Article Index

Tonga to commemorate Omagh victims

By Marie O'Halloran

The paper roots of power lie in China

National League Previews

By Emmet Malone

Seeing in 2000 with bands, bells and a bang

By Kevin Courtney

Portman plans to maintain building society status

Who's dreaming of a cool million?

By By EDDIE HOLT

Glen Of The Downs

Romania's revisionist schoolbook gives anaemic account of Dracula

By By CHRIS STEPHEN

President to pursue `war for peace' despite injury

By By DAVID ORR

The Lake Isle of Innisfree

New Year holiday arrangements

Suspect serial killer surrenders

Cooper and Moss can still pack a punch

No sign of panic in Asia as Y2K alarmism is toned down

By By CONOR O'CLERY

Jack Kyle my player of the century

By By EDMUND VAN ESBECK

Bjorn Again and Brian Kennedy will help Belfast swing into 2000

By By CLARE MURPHY

Rhapsody on film

By By MICHAEL DWYER

Top 10 Poets'

Liam Neeson gets OBE in new year's honours

By Gerry Moriarty

Medicines board supports US move on illegal Web pharmacies

By Kevin O'Sullivan

Portugal takes on EU Presidency

Ray and monkfish species in danger of becoming extinct

By Lorna Siggins

Princess Masako loses baby

State prepared to take on and beat millennium bug

Irish debt-to-GDP ratio is third lowest in European Union

By By BRENDAN MCGRATH

Car sales up 20% in 1999, - SIMI

By Colm Keena

No Problem to land top prize

5 dead in shootings in Tampa

A developed West of plenty in a wider world of want

Cream 2000

By By ADRIENNE MURPHY

Farmers angry at OPW flooding schemes delay

By Lorna Siggins

What is time? What is space? What is heat?

Panama Canal handed over amid political storm and sour US relations

Video Releases

By By MICHAEL DWYER

The best millennium to date weatherwise

By By BRENDAN MCWILLIAMS

Into the post-Christian millennium

France to take EU to court over beef

By By RACHEL DONNELLY

Sick passenger leaves hijacked plane for 2 hours for treatment

By Rahul Bedi

Cities plan events to celebrate millennium

Betty's Boy ready to underline credentials

Knife Edge set to run

Car used in fatal stabbing found

Sickly infant euro celebrates a difficult first birthday, healthy childhood remains uncertain

Radio Previews

By Lorna Kernan

Precious Diary

Warne sets up win for Australia

Woman's body taken from sea near Kilkee

Technology stocks lead the way to new century

£5-a-trip taxi bonus fails to satisfy drivers

By Joe Humphreys

Sustainability guide promotes a cleaner future

By Kevin O'Sullivan

Tiger hits another golden streak

Classical

End of world unlikely, despite the signs

By By DAVID HOROVITZ

US couple to marry by telephone

By By DICK HOGAN

Progress in North lauded by Bruton

Your Personal Computer

St Patrick's sack manager

Home-grown firms achieve rapid growth in booming information technology sector

It was the bean that set the pulses racing

Giving expression and shape to our thoughts

1m homes still without power

`Yonda lies the castle of my fadda'

Ireland will say farewell to the old millennium in candlelight ceremony

New star-studded cast of knights and dames

By By FRANK MILLAR

Neighbours urged to keep an eye on elderly

By By EITHNE DONNELLAN

Atlantic spirit far from shores of Dublin Bay

By David O'Brien

Where they drink together in the day, and kill each other by night

Couple to challenge judgment on Baby A

By By CAROL COULTER

Weekend Travel

Meade stable to record a double

Harrison survives `just by chance' with chest wounds

By By RACHEL DONNELLY

Putin Internet article appeals to wishes of electorate in run-up to a presidential election

Aer Lingus experience a major factor

By By DERMOT ASHMORE

Assurance on future of Fruit of the Loom

Gardai find gun during Cork arrest

Language matters in a world ready to murder and kill in the name of right

Millennial hopes

London blunders as Eiffel Tower takes off

Traffic restrictions in Dublin to allow for New Year festivities

By Joe Humphreys

Our World

Businesses close for long weekend as off-licences enjoy a champagne boom

By By NUALA HAUGHEY

Finishing flourish takes FTSE to new high

Health boards prepared to cope with any contingency

By By EITHNE DONNELLAN

Woman dies in Cork after roof collapses into street

By By DICK HOGAN

Pushed from the centre of creation

ISEQ closes year in positive form

By By BRENDAN MCGRATH

Make 2000 the year of permanent peace, say NI leaders

By Gerry Moriarty

Pressure on Kohl to name names

By Denis Staunton

Partnership For Peace

Church Of Ireland Notes

Internet access to Irish golf courses

By By PATTI HOLLY

That most precious and gossamer of emotions

Thousands of closed pubs ensure celebrations will be mostly dry

By By EAMON TIMMINS

England chastened by relentless Kirsten

By By MIKE SELVEY

1,000 years of crusades, conquests and war

Munster wait on Galwey

By John O'Sullivan

RDS millennium party cancelled amid dispute over security and sales

By Joe Humphreys

Battle Against Cancer

Their World

Wise ones, riddle me this

Gains evaporate as last full session peters out

Moscow warns it may use `fuel-air bombs'

By Seamus Martin

Rich And Poor In A New Century

Millennium forest for Donegal

Candlelight farewell to old era

By By JOE HUMPHREYS and ROISIN INGLE

Holzmann rescue approved

Easing the burden of being left behind by society

By By THERESA JUDGE

Bomb disposal teams kept busy

Humanity trying to cope with a century of change

By Fintan O'Toole

A funny thing happened on the way to the abysmalennium

Sport reaps record £39m

By John O'Sullivan

They lived to tell the tale

Leboeuf faces FA charge

Ryan surprised to be ranked number ten

By Mary Hannigan

Counting The Years

Fury at Fujimori re-election bid

The Challenges Of Success

Galway sign GAA star

By Emmet Malone

Tense quarter-final ends in acrimony

By By PAT ROCHE

Former Methodist president dies

Traditional

Celebration in China muted by protest fears

Home are the heroes of comedy

By Hugh Linehan

Gucci on buying trail

Capital goes to town in a blaze of illumination

By By ROISIN INGLE

An Irishman's Diary

By By BRENDAN O CATHAOIR

Clinton to switch on giant fireworks display

By By JOE CARROLL

Jim Mitchell is Drapier's politician of 1999, with David Andrews winning as best minister

The piano has been thinking

Right from the heart

New York Nights

Jazz

Users stockpile St John's Wort ahead of ban

By By EAMON TIMMINS

Ethiopia needs urgent food aid

Red Riding Hood

Naval Service will be able to monitor fishing vessels by satellite next year

By Lorna Siggins

ESB workers forfeit new year break to assist with French storm repairs

By By EAMON TIMMINS

Turning pages in the book of life

President's Address

100 Favourite Irish Poems

Local heroes can save the world

Corrections And Clarifications

Profit for shipping group

A century of radio days

By By HARRY BROWNE

Redeveloping Smithfield