Article Index

Irish abstention in EU vote to ban approval of new GM crops criticised

By Paul Cullen

To a Tea...

Roots

Sinn Fein And Policing

Hidden glamour of Welsh job

By John O'Sullivan

Seles is latest victim of teen army

By Johnny Watterson

Fifteen suffer violent deaths over two days as refugees continue to return home to Kosovo

Central Bank governor sees dismissal as possible option

By By JANE SUITER

Peirce among four honoured at NUI Galway

By Lorna Siggins

The Book Of Ruth by John Irving (Black Swan, £7.99 in UK)

By Eileen Battersby

Some questions that Moriarty left unanswered

Bundestag approves national memorial to Holocaust Jews

By Denis Staunton

Bonino keen to retain EU post

Appointment to Arts Council

Ads with a long life

Ushering in Bertie

Park equals record to take one-shot lead

Stocks closed mixed as optimism wanes

Tough European assignments for Irish provinces

By John O'Sullivan

Folk/Rock

By Kevin Courtney

S Korean tourist accused by North is freed

Unhappy landings

Provence: just knowing it's there helps

By Arminta Wallace

Clearing plates at Mange Tout

By Orna Mulcahy

Millennium matters

By Brian Boyd

ICC Bank staff could receive shareholdings worth £100,000

By Colm Keena

Unease underlies `normality' as the world closes in on Belgrade

Galway have the greater reserves

By By SEAN MORAN

Stolen vehicle hit 10 cars in chase

Roots

By Tony Clayton-Lea

Bligh's spirit

By By BRIAN FALLON

Another `last chance' looms

By By RENAGH HOLOHAN

Prodi stumbles into the euro spotlight

Ulster SFC First round

By By SEAN MORAN

Christiansted is great value

Supremely confident in beret and shiny boots

By By ROISIN INGLE

Interim deal at Palma airport

Tracing the stolen family silver before it ends up at auction

`Jardin a Auvers' is authentic

Honouring Lambert

Any fresh unrest may harm NI economy

By By JANE SUITER

Suspicion is blocking second chance for NI peace

By By DICK WALSH

Classical

Think twice before you get a head in the job-lot section at local auctions

By By SEAN MACCONNELL

Sierra Leone `peace in sight'

A Crime in the Neighbourhood by Suzanne Berne (Penguin, £6.99 in UK)

By Eileen Battersby

Turkey And The Kurds

Not my will but ...

Novel approach to tennis

Rights And Wrongs In Kosovo

`Disappeared dropped into sea'

All I need is the air . . .

By By JANE POWERS

Murdoch marriage reported

Genetically-Modified Foods

Planners back at the beginning again

Getting there

Drugs worth £1.8m seized

Travel Log

By By JOAN SCALES

Strong demand for Telecom cash an opportunity for banks

By By SEAN MAC CARTHAIGH

Morrison at last

`Railway rapist' jailed for life

Evidence links timers to bombs used by loyalists

Treatment for Irish sex offenders `inadequate'

By Tim O'Brien

Dublin awaits a long, hot, saucy Summers

First chief executive of the IRFU appointed

By John O'Sullivan

Courier pays for gruelling shoot

By Johnny Watterson

War made a poet of `Mad Jack'

By By JOHN BOLAND

Damascus strives to check Hizbullah after Israeli air strikes on Lebanon

By By DAVID HOROVITZ

Mardipour hard to beat

By Brian O'Connor

Forthcoming Auctions

California Postscript

Cambridge to seek gem deposits in Scotland

Dublin may be stirred but not shaken

By By SEAN MORAN

This story will run and run

Bribery and corruption - Wilde ideas for all seasons

By By GERRY COLGAN

Cereus Blooms at Night by Shani Mootoo (Granta, £6.99 in UK)

By Arminta Wallace

Principles agreed on arms but tough talks lie ahead

By By DEAGLAN DE BREADUN

Rio conference plans to throw open the windows

Be dad, it's the DuBedats

Greens say Government backtracking on Sellafield Greens

Social justice and economy `linked'

