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An assault on the tribunal's integrity
For months now, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has been playing the role of innocent and helpless victim in his appearances before the Mahon tribunal, while a number of Fianna Fáil Ministers have responded like a supporting chorus. p
Cathal Ó Searcaigh
Public unease is understandable at the story the film Fairytale of Kathmandu appears to tell about poet Cathal Ó Searcaigh. p
Opinion
Definition of corruption has itself become corrupted
There is no distinction between a gift for personal or political ends when the recipient is a public figure, writes Elaine Byrne. p50 years later, CND is still on the march in a nuclear world
World View: The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament is marking its golden jubilee this year. Other great campaigns on issues of global political morality have worked themselves into happier redundancies, from the campaigns for the abolition of the slave trade and slavery in the 18th and 19th centuries, to the more recent Anti-Apartheid Movement. pO'Donoghue's efforts to reform Dáil deserve support
Inside Politics: Given the reams elsewhere which well cover Bertie Ahern's increasing tribunal difficulties, Inside Politics today will be a Mahon-free zone, if only to show that there are other things that matter in politics - even if they are dull at first glance. pAhern's failings not close to corruption
By the early 1980s it was apparent to the more ambitious politicians in Fianna Fáil and other parties that the nature of political organisation and campaigning required transformation, particularly in the cities. pIRA cost Northern Ireland its economic advantage
Until the outbreak of violence at the end of the 1960s, Northern Ireland had consistently been the most prosperous part of our island. pNepal case highlights loss of poetry in sexuality
A very nice radio researcher contacted me, wondering would I like to endorse on air the idea of removing Cathal Ó Searcaigh's poems from the Leaving Cert syllabus. p
An Irishwoman's Diary
From time to time Mrs Vi McDowell's friend Ruth Heard reminds her in a ladylike tone that a woman should not reveal her age. p
