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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Friendly Fergie's tour hits Dublin to reveal all againIN the VIP lounge at Dublin Airport, we witness some verbal locking of horns between our local security boys and Fergie's, subject…Sat Nov 30 1996 - 00:00
Why do women still become sequels, not equals?WHAT luck. Just when it seemed that the world's most famous implants had vanished forever behind that terminally boring baby …Sat Nov 23 1996 - 00:00
Embracing less of the shamrock and more of the emotional idealIT'S not just a new logo, says Bord Failte. No, indeedSat Nov 16 1996 - 00:00
Flamboyant life and death of a billionaire butlerVIRTUALLY on the third anniversary of the death of the wealthy woman he had cared for, Bernard Lafferty, the Billionaire Butler…Sat Nov 09 1996 - 00:00
JAILHOUSE OPERAA WARM, functional auditorium. The throbbing Latin American rhythms of West Side Story. A break in rehearsalSat Nov 09 1996 - 00:00
Politicians and media bang the drum but fail to rouse votersIF YOU paid a surprise visit to the Washington bureau of a large European newspaper a couple of weeks before the presidential…Sat Nov 02 1996 - 00:00
Old wives taleSO. Your fortysomething husband has begun to work his abs. Drive a penis shaped carSat Nov 02 1996 - 00:00
A sop to public opinion or an attempt to outwit the criminal"THERE are moods and there are times when certain proposals will gain credence with the public" - the Minister for Justice, Mrs…Sat Oct 05 1996 - 01:00
Hepatitis C sufferers faced 20 year fight for their rightsNO ONE will ever know for sure what the fight for justice cost Brigid McColeThu Oct 03 1996 - 01:00
