Article Index

The Ebony Venus

By Lara Marlowe

Vienna wants horses in nappies

Funnell gathers steam

By By GRANIA WILLIS

IVEA wants teacher unions to call off industrial action

By By EMMET OLIVER

Past, present, future

By By RAY COMISKEY

Russian men get dead drunk

Proposals to end refuse dispute

New licensing laws `threat' to the future of family-run pubs

Eight dead and 50 injured in Galatasaray celebrations

Palest gleam in the deepest dark

By Michael Viney

Revising the murky past

By By EDDIE HOLT

Rebels attempt to topple Paraguay government

Lack of flotation proposals worry Aer Rianta managers

By Arthur Beesley

Sydney berth for Irish duo

By David Branigan

Will Anybody Say Stop?

Government policies have linked social and economic objectives

Forthcoming Auctions

Wild card of Europe

Church Of Ireland Notes

Winner promises social spending

Silence is best policy now for governments

Limerick's king and queen will need poetic skills

It's not that I don't care

By By LOUISE EAST

Politicians respond feebly to the crisis within

By By DICK WALSH

Garden Work

Steam train trips to Greystones

Exchanges beset by doubt for second time

Fable of the Blair babe

Love takes advantage of early start

Stanzas in the shed

By By DOUGLAS DUNN

Dentists' and doctors' independence could be casualty of proposed VHI plan

Catholic Schools

Drama of the ordinary

By Aidan Dunne

Doyenne of Scots Gaelic folk singers

Extra troops for Sierra Leone

Ministers held as negotiations fail to end Fiji coup

Far out wines

By By MARY DOWEY

Film production upsurge with 18 planned projects

By By MICHAEL DWYER

In the labyrinth of language

By By R. B. TOBIN

Davy to reduce minimum charges on share trading

By By MARY CANNIFFE

Northern Ireland Diary Dates

International journalists' institute honours Veronica Guerin's bravery

Travel Log

By By JOAN SCALES

15 asylum seekers settle in to Donegal

Chair in fund management

Union leaders criticised for staying silent in face of scandals

By By PADRAIG YEATES

First charge of software piracy

Father of triplets found dead

First Active finds itself on a learning curve

By Dominic Coyle

Doctors reject VHI draft plans to cover cost of visits by GPs

By By EITHNE DONNELLAN

Investment flight from tech stocks intensifies

It's time to put levels of corruption in context

By Breda O'Brien

Diocesan celebrations at Curragh

Inquest on sisters killed in S America

Parsnips, sparks of thought, and forecasts

By By BRENDAN MCWILLIAMS

Sports Speak: Week in quotes

Hillary sees opponent's style swing from tawdry to tragedy

Art

By Aidan Dunne

Bottle of the Week

Jordan suffer Honda setback

By By JUSTIN HYNES

Dancing over the waves

By Lorna Siggins

Knees must

Passing the acid test

By Orna Mulcahy

Radio grouping acquires newspapers

No end to painful choices for Trimble

Three in court for air-hose assault

Irish kept at bay

Mixed signals from Minister confusing for Kosovans here

By Chris Dooley

Spending Japan's way out of a long recession

Former `Sun' editor dies

Budget support is high, says Ahern

By By CHRISTINE NEWMAN

Best from the North-West

Rich medleys of Celtic imagery, descriptions and curiosities

By By DAITHI O HOGAIN

Champions' strong case for defence

By By SEAN MORAN

Alternatives to jail not availed of

Maturing Shannon has `Monk's Island' site for its own cemetery

Former candidate calls for protests

All change at the Bridge

Draskovic warns of `bloodshed'

Fires threaten Chernobyl plant

France shocked by confession

Romanian police officers' role in asylum process criticised

By By NUALA HAUGHEY

Fanagan plays it down line

By By DERMOT GILLEECE

The War in Eritrea

Increase in price of potatoes is expected from next week

By By SEAN MACCONNELL

Battle of the bottle

By By RORY CARROLL

Rediscovered Roderic O'Conor work sells at auction for almost £300,000

By By ROBERT O'BYRNE

Firework plant boss arrested

Spending on newspaper advertising increasing

Techmark 100 suffers biggest one-day decline

Quinn should be wary of making sweeping denunciations

Garda search for bodies of IRA victims to be called off this evening

By Patsy McGarry

Eircom loses €353m in volatile trading

By By MARY CANNIFFE

Leinster SFC: Preliminary round

By By SEAN MORAN

Video Releases

By Hugh Linehan

Eye On Nature

Telling tales

Chubby one's bat out of hell

Solid Lansdowne can take it

By Gerry Thornley

`Robocops' to battle rioters

Man charged with Dublin murder

A House Full of Women, by Joan O'Neill (Coronet, £5.99 in UK)

