Politico

• AIB: devouring the hand that fed it by Vincent Browne
• Little interest by Macdara Doyle and Liz Walsh
• Hume: a great bunch of guys by Fionnuala O\'Connor
• A plague on their houses by Liz Walsh
• The need for better political TV coverage by Pat Rabbitte
  

• Revenue turned a blind eye to massive tax fraud by Ursula Halligan
• The Real IRA: We will not disband by Liz Walsh
• Repositioning the north by Fionnuala O\'Connor
• Europe\'s most unwanted race by Ursula Halligan
• The bountiful game by Kevin Rafter
• The Irishness of Bacon by Michael O\'Sullivan

• The Omagh Bombing
• The Real IRA
• Who\'s Who in the Dissidents
• The Killing Fields
• The humanising of David Trimble
• Bill Clinton - All the President\'s Women
• Sonia: Back on Track
• The Tall Ships in Dublin

• Lifting the lid by Vincent Browne
• The great exchange by Colm Rapple
• The rip off goes on - Irish Life by Ursula Halligan
• The final test by Fionnuala O\'Connor and Liz Walsh
• As good as it gets by Cathy Loughran
• A new world order by Paddy Agnew
  

• Irish life multi-million pound rip off by Ursula Halligan
• Noel Smyth\'s legal fees by Mairtin Breathnach
• Fitzwilton and the bogus invoice by Vincent Browne
• Staying out in the cold by Liz Walsh
• World Cup France \'98 by Paddy Agnew
• Tour de France by Paul Kimmage
  

• Fitzwilton's payment to Ray Burke
• FG/FF merger the only hope of social democracy, by Pat Rabbitte
• Another Drumcree
• The rifles of the IRA, UDA and UDF
• Republican evictions
• Children in Chaos
• Race Attacks
• 1998 World Cup preview

• Veronica Guerin - her life, controverises, murder and legacy. By Ursula Halligan, Liz Walsh, Vincent Browne and Conor O Keefe
• The Northerin Ireland peace talks
• Ireland's economy - past, present and future 
• Pat Rabbitte on the Tainiste's men 
• Magill miscellany 

• Berite's government and the nation 
• Noel Smyth and Charlie Haughey. Interview by Ursula Halligan
• On board the offshore ship
• The Supreme Court's contradictory judgement on Article 2 and 3
  
• Willie Ross, Norther Ireland MP profiled

• The Big Fellas, their businesses, connections wealth and influence
• Accounting for Charlie Haughey
• The offshore accounts scandal
• Mary McAleese\'s first lady
• Cliftonville FC

• Mary McAleese on the Church, RTE, Conor Cruise O'Brien and Charles Haughey. In conversation with Vincent Browne.
• Bloody Sunday. By Eamon McCann
• The murder of LVF Leader Billy Wright: Dying by the Sword. By Emer Woodful
• An interview with Billy Wright: King Rat. By Emer Woodful
• Is Peace Safe with David Andrews? By Fionnula O'Connor
• The Helen Shaw Show. By Brenda Power

• Charlie Haughey's Finances: The Kaiser and the Boss
• Eamon DeValera: the assassination of Michael Collins
• Garret Fitzgerald: Suit EU, Sir 
• 25 Years of Ireland in Europe: The Graduate
• Interview with Bernadette Sands, sister of Bobby Sands
• Crime & Media Hysteria: Losing the Plot

• Betrayal by Ursula Halligan and Vincent Browne
• \'C\' no evil by Kathy Sheridan
• The Holland conviction: flawed justice, flawed journalism by Vincent Browne
• Germany recalling by Seamus Hosey
• Motoring in 1998 by Donal Byrne
• Shanks for the memories by David Walsh
  

• Lost hearts, troubled minds by Ursula Halligan
• Ruairi Quinn: Less to him than meets the eye by Vincent Browne
• Stop talking or I\'ll shoot by Suzanne Breen
• The way members of the Women\'s Coalition are being treated in the peace talks says much about the position of women in northern society, and poses some hard questions by Fionnuala O\'Connor
• The Celtic Tiger: devouring the land that feeds it by Frank McDonald
• Brenda Fricker interview by Helen Luc...

• Smear and loathing by Miriam Lord
• Will the real Mary McAleese please stand up? (and would we recognise her?) by Fionnuala O\'Connor
• Eoghan Harris: out of the shadows by Brenda Power
• The rules of engagement: inside the Northern Ireland peace talks by Fionnuala O\'Connor
• A revisionist revisited: Conor Cruise O\'Brien at 80 by Frank Callanan
• No more vanity fare? After a decade of dominance and controversy, is the Sunday Independent losing its edge? by...

• Michelle, Erik and Gay Byrne: what exactly went on by Eamon Dunphy
• A woman\'s place by Brenda Power
• The procurement of planning permission by John Ryan
• The politics of a cover up by Vincent Browne
• Joe Kennedy interview by Kevin Cullen
• Furling the banner by Kevin Cashman
• Man bytes dog by Brian Trench

• The unmasking of Charles Haughey by Vincent Browne
• Radio trauma by Brenda Power
• The Du Plantier murder by Ann Cahill and Ronnie Bellew
• Michelle is pure by Con Houlihan
• DJ versus Ring by Kevin Cashman
  

• Fine Gael\'s future, by Sean Whelan
• The Boys in Green, by Eamon McCann
• Off the Road, by Michael Ross
• The Other Mighty Quinn, by Sean Moran
• Red Card for Dunphy
• Purple Pain, by Michael Ross

• What Has Dessie Done, by Sean Whelan
• The Magill Interview: More Bricks than Kicks, by Michael Ross
• The Battle of Carrick House, by Eamon McCann
• Heard it Through the Grapevine, by Michael Ross
• Poisoned Island, by Robert Allen and Tara Jones
• That\'s Showbusiness, by Sean Whelan
• The Arms Race
• Republican Splinters

• Eamonn McCann finds the progress of commercial radio in Ireland has not been as predicted
• AIDs Diary
• Michael Farrell finds the serious crime squad involved in another set of disturbing allegations
• John Murray reports from the USSR on Michael Gorbachev\'s opponents outside the Communist Party
• Neil Jordan speaks for the time about his latest film \"We\'re No Angels\"

• Race to the park by John Healy
• Disaster on the high seas by Graham Smith
• Murdoch\'s regeneration once again by Eamonn McCann
• AIDS diary by Anonymous
• Rebel priest by Enda Shepard
• Hard bargain by Ed Moloney

• A right can of worms by John Healy
• The UDR - a litany of crimes by Frank Connolly
• No free lunches by Eamonn McCann
• AIDS diary by Anonymous
• Nicaragua - a heavy price for victory by Colm Keena
• Banville\'s book of vindication by Eileen Battersby
• Taxing matters by Paul Tansey
  

