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    • Good outcome for Zimbabwe

      ZIMBABWE'S UNEXPECTEDLY contested presidential and parliamentary elections have produced such a decisive setback for Robert Mugabe that he is having great difficulty hanging on to power, despite his authoritarian regime.
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    • Civil partnerships

      THE GOVERNMENT is due to decide next week on the nature and scope of new legal rights for cohabiting heterosexual and same-sex couples under a Civil Partnership Bill.  p
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    • Dáil in position to decide on Ahern's fitness for office

      COUNSEL FOR Bertie Ahern claimed in the High Court yesterday that the Taoiseach could not be made accountable to the planning tribunal for any utterance he made in the Dáil about matters being investigated by the tribunal or otherwise, writes Vincent Browne . p

    • Home thoughts from abroad on the Irish and their drink

      GOOD OLD Paddy's day, I missed you this year because, God love me, I was in the 20 degree warmth of Andalucia, writes Ailish Connelly . p

    • Agreement has delivered change

      LOOKING BACK now, there are times when it is hard to believe that 10 years have passed since those momentous days in April 1998. The Belfast Agreement marks an historic and defining point of change in the history and development of this island, writes Gerry Adams . p

    • Science must inform debate on same-sex parenting

      OPINION:  DEBATES ABOUT who should and should not be allowed to parent children must be informed by solid scientific evidence about what actually happens to children in these circumstances, rather than by unfounded assumptions and beliefs about the outcomes for children with lesbian or gay parents, writes Susan Golombok . p

    • US missile defence shield plan heightens Europe's insecurity

      ANALYSIS:  THE US Missile Defence Agency (MDA) - without recourse to Nato - is engaged in bilateral negotiations with Poland and the Czech Republic to site missile-shield silos and X-Band radar facilities in central Europe, writes Tom Clonan . p

    • Tale of Vichy sectarianist who died peacefully in his sleep

      NEWTON'S OPTIC: TODAY MARKS a significant anniversary in the resolution of one of Europe's worst civil conflicts, as the world recalls an event described at the time as "a turning of the page of history", writes Newton Emerson . p
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    • An Irishman's Diary

      WHEN IRISH whiskey marks a significant birthday later this month, the occasion could hardly be described as "sobering", writes Frank McNally . p
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