Failures raise issue of public subsidyLAST Saturday night, again, a very fine theatrical production ended a relatively short run with poor box office returnsTue Jun 04 1996 - 01:00
Facing up to the fact there are no quiet places leftON TUESDAY morning I crossed the road to the shop for the papers the milkFri May 31 1996 - 01:00
Irish plays and English audiencesTHEATRE GOING tourists in London these days might be forgiven for wondering whether their airline hadn't made a terrible mistake…Wed May 29 1996 - 01:00
Heartland's pessimism grows as peace process fails to meet the republican agendaSTANDING with Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness outside Connolly House, Sinn Fein's Belfast headquarters, on the day the IRA …Mon May 27 1996 - 01:00
Squalid murder of a dying man is no surpriseWHEN I heard on the radio last week that a supposed drug dealer had been beaten to death in Basin Lane by a group of men with…Fri May 24 1996 - 01:00
A new run for the Bull in The FieldCERTAIN theatrical characters become like exiled acquaintances, encountered on the occasional visit homeTue May 21 1996 - 01:00
Time to tame a monster we didn't gamble onIT was comforting to learn this week from the developers of the proposed casino at the Phoenix Park that the spoor would not …Fri May 17 1996 - 01:00
Cruiser's new voyage provokes `no qualms, not heart-searching'IN HIS house on Howth summit, Conor Cruise O'Brien has a yellowed photograph of his great uncle, Father Eugene Sheehy, a turbulent…Sat May 11 1996 - 01:00
Animal instincts can detect right-wing agendaEVEN if Babe didn't convince you that pigs are pretty smart, a recent edition of Jay Leno's Tonight show on American television…Fri May 10 1996 - 01:00
A dark concoction of magic and despairWHEN this century of ours is remembered, it will be, among other things, for the way it has succeeded in making human suffering…Tue May 07 1996 - 01:00
You can't please the Packards of this worldTHE European Commission recently released the results of an EU wide survey of attitudes to povertyFri May 03 1996 - 01:00
Girl meets girlOF LATE, contemporary culture seems to have more TVs than a Holiday Inn. Transvestism is inTue Apr 30 1996 - 01:00
Licence to kill must be revoked for all sides in conflictAFTER an explosion has separated flesh from bone and life from both, it doesn't much matter whether the bombs that caused it …Fri Apr 26 1996 - 01:00
Roddy the realistC.S. LEWIS once wrote that in his days as a school examiner, he came across a batch of answers to a question about Chaucer's …Wed Apr 24 1996 - 01:00
Inquiry could take insult from injury in blood sagaLAST year, when the official report on the infection of as many as 1,800 people, most of them women, with Hepatitis C was released…Fri Apr 19 1996 - 01:00
Between nowhere and the American dreamANYONE watching the work of new Irish male playwrights over the past year or two would draw some pretty unpleasant conclusions…Tue Apr 16 1996 - 01:00
The worst scandals are what our leaders fail to doGAVAN Hanlon has never been to a race night, let alone organised one to raise funds for a ministerial re election campaignFri Apr 12 1996 - 01:00
Silent questionsIN RECENT years, we have become used to the idea that you can say more or less anything you like in Irish theatre, or indeed …Tue Apr 09 1996 - 01:00
State watched O'Donnell grow into a killerIN the early 1980s, I visited Loughan House, then used as a prison for young offendersFri Apr 05 1996 - 01:00
Figures on a dark landscapeTHE landscape of Marina Carr's plays is both literally and metaphoricallyTue Apr 02 1996 - 01:00
Army role in church ceremonies gives pause for thoughtTHIS week, the Northern Ireland Police Authority published a report on the symbolism of policing - the use of flags, oaths, badges…Fri Mar 29 1996 - 00:00
Beef fine a tough mouthful to chew onOVER a period of five years, a combination of administrative laxity and private greed clocked up a series of liabilities for …Thu Mar 28 1996 - 00:00