• The twenty year war by Vincent Browne
• The conviction of Don O\'Leary by Barry Roche
• Legacy of a supergrass by Michael Farrell
• The great patent war by Mary Carr
• The bard of Omagh by Wendy Fitzgerald
• The Tony Keady affair by Paul Desmond
  

• Jackie by David Heymann
• Doing John Hume justice by John Healy
• Sad days\' work: the ambush and death of Michael Collins by Edward O\'Mahony
• Impressions of George Bush\'s America by Vincent Browne
• Black hole: how Dublin gas cost the taxpayer £200m by Frank Smith
  
• Terrace irony by Eamonn McCann
• On the threshold of the World Cup finals by Noel King
• Very good housekeeping by Paul Tansey

• The new US ambassador to Ireland by Maire Crowe
• May will be a wicked month by John Healy
  
• The Gibraltar Inquest by David Miller
• The making of a republic by Sean McBride
• Export or die by Paul Tansey
• The Lions: doomed down under by John Reason

• WE PUBLISH THE FULL TEXT OF THE Playboy interview with Sinn Fein leaders, Gerry Adams and Danny Morrison, and with the unnamed IRA spokesperson so that those who would have wished to have read what they said are given the opportunity to do so in spite of the ban on the distribution of Playboy in the Republic of Ireland and the ban on the publication of interviews with the IRA in Northern Ireland and Britain.
• John Healy\'s Political Column
• Motoring, by George Campbel...

• Truth on the Rocks, by David Miller and Dave Maguire
  Magill Political Column, by john Healy
  The Irish and The Mafia, by Patrick Farrelly
  A Dying Man\'s Diary
  Profile: Andrew Neil, by john Sweeney
  Pressure on Protestants, by Patsy McGarry
  The Donegal IRA, by Tommie Gorman
  Extraditíon Complications, by Michael Farrell
  A Tale of Two Bombers, by Conor Foley
  Womens Aid in Disarray, by Robert Allen
  Magill Briefing, by Paul Tansey <...

• Publish and be Damned, by Frank Connolly
• The John Healy Column, Well-intentioned Inertia 
• Anglo-Irish Agreement, by Frank Connolly
• The Scandal of Third Level Education, by Patsy McGarry
• Perestroika: Can Gorbachev pull it off?, by JohnMurray
• The Winchester Three , by Michael Farrell
• The Emigrants 1: County Kilburn, by David Orr
• The Emigrants II: Rape in New York, by Kate O\'Callaghan
• Daughters of...

• InDesk
• The Man who would be Haughey, by Patsy McGarry
• Theanatomyofanafternoon, by Michael O\'Higgins and John Waters
• Shepherdsinthe Ghetto, by Eamonn McCann 
• Profile of Brendan Kennelly, by Tom O\'Dea

• The needle and the damage done by Robert Allen, Frank Connolly and Patsy McGarry
  
• New abortion drug by Fintan O\'Toole
• Ghetto blasting by Denis Geoghegan
• The Birmingham Six: a personal view by Bishop Edward Daly
• Rough justice? by Frank Connolly
• Emptional agitator by Eamonn McCann
• Toxic haste by Robert Allen
• Peace, war and understanding by Michael O\'Higgins
• Double vision by Fintan O\'Toole

• The Radio Doctor, by Patsy McGarry
• Beyond The Law, by Michael Farrell
• Our European Champions, by John Cooney
• The Gaelic Dream of Douglas Hyde, by Patsy McGarry
• Whispering in a Gale, by Eilis Ward
• The Man of your Dreams, by Finatan O\'Toole
• Italy Here We Come!
• Fade In, Fade Out, by Gabriel Byrne

• The Radio Doctor, by Patsy McGarry
• Beyond The Law, by Michael Farrell
• Our European Champions, by John Cooney
• The Gaelic Dream of Douglas Hyde, by Patsy McGarry
• Whispering in a Gale, by Eilis Ward
• The Man of your Dreams, by Finatan O\'Toole
• Italy Here We Come!
• Fade In, Fade Out, by Gabriel Byrne

• Front Page Hate, by Liz Curtis
• The Vilification of Carmen Proetta, by John Waters
• The Road to Totality, by John Cooney
• The Slioger, by Tommie Gorman
• Fade In, Fade Out, by Gabriel Byrne
• The Big Hewer, by Fintan O\'Toole

• From Bog Road to Bingo, by Robert Allen
• Cousin Kevin, by Siobhan Crozier
• Fade In, Fade Out, by Gabriel Byrne
• John O\'Grady\'s 23 Days in Hell
• The Glasgow Celtic Story
• Shamrock Rovers in Crisis
• The Drumshanbo Hustler, by Paul Durcan

• The loaded Irish, a survey of the 50 richest people in Ireland by Susan O\'Keefe
• Highbrow robbery by Fintan O\'Toole
• My kind of country by Michael D. Higgins
• I heard the noos today, oh boy by John Healy
• Solitary reaper by Paddy Kehoe
• Gabriel Byrne on life in Las Angeles with the stars of Hollywood
• John Waters looks at the development of political opinion polling in Ireland
• Robert Allen on the chances of Irish athletes returning from...

• The World According to Martin Cahill, by Michael O\'Higgins
• No Time for Love, by Conor Foley
• Thomas Martin vs. The State, by Colm Keena
• Fade In, Fade Out, by Gabriel Byrne
• The Wild One, by John Healy
• The Miracle of Ireland\'s Own, by Paddy Kehoe
• Visual, by Fintan O\'Toole

• The power of yessing: Christy Nolan\'s bountiful nightmare by John Waters
• On the side of the angels: the thoughts of Desmond Connell by Fintan O\'Toole
• There\'s always someone looking at you by Colm Keena
• Summoning up the state: a profile of Brian Farrell by Tom O\'Dea
• The Birmingham Six - the complete judgement
• What the deregulation of building societies means by Frank Connolly
• The art of Steve Averill, U2\'s album sleeve designer by Steve...

• Hamilton ruling defied by Cathy Herbert
• A fateful fantasy by Michael Farrell
• Where others feared to tread by Brian Trench
• The island with no infants by Richard Douthwaite
• A long, dark tunnel by Mary Gaffney
  
• Jim\'ll fix it by Gerry Thornley
• Asahi under scrutiny by Richard Douthwaite
• The Horseman of Ballyfermot by Frank Connolly
• Some Schools More Equal Than Others by Dominic 0 Laoghaire
• Ireland\'s Pseudo-Englishman...

