Article Index

Takeover talk in banks sends markets higher

Man jailed for shouting abuse

The Spy In The Castle

Baize battles

By Johnny Watterson

Ethnic cleansing - a vengeful reversal

Barging ahead

By By MARY RUSSELL

Atreus falls again

By By GERRY COLGAN

Eighteenth Century (Part 2)

Medinah's tale of guns and Armour

Mud slide kills 14, injures 50

Never mind the words, just tuck in

By By JOHN MCKENNA

Bunk warning to asthmatics

Pressure to call time on present licensing laws as drinkers and publicans want later closing

With head firmly between shoulders, O Conaire statue is back in one piece

Slight easing of US interest rate pressures

Garden Work

By By JANE POWERS

National symbols still divide Japan

Tripping over the eclipse

By Hugh Linehan

Deceit, betrayal in civil war Kerry

By By GERRY COLGAN

Stocks soar as inflation remains in check

The last of Larry

UN issues urgent aid plea on Africa's needy

Police Authority petitions Patten for strengthening of its powers

By By NUALA HAUGHEY

Japan approves deal with US on missile research

Cash for good media coverage backfires on Australian banks

Sporting old duke once again shoots from the hip

By Frank McNally

Turkey, Iran in rebels deal

Almost everyone happy at Enterprise

By Dominic Coyle

Rock/Pop

Offaly nice in the rain

By By CATHERINE FOLEY

Rock

Cork prisoner found hanged

Church Of Ireland Notes

Country/Roots

Abortion issue resurfaces, and spectacle of eclipse draws large audience

By By PATRICIA LEAHY

Artist with a cool, precise, elegant style

Dance

Rowing in

Rapist dragged girl into alley

A bridge too far for Clare this time

By By SEAN MORAN

Silly little people

By By ROBERT O'BYRNE

`My desk is appalling: a PC, piles of books and letters, and coffee cups'

By By BLAKE MORRISON

Greeks On The Street

By By MARY DOWEY

Four Belfast men die in car plunge after crash in Donegal

Burst main disrupts water supply

Matthews takes on Nolan

By By PETER BYRNE

Approval for demolition of historic Galway cottage condemned

By Lorna Siggins

Holiday hell (Part 1)

By By MAEVE BINCHY

Omagh leaders appeal to Derry and Belfast marchers to avoid conflict

By By GEORGE JACKSON

Fires blaze in Corsica

Call for regulations to control the level of sound in cinemas

By Joe Humphreys

Carlberg probably surprised

By Philip Reid

Children's Sunshine Home

Three guides to mortgages from B of I

Russian PM appointment raises Cold War spectres of KGB spies

`Realpolitik' requires putting aside emotion to build inclusive society

By By GARRET FITZGERALD

Author explores a very personal tragedy

Traditional

The end of war brings no peace to those who watch life pass by

`Health studios' where the exercise involved is sex

Live Register shows increase in July

Sniper shoots Russian soldier

Dublin among best airports

By Tim O'Brien

Waxing Roth

By Hugh Linehan

Stillorgan bus lane delayed by roadworks

By Tim O'Brien

Impressive Derry turn some heads

By Emmet Malone

Clare backs must cage Carey and co

A Haunted Heart. By John MacKenna. Picador. 264pp. £15.99 in UK

By By JOHN KENNY

A Year After Omagh

Nugent back to best form

Smyth shows his worth

By By KARL JOHNSTON

Pope appeals for life of killer

3 accused of eating human flesh

Massive offices scheme given go-ahead

By Jack Fagan

New Scottish optimism finds itself threatened by sleep-walking bigotry

House-buying for investment `not a problem'

By By CHRISTINE NEWMAN

Jagger and Hall end `marriage that never was'

