Geraldine Kennedy presents a glossary of Jack Lynch's statements on Northern and constitutional policies over the last decade, revealing that he has maintained a consistency - almost - on the Northern question but has vacillated on the constitutional issue.
The inside story on the sacking of the Garda Commissioner and the Phoenix Park horrors.
HEALTH STUDIOS offer the opportunity to achieve physiical fitness in plush surroundings under expert guidance. Of course, the task of shedding those extra pounds and firming sagging muscles will still involve a certain amount of hard labour but with facilities like saunas, solariums and massage available on the premises; health gyms succeed to some extent in sugaring the pill.
THE IRISH LEFT has been characterized by a sectarianism of its own for several decades - Brendan Behan said of republican organisaations that the first item on the agenda at all their inaugural meetings was 'the split' - so perhaps it is salutory that two such groups are contemplating fusion over the next few months. By Gene Kerrigan
"AISLING DRURY-BYRNE talks about and plays some of the 'cello pieces set for this year's Intermediate Certificate Examination." (RTE Guide for 3.01 pm 28th January.)
The Armagh Palace Guard, Ian Paisley and the neglected homeless
A review of Theatre, (by EAVAN BOLAND), film (By DEIRDRE FRIEL) and the best of Film and Theatre throughout the country in the next six weeks.
He sustained a belief in the dream world that could be created out of ordinary life as it surrounded him, writes Bruce Arnold in an evaluation of the work of the late Sean Keating.
IN THE COURSE of 1977, Youghal Carpets (Holdings) has seen its stock market rating shot to ribbons. From a high of 80 1/2p early in the year, the share price fell to a low of 41p during the autumn - thus cutting market capitalisation by a massive £6.3 million. The one-time market favourite was discredited. By Sean Mitchell
UDT - From the way Willie Sandys (as in Braids) writes his chairman's report for U D T (Ireland), you would never think that this was a subsidiary of the second biggest U K finance house that was only saved from disaster by the 'lifeboat' the Bank of England launched in 1974.