PLEASE LOOK CAREFULLY at the map of Cork. The field, marked Camp Field, is separated from the barracks by a very wide road. It is clear that there is no bridge or other connection between the two. To get to the barracks you have to cross the road; there are no two ways about it.  By Colm Toibin

Profiles in Courage: 2.
Dermot Metcalf, Fianna Fail TD for Dublin West Central

"Is dioxin a dangerous substance?" one councillor asked.

"We're talking about things we know nothing about," said another.

What was the point, the councilllor wanted to know, in attendding a conference on sheep-dipping when the problem .was dogs. You might as well stay at home, he added. Dogs were roving the countryside killing sheep. Was this matter raised at the conference on sheep-dipping? Was it? No, it wasn't.

In November 1982, before the last general election, the Labour Party published its election programme. We have identified thirty-one major commitments from this programme and, as the following article shows, progress has been made in only six of these. By Colm Toibin

IN MOUNTJOY JAIL ON SUNDAY MORNING, 3 June Patrick Ennis, a prisoner serving a five year sentence for larceny found a black polyythene rubbish bag in the A3 landing which he subsequently discovered had been put there by a fellow prisoner who had taken it the previous day from the censor's office along the landing. There were two bags taken from the office that day: the other was placed where rubbish is collected on D3 wing, also close to the censor's office.  By Colm Toibin

The IDA's most risk-laden gamble to date is its £16m backing for a now struggling multiinational, Trilogy, started from scratch to build in Dublin the most advanced computer technology yet seen. ALAN MURDOCH describes Gene Amdahl, the pioneering scientist behind the project, his revolution in micro-electronics, and the company's international strategy for tax avoidance. By Alan Murdoch

OVER THE PAST' THREE months, Minister for Health Barry Desmond has given an increased allocation of £2 million to the cardiac surgery unit in Dublin's Mater Hospital. The Mater unit is the only one in the country where open-heart surgery can be performed on adult patients. It is under severe pressure, as the demand for surgery far exceeds the unit's ability to provide it. By Mary Raftery

NOW that the dust has settled and the losers have been consoled and the winners are deciding what to do with all the money they can fiddle on their expenses, it's time to assess the real results of the Euro elections. The newspapers and the parties have given us the cooked version of the figures, Wigmore is as usual ready with the real story.

Fintan O'Toole, who has written the text for a book of photographs of the West of Ireland, writes here about the photographer and his art.

In a matter of weeks, the latest Apple computer will become availlable here in Ireland. The Apple Macinntosh is a computing stable mate of the Apple Lisa using integrated softtware architecture. In simple terms, this means that the hardware and software development proceeded together to produce a machine which really was user-friendly and certainly did meet the exact requirements of the micro user.