By By PADRAIG O'MORAIN

Modernist man

By Aidan Dunne

Art

By Aidan Dunne

Ahern, Blair say SF committed to decommissioning

By Gerry Moriarty

Dana's Election Success

Politicians blind to risks in selling State assets

Breakpoint

By By JIM WHITE

Sports Speak:

Bottle Of The Week

New BBC chief pledges to safeguard impartiality

Thousands attend funeral Mass of `an outstanding spiritual leader'

Farmers are facing difficulty in attracting workers to agriculture

Strong start by DCC

Family values

By By HARRY BROWNE

`World' premiere

By Michael Dervan

First for Easterby

By Brian O'Connor

£30m Esat GSM contract

Last Olympics for Johnson

Annan tribute to Diana

The Stillest Day, by Josephine Hart (Vintage, £5.99 in UK)

By Arminta Wallace

Three new cases of BSE found

The words we use

By By DIARMAID O MUIRITHE

Limerick considered for 800-job project

Air strikes by India as Pakistan squeezed

Former president of Mexico must answer questions in public

Steady hand on new ship

Respect for the big hitting Las Vegan reaches new level

By Johnny Watterson

Dane to get trip

By Brian O'Connor

Four major unions warn Government of unrest on pay

By By PADRAIG YEATES

Oil shares weaken on Elf Acquitaine downgrade

Clapton guitar sold for $497,500

One day at a time

Business group calls for progress

My writing day

By By ANITA DESAI

Child murder sparks new fears

Boys oh boys

By Eileen Battersby

Beckett among the ruins

By By TERENCE KILLEEN

A woman of substance

Wonder-boy's dazzling mastery of the absurd

By Eileen Battersby

Up to 2,000 jobs under threat as disputes escalate

By By PADRAIG YEATES and JOAN DUIGNAN

Banks and Elan drag market to 1999 low

By By EIBHIR MULQUEEN

Bowden tells Guerin murder trial he loaded Magnum gun for the hitman

Garden Work

The Northern gloom hangs over everything else

Initiative may bring US jobs to Derry area

By Tim O'Brien

Rights And Wrongs In Kosovo

The art of roofing

O'Rourke arguing for lower price for shares in Telecom71 lines

By Cliff Taylor

Leinster Leader looks to buy Aluset

By Cliff Taylor

Talks on Telecom price set to intensify

By Cliff Taylor

Health Warnings

US member quits arms commission

Purchase Of Farmleigh

Winning ways inside and outside the ring

`Long March' To Drumcree

Suburbanised tale of horror

By By EDDIE HOLT

Auction Results

It all started with the Sugar Loaf

By Rosita Boland

European fishing championship

Five fined on tax offences

Heavy on the hormones

By Hugh Linehan

Parties on the march

`Trail of Tears' a huge blot on Jackson's life

By By JOE CARROLL

Sligo - where two football codes collide

Rock

By Kevin Courtney

The end of an era in Irish meteorology

Mowlam rejects Wright inquiry

This Week They Said

Irish team recovers some ground at bridge championship

By By SEAMUS DOWLING

Scaling Rio's summit

Woman's body taken from river

Drink deep

By By MARY DOWEY

Press advertising rises

A key test for a new syllabus

By By ANNE BYRNE

Drug baron who projected the image of a family man

By Barry Roche

Women's NFL Finals Division One

By Ian O'Riordan

Bus workers vote to reject plan

South Africans wary of Wales

UA fails to stop World Bank loan to impoverished Chinese province

Air-sea rescue display by RNLI

One of the sport's great optimists

By By DERMOT GILLEECE

The games abnormal little girls play

By Mary Hannigan

Rock/Pop

Elderly priest charged with sex offences

Major drugs dealer is sentenced to 22 years in prison

By Barry Roche

Whisky galore

Worried By Words

Video Releases

By By MICHAEL DWYER

Pilate Explains

By By JOHN O'DONNELL

Tina at daggers drawn

By By JOHN BANVILLE

Order granted on Travellers

Pembroke look to Australian

By By TOM DEVLIN

Airlines caught in a crosswind on costs

The Work Ethic

Strawberry Fair steam train trip

How very French

By By EILEBY LOUISE EASTEN BATTERSBY

Republican Sinn Fein

Riddle resolved

Dame Judi Dench returns home

Schumacher leads at Magny Cours

By By JUSTIN HYNES

Reprieve too late to save man

A national treasure in the Phoenix Park?

