BY WINNING ALL four matches in the international rugby championship in 1978, Wales created all sorts of records - three Triple Crowns in succcession; a record number of grand slams, personal scoring records for their captain Phil rlennett and for serummhalf Gareth Edwards ,and for Edwards also the unique achievement of becoming the first Welshman to win 50 caps.

The bad news that has dogged British Leyland over the years has largely obscured the fact that the UK giant offers a range of excellent, sometimes outstanding, cars. Although the pall-like cloud of economic uncertainty hanging over the State-owned company has dated some of the models, because new ones haven't been produced, at least the existing range has been around long enough to have proved its reliability.

The twenty-five foot high star came to life. From its dominating position behind the stage of the Sunset Club in Longford, outlined in red, white and two shades of green against a deep blue background, the star began a rhythmic blinking. The tiny lights embedded in the high blue ceiling added their own stardust imitations and for a few minutes it seemed as though Garret FitzGerald was about to finish his marathon constituency tour with all the taste, style and Panache of Richard Nixon. By: Gene Kerrigan.

Part I: Labour before and after Frank Cluskey

FOR BOTH COALITION parties the experience in Government and the election were calamities and, although Fine Gael iost more seats and more votes; the outcome for Labour is the more serious. By: Vincent Browne

Sexual attitudes and behaviour are changing radically in Ireland as evidenced by the increasing breakdown of marriages, the higher VD and illegitimacy rates and the sale of the contraceptive pill. We examine the scale of this change and attempt to describe current attitudes to sex in Irish society.  

LAST MONTH'S Seachtain na Gaeilge was probably one of the most successful series of events organised by Connradh na Gaeilge in Dublin over the past half-century ðyet its impact on the capital city was negligible. A sad reflection on the mass moveement founded by Dr. Dougglas Hyde more than 80 years ago. 

FROM HIS SWIVEL chair behind an old mahogany desk on the fourth floor of the Observer building on the fringes of London's press world of Fleet Street, Dr. Conor Cruise O'Brien, former Minister for Posts and Telegraphs, former TD, now Senator for Trinity College Dublin, can see the massive clock faces on the domes of Christopher Wren's cathedral of St. Paul's. By Henry Kelly

PUBLISHING IN IRELAND has been a notoriously precarious enterprise in the last two decades with two newspapers (the Sunday Review and the Evening Mail) going to the wall and being followed there by countless magazines (This Week, Nusight, Scene, Woman's Choice, Spottlight, Profile etc). So it is perhaps surprising that the most spectacular fortunes to be made in Ireland in recent times should have been made by publishers, those of the Sunday World. By VINCENT BROWNE

Mulligan's, Poolbeg Street, Dublin 2. Some people would like to put a preservation order on this pub and its , atmosphere'. Devoid of plastic trimmings, fulfilling its function as a place to meet and drink in much the way that old Wild West saloons must have done, it's a natural for those who are into basic Living, maaaan.

THE CHANGES in farm taxation announced by George Colley in the February Budget, will not persuade the P A YE sector that farmers have been asked to contribute a fair share of government revenue. By ALAN MATTHEWS