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5 November 1998 Edition

Cinema: Snake Eyes

5 November 1998

Snake Eyes is the sort of slickly executed and visually exciting suspense thriller to be expected from an alliance of top director Brian De Palma and big money star Nicolas Cage. Free article

Television: Remembering Julie

5 November 1998

Children of The Troubles (Radio One) Leargas - An tOileanach (RTE) Don't Feed The Gondolas (Network 2) Breasts (Channel 4) Free article

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Editor's desk

5 November 1998

Not for the first time, I am indebted to the Daily Telegraph for another thrilling obituary of an old soldier. This time it is old Etonian General Sir Kenneth Darling (whose nickname was `Katie'), the British Army commander in Cyprus in the late 1950s.

Katie's first act was to screen the entire population of three villages in order to identify EOKA freedom fighters. ``The only EOKA... Free article

Dúirt siad...

5 November 1998

The week in quotes... Free article


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