a substantial joint venture in mushrooms. Ranks Hovis McDougall, the British multinational which owned 70 per cent of Ranks (Ireland) which closed manufacturing plants here in dramatic circumstances a few years ago, is the partner. Talks are at an advanced stage with the IDA for

very little publicity. This is a pity because the council made many sensible points. THE. OLD ARE GETTING OLDER The chart shows that life expectancy is increasing. The figures are for the population as a whole so a healthy 65-year-old can realistically look forward to another 20

cash from the Cornelscourt complex in Cabinteely. A security guard was taking the money to a van when he was approached outside the main entrance by two men. one of whom was armed with a shotgun. The men escaped in a blue Mazda car, which had been stolen earlier at St Vincent's

and has since returned to playing golf. The late Mr Deery made medical history by being the first transplant patient to have a heterotopic transplant, that is to have the new heart grafted on to the blood vessels coming from his own heart which was left in situ. The fourth trans

by CIARAN CARTY Arts Editor WHAT politics lacks is imagination. Through art. Joseph Beuys, the mesmeric self-styled "social sculptor" who has died in Dusseldorf aged 65. sought to mould society into the new structures needed to cope with the crises of the post-industrial era. "M