Article Index

Chirac ponders election options

By Lara Marlowe

PDs accuse Coalition on "flood of economic migrants"

By Paul Cullen

Lama faces ban for cannabis use

The town's gone book-mad

By By MAEVE BINCHY

Selling the family Victorian furniture

BRUTON AND SF

By From CATHERINE BRUGHA

Bulgarians go to the polls

Tense draw

Qualified privilege to be given to civil servants

By By PADRAIG YEATES

Goodman allowed £7.6m tribunal costs

By By RICHARD BALLS

Hamilton may get Everton post

Yeltsin takes beach break

Rosewood bonheur du jour for £3,500

Anissimov appointed to conduct NSO

By Michael Dervan

Analysis of constituencies points to a hung Dail

By By MAOL MUIRE TYNAN

Red Mercury Blues, by Reggie Nadelson (Faber & Faber, £5.99 in UK)

By Arminta Wallace

Zoo rhino shot dead

Oil company name defies flow testing

By By VICTOR KUSS

Hilton Hotel case adjourned

A Security guard sentenced

Selling the silverware from racing days of old

By Orna Mulcahy

McGinley survives ambush of "Angels"

The Imaginary Girlfriend, by John Irving (Black Swan, £6.99 in UK)

By Arminta Wallace

Mining firm raises £0.25m

MARKET REPORT - LONDON

Spring rules out Labour coalition with Fianna Fail

By By NUALA HAUGHEY

Slurry in Cork river causes big fish kill

By By ANN CAHILL

The Spirit of the Brandywell

By Gerry Thornley

Haughey back in limelight after an uneasy retirement

By By DENIS COGHLAN

77 years jail for gang rape

A hero for the times

By By HELEN MEANY

Meditator off the scrapheap

Efforts to bring together Turks and Greeks have mixed success

By Michael Jansen

Blackrock and St Mary's finely matched

By Johnny Watterson

Guarded response

Loyalists blamed for attack

Stella makes the name her own

By By PENELOPE DENING

Dehaene acts on missing children bungles

Romanians get Probation Act after taking money

Tough draw may wipe Hendry out

By By CLIVE EVERTON

Unnamed allies

Long shadow of Black Wednesday falls on Major

By By FRANK MILLAR

Soldiers of Destiny v Rainbow Warriors

By By RENAGH HOLOHAN

Hardware marketing group

Korean version of Danny Boy

Abel fables

By By JOHNATHAN ROMNEY

AN IRISHMAN'S DIARY

By By KEVIN MYERS

George III tallboy chest makes £3,200

Stepping onto the ICE

By Lorna Siggins

Leslie Dowdall

By Kevin Courtney

Consultants level of income defended

In the bag

By By ROBERT DUNBAR

Confidence in Act The Wag

THE ASGARD

By From G.F. HEALY (CAPT)

Irish Georgian side table may sell for over £2,000

Israeli politicians unite in tribute to Herzog

A chance to buy art on a budget

In the kingdom of the quiet man

By By TOM HUMPHRIES

Women seek mandate for work of coalition

By By CAROL COULTER

Whither the weather?

By By BRENDAN McWILLIAMS

New trial for man on murder charge

Eight German Novellas, trans. Michael Fleming (OUP, £6.99 in UK)

By By BRIAN FALLON

ADOPTION RIGHTS

By From HELEN GILMARTIN and HELEN SCOTT

Attempt to provoke a last bang of the crozier failed to work

2m stolen cigarettes seized

TAIZE: LITTLE SPRINGTIME

Mallon calls on governments to act on North

By By MARK BRENNOCK

VASECTOMY

By From H.E. COUNIHAN

Line in sand may not hold back tide for Ahern

By Geraldine Kennedy

Isotron to invest £1m in new plant

61% of teenagers attend Mass

Sandal-shod devotees

Hume and Adams meet for TV debate

By Gerry Moriarty

Setback for talks as rebels urge Mobutu to surrender

By By JOHN CHIAHEMEN

Laundry group cleans up with sales, profit growth

Solid Cork and improving Laois set for final

By By SEAN MORAN

New FINEX contracts

ABOUT TIME

Netanyahu fights for political life as erstwhile allies start to fragment

By By DAVID HOROVITZ

Images aimed at tourists attract refugees as well

By Paul Cullen

Drive to put swing analysis in motion

By By DERMOT GILLEECE

NB: this tribunal could go anywhere

Dream sequence

PEOPLE

Viewer as voyeur

By By EDDIE HOLT

Price holds one shot lead

IOC advance for curling

Man killed in train accident

Binchy book poised for Hollywood treatment

Qualceram founders to share £4.5m on flotation of firm

By By SIOBHAN CREATON

Tear gas used to end protest

Cholera kills 200 in Nigeria

Court remands drugs charge man

Thanks, I'll eat it at home . . .

