted that much of the history of the last few years will have to be re-written in the light of the publication today of Conspiracy! the new book by Tony Winters which proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that Marilyn Monroe was murdered by Robert Kennedy with a bath brush. The book's revelation that John F. Kennedy may first have choked Marilyn, the vivacious sexpot who put her eye on the dynamic brothers, has aroused even more comment, with trenchant denials that author Winters h...
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The Kerry Babies Case: An analysis of Mr Justice Lynch's report
Part I: The Judge's Book
1. Joanne Hayes Choked Her Baby
ON FRIDAY OCTOBER 4 THE DAILY PAPERS carried the conclusions ofMr Justice Kevin Lynch's Report on the Tribunal on the Kerry Babies case. The coverage was largely factual, quoting large chunks of the report, with some background. Nobody had had too much time to assess the thing. In the Independent Stephen O'Byrnes lectured with great authority those who had jumped to conclusions about the case. The lecture was printed within hours of pub...
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The Homeless and the House
For the first time in the history of the sate, a private member's bill has now reached the committee statge in the Senate. The government was finally forced last week to publish a bill on homelessness. Aileen O'Meara reports on the two years of fierce lobbying, broken promises and political dithering that has now at last resulted in proposals for action....
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Poetry and politics: A conversation between Seamus Heany and Joseph Brodsky
Seamus Heany was born in County Derry in 1939, and published his first poems while working in Belfast in the early sixties. Since then he has published six major collections of poetry, including Death of a Naturalist, North and Station Island. He now divides his time between Dublin and Harvard where he directs a writing workshop in the spring of each year....
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Mick O'Dwyer - The Uncrowned King of Kerry
Mick O'Dwyer has dominated the last decade of Gaelic football to a greater degree than any of the players who became national figures during that period. Naturally, most of them would be Kerry players. It is hardly necessary to remind readers that the county has won seven All-Irelands in eleven years -and lost two more - under his management. ...
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Wigmore November 1985 - Jim Mitchell, Paddy Power, Bob Geldof, Paddy Aspell, Mark Killilea
JIM MITCHELL decided to award the rights to Ireland's first broadcasting satellite to a private firm rather than to RTE. Fair enough. We would like to suggest, however, that there was a far worthier candidate for the satellite than James Stafford of Atlantic. Chris Carey, bossman of Radio Nova is not only a man of enormous culture and civilisation, a scholar and a patron of the arts, he also has more than a passing affinity with outer space....
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