the 1980 s to hijack a helicopter with which he returns to 1917 to outwit the Hun. Purists may object to American Neil Dickson playing the part, but the Wham! Bang! action more than compensates, Savoy, from Friday. Cobra: Sylvester Stallone as a Rambo-style cop, dishing out roug

IHAVE recently been taken to task for reviewing a book on sociology because I am not a sociologist. Eyebrows have also been raised at my venturing opinions on temperance, feminism and high finance. It is therefore with triple misgivings that I address the subject of 18th-century

LAST week the members of the allparty Dail committee on the Birmingham Six case, returned from their visit to London where they lobbied NlPs and met the prisoners and their supporters. They were well treated there, but also found a certain suspicion as to why . Irish politicians

look like Spanish waiters with bad cases of piles. Faces taut, legs and arms programmed to twitch in unison. You lose points for looking like you might be enjoying yourself. A "tribute to Bert Kiemfert" was announced (no kidding) and a bunch of people hopped up and down, lifting

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digest Last Week Monday, 14 July • An estimated Stg £4.4 billion was wiped off share values on the London Stock Exchange as the City recoiled from a fresh slide in oil prices. North Sea oil was quoted at 9 dollars a barrel. This compares to 10.5 dollars a week ago and 30 dollars

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isoo k • FATHER AND SON: Jim Morahan and Jamey DUBLIN kidney boy, James Morahan is in a Surrey had to return to dialysis. "But if it wasn't serious he cottage this weekend with his parents, awaiting the call wouldn't be back on call," she said. to London for a second life-saving

AT A luncheon in the Shelbourne Hotel, Dublin. on Tuesday last, editor of the Sunday Tribune, Vincent Browne, presented Mr John Fanning managing director of McConnells Advertising Agency, with the Sunday Tribune Advertisement of The Year Award. on Sunday night lasi, Mr Browne sa

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