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If I were Taoiseach ( Apr '81)

  • 31 March 1981

With a triumphant Ard Fheis behind him an his first general election as party leader in front of him, Garret FitzGerald speaks to Magill in a no-holds-barred interview with Vincent Browne

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

    The odds against Fianna Fáil (Mar '81)

    • 28 February 1981

    Has Fianna Fail got a prayer? An analysis of the opinion polls and constitutencies suggests its chances are slim

    • 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)
    • Covering the Fire (J.J. O’Molloy)
    • Harnessing the Lipservice (Gene Kerrigan)
    • De Valera Revisited ( F.S.L. Lyons)

    Labour in distress (Feb '81)

    • 31 January 1981
    • 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 Borrisoleigh (Gene Kerrigan)
      • Labour in Distress (Gene Kerrigan)
      • England v Wales – No Winners (John Reason)
      • The Budget – dodging a dilemma (Paddy Geary)
      • Manifest Response (Martin O’Donoghue)
      • “Don’t put your daughter on the stage, Mrs. King”; An interview/profile of Adele King (nee Twink) (Jack Maloney)

    Why this man can decide the next election (Jan '81)

    • 31 December 1980

    How T.J. Maher can decide the election (Vincent Browne)

      • 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)

      The Santa Papers - Christmas 1980

      • 24 December 1980
      • 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

      Big Brother has arrived (Dec '80)

      • 30 November 1980
      • 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)
      • “Talking to ourselves”; Brian Friel talks to Paddy Agnew (Paddy Agnew)

      Why the country is going broke (Nov '80)

      • 31 October 1980
      • 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)
        • No Conclusions Drawn (Paddy Agnew)
        • A Jockey For Position (Paddy Agnew)

      Sundays, Bloody Sundays (Oct 80)

      • 1 October 1980

      Helen Connolly reports on her six month investigation of the condition of Ireland's mental hospitals.

      • 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 (Paddy Agnew)

      The IRA (Sept 1980)

      • 31 August 1980

      The IRA (Ed Moloney). How Europe's longest surviving guerilla army has become smaller and harder and has reorganised for a long war.

      Haughey in distress (Aug '80)

      • 31 July 1980
      • 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 Misconduct of the Arms Trial (Jul 80)

      • 30 June 1980
      • 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)

      Arms Crisis (cont.) (Jun '80)

      • 31 May 1980
      • 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)