No politician in the history of the State has commanded such respect and popularityLISTENING to the tributes paid to her by all parties yesterday, Mary Robinson could have been forgiven a wry smileThu Mar 13 1997 - 00:00
She has helped us to re-imagine IrelandWHEN she was elected in 1990, it was hard to believe that Mary Robinson was PresidentThu Mar 13 1997 - 00:00
The report is harsh on those no longer involved in the blood transfusion service but contains little criticism of the Ministers Fintan O'Toole reportsHAVING done such a fine job of public disclosure in its hearings, what remained for the Hepatitis C Tribunal was to judge the…Wed Mar 12 1997 - 00:00
A real new force in an exciting new spaceIT takes guts - and, one might add, severed legs, lopped off arms, parched bones and disconnected heads - to take on Edward Bond…Tue Mar 11 1997 - 00:00
State body flouted law to serve some meat processorsAFTER last Monday, something that has long been suspected can now be said with absolute convictionFri Mar 07 1997 - 00:00
Only sheep would swallow official line on cloningIN the first act of Sean O'Casey's The Plough And The Stars, there's a kind of scientific Punch and Judy show in which Fluther…Fri Feb 28 1997 - 00:00
New Labour faces task of rebuilding old social orderGEOFF MULGAN has never been a Tory, but when he looks at the Conservative Party these days, memories of youth come flooding back…Fri Feb 28 1997 - 00:00
Evangelist of the new RightTHERE could be no more profound mark of the way British politics has changed over the last 20 years than the fact that if there…Wed Feb 26 1997 - 00:00
Intellectual show of crueltyIN one sense, Bedrock's Theatre of Cruelty season at the Project (currently located at the Mint in Henry Place, Dublin) is misnamed…Tue Feb 25 1997 - 00:00
The state they're inLAST week, in a speech meant to sound the keynote for his party's campaign in the forthcoming general election, John Major warned…Sat Feb 22 1997 - 00:00
Boom is making Dublin a bleak copy of Britain"THEY float on the landscape like pyramids to the boom years, all those plazas and malls and esplanadesFri Feb 21 1997 - 00:00
Doomed dreams of decencyTRAGEDIES tend to be written at very specific times and in very particular placesTue Feb 18 1997 - 00:00
Rocca case exposes the myth of the "beautiful people"PRIGGISH. Po faced. Holier than thou. Out of touch. Snooty. PatronisingFri Feb 14 1997 - 00:00
Lack of access to arts goes to heart of poverty trapLAST week, the Arts Council and Combat Poverty published a joint report on poverty, Access And Participation In The ArtsTue Feb 11 1997 - 00:00
£3m fees for five barristers at beef tribunal among costs to GoodmanTHE costs awarded to lawyers and advisers for Larry Goodman and Goodman international, granted by the Taxing Master last July…Sat Feb 08 1997 - 00:00
A taxing problem faces us in Goodman expensesDURING the beef tribunal, Charles Haughey described Larry Goodman as an exemplar of rugged private enterpriseFri Feb 07 1997 - 00:00
Tight and focused terms of reference for new tribunal crucial for successWITH investigations, as with clothes, fashions are unpredictable, and what was once despised can again become all the rage.Thu Feb 06 1997 - 00:00
Learning to dance for ourselvesWATCHING CoisCeim's recent dance show, Hit And Run at the Project, I was struck by how unusual a vibrant, self confident, joyous…Tue Feb 04 1997 - 00:00
Judge faces the job of healing an injury by the StateAT the end of its hearings, the hepatitis C tribunal is faced with the irony that, in this saga, it is doctors who have handed…Sat Feb 01 1997 - 00:00
Free speech is good, but for what?WHEN a politician of Maire Geoghegan Quinn's stature decides to leave public life and cites media intrusion into her private …Fri Jan 31 1997 - 00:00
Noonan knew expert group report had inaccuraciesTHE Minister for Health, Mr Noonan, knew at the time the report of the expert group on the BTSB was published by his Department…Sat Jan 25 1997 - 00:00
Public has right to know how doctors are regulatedDAY by day, as the hepatitis C tribunal goes about its business, the Irish public is faced with uncontested evidence of the most…Fri Jan 24 1997 - 00:00
Glorious trivialityIN 1867, Matthew Arnold wrote in his hugely influential book On the Study of Celtic Literature that "sentimentality, if the Celtic…Tue Jan 21 1997 - 00:00
The alarm bells are set off by State's role in hepatitis scandalFOR some time flow it has been clear that the hepatitis C scandal has two partsMon Jan 20 1997 - 00:00
Taxpayers forced to pay up for beef barons once againDOES it ever occur to Ivan Yates, John Donnelly and the farming lobby to wonder why so many people are so sceptical of their …Fri Jan 17 1997 - 00:00
