Here we examine the two major industrial disputes now afflicting the country. In the Aer Lingus dispute we analyse critically strikers "strategy, and in the P & T dispute we examine the underlying issues.

SUPERFICIALLY - a bleak, barren landscape and all the more so if it's raining. But take one step nearer and there is a world of fascination whether you go with the flora, the fauna, the geology, the Megalithic remains, and the people themselves and their music.

Short extracts from Wigmore, edited by Vincent Browne.

So YOU THOUGHT you had heard the end of one Edmund Garvey, former Garda Commmissioner. Well read this tale.

THE DEATH OF J. B. Murray P.C. last month from a surfeit of Spikery has left the Irish ultra-right without its guiding star. J. B. Murray had symbolised the reaction against sexual liberalisation since he founded the League of Decency in the wake of the Supreme Court's decision allowing the importation of contraceptives.

THE NON-PROSECUTION of officers formerly in the fingerprint section of the Gardai is in spite of a finding that several "mistakes" were made by these officers in fingerprint identification over the last several years.

WITH HIS HORN-RIMMED spectacles, toothbrush mousstache and three piece slightlyyout-of-fashion suit he looks like an English bank manager. By CHRIS DOHERTY

The Dublin Arts festival, music, theatre, restaurants and pubs

THE LOGISTICS involved in running a car ferry are quite simple. As passsengers are motorised, this gives the ferry operator total flexibility when choosing arrival and departure points. There is no necessity to link up major cities directly or even to consider a railway connection. by James Prufrock

An analysis of the Government's economic strategy by Paddy Geary