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Stalemate on Gaza
Israeli forces withdrew from Gaza yesterday after a brutal five-day intervention mounted against a new round of rocket attacks from there on its neighbouring towns and cities, in which three Israelis have died. Hundreds of Palestinian civilians were killed or wounded in battles with Hamas militants, with many children dying in indiscriminate attacks on houses and apartments by Israeli helicopters and jets. p
Carnage on the roads
ONE PERSON a day has died on our roads thus far in 2008. And the progress made in reducing the number of fatalities and serious injuries during the past two years is beginning to unravel. Public complacency and a return to bad and dangerous driving habits have been blamed by Road Safety Authority chief executive Noel Brett. But the reasons for that change in behaviour have not been identified. p
Opinion
Politics must get personal to tackle gender inequality
The assumption now is that we dealt with discrimination against women a long time ago and that anyone going on about it is an embittered crank, writes Fintan O'Toole pDecisive moments on a journey of faith to new spiritual home
RITE AND REASON How the questioning that flowed from Vatican II caused one young Roman Catholic priest to change denomination and later become a senior Church of Ireland figure, writes Dermot Dunne pIrving should not be given a platform for his views
COMMENT Controversial Holocaust historian David Irving has again been invited to speak at UCC. But he should not, because free speech is not about defending the right to deny historical truth, writes Pádraig Reidy pLongford soundbite predated today's Bertie doggerel
Electing a politician is like buying a dog: you are stuck with it. This 1990s barked remark foresaw today's fouled political pavements, writes Quentin Fottrell pPutin's steel to structure Medvedev
ANALYSIS Russians seem happy to trade their democratic purity for economic stability and a smooth transfer of power, writes Dan McLaughlin pGovernment dragging feet on cluster bomb ban
OPINION Ireland should take a lead and ban the use of cluster bombs, writes Nuala Ahern pTouch wood you don't end up in the doghouse
SHAGGY DOGS TOUCH WOOD: If we are hoping for something to happen, or perhaps not to happen, the worst thing we can do is talk about it, because that is challenging fate to give us the outcome we are hoping for, which is never a good idea, writes Albert Jack . p
An Irishman's Diary
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is almost as moving as film critics said. Only the heartless will fail to shed a tear at the scene in which the paralysed Jean-Do pleads soundlessly with a medic not to close his infected eye, even as the stitches go in; or the one where he sees his 11-year-old son cry at the state to which his father has been reduced; or at the scenes with Jean Do's own father, played beautifully by Max Von Sydow, Frank McNally p
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