• Short Cuts To Misery - Brian Trench details some of the social service cuts hitting the disabled and disadvantaged 
• Doctors In The Dock - Michael O\'Higgins reports on the increasing number of medical negligence cases and the self-protection of the profession
• Small Fines Make For Big Fish Kills - Gail Seekamp reports on the fatalism of pollution control officials with poor resources and a weak law
• The Boyle From Ballsbridge - Gene Kerrigan ...

• In The Long Run We\'re All Dead - Fintan O\'Toole reports that some senior RTE staff are predicting the death of radio 
• Stun Gun Firm Sells to Gardai and Nazis, by Michael O\'Higgins
• Boys Will be Boys - Gene Kerrigan takes a cool look at Peter Wright\'s MI5 \'revelations\' 
• The Men and the Mess Behind the £12,000,000 Claims  - Frank Connolly examines the legal and bureaucratic confusion which has opened the way for speculation on planning co...

• Michael O\'Higgins examines Albert Reynolds\' intervention in the Hanlon\'s ambulance dispute 
• Haughey\'s Holiday - Brian Trench describes the haste of a government anxious to do business without the Dail in session 
• Gardai Abuse Emergency Law - Gene Kerrigan and Michael O\'Higgins report on the systematic abuse of the Offences Against the State Act 
• Battle for the Brandywell - Eamonn McCann unravels the complex struggle for control of De...

• See The Conquering Heroes Come - Brian Trench profiles U2, successful rock band and solid citizens
• Garda Gun Fire: Who To Believe? - Gene Kerrigan attempts to square a statement the Minister of Justice with more evidence
• Just Because It\'s There - Brian Trench examines the record of the Anglo Irish Agreement, the central issue in this month\'s election in the North 
• Scandal On The Campus - Fintan O\'Toole details controversial appointments of pro...

• Chaos on the Single European Act - Government and opposition stirred up trouble for themselves by not moving more rapidly on the Single European Act last year. Brian Trench reports how, with the swopping of roles, they have ensured there is another confused constitutional amendment campaign.
• Ireland\'s Place in the Pope\'s Plan - Fintan O\'Toole reveals why John Paul II may be worried about the loyalty of the Irish church
• The Price of Peace - Colm Keena detai...

• PCs, RIP - Michael O\'Higgins and Brian Trench report how 8,000 honorary Peace Commissioners are becoming redundant 
• The Alan Dukes Interview - The Fine Gael leader tells Magill about his hopes for the party and offers his views on a wide range of issues 
• Noraid\'s Untold Millions - Jack Holland details fund-raising republican movement in the US 
• Catching the Rhythm - Gene Kerrigan meets the author of a proudly northside Dublin novel 

• OFF THE DITCH - Geraldine Kennedy writes on her election win. 
• WATCHING AND BESETTING - Gene Kerrigan describes the parties\' supervision of the vote. 
• DEBT LEAVES LITTLE ROOM TO MOVE - Peadar Kirby explains how Finance officials manoeuvre Ireland\'s debt. KOWLOON CHAOS - Colm Keena describes the legal confusion preventing effective action against the continuing pollution. 
• SIMON SINGS FOR FREEDOM - Chris McIvor tells how Paul Simon and h...

• Single Person Government - Brian Trench and Fintan O\'Toole write on a possible Haughey victory.
• The Snap-Snap Election - Gene Kerrigan describes campaigning for the \'cameras.
• One Man\'s Campaign - Michael O\'Higgins reports on the difficulties of Michael D\'Arcy\'s election effort.
• Echoes Of The Chief - Fintan O\'Toole examines the rhetoric of the Fianna Fail leader\'s speeches.
• How Labour Saved Its Soul - Brian Trench reports on the break-u...

• A Country Priest - Michael O\'Higgins meets the elusive, curate, Father Richard O\'Connor.
• Marketing 0 \'Malley - The Constitution On Trial - Brian Trench describes the PDs\' preparations for an election.
• Fintan O\'Toole reports on the legislators\' failure to respond to changing interpretations of the constitution; additional reports by Gene Kerrigan and Frank Doherty.
• The Reluctant Pickets - Colm Keena hears how picketing comes hard.
• Wendy F...

• Solo Swimmer - Noel Browne\'s brief spell in government puts the careers of Lynch, Haughey, Cosgrave and FitzGerald in the ha\'penny place.
• Hope In The Shadows - Fionnuala O\'Connor talks to nationalists in West Belfast and Newry about the Anglo-Irish Agreement.
• Black Propaganda & Bloody Murder - A former member of the Inquiry, now a convicted claims that he was framed In telligence.
• Western Harvest - Monster trawlers and huge new factories versus g...

• Provos: The New Split - How the Sinn Fein split is as much a matter of disputes about military tactics as it is about electoral strategy.
• Michael Keating Profile 
• Gene Kerrigan On The US Elections 
• Closed Shop In The Professions 
• The Irish Shipping Debacle 
• The Paintings Of Robert Ballagh
• The Jack O\'Shea Interview, by David Walsh - Kerry\'s hero on the Australian tour 
• Mick O\'Dwyer, the drink and the ga...

Who\'s to Blame? In 13 years, politicians have amassed huge government debts which threaten to engulf the nation. Amid accusations on who is to blame, Vincent Browne examines the record and points the finger.

Innocence uprooted - Fintan O\'Toole on Frank McGuinness\' success at the Dublin Theatre Festival

It\'s that time of year again, by Gerry Thornley - Ireland has so many good out halves that we could export them; but only one can be selected.

The business of ad...

• Garret And Eddie - The dismissal of Minister of State, Eddie Collins, arising from an investigation by FINTAN O\'TOOLE in the last issue of Magill, throws the Government into further disarray. VINCENT BROWNE assesses the political significance of this on page 4 and on page 19 GENE KERRIGAN reports on a recent visit by Garret FitzGerald to the Waterford constituency of Collins.
• Fianna Fail\'s Unimposing Shadows - The present crop of cabinet ministers have been und...

• The Minister, The Public\'s Money And Misleading The Dail, by Fintan 0 Toole 
• The exclusive investigation into the affairs of the Irish Lamb Exporters\' Group reveals that the Dail was misled on the extent of Eddie Collins\' involvement in the companies while in public office, and shows also the secret involvement of the assistant chief executive of Foir Teoranta, the state rescue agency, in the same companies.
• The Politics Of Private Medicine - Fintan Cro...

• The Death Of Fr Molloy - By Gene Kerrigan . After the trial and the inquest, the definitive account of a case which has been plagued by rumour, confusion, innuendo and a great deal of public concern that justice be seen to be done.
• The Interrogation Of Stephen Moore - Stephen Moore was recently awarded £25,000 in an out-ofcourt settlement of a claim for injuries received while in custody in Monaghan Garda Station. A friend of his claims to have received injuries a...

