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An Investigation Needing Quick End
The Minister for Transport, Mr Brennan, has been identified as the politician at the centre of allegations that a minister did not pay Aer Rianta for €5,000 worth of drink and cigars in the early 1990s. p
Gender Equality
Progress has been pitifully slow in realising the objectives laid down for the Government's Draft National Plan for Women 2001-2005. Launched last year, along with some valuable research on the real extent of gender equality in many spheres of Irish public and private life, the draft plan committed the Government to widespread consultation in the preparation of an agreed programme of change, including positive legal action. p
Opinion
Philosopher who changed the debate
He was certain he would die as an American soldier in the Pacific during the second World War, writes Vincent Browne . At the time he had decided to become a Protestant minister but, having survived the war, he became an academic and changed the ground rules for political debate, maybe for hundreds of years. pPersuading Sinn Fein to endorse the police force proves a daunting task
"Representativeness" is the latest crunch word in Sinn Féin's determination to hold out for further concessions on policing, writes Frank Millar pWhat use is a one-sided forum on the North?
A pared-down Forum on Peace and Reconciliation, resuming in Dublin today, will be more a monologue than a meeting of minds on the peace process, argues Jane Morrice p
An Irishman's Diary
And here goes just about the only RTÉ programme to which Kevin Myers is ever invited: Questions and Answers . p
