Article Index

Schools neglect languages, conference told

By By EMMET OLIVER

The Passion of Cork

By By HELEN MEANY

Legends in their own crunch-time Ernest Hemingway

By By COLUM MCCANN

ESB seeks to reduce staff by almost 25%

By Arthur Beesley

No confidence PSEU votes fail

Maeve's times (Part 1)

A roundabout dissertation on the firefly

By By BRENDAN MCWILLIAMS

Are we followers of Pilate?

The Romantic, by Hermann Broch, translated by Willa and Edwin Muir (Penguin, £6.99 in UK)

By Eileen Battersby

Gonzalez Affair

Media displays momentum

By By LAURA DE VOY and SHANE LYNCH

Aid agencies call for urgent action on Ethiopia

By By CHRISTINE NEWMAN

Musical chairs

By By MICHAEL DWYER

Paramilitaries should sign up to Mitchell Principles

Trimble: onus for breaking deadlock on paramilitaries

By Gerry Moriarty

Book on the law and trade unions

Passerby lost eye after he was stabbed

Baileys fail to prevent public scrutiny at tribunal

Carruth fails to make weight

By Johnny Watterson

Anita Groener: Heartlands

By By MARK EWART

Kilbane revels in the big time

North parties to discuss Government documents

By By MARK BRENNOCK

Glanbia to expand plant

Sex in the Future, by Robin Baker (Pan, £6.99 in UK)

By By SARAH MARRIOTT

Purges show China still fears effects of change

Shakespeare ready to advertise his Derby claims

By Brian O'Connor

Geraghty warns on housing forum

Stade Francais

Havana warns exiles

Maeve's times (Part 2)

McCreevy And The "Pinkos"

Cosgrave's diligent, right-hand man

Gael Linn warns on teaching of Irish

Forthcoming Auctions

Campaigning for truth and justice

Grace Gifford Plunkett

Colleges Previews: Sunday (3.30)

By Ian O'Riordan

Law may require Janet Reno to order armed seizure of a little boy of six

Push is on to make Limerick home of Irish rugby

By By EIBHIR MULQUEEN

More Catholics satisfied with RUC, poll reveals

By By MONIKA UNSWORTH

Eye On Nature

By Michael Viney

Selling intensifies on inflation fears

The Book Of Kells

Greek court rules on massacre

Doonbeg catches a big one

Back on the rights track

By Rosita Boland

Dundalk threaten legal proceedings

By Emmet Malone

In a Soulful Embrace

European space and EU design not quite the same

By Paul Gillespie

Full legal standing for hearings in chambers

By By CAROL COULTER

Jack L puts the boot in

By Tony Clayton-Lea

Behind The Wall

By Kevin Courtney

From hick to chick

GPs to decide on talks with VHI on primary care scheme

By By DR MUIRIS HOUSTON

White Paper On Defence

Saul in the mind

By Eileen Battersby

Where France and Germany meet

Holocaust Denial

From North to South

By By RENAGH HOLOHAN

Minister introduces Bill to remove legal checks on growth of e-commerce

Study finds racial prejudice has increased in North

By Gerry Moriarty

Calling Cork and Galway

20 years on the deck

The Oxford Book of Detective Stories, ed. Patricia Craig (Oxford University Press, £12.99 in UK)

Poet on the run

By By MATTHEW SWEENEY

Bring them on

This Week They Said

"Vanishing Tramways"

National League Previews

By Emmet Malone

Incredible games

By Johnny Watterson

Challenge for Belfast project

Rapist serving 20-year term kills himself in Dublin jail

By By CLARE MURPHY

Hard reading on the Holocaust

By By JULIA NEUBERGER

Digging up past that shaped our present

By By DICK WALSH

Pulse FM loses court appeal

McDonagh milestones

BSE cases set to rise under new active surveillance scheme

By By SEAN MACCONNELL

Rising US inflation spurs big sell-off on Wall Street

By By BRENDAN MCGRATH

2kg of heroin seized in Dublin

An Irishman' Diary

By By KEVIN MYERS

Continuity IRA admits attack

Methodist Notes

O'Connor delayed

Parties clash over source of allegation about Bruton

By By KEVIN RAFTER

Charlton miss a promotion chance

The Judge

Inspectors warn over tax audits

Cooney leaves Jurys Doyle

A consistent poll-topper at local level

Bobs yer long-lost relative

By By JUDITH CROSBY

Duffy aims to achieve the mark for Sydney

By By PETER BYRNE

Forthcoming Fairs

St Ann's No to lodge should be seen in Drumcree context

Renee Fleming: Strauss Heroines (Decca)