• After The Divorce Referendum - By Gene Kerrigan The politicians stood aside, the priests gave the nod, and the silent majority spoke.
• The Betrayal Of The Innocents - By Fintan 0 Toole New evidence, exclusive to Magill, reveals that the incidence of child sexual abuse in Ireland may mean that one in four girls is molested before the age of eighteen. While the wall of silence stays up, the children suffer.
• The Bomb And The Ballot - In an interview with Derek Dunn...

• An Apostle\'s Creed - In his first major print interview and one of the most comprehensive contributions to the debate on the role of the church in Irish public life, the Archbishop of Dublin Dr Kevin McNamara explains why he thinks divorce is a plague, why he wanted to be a priest, what he thinks of modern Ireland, his views on sexuality, feminism and censorship, what he thinks of socialism and capitalism, the Latin Mass and the devil.
• Dancing On The Coffin Lids - G...

• The Secret World Of The Anti-Divorce Lobby - The anti-divorce campaign will be run by a small group of Catholic professionals, shadowy but well - organised, buoyed by their victory in the Pro-Life Amendment Campaign. Many members of Family Solidarity are not even aware of their existence. Emily O\'Reilly probes their secret world, and Gene Kerrigan traces the connections of their leading theorist.
• The Fianna Fail Ard Fheis - Gene Kerrigan on the television show that ...

• Last month, Brendan McFarlane was ordered by a Dutch court to be extradited back to the North to serve out a sentence of 25 years. He is appealing the decision. His companion Gerard Kelly had his plea accepted that his offences were political. Brendan McFarlane has been on the run since he led thirty-seven men in an escape out of the Maze prison in September 1983. In an exclusive interview with Magill at Bylmerbages Prison in Amsterdam, Brendan McFarlane talks about his ...

• The Death Of Frank Hand by Gene Kerrigan - Three men have had death sentences for the murder of Garda Frank Hand commuted to forty years imprisonment. This is the story of how they came to be involved in the Drumree killing.
• Danger On The Shore - As British Nuclear Fuels continues to pump millions of gallons of radioactive waste into the Irish Sea, children on the North Antrim coast are dying of leukaemia. Emily O\'Reilly reports.
• Judge Lynch Hits Back - Mr Jus...

• Fetch!- by Gene Kerrigan Four years ago this month the RUC began trying to put John O\'Reilly away. Four supergrasses have failed to do the job and he is now in Michael Noonan\'s custody, held on the word of Harry Kirkpatrick. How the Irish government is cooperating with a supergrass system it says must be ended.
• The Trouble With Harry - The transcripts of the Kirkpatrick trial reveal as never before the holes in his evidence and the reasons why the Anglo-Irish A...

• The Real Des 0 \'Malley - In his first major interview since the foundation of the Progressive Democrats,
• Des O\'Malley talks frankly about party policy on the North, the economy and divorce. He looks back on his own career and defends his controversial record in public office. And in an introductory profile Gene Kerrigan chronicles the twists and turns that have led Des 0 \'Malley to the setting up of his own party. Interview 16 Profile 10
• A Rough Deal - D...

• The people who made 1985
• The year the magic dried up, Paul Tansey on the Irish economy
• The plain people of Ireland: A profile of Irish people in the mid-eighties
• 1985: A Review
• The year of the cash
• The Wigmore Awards

• Dazed and confused by Fintan O’Toole
• The destruction of Dublin by Frank McDonald
• Trouble in Paradise by Joseph O’Connor
• All the way from Derry Quay by Nell McCafferty
• King Billy rides again by Robert Allen

• "You feint with the left and you throw with the right and you get a chance of tagging the guy." by Patrick Collins
  
  There are many questions left unannswered about the death of Patrick Nugent at the Folk Park near Bunnratty Castle in County Clare. The recent trial and acquittal of William Ryan in connection with the inciident have not dispelled the suspiicions of his family and friends. By Derek Dunne
  
• The Invasion Of Hackballscross, by Fergal Keane - A...

• Kerry Babies - After all the confusion, innuendo and rhetoric of the 77 day Tribunal we publish a gripping and comprehensive account of the entire case. This book-length study of the evidence clears away the smokescreen and focuses on the central question: why did the Hayes family sign confessions to a murder which the forensic evidence says they did not commit?
  
  The Rip Off Joint, by Fergal Keane - Most of the taxpayers who pay for Trinity College Dublin cannot afford to go t...

• Neil Blaney speaks out, by Olivia O'Leary - The controversial old soldier of the Fianna Fail of the good old days speaks out on Haughey, the Provos and his future.
  
  The District Court is where most people who are charged with crimes are tried. It is a place of hustling solicitors, pathos, humour and fast justice. by Mark Brennock
  
  ON THE RUN WITH LARRY DUNNE, by Sam Smyth - The most notorious of the criminal members of the Dunne family faces sentencing next week...

• The National Handler, by Olivia O'Leary - Some see him as affable and helpful, for others there is something sinister about the man who oils Garret FitzzGerald's wheels and makes Fine Gael run.
  
  THE ARD FHEIS LIMERICK BIGAMY, by Helen Shaw - Year after year RTE is handed over to the political parties, year after year the viewers switch off. Still the free adverts continue.
  
  Limerick Bigamy Case, by Martin Byrnes - The laws of church and state came into direc...

• There is evidence that the £1.7m confiscated by the government under emergency legislation did not belong to the IRA. A heavy burden of proof lies with the government as legal proceedings begin, and Michael Noonan's career is in the balance.
  
  The Dail began the process of dragging itself out of the mire and making itself more releevant to the electorate. The results have been patchy. By Helen Shaw
  
• Of the first twenty teenagers to be jailed in Loughan Ho...

• The Counter-Reformation Of John Paul II, by Gian-Carlo Zizzola
  Just when everyone was getting used to the changes brought about by Vatican II along came Karol Wojtyla. Not content merely to preside over his church, he systematically set out to remodel it in the image of Polish traditionalism. This most determined and energetic of popes has set himself a major task and has skilfully built up within the church the political base from which he can succeed.
  
• Alice Glenn a...

• How The Farmers Rip Us Off - Olivia O'Leary and Mark Brennock examine the extent of the farmers' rip-off and the tactics they have been using in order to stave off a land tax.
  
  The Paper Chase, by Alan Murdoch - The newspaper business is in trouble and its executives are taking turns using the scalpel and the hatchet. Alan Murdoch looks at the high finance and low life in the Press, Indeependent and Tribune.
  
  Is It A Sin To Be Rich? There's a fresh wind ...

• 1984 In Mountjoy - Colm Toibin investigates how 400 undelivered letters came to be found on a landing in Mountjoy.
  
