Camp life leaves desperate refugees open to corruption and wild rumoursIn a crowd of 30,000 desperate human beings, every rumour, however unlikely, must be taken seriouslyWed May 12 1999 - 01:00
Le Pen `arsenal' the only cause of excitementThe European Parliament had a tough act to follow after the thrills of last weekWed Mar 24 1999 - 00:00
Farmer breathes more easilyTHREE weeks ago, Co Laois farmer Mr Ger Bergin was looking at proposals which would have cut some £4,000 to £5,000, about a third…Fri Mar 12 1999 - 00:00
Floating on a single currentJohn Bayley wrote his majestic memoir of Iris when her mind was sliding into the insidious fog of Alzheimer's disease; when dining…Wed Feb 10 1999 - 00:00
Brilliant geneticist well-equipped for battle over fundingAny man who crops up on the six and nine o'clock news in a dinner jacket, not once but several times in a few days, and is neither…Sat Dec 19 1998 - 00:00
John Hume: 'the clearest and most consistent voice for peace'He kept his word, that was the extraordinary thing, an emotional young student said, as we watched John Hume stride, smiling, …Sat Oct 17 1998 - 01:00
Going into overdriveJust a few years ago the Dublin City Centre Business Association was all a-flutter about out-of-town shopping centresSat Oct 10 1998 - 01:00
Putting Offaly back on the literary mapNot many people know this, but 200 years ago most of Tullamore was burnt to the ground when a hot-air balloon crashed into the…Thu Sept 03 1998 - 01:00
No one laughing now as 10,000 are expected in Abbeyleix for third annual food and wine fairLet's be honest. You hurtle through Co Laois and snort incredulously at any suggestion of a food stopThu Aug 27 1998 - 01:00
Any attempt by Trimble to out-Paisley Paisley a tactical mistake, says AdamsHe was not surprised by the increased vote for anti-agreement unionists, Gerry Adams said yesterdaySat Jun 27 1998 - 01:00
The boom is thorny round the fields of AthenryYes, it's lonely round the fields of Athenry, relatively speaking. But is that such a bad thing?Mon Jun 22 1998 - 01:00
Carlow gets new lease of life as commuter capitalWhile much of the Western world bangs on about downshifting, telecottaging, living above the shop and generally turning traditional…Wed Jun 17 1998 - 01:00
Parity begins at homeNo doubt about it, the past few weeks have pulled wives down a peg or twoSat Feb 28 1998 - 00:00
Courteous, principled man `prone to careless outbursts'Although he tries manfully to suppress it, Ulster Unionist MP Ken Maginnis cannot hide a liking for David AndrewsSat Dec 06 1997 - 00:00
A difficult birth"December 6: Birth of Irish Free State", read the banner headline in The Irish Times of December 6th, 1922Sat Dec 06 1997 - 00:00
Firmly-focussed Roche becomes tougher as Spring offers students a loan of the carThe day began with a further slump in the Irish Independent pollWed Oct 29 1997 - 00:00
Roche denounces her critics as `pawns in a political game'The People's Alliance candidate was showing steel yesterdayTue Oct 28 1997 - 00:00
Candidate who is used to working against the odds fights onChin up, smile in place, goodwill undented by letter-writers, party plotters or sniffy cynics, Adi Roche hit the campaign trail…Mon Oct 27 1997 - 00:00
Nally cops it from the one without mercyNo amount of harrying from Pat Cox was going to shift him. Derek Nally needed foodThu Oct 23 1997 - 01:00
First nurse for the Aras woos sunny Limerick cityFor one brief, shining moment, the candidate held the tall, pointed witch's hat in her handWed Oct 22 1997 - 01:00
Banotti returns to the FG spiritual heartlandPreceded by a pipe band, yellow and pink balloons, papers hats, 10 TDs, and a vocal little band of young cheerleaders, Mary Banotti…Mon Oct 20 1997 - 01:00
McAleese employs pincer movement in Garda bedrockIn a neat pincer movement yesterday, Mary McAleese invaded the two constituencies closest to Derek Nally's heart; first, by infiltrating…Thu Oct 16 1997 - 01:00
