26 August, 2000 Digital News Archive

Schmaltz in the stalls

Rock/Pop

Where instant lifestyles don't come cheap

By By ANNA MUNDOW

72 countries to compete in bridge teams Olympiad

By By SEAMUS DOWLING

Distracting Dave

Friends of dead girl deny claims she was a drug addict

Unconventional, forward-thinking nun who had a pilot's licence

China critical of Taiwan president

Case highlights need to tackle young experimenting with drugs

Forthcoming Fairs

Shipyard inches closer to painful closure

`Field' cottage fails to sell at auction

By By JOAN TOBIN

Gardai confirm Dublin sighting of two missing Cavan teenagers

By By SEAN MACCONNELL

Painful reality

By Johnny Watterson

Growth in US output expected to slow

Plea dismissed

Corrections and clarifications

Fighting breaks out near Kabul

Fee, fie, faux

45 killed in Kenya as bus plunges off bridge into river, reports say

Charge of the Lite brigade

Coulthard signals his intent

By By JUSTIN HYNES

Row over child in freezer

Melodrama in the key of discord

By By STUART NICHOLSON

Peace park at Mesen

1,000 attend funeral of UDA man killed in loyalist feud

By By SUZANNE BREEN

Rush Brook sluices home

By Brian O'Connor

Getting there

National League previews

By Emmet Malone

Government rejects Desmond's plan for `ecosphere' in docks

By Colm Keena

GTech may have to tender to renew An Post lottery contract

By Arthur Beesley

Demolition Angel, by Robert Crais (Orion, £12.99 in UK)

Leap now to turn tide on wild salmon stocks

By By DENIS COGHLAN

A matter of respect

By By JOHN MCKENNA

Fleadh Ceoil

By By MIC MORONEY

An Irishman's Diary

By By BRIAN MAYE

Ireland's future European security role in need of debate

A cubist experience in Temple Bar

By Sylvia Thompson

Lads and the leaving cert

Diana Facts

Irish rider gets drugs ban

By Shane Stokes

The battle between war and peace

By By DAN O'BRIEN

Dogged by a collar

Man arrested over drugs haul

Judo's player

An ever-worsening climate of violence in our society

Vigilance urged after teenage meningitis death

By Barry Roche

The boys and the bubble

By Brian Boyd

Five Irish acts who should at least have been nominated but weren't

Take one Web, add some .com

By By SARAH MARRIOTT

Nesovic's goal proves decisive

Whines on wines

By By JOE BREEN

Forever the rebel in Wynonna Country

By Tony Clayton-Lea

Mayo anchor not linked to Armada

Qualceram to pay close on £54m to take over Shires

By By BRENDAN MCGRATH

Trailing after Princess Di

Centenary celebrations

By By SADBH

Independent Corsica may be a place too far for the French

Trees company in Coole Park

By Lorna Siggins

Bottoms up

By By ROBERT DUNBAR

Liberia to release four journalists

Pressure mounts for interest rate rise in euro zone

Natural theory

Fires rage in Greece

Paramilitary lure endures in Shankill's deprivation

Hollywood that is truly Irish-style

Coolaney warms to farmyard version of Glastonbury gig

By By CAROL COULTER

Security forces worried loyalist feud could worsen

By By SUZANNE BREEN

Challenge of making global capitalism more accountable

By Paul Gillespie

Blooming of the bland

Why hoop dreams are greener on foreign soil

Girl With A Pearl Earring, by Tracy Chevalier (Flamingo, £6.99 in UK)

By Eileen Battersby

Oil on water

By By QUENTIN FOTTRELL

Don't go banking on a cheerful Irish welcome

Elemental emotions

By By MIC MORONEY

Before I Say Goodbye, by Mary Higgins Clark (Simon & Schuster, £16.99 in UK)

Dead at fifteen

Killings in Kosovo

Keeping tabs on tiny aliens

By Michael Viney

Gulf Air rejects pilot error as cause of crash

This year's five nominees

Girls' Night In, edited by Fiona Walker, Jessica Adams and Chris Banby (HarperCollins, £5.99 in UK)