  The Long Slow Death Of The Labour Party - After the defeat of the Labour Party in the Euro elections, the party seems unlikely to change its basic direction. The party knows what its problems are but is unwilling or unable to do anything about them. Also, Gerald Barry analyses the election results.
  
  From Whom All Mercies Flow - Gene Kerrigan reports fr...

• The man from God knows where by Jimmy Breslin
• The legacy of Dermot Ryan by Olivia O’Leary
• O’Malley: out in the cold by Olivia O’Leary
• More fiddle then a Fleadh by Eamonn Mctlann
• A week in wonderland by Nell McCafferty
• The rubber dinghy man: a profile of Terry Venables by Eamon Dunphy

• Where is the just society? Olivia O’Leary talks to Liam Skelly
• Charlie Haughey’s forty shades of green by Olivia O’Leary
• Waiting for the Sherriff by Gene Kerrigan
• The Great Khan of Cortoon: A profile of John Healy by Tom O’Dea
• Part of what we are: Eamon Dunphy writes about the centenary progress of the GAA
• The rise of Limerick by Kevin Cashman

• True Confessions by Colm Toibin
• Sean Doherty’s pot of gold by Olivia O’Leary
• The extradition of Dominic McGlinchey by Derek Dunne
• Political Reporting: the take and the feed by Gene Kerrigan
• Biting the bullet by Colm Toibin
• The great Shamrock Rovers revival by Eamon Dunphy

• Barrie Cooke : The Moment Of Seeing
• The golden voice of Tommy O Brien
• Garret FitzGerald in Government
• The confession of Christy lynch
• Inside the Marriage Tribunal

• Operation Santa Claus - Tommie Gorman details the events leading up to the successful rescue of Don Tidey, the murder of a Garda and a soldier in Derrada Wood and the subsequent escape of the kidnap gang.
  
  The Rise And Temporary Fall Of John Bruton - Fine Gael is his natural home and he will probably some day be its natural leader. Olivia O'Leary profiles the Minister for Industry.
  
  No Camping - Maggie O'Kane describes the lifestyle of Ireland's 15,000 t...

• Maggie O'Kane at Greenham Common
• Seamus Heany's Ireland
• Cluskey: The Real Tainiste
• Spaghetti Soccer
• The Magic of John Feeney

• Nicky Kelly: The New Evidence by Derek Dunne
• Mountjoy: The Short Honeymoon by Mark Brennock
• Labour's Legacy by Mary Raftery
• The Crown...

• Love In A Cold Climate - Mary Holland reports from London on the first Anglo-Irish summit in two years.
• Wish You Were Here - A group of British journalists recently came to Ireland courtesy of the government. Julia Langdon, political correspondent of The Guardian was among them. This is her story.
• The Trial Of Sergeant Diviney by Gene Kerrigan...

• Mary Raftery explores the life and times of one of Ireland's most notorious criminal families.
• Justice Donnelly Hits Back by Kevin Dawson
• The President of the District Court talks about the Rent Courts.
• The Criminal Justice Bill - Adrian Hardiman argues that the Bill threatens to undermine established legal principles.
• Wolfe Tone and the Rituals of Republicanism: Gene Kerrigan, at Bodenstown with the Provos and Charlie Haughey, takes a good cold lo...

• The Fine Gael party bears no resemblance to the party that Garret FitzGerald took over in 1977. But the old guard took a stand against the new order during the recent Amendment campaign. Was this the start of their revival or their last stand? Gene Kerrigan charts the transformation of Fine Gael, and looks at the war within the party.
  
  
• Who Is James Delaney? - A Texan millionaire who owns the site of the Battle of the Boyne is coming to Ireland to meet politicians ...

• In 1976 and 1977 there were persistent allegations of brutality against the Gardai. The Sallins mail train robbery trial was the centre of these allegations. In this major investigation, Magill examines the allegations that the Gardai conspired to subvert the course of justice.
  
• The Moral Civil War (Gene Kerrigan)
• The Irish J.R.: Kerry Dougherty talks to the managing director of Atlantic Resources and considers the government’s options (Kerry Dougherty)

• Whether or not justice is being done these days it is certainly not being seen to be done. The "deal" system, in which lawyers work out the what's ebst for their clients or most expedient for the legal establishment, has been thrown into the limelight by the MacArthur case and the failure to prosecute for the murder of Donal Dunne. Inside, we look at how the deal was done and in whose interests. And how the deal backfired.
• Justice Behind Closed Doors. Malcolm ...

The Armalite and the Ballot Box: Michael Farrell interviews two spokespersons authorised to speak on behalf of the leadership of the IRA (Michael Farrell)

• “We have now established a sort of Republican veto”: Michael Farrell interviews Gerry Adams MP, vice-president of Sinn Fein (Michael Farrell)
• ITGWU Establishment Rules (Mary Raftery)
• A Question of Judgement: Kerry Dougherty reports on the continuing saga of Gerard Cowzer (Kerry Dough...

• There is death and disease in the Suir Valley. On one farm alone 114 cattle have died. The authorities say there is no problem. 
• Gerry Adams: The provos at the ballot box
• The unimportance of being Paddy Hillery
• Profile: Tim Pat Coogan
• The reconstruction of the Kerry Team
• How the Amendment Works
• Feeney Rides Again
• Actual Grace
• Great GAS
• Comrades Brothers and Sisters
• As Time Goes By - June 1983

• Oliver J Flanagan - The Bitterness Erupts.  
• The Revolt of the 11/64 (Gene Kerrigan)
• The Secrets of Opus Dei (Maurice Roche)
• As Time Goes By (Gene Kerrigan)
• Parliamo Brady: Cian O’Mahony visits Liam Brady at Sampdoria Genova (Cian O’Mahony)
• The Rise and Fall of Cobh Ramblers (Kevin Cashman)
• Barrie Cooke: The Process of Growth (Colm Toibin)

• Maggie O'Kane talks to the Fairview Killers
  
• Labour - The Cutting Edge of Coalition
• The Death of Helen Phillips (Mary Raftery)
• Who Fears to Speak (Gene Kerrigan)
• A Question of Judgement - Judge Frank Martin and the Cowzer Affair (Kerry Dougherty)
• Man Bites Dogma: The Press and the Amendment Campaign (Luke Gibbons)
• As Times Goes By (Gene Kerrigan)
• Showbands, Books And The Great Patrioltic War - Travels in the Soviet Union B...

• Trusting Garret (Gene Kerrigan)
• The Scintillating Supercchaged, Stunning, Vociferous, Best-Ever, Green White and Gold Ard Fheis 
• The Prodigal Son (Colm Toibin)
• What makes Bertie run? (Gene Kerrigan)
• Frank FitzGerald and the Arms Crisis of 1922 (Michael Farrell)
• The Long Honeymoon: The IFA and the ICMSA (John McAleese)
• As Time Goes By (Gene Kerrigan)
• The Watershed Trial (Gene Kerrigan)
• A Jazz World (Brian Trench...

