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Television: Telling it like it is (Free article)
24 April 1997
For smug, polished, facile pointscoring, Questions & Answers (RTE1, Mondays, 10.15 pm) is usually close to the nadir. The programme now has a set-piece feel to it. The questions are fixed, chosen in advance; the answers are predictable; and the whole thing is pre-recorded, for fear that something of which RTE does not approve might go out live.
Editor's desk (Free article)
24 April 1997
In February I brought to your notice the case of Celtic McCarthyite censorship when the Celtic Supporters Social Club in Glasgow's London Road cancelled a showing of Martin Meehan's play, Insurrection. The play, about James Connolly was deemed to be against Celtic's Bhoys Against Bigotry campaign. The play's organisers sued and now I can report a…
Bloody Sunday libel case ``biggest ever'' (Free article)
1 May 1997
IN WHAT COULD BE THE biggest libel case to be heard in Ireland, relatives of the Bloody Sunday dead have instructed solicitors to initiate court proceedings against Dublin newspapers, the Irish Times and the Sunday Independent.
Big Ben - symbol of gombeen politics (Free article)
1 May 1997
Westminster politicians have Big Ben, the House of Commons clock, as their symbol. Leinster House politicians now have their own Big Ben - Ben Dunne, the largest single donor to Fine Gael, contributor to Labour's campaign for the Robinson presidency, alleged financial saviour of Charlie Haughey and dispenser of tidy sums to miscellaneous Fianna…
Tough decisions for new British government (Free article)
1 May 1997
The new British government will have many tasks to face but the most urgent - and the one which holds the best opportunity for transforming the lives of millions of ordinary people - will be to deal with the conflict in the Six Counties.
Mála Poist (Free article)
1 May 1997
British Army's dirty history A Chairde, The highly esteemed Duke of Wellington described his British soldiers on the eve of the Battle of Waterloo (1815) as ``the scum of the land''. Nothing much has changed as we saw at Cregganduff, South Armagh a few weeks ago when arrested men were beaten senseless. The British state has always dragged the…
Orange marches tension rising (Free article)
1 May 1997
The new British Government got a foretaste of the looming trouble from Orange marches at the weekend when again the RUC was forced to stop Apprentice Boys marchers and a handful of supporters from parading down the lower end of the Nationalist Ormeau Road.
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