No call for us to be defensive about our neutralityFAMAGUSTA; Nicosia; Limassol; Larnaca. An island shaped like a chicken leg with a bite out of itFri Mar 22 1996 - 00:00
"Hostage" today needs a total restitchingTHE talk of "putting on a play" as if a piece of theatre was an off the peg outfit, sitting in the wardrobe of repertoire, waiting…Tue Mar 19 1996 - 00:00
Taking the taxpayer to the slaughter houseIN February 1987, in the headquarters of Goodman International in Ardee, Co Louth, there was a meeting to review the performance…Fri Mar 15 1996 - 00:00
Teachers' deal would hand more control to churchesWHEN he was Minister for Education in the 1950s Gen Richard Mulcahy described his role as being like that of a "dungaree man" …Fri Mar 08 1996 - 00:00
Are we all Europeans now?IT IS not, this week, possible to see the Gate Theatre's superb production of Derek version of Phaedra, which ended a relatively…Tue Mar 05 1996 - 00:00
Minister seeking scapegoat for EU fines - GoodmanFOR the first time since he gave evidence to the beef tribunal in 1994, Mr Larry Goodman, chief executive of Goodman International…Sat Mar 02 1996 - 00:00
Sorrowful mysteries etched into bleeding fingersSTRANGELY enough, of all the images in Louis Lentin's superb documentary film on Goldenbridge orphanage, the most disturbing …Fri Mar 01 1996 - 00:00
State's policy on beef fines still defies realityVERY soon, unless the Government decides to act, something very nasty is going to happen to the Irish taxpayerFri Feb 23 1996 - 00:00
From gaiety into darknessIF GERARD Stembridge's new play at the Project, The Gay Detective, were really, as it almost is, a film of a Raymond Chandler…Tue Feb 20 1996 - 00:00
Bomb has shattered pretence of nationalist concordONE of the things that makes it so hard to talk about the peace process in the wake of the treacherous IRA murders last week …Fri Feb 16 1996 - 00:00
Neglecting magic and fear leads `Macbeth' into farceWE are so used to thinking of Macbeth as a great play that it takes an unsuccessful production such as Patrick Mason's at the…Tue Feb 13 1996 - 00:00
Ruling a small but significant victory for the publicWHEN the beef tribunal report was finally delivered in August 1994, many of those who had been most intimately involved looked…Sat Feb 10 1996 - 00:00
Names lose meaning as global swamps the localTHE folklorist Seamus O Cathain once told me a story that has stayed with me ever sinceFri Feb 09 1996 - 00:00
A new force from Galway againAS WELL as being one of the most auspicious debuts by an Irish playwright in the past 25 years, Martin McDonagh's The Beauty …Tue Feb 06 1996 - 00:00
Myths that conceal the truth about roots of crime"WE HAVE within the last few years to deal with an entirely new class of criminal, composed of half educated youths who would…Fri Feb 02 1996 - 00:00
A miracle on stage"ART," said Oscar Wilde, "never expresses anything but itselfTue Jan 30 1996 - 00:00
Surrender of dead more vital than armsFIVE years ago, an inquest was held in Cashel, Co Tipperary, on the body of a man called Thomas Kirby, discovered at Rossmore…Fri Jan 26 1996 - 00:00
Turning technology into artTO use the work of William Butler, Yeats as the basis for an experiment in multi media art, as the Throwin' Shapes company does…Tue Jan 23 1996 - 00:00
A whiff of arrogance rises from contact negotiationSOMETIMES it is dangerous for people in power to be proved rightFri Jan 19 1996 - 00:00
Less really can be moreIN John B. Keane's novel Duran go, there is a scene in which a group of farmers in Kerry is anticipating the outbreak of the …Tue Jan 16 1996 - 00:00
A lifetime trying to get back to a view of the streetAS A child, Pat Tierney, who hanged himself in the grounds of local church a week ago, spent much time as he could sitting on…Fri Jan 12 1996 - 00:00
The last of innocenceTHOUGH few of those attending The King and I at the Olympia will bother with such questions, it is nevertheless instructive to…Tue Jan 09 1996 - 00:00
Patients must have the right to see their own filesON WEDNESDAY, a funeral cortege stopped outside the Department of Health headquarters in DublinFri Jan 05 1996 - 00:00
