Viewing of telephone transcripts prompted disclosureIN JULY 1995 I agreed on a settlement of my action arising from the tapping of my telephone over eight yearsWed Apr 02 1997 - 01:00
Libel case result no victory for press or journalismLAST Friday the editorial in this newspaper enthused that the inconclusive outcome to the De Rossa-Sunday Independent libel case…Wed Mar 26 1997 - 00:00
What is Democratic Left about, please?PROlNSlAS De ROSSA could hardly have anticipated that on the fifth anniversary of the formation of his party, he would be in …Wed Mar 19 1997 - 00:00
FF crime document devoid of analysis or reflectionFIANNA FAIL has produced an unimpressive little document, Leading the Fight against Crime, devoid of fact, analysis, costings…Wed Mar 12 1997 - 00:00
Hypocrisy continues on the abortion issueA LITTLE over four years ago Fianna Fail got its act together on abortionWed Mar 05 1997 - 00:00
Deputies paid too much for doing the wrong jobIN preparation for their 30 per cent (£10,000) pay claim last May, our TDs engaged the services of the consultancy firm Unbicon…Wed Feb 26 1997 - 00:00
Diverting tale of money, mines and ministersI HOPE l can be forgiven for diverting for a moment from the great issues of our time to consider the granting in 1976 by a government…Wed Feb 19 1997 - 00:00
Elitist view of the media out of dateWHEN broadsheet newspapers decided to carry news rather than advertising on their front pages many readers were outragedThu Feb 13 1997 - 00:00
Skewed editorial judgment in Rocca coverageON Thursday of last week The Irish Times published a large front-page photograph of Michelle Rocca and a smaller picture of Cathal…Wed Feb 12 1997 - 00:00
What harm in agreeing terms for a new IRA ceasefire?THE IRA ceasefire ended one year ago next SundayWed Feb 05 1997 - 00:00
Hypocrisy and hidden agendas are thinly disguisedLAST June Independent Newspapers signed up, along with other newspapers, to a statement of principles on the media and privacy…Wed Jan 29 1997 - 00:00
Budget day farce is found only here and in BritainWHEN Ruairi Quinn rises in the Dail this afternoon, full of self-congratulation, having punched the air for the cameras and ducked…Wed Jan 22 1997 - 00:00
Reticence over murder arouses suspicionTHE Sean O'Callaghan affair has a significance far beyond his own duplicity and the hypocrisy of his agenda-bearing fansWed Jan 15 1997 - 00:00
Murderer served IRA and Garda but mostly himselfWRITING in this newspaper on Monday, the self-proclaimed IRA "informer", Sean O'Callaghan, stated:Wed Jan 08 1997 - 00:00
Plenty of reason to doubt this ex-IRA `informer'PREDICTABLY, the usual suspects, Conor Cruise O'Brien and Eoghan Harris, were gushingly approving over the weekend of "revelations…Wed Dec 18 1996 - 00:00
Money has corrupted the Irish political systemMONEY has corrupted more than some politicians and some public servantsWed Dec 11 1996 - 00:00
Crisis of confidence in system around for decadesTHE current crisis of confidence in the political system has not come about just because of the recent revelations concerning…Wed Dec 04 1996 - 00:00
Reject bogus bail claims by voting NO tomorrowON SUNDAY night the three party leaders in Government, John Bruton, Dick Spring and Proinsias De Rossa, issued a joint statement…Wed Nov 27 1996 - 00:00
Four ways to deal with crime committed during bailLET us assume for the moment that crime committed by persons on bail is a serious problemWed Nov 20 1996 - 00:00
A cynical avoidance of grasping the nettle on bail lawNORA Owen should be in even greater trouble than she isWed Nov 13 1996 - 00:00
Report fails to address root causes of drugs problem"THE problem of heroin abuse represents not only the most pressing issue confronting the health service and other relevant agencies…Wed Nov 06 1996 - 00:00
Dramatic stunts are demanded even when not neededON July 8th last Mr John Quinn, one of the men accused of offences allegedly connected with the murder in Adare, Co Limerick, …Wed Oct 30 1996 - 00:00
Howlin should quit over his role in hepatitis C scandalBRENDAN Howlin, the present Minister for the Environment, bears some of the Ministerial responsibility for the mishandling of…Wed Oct 23 1996 - 01:00
Reynolds case may break new ground in libel lawALBERT REYNOLDS could make history in a manner he may not have expected and may not welcomeWed Oct 16 1996 - 01:00
Basis for a resumption of IRA ceasefire still thereON MONDAY evening Gerry Adams responded to the attempted slaughter at Lisburn some hours earlierWed Oct 09 1996 - 01:00
