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It’s hard to imagine that people had the courage, or foolishness, to start up a business without a phone. For most of the 1970s, if you hadn’t an old fashioned phone already, you were out in the cold for a period of at least nine months to two years. The Industrial Development Authority was howling with rage saying that new industries were interested in coming to Ireland, but laughed when they were told “ That’s grand. But, we’re sorry. At the moment there are no phones...”

ON MONDAY July 28 2008 Sean Fitzpatrick played 18 holes of golf with Brian Cowen on Druid’s Heath at the foot of Wicklow mountains. Afterwards they had dinner at the resort’s hotel.

ENGLISH FOOTBALL’S hubris and jingoism were exposed as mad delusions by a talented and superior German team last Sunday, sending the mis-titled ‘golden generation’ out of South Africa 2010.

Arthur Scargill, the legendary British trade ynion leader, has lead a full and colourful life. He helped bring down Ted Heath, took on Thatcher, and dined with Khrushchev. However he was, and always will be, a fighter for the workers. Now in his seventies, he shows no signs of slowing down and his passion for politics and trade unionism remains undimmed.

JERRY DAMMERS, the man behind The Specials, 2-Tone, and the explosion of British ska in the late 1970s and early 1980s, will play a DJ set at Stress!!, De Burgos, on Bank Holiday Sunday at 8pm.

PRIMAL SCREAM guitarist Andrew Innes is ready for Galway. “When you get on stage you realise it’s all worth it,” he says. “When people are cheering you on it’s hard to beat that and you think, ‘It’s great to be in a band’.”