operates a nationwide Social Work Service for those who cannot sec. Please remember them in your will. (Advt.).

singer. is 47. Peter Reachley, author: "The Deep", "The Island" and "jaws", is 47. Gan• Glitter, nop singer, is 43. Toni Tennille, of Captain & Tenmile fame, is 44. Jack Charlton. Republic of Ireland soccer manager. Is 52. Terry Neill, former player and manacer or Arsenal, is 43

Joseph O'Malley

is the man in the firing line. He is chairman of the ESB 'Group' of unions which includes 11 different unions representing over 6,750 workers. Young and articulate, he comes from a hard left English based union Tass 2. Flexing the "muscle" is very easy but should the strike go

his knees but they dragged him to the plane' financial survival of the airport would be in jeopardy without t h e Sou iet airline. In political terms, its loss would be disastrous for the region. they will be contacted whenever asylum is being sought by passengers at Shannon. In

FAST approaching his 80th birthday, and at a time of life when any self-respecting founder director of the Smurfit empire would long have reached for his retirement pipe and carpet slippers, Dermot Barnes has gone back into business! He has bought The Queens, of Dalkey, over 200

and dance about it: starched napkins, polished glasses, flowers ... who eats flowers? So it was that I undertook to organise the next dinner party. I planned it all like a military operation. At 7.30 the enemy breached the first of my defences. The cat ate the smoked salmon. At

g( 76(a ' 6e 't Have you entered the Powers Gold Label Short Story Competition? Closing date is May 31. Entries to Irish Distillers Ltd., Bow St. Distillery . . Dublin 7.

THE Brighton bombing that almost killed a British Prime Minister is a key element in the conclusion of M. S. Power's bleak Northern trilogy. A Darkness In The E)e (Heinemann; £10.95 stg.). To Provo godfather Seamus Reilly, the hawk belatedly turned dove, it represents an undisci