Prison nuns exemplify chilling dimensions to carnageIF YOU visit the vastly overcrowded jail in Kigali, capital of the tiny African state of Rwanda, you may see two nuns in their…Wed Oct 02 1996 - 01:00
Unaided Burundi cannot halt slide towards apocalypseTHERE is no war in the conventional sense being waged in Burundi. The opposing armies rarely confront each otherTue Oct 01 1996 - 01:00
"Africa's model" collapses in hatredJUST over three years ago Burundi was hailed as a model of reconciliation and democracy for AfricaMon Sept 30 1996 - 01:00
Judgment on funding may cause havoc in electionNEXT year's general election could well be a major cock upWed Sept 25 1996 - 01:00
We can do something as Burundi faces its apocalypseON Monday morning, I left Bujumbura, the capital of Burundi, and drove north thorough the countryside to the Rwandan border at…Wed Sept 18 1996 - 01:00
Shining example of legalese fails to do the trickEMMA is now talking about becoming a lawyer and she doesn't want to hear any strained jokes about the profession.Wed Sept 11 1996 - 01:00
Even after Drumcree, signs for the suture look goodTHERE is an extraordinary pessimism over the immediate future in Northern IrelandWed Sept 04 1996 - 01:00
More than State waffle needed to solve crisis in BurundiON Monday evening the Department of Foreign Affairs issued a "Declaration of the Presidency on behalf of the European Union on…Wed Aug 21 1996 - 01:00
Why it is not right to evaluate pupils but not schoolsTOMORROW, some 60,000 students will get the results of the Leaving Certificate examination which they sat in JuneWed Aug 14 1996 - 01:00
Statistics show little sign of rise in serious crime"Serious crime figures last year highest since the early 1980s", thundered a front page headline in this newspaper last Thursday…Wed Aug 07 1996 - 01:00
Gay takes the gold for blathering, but it was not surpriseJOHN O'Sullivan may be the only sensible Irish person aroundWed Jul 31 1996 - 01:00
Draconian changes to law may deepen alienationTHE TDs reassemble tomorrow to make qualitative changes to our legal system, which are likely to do terrible damage by opening…Wed Jul 24 1996 - 01:00
Questions on Trimble call for British responseOF all the revelations concerning Mr David Trimble's conduct over these last 10 days, the revelation that he met the former UVF…Wed Jul 17 1996 - 01:00
VERONICA GUERINSir, - In his letter to The Irish Times (July 11) on behalf of the NUJ chapel of Independent Newspapers, Kevin Moore alleges …Fri Jul 12 1996 - 01:00
Drumcree explodes myth that NI peace is at handWhat is most depressing about the Drumcree stand-off is how a penny candle issue has been blown into an inferno.Wed Jul 10 1996 - 01:00
Politicians will cause criminal damage to justiceTHIS is a low point in our political lifeWed Jul 03 1996 - 01:00
Litany of repressive measures emanating from the airwaves is not an appropriate responseTHE MURDER on Wednesday of Veronica Guerin was a tragedy for her family and the cause of shock and grief to those of us who considered…Fri Jun 28 1996 - 01:00
Options towards concluding a lasting peaceUNIONISTS are right. The conciliation of Sinn Fein and the IRA is not the only route towards the establishment of peace in Northern…Wed Jun 26 1996 - 01:00
Statement signals new ceasefire and belief in talksTHE Manchester bomb did more than devastate a large part of the centre of the city and inflict appalling injuries on many people…Wed Jun 19 1996 - 01:00
Sinn Fein revels in the politics of selective censurePAT DOHERTY, vice-president of Sinn Fein, said on RTE's Questions and Answers on Monday night that he abhorred "the politics …Wed Jun 12 1996 - 01:00
Unionists trying to persuade the already committedON the basis of last Thursday's forum elections in Northern Ireland, Robert McCartney's UK Unionist Party is no more than a marginal…Wed Jun 05 1996 - 01:00
Brideshead and the Bull miss the boat on justice briefIT MAY be that Nora Owen realised weeks ago that the fault over the Duncan extradition warrants lay on she may be that she failed…Wed May 29 1996 - 01:00
Why did the journalist cross the road?NEARLY two years ago I wrote about Emma who, when aged three, wanted to be an ambulance driver and eight years later wanted to…Wed May 22 1996 - 01:00
New slant on familiar battle to get prison reportAT THIS time every year I engage in what has now become a familiar ritual with the Department of JusticeWed May 15 1996 - 01:00
Why has so little been done about Mountjoy Prison?THE Department of Justice is withholding, yet again, the publication of the annual report of the Mountjoy Prison Visiting Committee…Wed May 08 1996 - 01:00
