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Arms Crisis 1970 - The Inside Story (May '80)

  • 30 April 1980
  • The inside story of the most dramatic political crisis in Ireland's history. How Charles Haughey became implicated in the arms plot, how exchequer funds were used to purchase arms for the IRA, and how the crisis erupted.

Poverty in Ireland (Apr '80)

  • 1 April 1980
  • Poverty in Ireland; An investigation into the scope an deffects of poverty in Ireland.
    • Poverty in Ireland (Brian Trench and Pat Brennan)
    • The Last Hurrah; Staff reporter Gene Kerrigan has been through New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Illinois and New York on the compaign trail of Senator Edward Kennedy (Gene Kerrigan)
    • A Bizarre Championship; A review of the international rugby season (John Reason)
    • Foundations for Further Development; A defence of the economic policy of the Lynch Government (Martin O’Donoghue)
    • Showdown at Sachs (Nell McCafferty)

A state of chassis (Mar '80)

  • 29 February 1980

A State of Chassis; Deflation cannot be deferred, expectations have to be disappointed, otherwise the gnomes will take over.

  • Corkman in the Kremlin (Anthony Cronin)
  • The Beatification of Charles (Gene Kerrigan)
  • A State of Chassis (Vincent Browne)
  • Deflation Once Again; the size of the gap between the economic reality and people’s expectations is frightening (Joe Durkan)

Killanin in the Eye of the Storm (Feb '80)

  • 31 January 1980
  • Killanin in the eye of the storm; The 65 year old Irish peer Lord Killanin is at the eye of a political storm which threatens to destroy the Olympic Games.
    • Going Cool on Garret (Vincent Browne)
    • Send in The Clowns; A review of Irish comedians and the comedy machine (Gene Kerrigan)
    • Killanin in the Eye of the Storm; How Lord Killanin is playing for time in an effort to outwit Jimmy Carter and Margaret Thatcher (Vincent Browne and John Rodda)
    • Striking a Balance (Martin O’Donoghue)
    • Derek Hill and the Golden Section; Derek Hill prefers his West of Ireland landscapes, but spends most of his time painting portraits (Bruce Arnold)
    • James T. Farrell’s Exile Twice Over (Ben Kiely)

The Making of a Taoiseach (Jan '80)

  • 31 December 1979
  • The Making of a Taoiseach; The inside story of the men, the issues and the intrigue which made Charlie Haughey Taoiseach
    • Not An Inch; The Pope’s plea for reconciliation between the religious traditions in Ireland could best have been directed at Catholic bishops, who have stifled ecumenism here for fifteen years. (Pat Brennan)
    • Is the Cruiser Springing a Leak? (Vincent Browne)
    • The Making of a Taoiseach; How a cabal of backbench rural TDs toppled the Fianna Fail party establishment and installed as Taoiseach a man whose political career seemed dead twice in the last decade. (Vincent Browne)
    • Hard Times Ahead; More uncertainty about oil, a threat to agriculture, and social justice only through re-distribution (Joe Durkan)

Life and Irish Times of Douglas Gageby (Dec '79)

  • 30 November 1979
  • Gageby's Times; He's brought Ireland's best newspaper back from the dead twice, amid personal conflicts within the paper and social change and then retrenchment outside it. 
    • The Life and Irish Times of Douglas Gageby (Gene Kerrigan)
    • The Growing Desperation of the British Army (Mary Holland)
    • O’Malley’s Prospectives (Vincent Browne)
    • Tough Times For Irish Football (Peter Ball)
    • The Central Bank Rules Finance; How the revived Central Bank has assumed a dominant role in the Irish economy in conflict with the Deperment of Finance (Paul Tansey)
    • One Man’s Art; Gordon Lambert, Chairman and Managing Director of Irish Biscuits, is a lover of art. His collection of modern works is regarded by many as the best in Ireland. How closely does it chart his development, or reflect his ambition? (Bruce Arnold)

My Life and Times by Jack Lynch (Nov '79)

  • 31 October 1979
  • Written especially for Magill, An Taoiseach Jack Lynch's own story; his childhood, hurling career, entranceinto politics and life in government. 
    • John Paul II’s First Year (Hans Kung)
    • My Life and Times By Jack Lynch (Jack Lynch)
    • The Walking Contradiction; The hereditary peer who opposes the hereditary system, the pacifist who has sought out wars and revolution, he has written a book about his experiences as a wartime pilot. (Gene Kerrigan)

A Pilgrim of Peace (Oct '79)

  • 1 October 1979
  • A Pilgrim of Peace; A special commemorative record of Pope John Paul's visit to Ireland. 
    • Donal Corvin: An Appreciation (Sam Smyth)
    • IFA: Stormy Weather and Divided Ranks (Brian Trench)
    • Simple Sile Helps Honest Jack; How for the first time in four years, Sile De Valera has given Jack Lynch carte blanche on Northern policy (Vincent Browne)
    • A Pilgrim of Peace; the Pope’s mission to Ireland was not just to plead for an end to violence but to chastise the Irish bishops for failing to identify with the poor and repressed. (Vincent Browne and Pat Brennan)
    • The Day of the Fold-Up Chair (Gene Kerrigan)
    • James White and the National Gallery (Bruce Arnold)


Pope John Paul II: What kind of man? (Sep 1979)

  • 1 September 1979

  • The fastnet disaster
  • Rebellion in the ITGWU
  • The significance of the Virgin of Knock
  • Pope John Paul II: What kind of man?
  • Lord Killanin interviewed
  • Kerry for the Sam Maguire
  • The day the bubble burst

Eddie Macken (Aug 1979)

  • 1 August 1979
  • Radio 2: No better than the pirates
  • Politicians and opinion polls
  • The telephone chaos
  • Ian Paisley and the Pope
  • Innishturbot: Death of an Island
  • Kerry Kingdom Untoppled
  • The Irish automobile industry

 

 


Coming Soon: the big slump (July 1979)

  • 1 July 1979

 

  • FF and FG: Same Difference
  • An Interview with Garret Fitzgerald
  • Ian Paisley’s triumph
  • Neil Blaney profile
  • Leinster House’s light entertainment
  • Disclosure law
  • The coming recession
  • Oil: A taste of the eighties
  • Conservation: Too little, too late

 

Euro Election Special

  • 1 June 1979
  • The Family Planning Clinics
  • The Billings Method
  • Nazi films on Ireland
  • Smurfit and plastics
  • Euro rip-off
  • British intelligence operations in Ireland
  • Limericks own Stevie
  • Paisley, Hume and Bernadette