Article Index

Thanks Ford memories

Britain under pressure to bar SF from Assembly

By By JIM CUSACK and LOUISE FLANAGAN

Savaging reputations

By Johnny Watterson

Eye On Nature

Sixth national park for north Mayo and visitor's centre for Ballycroy announced

By Lorna Siggins

A source-book on history

Clinton prepares to testify in Monica Lewinsky investigation

By By JOE CARROLL

MEPs secure deal to reduce car pollution

Greens to press for specifics on OSPAR pollution accord

By By LORNA SIGGINS and KEVIN O'SULLIVAN

Musical mission

Takarian to boost Oxx's winning tally

By Brian O'Connor

`Full Monty' star in the running for role of father in `Angela's Ashes'

By By MICHAEL DWYER

Soccer News: Keane has injury setback

Small Advertisements

DPP may appeal Payne sentence

Simply uplifting

By By JANE POWERS

Irishman a thorn in side of great powers

Raring to go

UK Presidency ends on a high note

The month in Brussels and Strasbourg

Rwanda frees 136 suspects

Scott exhibition

Settling down to peace

By By RENAGH HOLOHAN

. . . to the less so

Euro-elections - a Sunday in May?

Man gets four years for abusing daughters

Lebed threat on nuclear missiles

Man jailed for rape of daughter

Market Report - Dublin

By By SEAN MAC CARTHAIGH

Concern grows in Israel over Iranian missile capability

In Season

Heaney translation among works nominated for prizes

By Patrick Smyth

Season may be poor so far, but for Ballybunion prospects are excellent

Irish juniors held by Wales

Not so green

Derry Journal Takeover

Visitor Tax Proposal

Rose may find the pros a little thorny

By By DERMOT GILLEECE

Chechens make arrests

12 years for rape and sexual assault of daughters and niece

Selling finest of furniture from Tipperary estate

By By ROBERT O'BYRNE

Student Officers

Israelis, Palestinians to meet next week

Families of Bloody Sunday victims to assist Saville inquiry

By By THERESA JUDGE

Market Report - Europe

Ireland's sporting success needs nurturing on both national and international levels

Eastern promise

New first lady will not relinquish her old role

By By GRACA MACHEL

FINA buy time on De Bruin decision

By By TOM HUMPHRIES

Unlikely double for Kinane

Duties on cotton imports defended

Two killed after man opens fire in Capitol building

By By JOE CARROLL

Sweet dreams

By By MAEVE BINCHY

Anti-drug activists sent for trial on man's killing

Stand-Off At Drumcree

British campaign to teach use of PR

Mozart, by Annette Kolb (Prion, £10 in UK)

By By BRIAN FALLON

Fears raised over use of albumin for critically ill

By By ALISON O'CONNOR

Cambodian democracy faces another

By By DAVID BEGG

Bold strokes at Lords

SIPTU suspends leaders in rail pay talks

By By PADRAIG YEATES

Garden Work

Drug dealer gets eight years' jail

Breen defies the odds

By By MARIE-CLAIRE DIGBY

Piotr Folkert (piano)/NSO/Colman Pearce

By By DOUGLAS SEALY

The Sevens at middle age

Jewel in the crown is solitare diamond ring

Soldiers shot as cowards to get no pardon

The western jewel where you can lie back or party amid the world's tribes

By By MAIRE GEOGHEGAN-QUINN

Rose falls at the first

They Don't Shoot Foxes

Shillington shines as Ireland receive lesson

By By KARL JOHNSTON

One-point wonders

Gone, but not forgotten

By By JOHN BOLAND

Jail for FCA man on sex charge

Life of a loser

Bank to `work hard' for acceptance

Thomas Aquinas: Selected Writings, ed. And trans. Ralph McInerney (Penguin, £12.99 in UK)

By By BRIAN FALLON

From zeros to heroes: a process of allowing talented players to achieve their early potential stand first