Promising the sun, the moon and the stars

By Frank McNally

French firms accused of sewage use in feed

Eye On Nature

By Michael Viney

Victims' charter to permit review

By By PADRAIG O'MORAIN

Review of laws `unrelated' to magazine ban

By Roddy O'Sullivan

Minister says gas find will benefit State

By Lorna Siggins

Day the troops marched in to nationalist welcome

Auction Results

Victims hope passing of anniversary will allow them get on with their lives

86 kidnap victims freed in Liberia

Next Month's Problem

By By MAEVE BINCHY

Greed Of The Tiger

Jordan boxes clever over likely new signing Trulli

By By JUSTIN HYNES

Telecom firms to fund £60m in link access from State

By Madeleine Lyons

Presbyterian Church Demolition

Vialli adds Italian winger to squad

Easy Walks near Dublin by Joss Lynam (Gill and Macmillan, £7.99)

By Lorna Siggins

Springer not to run for Senate

Shelbourne - 1, Galway United - 1

Same name until this week, many incarnations in 24 years

Classical

Forthcoming Fairs

Omagh to come to a standstill

Indonesian troops fire on villagers

By Joe Humphreys

People

Man fined over petrol offence

Damage to eyes from eclipse

Track return not far off

By By PETER BYRNE

Swinging close to Heaven on Cruit Island

By Mary Hannigan

Tokyo story

By Eileen Battersby

Irish Standard & Poor's debt rating is stable

By By JANE O'SULLIVAN

You could write a book about it

By By KATHY CREMIN

Older Keane seeing the big picture more clearly

Keane delays announcing decision on contract offer

By Joe Humphreys

Costs hit profits at Celtic

Lamont shareholdings

Arrival of peacekeeping forces in East Timor likely to be delayed for 4 months after independence ballot

Norwich sharesave scheme

Colombia pictures

By By MARY RUSSELL

Greed Of The Tiger

A summoning up of ghosts

By By BRIAN FALLON

No quick solution to our housing problem

By By MAIRE GEOGHEGAN-QUINN

`In Dublin' ban shows we're in the silly season

Short but, oh, so sweet

By By FIACHRA O MARCAIGH

Keeping an eye on autumn

Northern dentistry may make smaller cavity in the purse

By By JAMIE SMYTH

Omagh anger as masterminds still free

Minmet to raise £11.8m

Heart disease deaths among world's highest

By By EAMON TIMMINS

Telecom investors learn to live with lows

By Dominic Coyle

Bush jnr - a presidential hopeful `unserious' about Texas executions

By By SEAN CRONIN

Classical

Taylor has few legal options to contest extradition

By By RACHEL DONNELLY

Vanity case

By Eileen Battersby

Owner of 25 terriers gets one week to prove there is no need to kill them

The Talented Mr Ripley, Ripley Under Ground, Ripley's Game by Patricia Highsmith (Vintage, £6.99 each)

By By JOHN BOLAND

Vatican And Homosexuality

Never mind posterity, don't write it down

By By JOHN HORGAN

Smooth operators

By By CATHERINE FOLEY

Newspaper reports on suspect's day

Warning To Wexford Bachelors

Holiday hell (Part 2)

Old heads turn up trumps as Clare strive for the goal touch

Poverty prompted escape that claimed lives of teenage boys

Vocations: not easy, but worthwhile

US figures banish sellers to the sidelines

Age handicap

By Johnny Watterson

Poor box money used for lodgings of boy (14)

Bring on the fuchsia

By By JANE POWERS

Fears as price of cocaine falls sharply

By By EAMON TIMMINS

HIV doctor jailed for sex with wife

Colombia's path to peace lies in good, humane government, not in any US intervention

By By JONATHAN POWER

Fox issues ultimatum to Government on abortion referendum

By By MIRIAM DONOHOE

Tension mounts in North amid appeals for calm

By By SUZANNE BREEN

So good I went there twice

Seven die in Manila blasts

Deafness And Theatre

Another Dettori century

United baulk at Keane rate

By By PETER BYRNE

Gunmen kill top comedian in street shooting

Mills, mines, septs, strangers and starvation

By By RICHARD ROCHE

Bottle Of The Week

By By MARY DOWEY

16-year-old is charged with murder

Aid for Africa

Beatty throws his hat in the ring

Ceili Summer Schools nights

By Rosita Boland

Banning Of `In Dublin'