• Charlie and the Press Gang
• How Charlie Won the War; The Battle for the Leadership of Fianna Fail (Vincent Browne)
• The Worst Laid Plans. Fintan O’Toole on one reason why Dick Spring should scrap An Bord Pleanala (Fintan O’Toole)
• A Portrait of Peadar O'Donnell As An Old Soldier
• “Get all the Protestants out”. Colm Toibin listens to two supporters of the FitzGerald Amendment (Colm Toibin)
• As Time Goes By (Gene Kerrigan)
...

• Have SPUC, will travel 
• Limericks Fearsome Ferocity (Gene Kerrigan)
• Beyond Compassion - Michael D. Higgins
• A Naas how-do-you-do (Gene Kerrigan)
• Who is Fred O’Donovan and why is he trying to silence Gay Byrne? (Colm Toibin)
• The Extraordinary Life and Times of Sean MacBride. Part 2 (Michael Farrell)
• Ireland in Wonderland; Ten Year in the EEC (Joe Carroll)
• Souvenirs of ...

• "And the first thing we're going to do is cancel Christmas..."
  
 
• How long more must we tolerate this awful Government? (Vincent Browne)
• Ministers and Misfits
• A Character Evaluation of Garret FitzGerald
• The Extraordinary Life and Times of Sean MacBride. Part 1 (Michael Farrell)
• No Surrender. Patterns of Discrimination in Northern Ireland (Paddy Agnew)
• Shady Dog Stories; Kevin Cashman recalls some of the strokes p...

• How the Fine Gael whiz-kids sold us a Taoiseach. by Vincent Browne
• The People Speak (Gene Kerrigan)
• Considering the death of a man aged about 25 years (Gene Kerrigan)
• The Rip-Off on Health (Pat Brennan)
• The Uncivil Civil Servants. The Obstruction of Reform (PJ Hegarty)
• Selections for the Lions – the large lump syndrome (John Reason)
• Delusions of Grandeur. Eoin Hand’s Record (Cian O’Mahony)
• As Time Goes By (Gene...

• TDs under the microscope. Magill examines the record of the TDs in the last Dail. We name the lazy, the useless, the diligent and the good.
• Editorial: Electoral mandate (Vincent Browne)
• Ballymun; The making of a transit camp (Gene Kerrigan)
• Campaign Notebook (Gene Kerrigan)
• Everything you always wanted to know about your TDs (Vincent Browne and Brian Trench)
• Concern for Nicky Kelly (Piaras O’Duill)
• As Time Goes By (Gene Kerrig...

• Editorial: Free Nicky Kelly (Vincent Browne)
• Going Going… (Vincent Browne)
• The W Turn – Charlie’s Gyrations (Vincent Browne)
• The GUBU Factor (Vincent Browne)
• The Death of Two Newspapers (Tom McPhail)
• As Time Goes By (Gene Kerrigan)
• A Spanish Inquisition? (Paddy Agnew)
• The Way Nowhere (Brendan Lynch)
• Garret’s Gregory Deal (Pat Br...

• Magill – Five Year On; A Re-Assessment
• Sirens in the Night (Gene Kerrigan)
• Old Armour for a New Crusade; The Knights at Knock (Pat Brennan)
• Labour will vote anti-coalition unless… (Vincent Browne)
• An Interview with Michael O’Leary (Vincent Browne)
• What if there’s an election? (Vincent Browne)
• Gregory’s dilemma (Vincent Browne)
• “They wouldn’t leave him alone”; The death o...

• The Election Battleground
• Why all the Haughey Bashing?
• Campaign Notebook by Gene Kerrigan
• Election '82 by Vincent Browne
• The Minority Candidates by Paddy Agnew
• The Sunday World sex case
• Stardust: Could it happen Again? by Gerard O'Dwyer
• As Time Goes By by Gene Kerrigan
• Cashman's Diary by Kevin Cashman
• A quiet night in Dublin by Gene Kerrigan
• View from the Side of the Scrum by Fergus Slatte...

• The Battleground, the Crucial Constituencies
• A Bad Election for Women?
• Campaign Notebook
• The Questions that the Politicians Must Answer  

• The Media women by J. J. 0 'Molloy
• McCreevy is right by Vincent Browne
• Economy: The high road to disaster
• Child abuse and the law by Pat Brennan
• The sins of the 'thirties by Mollie Moran
• Rugby: international preview by John Reason
• As Time Goes By by Gene Kerrigan
• Wigmore

• Which politician has the biggest annual income? How many votes did Charlie lose the election by? The Political Quiz, the Review of the Year, and sunndry other goodies.
• The Political Mists of Mayo - Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's the flying Canon Horan of Knock, swooping and diving among the frightened politicians. You will believe a man can fly.  
• Behind the Ardmore Screen - Since 1976, The National Film Studios have made annual losses totalling £2....

• Haughey: watching and waiting, By Olivia O Leary
• Paisley's walk on the wild side, By Gene Kerrigan
• A body has been discovered, by Paddy Agnew
• One small strike, by Gene Kerrigan
• Back Tracks on Tax? by Brendan Dowling
• Bobby Ballagh's Dublin, by Paddy Agnew
• Rugby: going down under, by Paddy Agnew
• Soccer roulette, by Paddy Agnew
• As time Goes By, by Gene Kerrigan
• Wigmore

• The Greyhound Caper: How a group of hard chaws from Limerick pulled off the most ingenius betting coup since the Gay Future caper.
• Kilrea: What do the Protestants of a solidly unionist town think of Garret's crusade?
• The new IRA strategy by Vincent Browne
• The Blue Skies of Ulster ... by Paddy Agnew
• Paris: As time goes by in the city of beauty
• Soccer: It's not over yet - but Ireland's prospects for the World Cup depend on how the dic...

• The TDs: How tight are their belts? By Vincent Browne
• RTE’s Money Crisis by Paddy Agnew
• “Today we stand her yet again...” by Gene Kerrigan
• The Video Revolution by David P. Harding
• The travel trade scandal by Paddy Agnew
• Are mortgage interest rates too high? By Calm McCarthy
• The weavers of the tax net by Brian Donaghy
• Freddy White by Gene Kerrigan

• Anglo-Irish Relations: lies across the sea by Vincent Browne
• How the border was sold by Michael Farrell
• The senate election by Paddy Agnew
• The dignity of The House by Gene Kerrigan
• The oil spy in the sky by Brian Donaghy
• Guaranteed Irish no more by Brian Donaghy

• The Stardust Gold-Dust by Paddy Agnew
• Blueshirts, Quislings and Fascists by Rayner Lysaght
• Saints, Sinners and Sincerity by Conor Cruise O’Brien
• The Making of a Government by Vincent Browne
• The Debasement of the Northern Ireland Judicial System by Tpfy Buckley
• And They Think They Have Problems by Brian Donaghy
• The Deficit Tango by Calm McCarthy
• Jazz on Sunday by Darragh O’Loughlin
• Gay Bryne on t...

