11 September 1997 Edition
Dúirt siad...
I am sick of all the mob-hysteria and the media hype surrounding the sad death of Diana. One could almost overdose on the orchestrated outpourings of sympathy.
Letter in the Evening Herald, Friday 5 September.
An endless obituary... hour upon hour of babbling banalities... At root, of all this media obsession with a royal family, is about money - hard cash, filthy lucre, dosh - and power.
Eddie Holt writing on media coverage of the death of Diana Spencer. Irish Times, Saturday 6 September.
Curiously RTÉ used John Bruton as a kind of surrogate royal correspondent.
Eddie Holt again on the funeral of the English royal.
But what is so extraordinary about the events of the past week is that, with the exception of the occasional dissenting voice, the entire adult world has seemed willing to take at face value a fable which in truth has more ambiguities than there were flowers at Saturday's funeral, and which has in large part been written by its villains.
John Waters on Diana Spencer's death. Irish Times, Tuesday 9 September.
The ceasefire does not mean peace but an opportunity for peace.
Gerry Adams speaking in the US last week.
Workers are being treated `like dogs'.
Headline in the Irish News on the MORI report on employers' expectations of workers. Monday 8 September.
The fact that we characterise Sinn Féin as being a bunch of unreformed terrorists doesn't mean that we might not decide to go and challenge them and expose them and make clear that that is what they are because this con-job - and it is a con-job - cannot be allowed to succeed.
David Trimble gives his own rather mixed approach to all-party peace talks. Belfast Telegraph Thursday 4 September.
Letter in the Evening Herald, Friday 5 September.
An endless obituary... hour upon hour of babbling banalities... At root, of all this media obsession with a royal family, is about money - hard cash, filthy lucre, dosh - and power.
Eddie Holt writing on media coverage of the death of Diana Spencer. Irish Times, Saturday 6 September.
Curiously RTÉ used John Bruton as a kind of surrogate royal correspondent.
Eddie Holt again on the funeral of the English royal.
But what is so extraordinary about the events of the past week is that, with the exception of the occasional dissenting voice, the entire adult world has seemed willing to take at face value a fable which in truth has more ambiguities than there were flowers at Saturday's funeral, and which has in large part been written by its villains.
John Waters on Diana Spencer's death. Irish Times, Tuesday 9 September.
The ceasefire does not mean peace but an opportunity for peace.
Gerry Adams speaking in the US last week.
Workers are being treated `like dogs'.
Headline in the Irish News on the MORI report on employers' expectations of workers. Monday 8 September.
The fact that we characterise Sinn Féin as being a bunch of unreformed terrorists doesn't mean that we might not decide to go and challenge them and expose them and make clear that that is what they are because this con-job - and it is a con-job - cannot be allowed to succeed.
David Trimble gives his own rather mixed approach to all-party peace talks. Belfast Telegraph Thursday 4 September.