By By JOHN McKENNA

Wild card Parnevik's only hope

Irish visit is cancelled after police detain human rights activist

By By PATRICK COMERFORD

Eubank on the receiving end

Sound of the future

By Michael Dervan

Mass said for hostages

Love's Work, by Gillian Rose (vintage, £5.99 in UK)

By Eileen Battersby

Charity event to be held in Malahide tomorrow

Woman's body washed up

Blue Genes, by Val McDermid (Harpercollins, £5.99 in UK)

By Arminta Wallace

Tiger's victory reveals patchwork progress

By By JOE CARROLL

Opposition suspects Spring is behind plot

By By DICK WALSH

A Fiennes outing

Leading Vatican official denies any offence was caused by visit

By By PADDY AGNEW

Classic American Short Stories, selected and introduced by Douglas Grant (OUP, £5.99 in UK).

By By BRIAN FALLON

North can ill afford sectarian madness, says UUP leader

By By CARMEL ROBINSON

Garda figures show crime rate is falling

By By JOHN MAHER

Better here, say Romany gypsies

By By NUALA HAUGHEY

Italy pins EMU hopes on mini budget

They're all here between covers

By By LOUISE EAST

Ireland start in dominant fashion

By Mary Hannigan

Mayhew, ex UUP leader named as life peers

By By RACHEL DONNELLY

A memsahib under the Raj

By By FERGUS PYLE

Grenade found in bomb alert

Pact a blow to Telecom partners

Mortar bombs seized

Astray in the shadow of the Duke

By By RAY COMISKEY

The hard sell of insurance

Athlone man on murder charge

3 patients infected with HIV virus

Algerian fears cause tighter security

Top price of £3,100 for damaged Beleek figure

Balancing prosperity with end to poverty

By By GARRET FITZGERALD

Exiles carry legacy of guilt to US

By By BRENDAN O CATHAOIR

Woman strangled, coroner's court told

Loss of European Rallycross event a blow for Mondello

By By BRIAN FOLEY

No place in FF for those receiving large sums of money, says Ahern

By By MAOL MUIRE TYNAN

IRISH ECONOMY

By From JOHN F HIGGINS

O'Rourke backs NESF jobs plan

By Michael O'Regan

Big bucks come to town

Funds for limbless child

US criticises China on rights

Pro Mo-Mo

Tight security for Sinn Fein Ardfheis

SOCIAL CHARTER FOR YOUTH

By From COLMAN BYRNE

United's delaying tactics move on to a higher plane

By By MARTIN THORPE

Abraham Lincoln inspires favoured man

By By SUZANNE BREEN

Pollard oak sideboard may fetch up to £10,000

Man alleging sex abuse by priest denies telling lies

State "shut its eyes" in case of wrongful conviction - Taxing Master

Greens campaign for PR

By Gerry Moriarty

Health workers' strike on Monday likely

By By PADRAIG YEATES

University disclaims chancellor's remarks on single religion schools

By Gerry Moriarty

THE ASYLUM SEEKERS

North Korea famine alert

Lord Howe condemns Tory advert

Chile flinches as Pinochet swirls his cape in outburst of regal rage

By By HUGH O'SHAUGHNESSY

ROISIN McALISKEY

By From RICHARD DEASY

Sex change: anatomy of a dilemma for society

By By ROISIN INGLE

Another writer under sentence

By By JOHN BOLAND

The World According to Mike Leigh, by Michael Coveney (HarperCollins, £6.99 in UK)

By Arminta Wallace

Under the hill

By By BRIAN LYNCH

Trouble as business and beauty collide

By By ROISIN INGLE

Norwich Union flotation approved

By By SIOBHAN CREATON

Dunnes tribunal team in secret trip to Caribbean

By By GERALDINE KENNEDY and CLIFF TAYLOR

TAXING CARS

By From CONOR LAWLOR

Man on wife murder charge seeks bail

Feeling under the weather

By By BRENDAN MCWILLIAMS

NATO-Russia optimism

Inquest on murdered woman adjourned

By By RICHARD BALLS

The man of the moment

By Michael Walker

A full catch

By By MICHAEL SMITH

Horrid things to ponder

Theatre of the young

Congo recalled as Irish watch the battle for Zaire

By Paul Cullen

Ahern facing greatest challenge in weekend's make or break ardfheis

By By MAIRE GEOGHEGAN QUINN

RDS clears its fences with £582,000 profit

Gift of the Gab

By Kevin Courtney

Elisabeth Schumann, by Gerd Puritz (Grant and Cutler, £14.99 in UK)

