THE Irish community in San Francisco was celebrating last night after a judge granted bail to James Smyth, a purported IRA terrorist who nine years ago took part in a mass break-out from the Maze prison in Northern Ireland. And, as Rowena said, ‘It sounds German, doesn’t it?’ I do not think he will be [...]

Some people are temperamentally incapable of allowing strangers to occupy their home or of coping with the culture shock when they do. Their belated pressure told when the 17-year-old Turner, a Lilleshall graduate, volleyed left- footed into the crowded box, the ball deflecting off Dave Watson past Southall.’It’s another hard-luck story,’ Howard Kendall, the Merseysiders’ [...]

Nigel Williams, Jeanette Winterson and Henry James are all contenders, as is the idea of reading poetry, but the club clearly prefers getting its teeth into a good yarn rather than a sonnet or two.’Poetry] Oh God, no way,’ shrieks Helena ‘Unless it’s Pam Ayres. if any phase of school education is funded at a [...]

They are books about intellectuals, the people that Mao Tse-tung dubbed the Ninth Stinking Category, but the importance of both works goes beyond that, for they provide a catalogue of the mad-house that is China under the totalitarian and chameleon-like rule of the Chinese Communist Party. To get past that, and appreciate this music’s capacity [...]

My team, Barnet, have lost their first eight League fixtures of the season Is this a record?A. His aestheticism would be mocked for the benefit of the half-watching viewer He would look foolish. Euro Iseki of Stratford-on-Avon, which supplies the technology, says that pipejacking is cheaper than digging trenches, and that there is less risk [...]

One, which Bolton called ‘Taurus A’, was located in our own galaxy: the Crab Nebula. As a solicitor caustically put it, ‘they showed a medical history of falling down holes.’
In Cork a case thrown out of court in 1991 involved Edward O’Leary, who claimed he was a victim of whiplash injuries after a car crash [...]

The Department of Health expects the first babies of mothers raped last summer to be born next month. A SHARP rise in the dollar against the mark yesterday forestalled the widely-feared speculative attack on the European exchange rate mechanism following the weekend devaluation of the Irish punt. It reduces Homo sapiens to a bit player [...]

But again there was a sense of players harnessing, by instinct, some deep-rooted energy in Tchaikovsky’s 4th Symphony. In Ian Bishop’s second over Nick Knight was leg before, before Jon Lewis was bowled by a nasty delivery from Allan Warner that bit past his ankles. AS DRAWS go it was not of the hold-your-breath variety. [...]

The collapse last year of Taurus, a computer system at the London Stock Exchange, at an estimated cost of about pounds 70m and the loss of 350 jobs seems to have taught private commerce, particularly in the City, some important lessons.But it is the public sector that provokes most worry. But he was half-American, and [...]

A few kilograms of a chemical compound called perfluorocarbon will be released high over Brittany and its spread around Europe monitored.. THE EUROPEAN UNION and Nato will both take steps in the next few days to reassure the Baltic states about their links with the West. London listings are being sought by some to make [...]