Smurfit lifts stake in Austrian company

By By BILL MURDOCH

DUP insists its ministers will not sit alongside SF

By By FRANK MILLAR

PAYE remains mainstay of revenue tax inflows

By By EIBHIR MULQUEEN

Girl hit by Tour rider regains consciousness

By By DICK HOGAN

American Local Colour Writing, 1880-1920, ed. Elizabeth Ammons and Valerie Rohy (Penguin, £9.99 in UK)

By By BRIAN FALLON

Zulle, Dufaux come clean

Suspicion of IRA link to killing poses test for Mowlam

By By FRANK MILLAR

Bristol blues

Starborough heads list

Salville House

Neeson's keeping it in the family

IONTAS '98

By By IAN WIECZOREK

Le Tour's family in big bust-up

The Tortoise and the Hare, by ELizabeth Jenkins (Virago Modern Classics, £6.99 in UK)

By Arminta Wallace

Troubles forgotten briefly in mad dash

Crowley Career Facts

A vote-getter

Cut from a different cloth

The Bourbons of Naples, by Harold Acton (Prion, £15 in UK)

By By BRIAN FALLON

US, Russia sign accords

Planners look to Europe

Books and Irish silver to be sold in Dublin

Market Report - London

Army put on alert as floods hit Bangladesh

Flatley considers career in the ring

Wicklow woman is made a life peer

On the spot

Stand-Off At Drumcree

Revenue pledges action on McCracken Tribunal findings

By By EIBHIR MULQUEEN

Copenhagen test next weekend

Travel Briefs

By By JOAN SCALES

Royal Anthem can strike the right tune

Hungarian boasts strong final claims

By By PAT ROCHE

Butler prepared for backlash

Sweet foretaste of journey's end

By By JOHN BANVILLE

What are the frogs saying?

By By BRENDAN MCWILLIAMS

Courtesans and Fishcakes, by James Davidson (Fontana Press, £9.99 in UK)

By Arminta Wallace

Woman remanded on bomb charge

Give me my shorts back (and sides)

Not a cork popped as 400 cases of vintage bubbly taken from the sea

By By JOE HENLEY

RSPCA attacks gassing plans

Field in the spotlight

By Michael Dervan

Pay unrest spreads as INTO and soldiers' body get in line

By By CHRISTINE NEWMAN

Galway Goers: Tips from the top

Anti-hunting lobby says its aim is `humanisation' of man

The lone voice in the desert declined to recant

Kinky fiction

Lost hero

London's riverrun

O'Grady's early exit is noted

By Brian O'Connor

Sports talk

Born of a drumbeat

By Sylvia Thompson

Tour De France

Momentum of revival to outweigh heavy load

By Philip Reid

Killing may end the blind eye to IRA bruality

`A lollipop forest is better than none'

By Michael Viney

Coming out of the Cabinet

Helms objects to new world court for head only

By By JOE CARROLL

Modest estimates for furniture and paintings

Moves to improve animal welfare

Snakes and scorpions - not for children

League ties go as mark of respect

By By KARL JOHNSTON

Fewer royal powers urged

Stand-Off At Drumcree

The Words We Use

By By DIARMAID O MUIRITHE

Getting away from it all

Stanley claimed Mir stake in approach to Tuskar

By Colm Keena

Family of busker ejected from pub to get £27,000

Quality of field never higher

By By DERMOT GILLEECE

Flights from the sunless land booked out

Beasley's `Peerage' in original binding for sale

Beaches to stay open following salmonella confirmation

By Lorna Siggins

Ancient Order must adapt or disappear

By By JOE CARROLL

Going hand in hand to die

By By RUAN O'DONNELL

Three injured after train ploughs into cattle

Pay deal's mid-life crisis fuelled by public sector unrest

A tale of evolution and revolution

Mercosur gives EU ultimatum

The real reasons why

Market Report - New York

Church of Ireland reassessment of links with loyalism overdue

Head of waterfowl hunters' group supports French law

20 children among Romanians found in lorry container

By By CATHERINE CLEARY and FRANK KILFEATHER

Tax audits bring in extra £149m

Mexican wave for Dublin fringe

By By LOUISE EAST

FG assails Smith's commentary on judgments in Army cases

`You don't know what you've got 'til it's gone'