By Arminta Wallace

Artist best known for his battles with Academy

What dreams may come

Quarry seen as threat to structure of famous Clare landmark

Disparate police forces come together despite disgruntlement

The Sense of an Ending, by Frank Kermode (OUP, £11.99 in UK)

By By KATIE DONOVAN

Only the end of the beginning

By By JOHN KELLY

Somalis await result

By By DECLAN WALSH

Body recovered from Moy river

The business of being Russian

By Eileen Battersby

Time for the institutions to play their part

44% rise offered to building workers

By By PADRAIG YEATES

Murder in the pickle factory

By By MICHAEL PAINTER

Testify should oblige

By Brian O'Connor

We're-not-listen-ing. We're just not

By By TOM HUMPHRIES

Planning for shop refused

By Tim O'Brien

James stepped down just to stop "all the whingeing"

Clare villages have a say in development

By Gordon Deegan

How to read a novel? Lovingly

By By JOHN BANVILLE

Ronnie and Maura O'Donovan statement

This week they said

Galway to finally meet their match

By By SEAN MORAN

Love and the fringe

By By CATHERINE FOLEY

Goddess to keep up Hannon's run

By Brian O'Connor

SportsSpeak

Irish abroad show up lacklustre home market

By By BRENDAN MCGRATH

Five Best Perrier Moments

Lightning storms leave thousands without electricity

By By COLMAN CASSIDY

DIRT payments and liabilities

A snatch at fame

Lovers for a Day, by Ivan Klima (Granta, £6.99 in UK)

By Eileen Battersby

Cool-head Dubs

A community in fear of mourning

Ammunition for rebels seized

Wines Of The Week

EBS pays £2.8m in DIRT settlement

By By MARY CANNIFFE

Investors offer `contribution' towards hotel costs

By Colm Keena

The many names of the changeless storm

By By BRENDAN MCWILLIAMS

Kildare's maturity deciding factor

By By JOHN O'KEEFFE

Roland Davitt and Alison Young

By By MARTIN ADAMS

Mother of dead `Kursk' sailor says medicine was for her heart

History of the Present, by Timothy Garton Ash (Penguin, £8.99 in UK)

By By ENDA O'DOHERTY

Windchill Summer, by Norris Church Mailer (4th Estate, Trade pb, £9.99 in UK)

Some slowing of retail sales growth in June

By By MARY CANNIFFE

Media miss message of Knock phenomenon

By Breda O'Brien

Men in the middle point the finger

By By VIVEK CHAUDHARY

Irish monk to be beatified with popes

By Patsy McGarry

Limited range of drug treatment services available for the young

By By EITHNE DONNELLAN

In Secret Sin, by Rose Doyle (Pan, £6.99 in UK)

By Arminta Wallace

Girl with history of drug abuse kept in "totally unsuitable" unit for boys

ILDA members to return to work on Monday morning

By By PADRAIG YEATES

Poyntzpass killers oppose transfer

All in the pink for the party

Finnegan's wake on hold

Sister in arms

By By PATRICK SKENE CATLING

Northern lights

By By DERMOT GILLEECE

The Tiger line

Any chance of a long goodbye?