By Arminta Wallace

Euro goal gives final added value

By Michael Walker

McGinn's travels to end in Sydney

By Mary Hannigan

Parthus equity jumps on flotation

By By BRENDAN MCGRATH

ACCBank ploughs on despite poor results

Deconstructing Dublin

Our man in Washington

Leading authority on cot deaths

Tension rises as Israeli soldier wounded

Classical

Parents seek position of Catholic church on school entry

By By SEAN FLYNN

Traffic restrictions in Dublin

Forthcoming Fairs

Modern Times: selected non-fiction, by Jean-Paul Sartre, trans Robin Buss (Penguin, £7.99 in UK)

By By BRIAN FALLON

Asylum-Seekers Controversy

Leinster

Self-portrait of AE, key figure of Irish culture

By REPORTS By ROBERT O'BYRNE

Ireland has important role in rapid reaction force debate

By Paul Gillespie

Theatre

By By GERRY COLGAN

Surreal Lives: the Surrealists 1917-1945 by Ruth Brandon (Papermac, £12 in UK)

By By BRIAN FALLON

Notably absent

Assault on Fortress Europe

By By COLIN HARVEY

Asylum upsurge due to mounting violations of rights

Sentences increased for men caught with bomb

Trimble's Tactics

Land price windfalls fuel housing crisis and corruption

Tug-of-love over grandmother, 95

Hick delivers against visitors

Equities decline as inflation tremors return

Taina's Evocations

By By PATRICK DEELEY

Tally ho!

Rock/Pop

`The Americans are worse than the Soviets, Garret'

O'Flaherty's EIB role to be decided in June

By John McManus

Dry Friday

As always, the bitter old guy saved by a fling with a predictably insatiable,hot young thing

By By EAMON DELANEY

Nursing Board faces £1.5m bill

By Mary Carolan

Uncommon prayer

ETA truce in near future ruled out

Political Corruption

Is nothing sacred?

By By HARRY BROWNE

Good fella yourself, Daniel

By By MICHAEL DWYER

Asylum-Seekers Controversy

How To Get There

Telecom sell-off drives bourses sharply down

Regulators urge investors to guard against euphoria

Warning to Garda on pay differentials for clerical workers

By By PADRAIG YEATES

The travelling life that created Ireland's greatest living artist

SIPTU seeks to dissuade Aer Lingus cabin staff from move to rival union

By By PADRAIG YEATES

Special amenity order on Howth Head confirmed by Dempsey

By Tim O'Brien

Energised President does not feel constrained by Constitution

By By JOE CARROLL

Keeping eye on new ideas for EU integration

By By GARRET FITZGERALD

Bridge gang get life for murder

South Armagh is ready to sing a different song

Patten Report On RUC

O'Sullivan takes on key rivals

Escape, or exile?

By By RENAGH HOLOHAN

Boo.com serves as a timely warning

Presbyterian Voice

Last days of an outlaw prophet

By Eileen Battersby

Presbyterian Notes

Hello, hello, it's good to be back

By Tony Clayton-Lea

Championship 2000: Knockout match

By By SEAN MORAN

Mandy misses out

Bomb warnings were hoaxes

At last, a solution

An Irishman's Diary

By By KEVIN MYERS

McGinley in birdie blitz

Important watershed

By Michael Dervan

Political Corruption

Drum and drummer

By By JIM CARROLL

Heavy selling of tech and old economy stocks

By By BRENDAN MCGRATH

Hooked on Mayo

By By CATHERINE FOLEY

Montjeu a certainty for Curragh's Gold Cup

By Brian O'Connor

Need to trim energy costs emphasised

Clontarf win survival game

China poised for membership of WTO

By By CONOR O'CLERY

Not so tight

By Tony Clayton-Lea

Language Matters

War veterans' leader sentenced

Food for thought

As It Is In Heaven, by Niall Williams (Picador, £5.99 in UK)