Dana makes light work of `baggage'"Some of her baggage is killing her," said a woman in a Gorey pub, eyeing Dana's soft, solicitous, tactile progress among the…Wed Oct 15 1997 - 01:00
Stance based on anti-nuclear activityAdi Roche was born in Clonmel, Co Tipperary, in July 1955Wed Oct 15 1997 - 01:00
Hostile questions do not deter FF faithfulSenator Dan Kiely had written more than 1,000 letters beseeching Listowel area cumann members to turn out for the candidateSat Oct 11 1997 - 01:00
McAleese stakes a claim to be natural Robinson successorAras an Uachtarain will be open to the public for a set time every week if the Fianna Fail/Progressive Democrats candidate, Prof…Fri Oct 10 1997 - 01:00
Fast-forward McAleese shows her slickness in the mallsSlick hardly begins to describe itFri Oct 10 1997 - 01:00
Roche and team play a game of presidential catchup"Joy comes into it, too. I want this to be fun," the fledgling Lab our nominee said happily a few weeks agoSat Oct 04 1997 - 01:00
Viewing women as vengeful and men as victimsHERE are the facts as presented in one criminal court case a few weeks agoFri Jul 04 1997 - 01:00
Sudden death of Ministry like a `terrible bereavement'IT'S BEEN like a slow-motion car crash for two weeks nowSat Jun 21 1997 - 01:00
The truth about Irish familiesFAMILY. What does the word mean to you? "It makes me uncomfortable. I can't separate it from `values'Sat May 31 1997 - 01:00
Married to the jobNOT long ago, Hillary Clinton was the beacon, the woman who epitomised the ideal of partnership in power for the modern eraWed May 28 1997 - 01:00
A woman's place is in the House"I'M sick of them all. I'm voting for a woman." The speaker is a male bank manager who seems faintly shocked at himselfMon May 26 1997 - 01:00
No splash of colour on our dull blank canvassONLY three days gone and I'm fed up with the lot of them.Mon May 19 1997 - 01:00
The airline that brought Aer Lingus down to earth takes offTHE "Eureka!" moment, goes the legend, was provided by Liam Lonergan, owner of Club Travel and shortlived managing director of…Sat May 10 1997 - 01:00
Blair family ready to take on the strains of No 10 and the mediaTHE memory of Norma Major's arrival at 10 Downing St is finally being expunged only she as leaves itSat May 03 1997 - 01:00
Latter day high king developed opulent lifestyle"THINK BIG" read the motto on a framed plaque in Abbeville, spotted by a journalist on a visit there 20 years agoSat Apr 26 1997 - 01:00
To be or not to be ... A woman TDAROUND the country, Maire Geoghegan-Quinn had a grace period of- oh - maybe a day or so, before the backlash kicked inSat Feb 01 1997 - 00:00
Slaughter on a sunny afternoonTHEY gathered at about three o'clock on that fine sunny afternoon on the open green beside St Mary's Church on the Creggan estate…Sat Jan 25 1997 - 00:00
Passion for penal reformIT HAS been a tough week for everyone involved in the Irish prison serviceThu Jan 09 1997 - 00:00
No signs of an end to our spend, spend and spendDID YOU see the amount of money people were spending over Christmas? Talk about conspicuous consumption..Fri Jan 03 1997 - 00:00
PEOPLE POWER: REZONINGIF 1996 was the year when people-power showed its muscle, then the Kilcock rezoning referendum has to be its best example.Sat Dec 28 1996 - 00:00
It was a year when Ireland seemed a more dangerous place to be a womanIT was a year when Ireland seemed a more dangerous place to be a womanSat Dec 28 1996 - 00:00
Pre-Millennium TensionONLY three years to go and does anyone care? Anyway, what's in a date? Not a lot, if you take the long term viewSat Dec 28 1996 - 00:00
Market is ready to package spiritual yearningsHE WHO hesitates is going to be poorly According to new research from an Ohio university, procrastination makes you inMon Dec 16 1996 - 00:00
Desperately seeking SantaIT'S 15 years now since hundreds of people piled into Dublin's ProCathedral to give thanks for the return of kidnap victim Ben…Sat Dec 07 1996 - 00:00