By By BRIAN FALLON

Twilight's last gleaming

By Eileen Battersby

Fear as a fact of life

By Michael Viney

Sleepytime finds an opening too late

MARKET REPORT - NEW YORK

Bellinter Tables fetch stg £595,000

Politicians should meet jobless - Bruton

By By PADRAIG YEATES

Hour approaches but for whom will Big Ben toll?

By By SEAN MAC CARTHAIGH

Lyons' share of North tea market rises

By By BILL MURDOCH

Shell Ginger may be one of six O'Brien winners

By Brian O'Connor

When things go wrong

By Jane Coyle

Swan to ride Bishop's Hall

A tale from the dark side

By By JIM CUSACK

Support for Entrepreneur

The Famous Five

By Kevin Courtney

MARKET REPORT - DUBLIN

By By JANE SUITER

Waterford seeks clarification of terms

By By BRENDAN MCGRATH and DICK GROGAN

Not all rosy in hurling garden

By By SEAN KILFEATHER

Top Germans split over tough stance on EMU

Woman awarded £28,396

Dead woman stowed on bus

Berties masses troops to dethrone prince

By By MAOL MUIRE TYNAN

Walsh denies taking drugs

Snaring the Other Tiger, by Ian Ward (Media Masters, Singapore, no price given)

By Arminta Wallace

Trotsky: The Eternal Revolutionary, by Dmitri Volkogonov (HarperCollins, £12.99 in UK)

By By BRIAN FALLON

BIRDS, BUTTERFLIES AND PARTITION

Man remanded on murder charge

CAMP SURVIVOR

By From EAMON O CUIV

Documents contained detailed accounts of £1.1m payments

By Cliff Taylor

Tortured talkers

William IV dining chairs for £4,000 plus in Clare

Christian Solidarity party sets sights on abortion vote

By By MICHAEL FOLEY

Banking eagle lands on building society nestegg

Ashdown claims nurses `gagged'

Explosions and bomb alerts that cripple UK transport condemned

By By RACHEL BORRILL and CARMEL ROBINSON

United hold all the cards

By By MARK LAWRENSON

Police hunt for illegal immigrants

THE WORDS WE USE

By By DIARMAID O MUIRITHE

A poet against the grain

By By BRIAN FALLON

Sunshine in a glass

By By MARY DOWEY

Stradbally's leading lot goes west

Labour of love for a festival of fun

By Brian O'Connor

Traffic delays to be expected

Decision by Mitchell not to retire would be boost for FG

By By MAOL MUIRE TYNAN

Out to launch

Jones sues over free contracts

STREET WAIFS

By From MARY BLACKWELL

TIMES SQUARE

By From PATRICK NOLAN

Privates on peyote

Rival paper hires sacked writer

Rovers eke out a crucial point

By By PAUL BUTTNER

Cabinet not to intervene in Tesco bid for Quinnsworth

By By BARRY O'KEEFFE

Woman focus on crime and offer strong support for zero tolerance

By Michael O'Regan

Prisoner has baby in Belfast

Ireland beats the world's best

By By GARRETT ROWE

One small step for Spring as a spaceman came calling to Tralee

By Dick Ahlstrom

BEST FRIENDS?

By From JOHN O'CONNOR

Bluthner upright piano for over £800

Bus station on quays opposed

By By DICK GROGAN

Out of hours dispute settled

Labour says new Tory tactics show their desperation

By By RACHEL BORRILL

THIS WEEK IN THE MARKETS

By By BRENDAN MCGRATH

BTSB appeals for blood donations

The Life and Times of Mary Ann McCracken 1770-1866: A Belfast Panorama, by Mary McNeill (Blackstaff Press, £9.99 in UK)

By By BRIAN FALLON

Noonan refuses to say how much hepatitis victims fund will contain

By By ALISON O'CONNOR and CATHERINE CLEARY

Coroner warns of toxic reaction to ecstasy

By By RICHARD BALLS

MARKET REPORT - EUROPE

Spencer cup win for Garda

Widow of publican granted bail on murder charge