By By MARY MOLONEY

A bitter pill

By By SARAH BOSELEY

Supreme Court clears way for ex-garda's trial

Ulster

Strike up the band

By Brian Boyd

Israeli army withdrawal leaves a dangerous vacuum

Giuliani drops out of New York race

By By ELAINE LAFFERTY

North men come south to continue cup march

By By KARL JOHNSTON

War or peace may hinge on inaugural address by Taiwan's new president

Derry set to finish the job this time

By By SEAN MORAN

Political Corruption

Harrington's long-term victory

By By DERMOT GILLEECE

Cerebral? Not quite

Diplomat banned by SA airline

Munster

Staff, customers set to pay price of failed bank merger

By Denis Staunton

O'Flaherty nomination to EU post provokes outcry

By By MARK BRENNOCK

Skull and bones found during excavation of Sligo Courthouse

By Alison Healy

Connacht

By By SEAN MORAN and TOM HUMPHRIES

The Banyan Tree, by Christopher Nolan (Phoenix, £6.99 in UK)

By Eileen Battersby

Classical

By Michael Dervan

Could be rocket science after all

Franco-German leaders discuss plan for a two speed Europe

Givens forced to reshuffle

By Emmet Malone

Thriller griller

By By JOHN MCKENNA

Beat Hollow pleases

Northerly delights

By By JANE POWERS

Staunton sets his sights on record

By By PETER BYRNE

The Words We Use

By By DIARMAID O MUIRITHE

Taoiseach to find opinions are Poles apart at prospect of accession to EU

Golden Vale/Dairygold merger mooted

By By ELLA SHANAHAN

Up North

Spacerock

By Tony Clayton-Lea

Dance

US March trade gap sets record at $30bn

Ahern to get report on payments soon

O'Flaherty resigned but denied wrongdoing

Beware of false fossils

By Michael Viney

Corrections and Clarifications

Report strongly critical of HSA

By By NUALA HAUGHEY

Australian leads challenge to demutualise Standard Life

By By MARY CANNIFFE

The right woman

By By VICTORIA WHITE

Nicaragua group beheads 11

Attempted abduction of girls

Towering over tourism

Tamil rebels shell key port in Jaffna

Tomcat in Love, by Tim O'Brien (Flamingo, £6.99 in UK)

By Arminta Wallace

A stretch (or 12) in the evenings

Two management groups compete to take Adare Printing private

By By BRENDAN MCGRATH

State not keeping pace with demand for education choice

Greeting the day with a simile

By Frank McNally

Political Corruption

Love Is Where It Falls, by Simon Callow (Penguin, £7.99 in UK)

By By HELEN MEANY

Creche facilities for civil servants put on hold

By By PADRAIG YEATES

Vintage versus plonk

Asylum-Seekers Controversy

Harrington undeniably a cut above

By Mary Hannigan

Ethiopian fighter jets attack key targets in Eritrea

Empey warns of threat of joint authority imposition

By By SUZANNE BREEN

From the West

ASTI president accuses staff of discrediting her

By By SEAN FLYNN

Devotional practices

By By TIMOTHY FANNING

Courting Rafter out of bounds

By Johnny Watterson

Jubilee pilgrimages abound as matches are sidelined

By Patsy McGarry

Dublin Parks

Wake up and smell the Caffe Latte

By Brian Boyd

Determined, energetic executive in many key Irish businesses

Protest over RUC, Garda tournament

Gee golly gushing

By By PAUL FLYNN

The thinking fan's guitarist unpicked

By By JOHN KELLY

Men in drugs case may seek review

Europe bank honours former judge

Bestsellers

Social and fiscal roles queried

By By CHRISTINE NEWMAN

Look who's holding the baby

By By SHARON KRUM

Italians to decide on seven issues in referendum

By By PADDY AGNEW

Bank ordered to give 65 clients' names to RTE

Folk

By Tony Clayton-Lea

Angler replies to message in bottle dropped at sea off US 21 years ago

By By EIBHIR MULQUEEN

Money 2000 show about more than stocks and shares

By By ELLA SHANAHAN

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