National record for Louth

Men in black - work, ref and no pay

By By SEAN KILFEATHER

This Week They Said

Heroin user `will be dead at 20' if not stopped

By Mary Carolan

Ryanair complains about IPC figures

By By PADRAIG YEATES

Legislation sought to preserve quality landscapes

Riverside home lies vacant

By Colm Keena

An Irishman's Diary

By By FRANK KILFEATHER

Wild westerners

The hounding of the heretics

World champion sprinter who is determined to win without drugs

More openness to mixed religious schools needed

By By GARRET FITZGERALD

FCA corporal for sentence on rape

Putting away their spades

Diver dies in accident off Cork

Disgraced duo in return pledge

By By JOHN WARDLE

Enlargement delay fear as Austria takes over

Wexford opens new facility

Dempsey leaving RTE for Today

Angola says 215 killed in attack

Abortion ruling mirrors `X' case dilemma

By By JOE CARROLL

Springer in the lead

Depth the key to overcoming shaky build-up

Merrill Lynch grouping wins TE contract

By By BARRY O'KEEFFE

Religion on the agenda

Murphy makes it a treble

Indonesia's current fiscal difficulty seen as East Timor's opportunity

Civil marriages will be held on Saturdays for the first time

By By CHRISTINE NEWMAN

Church urges debt cancellation

Church grasps nettle of sectarianism

ESB negligence led to inspection accident, former employee claims in High Court

Carved Victorian sofa among Enniskillen lots

Walsh signals beef trade with Libya may resume

By By SEAN MACCONNELL

Tour De France

ASEAN meeting opens in discord

£290m package means free entry to museums, galleries

Scotland's jinx firmly in place

Bula's directors missed a host of warning signals

Where angels tread

By Eileen Battersby

You can't hurry integration

Gardai expect further influx of Romanians today after 47 found

By By MARIA PEPPER

Sinn Fein And Democracy

More body blows against PDs and the Haugheys

From the sublime . . .

By By JOHN MCKENNA

Tanaiste's Tax Plans

Head bangers

Fresh signs of Spring

£2,000 stolen from Kildare bank

A bear market at Dublin Castle

Late England losses may prove costly

By By MIKE SELVEY

Irish takes its place

McLaren strive to subdue Ferrari

By By MARTIN MCCARTHY

A Modernist eye

By By MICHAEL SMITH

Soldiers may use sick leave to escalate dispute

By By PADRAIG YEATES

Death Minus Zero, by John Baker (Vista, £5.99 in UK)

By By VINCENT BANVILLE

Helpline for students who sat Leaving Cert

By By CHRISTINE NEWMAN

Man gets 42 years for sex abuse of girls

Collecting Taxes

Ireland have no fears as Kerr seeks to double up

By Emmet Malone

1957 boycott woman to be buried today

By By CAROL COULTER

Irish Georgian and English furniture on offer

Walking at Sea Level, by Richard Kearney (Sceptre, £6.99 in UK)

By Arminta Wallace

Town & Country to offer presbytery furniture

Foreign policy faces pitfalls

People

Normal treatment for serious burn injuries since 1941

By By ALISON O'CONNOR

Aid worker on hunger strike

Open door for fugitive funds, but closed shop for refugees

By By DICK WALSH

Orange leader condemns man who quit order

Quinn fund set up in Monaghan

On a Greek Island: A Personal Experience, by Fionnuala Brennan (Poolbeg, £7.99)

By By VINCENT BANVILLE

Blood ties

The Homecoming

Davies moves into lead

Boost for EU travellers

Dishy sushi

God's weather and prices blamed for tourism slump

Fahey reaches semi-finals

The Squad

O'Sullivan surprises with entry for 5,000m

By By PETER BYRNE

Secrecy barriers broken

Ireland boys working and living in sweet harmony

Parliament's tribute to Ballymoney victims

Well-armed gastronome refuses to abandon his traditional rights

Car engine identified after two years, garda fraud trial told