By Arminta Wallace

Mansergh may seek FF nomination

Ideological divide failing children at risk

By Breda O'Brien

Gallery of taoisigh

By By RENAGH HOLOHAN

Tim Lawson: The Right Way On (Timberholme Records)

By By JOE BREEN

Man convicted of arms charges

Experts on the North gather in Washington

By By SEAN CRONIN

O'Leary remains Celtic's choice

By Michael Walker

Leeds win argument over ban on fans

By Michael Walker

US rates set to increase on inflation news

By By JANE SUITER

Hurling star assault case is adjourned

The Mummies of Urumchi, by Elizabeth Wayland Barber (Pan, £7.99 in UK)

By By BRIAN FALLON

Microsoft woes hit the Nasdaq

By Dominic Coyle

The changing face of Irish abroad

By By LOUISE EAST

Cricket's innocence lies in ashes

By Mary Hannigan

Ivernia West raises €8.5m

Nevin murder undermines belief that killers are sinister outsiders

Another symbol for Red Cross

Young Botham to play a key role for Cardiff

How can it veil?

By By JUDITH CROSBY

Getting there

74 dead after ferry accident

Bottle of the Week

By By MARY DOWEY

Footsie poleaxed by negative start in US

AIL/Preview

By Gerry Thornley

Crean shelves dividends after poor results

By By MARY CANNIFFE

This Sporting Life, by David Storey (Vintage, £6.99 in UK)

By Arminta Wallace

Fresh light on the Archbishops

By By RICHARD ROCHE

Cinema

By By MICHAEL DWYER

Warrant issued for man on parole

Violence stalks the farms of what was once Africa's success story

Vlad the impaler

By By JOHN BANVILLE

Munster

By Johnny Watterson

Classical

By Michael Dervan

All tastes catered for in big menu

By By SEAN MORAN

Followers and fashions

By By EDDIE HOLT

Pushing out the boundaries as coroner and GP

Quinlivan extradition appeal dismissed

By Mary Carolan

Telecoms boom may cause number chaos

By Dominic Coyle

Church Of Ireland Notes

WorldPort sets up Dublin base

By By MARY CANNIFFE

A winner, a leader and a legend

Auction Alert

By By MARY DOWEY

Decommissioning problems have left peace process surviving on crumbs of consolation

Love takes control

Thousands will die if rains do not materialise

Unfortunate phrases convey intolerance of criticism

Vision of race riots confronts Australia and Olympic officials

Lip-smacking with Lamb. . .

By By MARY DOWEY

Battle of the British building buffs

By By ROBERT O'BYRNE

The Words We Use

By By DIARMAID O MUIRITHE

Meridian needs no licence, court rules

Just the ticket for Trinity Bill

By By RENAGH HOLOHAN

Courts battle over Elian's future

De Chastelain urged to meet NI parties on arms impasse

By By RACHEL DONNELLY

500 Army deafness cases due for next law term adjourned

By Mary Carolan

Garcia leads Europe charge

By John O'Sullivan

And all just for a tenor

By By JUDITH CROSBY

Testing The Ceasefire

Two issues of legal procedure have yet to be resolved in O Buachalla case

First Active salaries not linked to performance

By Dominic Coyle

5-year jail term for storing drug

The first modernist

Delving deep into the hidden treasure of our mines

By Michael Viney

Painting power

By By JANE POWERS

Hot dog, jumping frog, the Sprouts for Dublin

By Tony Clayton-Lea

Time to rewrite the sentence

By By HARRY BROWNE

Mongan seeks Spring boost

Titan: Elevator (Virgin)

By Kevin Courtney

Dusk Till Dawn: The Best of Capercaillie (Survival Records)

By By MIC MORONEY

Protests may mar meeting of IMF

Travel Log

By By JOAN SCALES

A sting in the tale

Eulogies At Catholic Funerals

Corrections And Clarifications

Daring to be different in a golden era of book publishers

The Rocket is set to fire this time

By By DONALD MCRAE

Shedding a dim light on lobbying

US sanctions on N Korea and Iran

Schools may close during practical and oral exams

By By SEAN FLYNN and EMMET OLIVER

Rebel Hearts: Journeys Within the IRA's Soul, by Kevin Toolis (Picador, £7.99 in UK)

Jazz

By By RAY COMISKEY

Iarnrod Eireann is not obliged to negotiate with train drivers' group judge

UN hears of Copts' deaths

Straw rejects claim by union leader of fostering racism

By By RACHEL DONNELLY

The right age to retire

By By KATIE DONOVAN

Sunday's National Hurling League Previews (3.30 unless stated)

