and employment is better understood. In the U.S., for example, almost 80% of all jobs created during the last decade came from small business. Success doesn't come easy. To begin with, small business doesn't necessarily mean small problems. People running small companies face ex

LORNA DONLON examines the row over Catholics joining the RUC, while FIONNUALA OCONNOR looks at the incidence of RUC suicides

enigma VIETNAM and China are fighting again. But what happened in the border clash on 5 January and why it took place at all is a mystery. The Vietnamese say they killed 500 Chinese soldiers who were attempting to seize four hills in Vietnam. China's version was that its troops

Bryan Robson, Manchester United and England football captain, is 30. Wrestler Mick McManus is 60. Arthur Scarglll, president of the National Union of Mineworkers. is 51. • MONDAY 12 January Anthony Andrews, stiffupper-lipped actor who played Sebastian Flyte in Brideshead Revisit

most passionate Irish advocate of substantial deficit budgeting when it started in the mid-Seventies; Jack Lynch, George Colley and Martin O'Donoghue accelerated the trend, and Haughey was equally irresponsible in office. Not one of them emerges with any credit from the entire s

the personalised will of the community." Irish 'Christianity' is of a particular type. "In Ireland we have got terribly hung up on the relationship between Christianity and morality. We have turned Christ's message into a series of prohibitions every bit as hard and fast as the

PeggY in the picture In a busy week for Dublin cinemas, MICHAEL DWYER reviews all six new releases including 'Peggy Sue got Married', 'Round Midnight', 'Heartburn', and 'Caravaggio'. Frenchman who became close to several jazz aces and shared his home with one of them, pianist Bu

SEAN McCRUM reviews Chris Wilson's exhibition at the Project Arts centre CHRIS Wilson's drawings are very much tied into where he lives. He was brought up in Glengormley, on the outskirts of Belfast and then studied for a year at the Ulster Polytechnic. He moved to Brighton Coll

More seriously though, is it right for critics to be forthright? Do they really have the so-called influence, the power to puncture a new group's enthusiasm? Or, as BP put it, is it "impolite if the critic simply plamises people "in order to be seen as a nice bloke who loves eve

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