By By SEAN KILFEATHER

Getting into the swing of an urban jungle clean-up

By By POL O MUIRI

Mbeki criticised for failure to condemn `dishonesty' statement

By By PATRICK LAURENCE

Man (19) dies after stabbing

They walk alone

By By BOB MC CARTNEY

All eyes on the Derby skies

By Brian O'Connor

Star-studded line-up

Graham Bradley was back in business and thrilled

FLS seeking to recruit more staff

By By BARRY O'KEEFFE

The Pimlico Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Composers by Mark Morris (Pimlico, £15 in UK)

By By ALEX MOFFATT

Democracy ushered in by a revolution of words

By By VIKTOR O RBAN

Radio Previews

By Sylvia Thompson

Transsexual wins custody battle

The tides affecting the affairs of men

By By BRENDAN MCWILLIAMS

Man sentenced to four years for abusing girls

England confident of winning Centenary Test

Footsie recovers ground on back of Wall St rally

State must pay man for seized drink

Giving trainers the boot

Pitting price against earnings

By By LAURA DEVOY

Red-skirted sceptic confounded

By By LOUISE EAST

Blue Note Quotes

By By KIM BUNCE

VHI profits do little to cheer members

Supporters applaud as Long March leaves Limavady for second stage

By By CLARE MURPHY

Mayor warns of extinction if talks fail

Balancing the short and the long term

Achin' blues served light

By By EMILY O'SULLIVAN

From gaeltacht to DART-tacht

By Frank McNally

Force is with them for the final exam

By By ANNE BYRNE

Russian crew walks off ship in row over wages

By Arthur Beesley

The poor were always with us

By By SEAN MAC REAMOINN

US to review embassy closures

Shiny new texts and new ideas should ensure that the teaching of English into the future will, in Elizabeth Bishop's words, be `Rainbow, rainbow, rainbow!'

Readings

By By YVONNE DRYSDALE

Ahern gives no hint of nominee for EU post

By By MARK BRENNOCK

Forging nature's signature

By Michael Viney

"Prepare To Meet Thy Doom" (Hmm)

Drugs Anger

Forthcoming Fairs

Positions harden ahead of crucial talks on NI logjam

By Joe Humphreys

Some perspectives on the economic records of governments in the 1980s

By By GARRET FITZGERALD

Financiers had no dealings with Lowry

By Colm Keena

Swiftly down the Mekong

More join Anglican clergy

Kenmare trims back its losses

Money, money everywhere

Jazz up those sleeves

By By STEPHEN BAYLEY

Bodkin: the man who put Irish art in the picture

By By ROBERT O'BYRNE

Step children

CBT Group wraps up acquisition

`We are the eyes of the world in these parts'

Veterinary school to be moved to Belfield campus

By Joe Humphreys

Sex shop plans exposed `flaw'

AIB shows way on expansion

By Dominic Coyle

Growing new ideas

An Irishman's Diary

By By KEVIN MYERS

Derry men arrested over bomb due in court as security is stepped up

By By JIM CUSACK

`No suitable place' for troubled boy (16)

By Mary Carolan

No more glory in Britrock's sorry story

By Kevin Courtney

Archbishop Eames decides he cannot give `blessing' to July 4th Drumcree service

By By CLARE MURPHY

Hitler's Banker: Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht by John Weitz (Warner Books, £7.99 in UK)

By By BRIAN FALLON

Talent for understanding

By By MICHAEL SMITH

Blue Note Music

By By NEIL SPENCER

Ethiopia accused of new attacks

The Return of Little Big Man by Thomas Berger (Harvill Press, £15.99 in UK)

By By BRIAN FALLON

The Real Deal

Support for the underdog and a great spirit of public service

By By EAMONN O MUIRI

Burma's blood-red carpet

Clinton hopes NI talks will succeed

By By JOE CARROLL

Stena Line forced to cancel eight sailings

Foolproof fish cooking

By By JOHN MCKENNA

`Lightsabres' are withdrawn

Panchen Lama holds baptisms