By By SEAN MORAN

A convert to colour

By Aidan Dunne

Blues and bop from deep in the soul

By By JOHN KELLY

Junior doctors attack Martin speech

By Ed Power

Weekend talks to avert new threat to DART

By By PADRAIG YEATES

Opposition leaders unite for major anti-Milosevic rally

By By GILLIAN SANDFORD

Dunloe Ewart planning to go private

By By BRENDAN MCGRATH

Academic has joined protest over college's standards

Lamb

By By JOHN MCKENNA

Sean Quinn donated £30,000 to objectors

By Colm Keena

Auction Results

Not flash enough

By Johnny Watterson

3 jailed over official's death

Recording the diverse lives and roles of Clare diaspora

The battle of the bands

Eircell battle with Cellular still to be resolved by court

By Arthur Beesley

Horse's head was not Shergar's

ISEQ bucks international trend to close ahead

By By BRENDAN MCGRATH

There's something about Farrelly

By Brian Boyd

Dance

By By CAROLYN SWIFT

Booking/Tickets

Mary Custy (with Stephen Flaherty): After 10.30 (Independent)

By By MIC MORONEY

Suits in dispute

By Johnny Watterson

Tumbling TMTs help send bourses lower

Croke Park could be made ready for rugby

By By SEAN MORAN

An orgy of immorality

By By MISHA GLENNY

EU bureaucrats `not overpaid'

Book of Kells damage `not mentioned'

Dining for Charity

By By MARY DOWEY

Oddbins Online

By By MARY DOWEY

Noye sentenced to life in prison for M25 road-rage murder

Caught in her own web (Part 2)

Random road checks for drink urged

By By DR MUIRIS HOUSTON

`Strange and terrible forms enter life and tear it apart'

By By JACK HANNA

With time running out, is it possible to revive the agreement?

Garden Work

By By JANE POWERS

Jittery glittery House

By By JUDITH CROSBY

Hurling surprises

By By RENAGH HOLOHAN

Study finds big variation in hospital X-ray radiation levels

By Dick Ahlstrom

Munster have real fighting chance

By Gerry Thornley

A most acceptable union

By Paul Gillespie

Soldier jailed for killing wife

Steam train trip to Mullingar

Rumbling the sleep thieves

By By ANGELIQUE CHRISAFIS

County councillors seek meeting with Dempsey over mayoral elections

By Tim O'Brien

Yo, trad rush the show

Great Expectations

By By CAROLYN SWIFT

Boom And Bust

A gentleman painter and a champion of the arts

Redmond treated the same way as others

By Dominic Coyle

Talking heads

Statement by John Bruton TD, leader of FG

Back in the pool

By Johnny Watterson

Wilf Mannion dies

Recognition of older people as social partners urged

By Kitty Holland

Ferry Sexy

Putin hails vote on arms treaty

Various Artists: Music from and inspired by the motion picture Pokemon - The First Movie (Atlantic)

By Kevin Courtney

TV Listings Market

Inquiry set to proceed as haemophilia group gets extra funds

By Joe Humphreys

Building restrictions on people from outside Wicklow defended

By Frank McNally

Orange And Green Will Carry The Day?

Light from farthest quasar makes 12bn year journey

By Dick Ahlstrom

To RUC officers, a cross of sacrifice

TD calls for register on lobbyists

Dunlop may break the habit

Haughey vote

By By RENAGH HOLOHAN

Much to celebrate

Diary Dates

By By JANE POWERS

Samoans get death sentence

On the move

By By RENAGH HOLOHAN

Premiership News

A pause for claws

By Orna Mulcahy

Domino Rising

The pain principle

Export rules simplified

Ireland sweep to victory in France<

No succour at the soccer

By Ed Power

IFG to buy out subsidiary

The Garda

Angling Notes

By By DEREK EVANS

President warns of challenge of wealth

By Joe Humphreys

May we have a little lamb

By By MARY DOWEY

All Blacks on tour

By Johnny Watterson

Let the party begin

Trisha Yearwood: Real Live Woman (Universal)

By By JOE BREEN

Missing a Killing

By Frank McNally

Rape trial jury is sent to hotel

Mugabe says Zimbabweans must be let take over land

By By OUR FOREIGN STAFF

Video Releases

By By MICHAEL DWYER

Many analysts believe current bull market is heading for a bear phase

Aid For Haemophiliacs

Dail beating

By By RENAGH HOLOHAN

Allegations Of Corruption

Readings

By By YVONNE DRYSDALE

Caught in her own web (Part 1)

Sports Speak: The week in quotes

By Johnny Watterson

McCreevy And The "Pinkos"

Dow suffers worst-ever loss

Maeve's times (Part 3)

Labour health paper all things to all people

By By MICHEAL MARTIN

£27,000 indexed pension goes to Redmond

By By EITHNE DONNELLAN

The Mercy Boys, by John Burnside (Vintage, £5.99 in UK)

By Eileen Battersby