How Medical Council decided to admonish Ivor BrowneIN June 1995, Prof Ivor Browne, the retired chief psychiatrist with the Eastern Health Board and Professor of Psychiatry at University…Sat Jan 11 1997 - 00:00
Medical body censured Browne but ruled he acted for patientPROF Ivor Browne has criticised the Medical Council's decision to censure him for confirming to the media that his patient, Ms…Sat Jan 11 1997 - 00:00
Self-interest usually lies behind use of privilege rule in DailBEFORE Christmas, and after The Irish Times had revealed that a senior Fianna Fail figure was the beneficiary of £1Fri Jan 10 1997 - 00:00
Poverty in the land of the Emerald TigerONE of the great assumptions of Irish culture is that a sense of place is a fine thing. We love the idea of the localFri Jan 03 1997 - 00:00
Many forms, many voicesTHE richness of Irish theatre at the moment much to the fact that it is no longer really possible to talk about Irish theatre…Thu Jan 02 1997 - 00:00
In the land of the Emerald TigerWHAT do we do now that we have no one to blame but ourselves? For the Republic of Ireland, as the good times rolled on, 1996 …Sat Dec 28 1996 - 00:00
Alone in a no-man's landWHEN Veronica Guerin was murdered by a contract killer as she sat in her car in Clondalkin last June, Irish society was shocked…Sat Dec 28 1996 - 00:00
Without Goliath, David's just a gougerIN Tom Murphy's play The Gigli Concert, the Irishman asks the Englishman Oh, and your Empire; that's located now in what's them…Fri Dec 27 1996 - 00:00
A brilliant debutWITH The Queen of Leenane, Martin McDonagh made the most brilliant debut in modern Irish theatre since Tom Murphy and Noel O'…Tue Dec 24 1996 - 00:00
Tree that symbolises agonising rebirth of an eraJUST a few hundred yards from the thronged shops in Dublin city centre, where a huge Christmas tree presides over an endless …Fri Dec 20 1996 - 00:00
Questions line up for Noonan's attentionAS HE faced questions in the Dail yesterday about the Blood Transfusion Service Board and HIV infection, the Minister for Health…Wed Dec 18 1996 - 00:00
Prettifying a menace to societyTHE historian Simon Schama has noted of Beaumarchais, whose best play The Marriage of Figaro is currently at the Abbey, that …Tue Dec 17 1996 - 00:00
BTSB still has not come to terms with its pastON JANUARY 10th this year, nearly two years after the hepatitis C scandal became public, a woman presented herself to the Blood…Sat Dec 14 1996 - 00:00
New Bill will give public right to see recordsPEOPLE who have received blood transfusions or blood products will be entitled to know where the blood has come from and what…Sat Dec 14 1996 - 00:00
Method of examining funds issue is not up to scratchIN THE heydays of Taca Fail, the first great political money harvesting machine in Ireland, a Labour TD, Sean Dunne, engaged …Fri Dec 13 1996 - 00:00
The mainstreaming of MapplethorpeTHE first and most important thing to be said about the Robert Mapplethorpe exhibition at the Gallery of Photography in Dublin…Tue Dec 10 1996 - 00:00
Scandal in lethal blood product is that no one shouted stopON November 5th, 1977, Brigid McCole was given an injection that was meant to save the life of her baby but that, 18 years later…Sat Dec 07 1996 - 00:00
Dunnes has the bread and we get the circusesTHE fact that a feud within a private company has created a crisis in the political system tells us what we need to know about…Fri Dec 06 1996 - 00:00
Looking evil in the faceEVIL is not, in spite of Hannah Arendt's memorable phrase, really banalTue Dec 03 1996 - 00:00
TroublemakerIN the summer of last year, when women from all over the world were converging on Beijing for the United Nations Women's Conference…Sat Nov 30 1996 - 00:00
IRA afraid to abandon comfort of its old certaintiesA YEAR ago tomorrow, Bill Clinton stood in Mackie's engineering factory in west Belfast and talked of miracles, of transformations…Fri Nov 29 1996 - 00:00
An Irish miracle: the buck stops nowhereOH, children, you should have lived in those daysFri Nov 22 1996 - 00:00
How Albert's love-affair with the media turned to bitternessSHORTLY after he became Taoiseach, Albert Reynolds made it clear to his secretary, Sean Duignan, that he intended to break the…Wed Nov 20 1996 - 00:00
Reynolds put to test on vindication over export credit insurance, beef tribunalAT THE core of Albert Reynolds's case against the Sunday Times was his insistence that he always gave the Dail all the information…Wed Nov 20 1996 - 00:00
At last: a love story on the modern Irish stageWHEREVER love stories begin, it isn't in the modern Irish theatre. SinceTue Nov 19 1996 - 00:00
