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A peculiar start to the campaign
What a shabby way to seek the dissolution of the 29th Dáil. Public notification of one of the most significant constitutional functions was conveyed, not to all Government Ministers, not even on the floor of the Dáil but by text message to the media in the half-light of a Sunday morning. p
Poland's witch-hunt
The drastic extension of Poland's law on collaboration with the former communist security services has now run into determined opposition from one of its most distinguished anti-communist leaders, Dr Bronislaw Geremek. p
Opinion
Choosing new kind of country
The platform for electoral success should be a fairer society for a fitter economy, writes Fintan O'TooleSlide in FF support leaves marginals exposed
The forthcoming general election is shaping up to be a fascinating and tight contest, particularly between political heavyweights Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, writes Noel WhelanPhone texts send wrong message
Texting is either, as the postmodernists so rudely insist, just another cultural shift in which things dropping off one end of the trailer are supplanted at the other, or a defining moment when mankind's cleverality starts to eat its own foundations. I tend towards the latter view, believing that all technology usurps human capacity in exchange for convenience, writes John Waters. p
An Irishman's Diary
Fifty years ago this week, on May 2nd, 1957, US Senator Joe McCarthy died from liver disease, aged 48. Condemned by the Senate, rejected by the populace, he was physically and emotionally wrecked; it seemed scarcely credible that a few years earlier he had been one of the most recognised and feared men in the United States. p