Witnessing the `world dead' in the fields of northern France

Back in the swing aiming for home run

By Sonia O'Sullivan

FF to give tribunal details of donations

By By MIRIAM DONOHOE

This Week They Said

Graf retires in her own style with nothing left to prove

NCC/David Brophy

By Michael Dervan

Paul plays key role as Ulster prevail

Today's Previews

By Emmet Malone

Honeymoon ended early for troops as North descended into three decades of violence

Visitors off to a perfect start

No comment

The crazy man who'd rather sing opera

By By JOHN KELLY

Sports Speak - Quotes of week

By Johnny Watterson

Two executed in Saudi Arabia

Death alighted in sunshine, festivity and laughter

Presbyterian Notes

The Big Prize (Part 1)

We must learn the lessons of neglecting education

By By DENIS COGHLAN

Death On The Roads

Elm bark beetle thrives in long hot summers

By By BRENDAN MCWILLIAMS

Check in and check it out

By Arminta Wallace

Travel Log

By By JOAN SCALES

Munster expecting western backlash

By Gerry Thornley

Shark spotting in the summer

By Michael Viney

Homemade bomb and arms found in Belfast school

By By NUALA HAUGHEY

Two remanded on drug charge

A little piece of France to savour

Church demolition is postponed for two weeks

By Tim O'Brien

Pretentious? Moi? Madrigals and Proust, anyone

By By LOUISE EAST

Eighteenth Century (Part 1)

Rovers roar in

Great food, but where is the sea?

By Orna Mulcahy

VAT contract from Israel

Jockey falls

By Johnny Watterson

Taylor's legal input returns to haunt him

By Dominic Coyle

Bashashah is best

Hungaro sting

Jazz

Mock Horror

The Big Prize (Part 2)

Higher costs hit profit at Goffs

By By SIOBHAN CREATON

Rogue Trader by Nick Leeson (Warner Books, £5.99 in UK)

By By JOE CULLEY

Advertising pioneer of brand identity

Chinese boat people forced to swim to remote island through frigid sea

French bank takeover row nears stalemate

Weld will Make No Mistake

Nearly 3,000 pardoned in South Korea amnesty

A Patchwork Planet by Anne Tyler (Vintage, £6.99 in UK)

By Eileen Battersby

State to pursue parents who dodge maintenance

By By MIRIAM DONOHOE

The Words We Use

By By DIARMAID O MUIRITHE

Temperance is a virtue

By By MICHAEL PAINTER

The Mor, the merrier

By Rosita Boland

Greek wine - no tragedy

By By MARY DOWEY

The Way to Bright Star by Dee Brown (Arrow, £6.99 in UK)

By Arminta Wallace

Ulster still more streetwise

By Gerry Thornley

Phoenix Irish Short Stories selected and edited by David Marcus (Phoenix, £6.99 in UK)

By Arminta Wallace

AIB recovery fails to prevent market spillage

By By JANE O'SULLIVAN

Putin expected to get approval in Duma vote

An Irishman's Dairy

By By KEVIN MYERS

Man accused of robbing students

The world comes to Kilkenny

MCI WorldCom systems failures cripple networks

By Karlin Lillington

TV cook who dealt in dollops, not ounces, of high-fat ingredients

The Conformist by Alberto Moravia (Pryon, £6.99 in UK

By By BRIAN FALLON

Alice got it wrong about croquet

By By CATHERINE FOLEY

Dark undercurrents run in festival art

By Aidan Dunne

Roaring Bills it is

By By MAURICE MANNING

Tales from the skip

Love is in the air

By By CATHERINE FOLEY

Hudson remains bogey free

Alas, poor Barret was too successful at his art

Boys injured in car crash

Soldier, GAA footballer, scholar and family man

Future of `In Dublin' editor is in doubt

Sun spots

Staff not priority for firms - survey

By By SEAN MAC CARTHAIGH

National League: Premier Division team-by-team guide

By Emmet Malone

Hot Haas still has what it takes

By By DERMOT GILLEECE

Terror and warm welcomes for volunteers in search of a war

Blaming Magpies

Mortgage rates rise on fixed-interest products

By By JANE O'SULLIVAN

Russia opens major Dagestan assault

By By NIKOLAI TOPURIA

Advocaat advocates attack

More Shrews Than You Think