• Twisting slowly, slowly in the wind (Vincent Browne)
• Campaign notebook (Gene Kerrigan)
• The daddy and the boyo (Olivia O’Leary)
• Hurricane Bernadette (Gerry Foley)
• How we bored the nation: the TV debate (Bruce Arnold, Vincent Browne, Michael Mills and Paul Tansey)
• Blueshirts and Quislings (Conor Cruise O’Brien)
• Trial and error: An interview with Michael Killeen
• Europe’s threadbare cap (John Wyles)

• The good, the bad and the ugly (Vincent Browne)
• Campaign ’81 (Vincent Browne)
• The H-Block campaign (Gerry Foley)
• Galway women and the elections (Pat Brennan)
• The price of votes (Brian Trench)
• Election notebook (Gene Kerrigan)
• The greening of West Belfast (Paddy Agnew)
• Babies, wild dogs and coalition (Conor Cruise O’Brien)

• Campaign 1981 (Vincent Browne)
• The facts and figures of election 1981
• Election notebook (Gene Kerrigan)
• Excess excise puts the blues in the booze (Brian Donaghy)
• Charlie on the stroke of midnight (Conor Cruise O’Brien)
• Sliothar sophisticaes (Kevin Cashman)
• Ancient myths and modern rituals (Paddy Agnew)

• As Time Goes By (Gene Kerrigan)
• If I were Taoiseach; Garret FitzGerald interviewed by Vincent Browne (Vincent Browne)

• Fear and Loathing in Fermanagh (Paddy Agnew)
• Has Fianna Fail Got A Prayer? (Vincent Browne)
• The Grounding of Bray Travel (Brian Donaghy)
• Manifest Disagreement (Paddy Geary)
• The Rise of an Ad Agency (Vincent Browne)
• The Showband Must Go On (Gene Kerrigan)
• Down and out in Dublin and Cardiff (Paddy Agnew)
• Coveri...

• Labour in distress. Gene Kerrigan examines the fortunes of the Labour Party at a difficult time. 
• A Month of Murder; The basic problem of Northern Ireland continues to be the existance of the state itself (Vincent Browne)
• As Time Goes By (Gene Kerrigan)
• Sunday Tribulations (J.J. O’Molloy)
• Fianna Fail; “Our annual day in County Longford to listen to the grassroots” (Gene Kerrigan)
• Fine Gael; Thursday night fever in Borriso...

• Inside Mountjoy (Pat Brennan)
• Old dogs and new tricks
• Manifest Failure (Paddy Geary)
• Cars for ’81 (George Campbell)
• Going to the dogs (Colm Toibin)
• As Time Goes By (Gene Kerrigan)

• Hitting the bottle and when the bottle hits back (Pat Brennan)
• Arms crisis the movie – The Santa Papers
• The I hate Christmas page
• Predictions for 1981

• National Women’s Forum Report (Pat Brennan)
• As Time Goes By (Gene Kerrigan)
• The Woods Cover-Up (Helen Connolly)
• Big Brother Has Arrived; An investigation into the extent of telephone surveillance in Ireland (Frank Doherty)
• The Politics of H-Block (Vincent Browne)
• The O’Malley- Haughey meeting (Vincent Browne)
• MacBride’s Prison Report (Pat Brennan)
• World Cup Soccer: There was a Dream (Paddy Agnew)

• Everything you always wanted to know about why the country is going broke - but were afraid to ask. 
• Questions for the Arms Debate (Vincent Browne)
• As Time Goes By (Gene Kerrigan)
• In The Valley Of The Shadow Of Debt (Brian Donaghy)
• The Complacency of Dr. Woods and the Dilapidation of St. Brendan’s (Helen Connolly)
• Kate Millett – We’ve Only Just Begun (Pat Brennan)
• The Great Full-Back Crisis (John Reason)<...

• Sundays, Bloody Sundays (Vincent Bronwe)
• The Scandal of the Mental Hospitals (Helen Connolly)
• Lights, Camera, Reagan! (John Dean)
• IDA – The Chips are Down (Brian Donaghy)
• The Knowledge Industry (Brian Trench)
• For Whom the Bridge Tolls (Brian Trench)
• O’Dwyers Kingdom (Paddy Agnew)
• The Long and Winding Road (P...

• The chickens come home to roost (Vincent Browne). A look at the achievements of Haughey's first seven months as Taoiseach
• Clap This Way! (Gene Kerrigan)
• A Cross of Wasted Suffering; The Peace People At War (Nell McCafferty)
• Eamon Coghlan: What Went Wrong in Moscow? (Paddy Agnew)
  
...

• The real scandal of the Arms Crisis was not what Haughey did but in what was done to him and the other defentants. 
• The Significance of the Arms Crisis (Vincent Browne)
• The Misconduct of the Arms Trial (Vincent Browne)
...

• The Arms Crisis: The secret memoirs of Peter Berry, the man who was the country' smost powerful civil servant - a fascinating insight into the Arms Crisis and how the state was run. 
• The Fear of Libel (Vincent Browne)
• Collins Reneges (Vincent Browne)
• John Treacy On The Olympic Track (Selwyn Parker)
...

• The inside story of the most dramatic political crisis in Ireland's history. How Charles Haughey became implicated in the arms plot, how exchequer funds were used to purchase arms for the IRA, and how the crisis erupted.

• Poverty in Ireland; An investigation into the scope an deffects of poverty in Ireland.
• Poverty in Ireland (Brian Trench and Pat Brennan)
• The Last Hurrah; Staff reporter Gene Kerrigan has been through New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Illinois and New York on the compaign trail of Senator Edward Kennedy (Gene Kerrigan)
• A Bizarre Championship; A review of the international rugby season (John Reason)
• Foundations for Further Development; A defence of t...

• Corkman in the Kremlin (Anthony Cronin)
• The Beatification of Charles (Gene Kerrigan)
• A State of Chassis (Vincent Browne)
• Deflation Once Again; the size of the gap between the economic reality and people’s expectations is frightening (Joe Durkan)

• Killanin in the eye of the storm; The 65 year old Irish peer Lord Killanin is at the eye of a political storm which threatens to destroy the Olympic Games.
• Going Cool on Garret (Vincent Browne)
• Send in The Clowns; A review of Irish comedians and the comedy machine (Gene Kerrigan)
• Killanin in the Eye of the Storm; How Lord Killanin is playing for time in an effort to outwit Jimmy Carter and Margaret Thatcher (Vincent Browne and John Rodda)
• Stri...