By By MARY KENNY

Stocks unchanged in low trading on Wall Street

Presbyterian Notes

King of the castle keeps on rocking

Auction Results

Gardai trawl underworld of Dundalk after two killings

Fighting street crime with cameras

Leeds brought back to earth

By Michael Walker

The medium, not the massacre

By By W. J. MCCORMACK

Mount Jerome

Co-founder of Mensa for people with high IQs

O'Flaherty faces EIB rejection due to lack of support

By By MIRIAM DONOHOE

ILDA Goes Back

Roots

A generation forgets what being governed means

The words we use

By By DIARMAID O MUIRITHE

Madonna seeks website control

Empey quits US trip to face crisis in Harland & Wolff

By By JAMIE SMYTH and PAUL TANNEY

A salute to the momentous achievements of the SDLP

Strains of summer to hit a noisy finale

By Frank McNally

Nietzche death commemorated

Classical

By Michael Dervan

Suu Kyi in stand-off with Burma police

Lucky goals gift the points to Kilkenny

Dublin Airport

Shareholders in Tullow approve £42m share issue

By By JAMIE SMYTH

State faces penalties over greenhouse gas emissions

By Tim O'Brien

T-Online shares fall after resignation

Radio Previews

By Lorna Kernan

Rattling on independently

By By HARRY BROWNE

Microsoft stock loses its lustre

By Dominic Coyle

Forthcoming Auctions

Classical

Councillors to discuss getting the county manager to sue himself

By Tim O'Brien

Folk

By Tony Clayton-Lea

Harrington on his own, Woods out on his own

By By DERMOT GILLEECE

Telia learns the wrong lessons from Eircom

Video releases

Victim's cousin is refused bail

Church of Ireland Notes

Five acts who should have won the Perrier but didn't

European blue-chip rally makes up for lost ground

Ballymena murder charge

FTSE rises amid mood of cautious optimism

Tellabs seeks 150 more staff for Drogheda

By By ELAINE KEOGH

Changed climate calls for a rethink of pay bargaining

By By GARRET FITZGERALD

Take me down to the River Boyne

By Kevin Courtney

High-tech tennis

Alcohol a major factor in drownings

By Lorna Siggins

Reimagining the work of a lost generation

By By GERALD DAWE

Marco Polo's Toilet Brush

By Mary Leland

Martin asks for reports on search for girl

By By MIRIAM DONOHOE and ALISON HEALY and EITHNE DONNELLAN

ILDA on same track as other breakaway unions

Walking To Work

Mugabe designates more white-owned farms for seizure

By By ANDREW MELDRUM

Purdy to Rovers' rescue

By Emmet Malone

Macho thugs in losers' war with winning wimps

Lebanese vote after a campaign dominated by money, not issues

Here's looking at you

Slaphead Chameleon, by Jerry Raine (Gollancz, Trade pb, £9.99 in UK)

Olympic bodies: the naked truth

By Frank McNally

Iraq munitions factory claim

Suburban shocker

Champion of Irish Cancer Society's Daffodil Day

A happy marriage

By By JANE POWERS

Victim's brother granted bail

Government defends care system after criticism over girl's death

By By MIRIAM DONOHOE

The Potter phenomenon

Something to `Survey'

Court rules to separate Siamese twin girls

Uncompromising actor proud of his roots

The Great Disruption, by Francis Fukuyama (Profile Books, £8.99 in UK)

By By BRIAN FALLON

Struck on the head with a bar, beaten, kicked, but no arrests

Premiership previews

Outspoken missionary priest murdered in Kenya

By By DECLAN WALSH

The Potter phenomenon

Collins in confident mood

By Emmet Malone

Forever dogged by a poor mouth

By By LOUISE EAST

No crying in the chapel

Theatre

By By GERRY COLGAN

O'Sullivan makes full use of short test

By Ian O'Riordan

More than one string to his mandolin

By By MICHAEL MCCAUGHAN

Malahide face key weekend

By By KARL JOHNSTON

Kerry sells Ballinahina operation to local dairy

August harvest

It's worth going out of your way to try out the French - the lingo as well as the fare

By By CAROL COULTER

Gardai say they did their best to trace teenage girl

By Alison Healy

Moving along nicely but going nowhere for now

By Mary Hannigan

Congo allows peacekeepers to deploy after early rejection

Irish firms fare well on salaries

Fishermen block port in protest

Superior ball

Garden Work

Carsley omitted for Dutch tie

By By PETER BYRNE

ICP aims and metholds

Chastity belt reinvented

Tipperary festival examines the Irish Diaspora

By By CIAN MCCORMACK

Travel Log

By By JOAN SCALES

Fifty feared dead as ferry capsizes on Nile

Praise the Lord and pass the zapper

By Mary Hannigan

Top of the list in mileage stakes