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    • Good Work And Bad Politics

      There can be little doubt that a prodigious amount of work was put into preparing the National Spatial Strategy published by the Government yesterday. There can also be little doubt that the proposals put forward by a small, dedicated team of planners in the Department of the Environment fuelled several arguments around the Cabinet table. p

    • Attacks on Israel

      Israeli tourists in Mombasa have become the latest targets of terrorist attacks, just weeks after Australians were targeted in Bali. The casualties were mercifully light, after an Israeli airliner had an exceedingly lucky escape from a missile attack. p
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    • Let's act to curb excess drinking

      Let's be honest, most of us have a bad drinking story or two to tell. Tales of bravado about the time we made a complete fool of ourselves because we had one too many. The antics we got up to while under the influence at that office party. The wildness we often put down to youth, writes Miriam Donohoe p

    • Strategy offers promise of a chicken in every pot

      The new National Spatial Strategy, with something for everyone in theaudience, will spread development too widely and thinly, argues Frank McDonald p

    • Crime detection rates need to be investigated

      The crime detection rate is an unsatisfactory performance indicator for theGarda, maintains Ian O'Donnell p
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    • An Irishman's Diary

      PSONI detectives find five howitzers, two MiG 31s, ten tons of Semtex, 500 anthrax capsules and 1,000 nuclear detonators in Sinn Fein offices in Stormont. The Chief Constable, Hugh Orde, apologises to Sinn Féin, the "office equipment" is returned, and the officer who led the police raid is put into a blender and turned into dogfood. p
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