• The Making of a Taoiseach; The inside story of the men, the issues and the intrigue which made Charlie Haughey Taoiseach
• Not An Inch; The Pope’s plea for reconciliation between the religious traditions in Ireland could best have been directed at Catholic bishops, who have stifled ecumenism here for fifteen years. (Pat Brennan)
• Is the Cruiser Springing a Leak? (Vincent Browne)
• The Making of a Taoiseach; How a cabal of backbench rural TDs toppled th...

• Gageby's Times; He's brought Ireland's best newspaper back from the dead twice, amid personal conflicts within the paper and social change and then retrenchment outside it. 
• The Life and Irish Times of Douglas Gageby (Gene Kerrigan)
• The Growing Desperation of the British Army (Mary Holland)
• O’Malley’s Prospectives (Vincent Browne)
• Tough Times For Irish Football (Peter Ball)
• The Central Bank Rules Finance; Ho...

• Written especially for Magill, An Taoiseach Jack Lynch's own story; his childhood, hurling career, entranceinto politics and life in government. 
• John Paul II’s First Year (Hans Kung)
• My Life and Times By Jack Lynch (Jack Lynch)
• The Walking Contradiction; The hereditary peer who opposes the hereditary system, the pacifist who has sought out wars and revolution, he has written a book about his experiences as a wartime pilot. (Gene Kerrigan)<...

• A Pilgrim of Peace; A special commemorative record of Pope John Paul's visit to Ireland. 
• Donal Corvin: An Appreciation (Sam Smyth)
• IFA: Stormy Weather and Divided Ranks (Brian Trench)
• Simple Sile Helps Honest Jack; How for the first time in four years, Sile De Valera has given Jack Lynch carte blanche on Northern policy (Vincent Browne)
• A Pilgrim of Peace; the Pope’s mission to Ireland was not just to plead for an end to violenc...

• The fastnet disaster
• Rebellion in the ITGWU
• The significance of the Virgin of Knock
• Pope John Paul II: What kind of man?
• Lord Killanin interviewed
• Kerry for the Sam Maguire
• The day the bubble burst

• Radio 2: No better than the pirates
• Politicians and opinion polls
• The telephone chaos
• Ian Paisley and the Pope
• Innishturbot: Death of an Island
• Kerry Kingdom Untoppled
• The Irish automobile industry

• FF and FG: Same Difference
• An Interview with Garret Fitzgerald
• Ian Paisley’s triumph
• Neil Blaney profile
• Leinster House’s light entertainment
• Disclosure law
• The coming recession
• Oil: A taste of the eighties
• Conservation: Too little, too late

• The Family Planning Clinics
• The Billings Method
• Nazi films on Ireland
• Smurfit and plastics
• Euro rip-off
• British intelligence operations in Ireland
• Limericks own Stevie
• Paisley, Hume and Bernadette

• The Irish in Lebanon
• The new Irish Army
• Garda Brutality
• The US Ambassador to Ireland
• Paralysis in the Public Sector
• The Tories and Northern Ireland
• Johnny Giles: halfway to greatness
• The Mostek deal

• Roy mason’s Guilt
• Why we don’t pay tax
• The British Police
• Women in revolt
• Irish rugby selectors: insane or incompetent

• Dublin’s prostitutes
• Profile: Noel Browne
• Who was St.Patrick
• Judges Rules
• Lord Denning
• Tony Ward on Tony Ward

• How the left would create jobs
• A tannery’s labour troubles
• The North: Un beau pays, mal habite
• The Gay Byrne phenomenon
• Holidays ‘79
• The Property Boom
• The rise and rise of Michael Smurfit

• Garret Fitzgerald on the EEC
• The Contraception Backlash
• Cooney and Garda Brutality
• Dublin’s Inner City
• The Temple of Death Why O’Malley should Break Up Cement Roadstone
• Fiat’s Fahey
• Strikes in the Public Sector
• Daredevil Derek Daly
• Memories of Mike Gibson
• Sunrise in Hollywood

• Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Chequebook
• Employment Crisis
• RTE 2's promises
• A Conference on Police Brutality
• H Block Hell Hole
• Irish Health Problems - Is this what Pearse died for?
• Art Review
• Poems

• The Wigmore column returns to print with characteristic pungency and daring. Edited again by Vincent Browne.
• A graphic and photographic account of the rising of the Dublin proletariat in 1913 under the inspiration' of James Larkin ..... Page...

• Adultery - A special report on changing sex behaviour in Ireland, the breakdown of marriages and the nullity controversy. Also a new opinion poll on atttitudes to sex among young Dublin women.
  
  Labour - Vincent Browne writes on the state of the Labour party under Frank Cluskey and traces its history, from which it appears to have learnt few lessons.
  
  CIA - Chris Doherty writes about the United States Counnsellor in Belfast who has been named as a CIA opperative, a ch...

• Edmund Garvey - New revelations on the Garvey years in the Gardai, including surveillance of top officials, the Government's discreet attempts to get him to resign and the background to the affair by the two reporters who first exposed the Garda 'horrors', Joe Joyce and Don Buckley
• Fianna Fail - Coinciding with its celebratory Ard Fheis later this month, we publish a profile on the man most likely to succeed Jack Lynch; an analysis of the election reesults; and a glos...

• Lynch's Memories of Christmas - Jack Lynch remembers his childhood Christmases in Cork, Nora Connolly 0 'Brien recalls waiting for James Connolly, Michael Hartnett writes about Christmas in West Limerick, Rev. Martin Smyth remembers a Presbyterian Christmas in Belfast. Reminiscences also from Dervla Murphy and Bernadette MeeAliskey
  
• The Ferenka Fiasco - The Ferenka closure represents the most serious set-back to Irish industrial strategy in two deecades. We examine ...

• Department of Justice: The Cover-Up Continues. In the Wake of Amnesty International's Report on Garda brutal ity and the fingerprint evidence scandal, the Minister of Justice is continuing his predecessor's policy of a cover up. By Vincent Browne
  
  And One Law for the Irish By John Shirley - An appeal by an English Girl and three young Irishmen raises alarming questions about the attitudes of English courts to Irish people, according to an English journallist who has wr...

• JACK LYNCH - The artful ambiguities of Jack Lynch and the background to his-talks with the British Prime Minister (by Vincent Browne) 
  
• Ted Kennedy talks about Ireland:
• The first inside story of how four Irish-American politicians persuaded the Bible Belt President to speak out on lreland (by Mary Holland)
• Exclusive interview with Senator Kennedy on Ireland, his own growing involvement with the Northern issue and his family's associations with...