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FEEDI NG TIME: This newly-born half-Dors et lamb gets a helping hand from Diarmuid and Catherine Kelly, of Templeog ue, Dublin, on MrMichael Dil lon's f arm at Celbridg e, Co. Kildare. — (Photograph: Eddie Kelly)
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T^ pftfceeers paraded outside the •ottwc j J o tbt coursing field, vrttfch hi ta the town centre, can ^ M*a» htfhHghtwi the U&J& SF** w eoumagT 1*^ ^JSS °* "W« would like the to point oat that the utter cruelty from of courtin g can fact that « ^^ S1 'f. the Mcond test meeting heM at tMs vtnue, our otoaetver Twira da were preMnt a t *"• wttaetaed one ^? W* ^ rt^S! Mcb tad *«one of its Wnd top cwnpJ teteiypulkd off by tbc . djMs sod then on three leas namrj i fre oie effort to run for Its ML " aaM a statement the issued tfc/ Cork of council. ,^*! ^ ^"Sadly, this ban was ctusbf Mjda and mage * to death. /'Perhaps It Is on account of In-' cMenj»r like tMa aOd others <* utter cruelty, tint , toe Man Cowrsing Club wHl not aflow photographers into these meeting «oept tho ee who win refrain frwn* pbototuatUHU the hare. * ly the national "Very short courting meeting will be held in OonmeT. Wilt the Irish Coursing Clt nVwhoa few years ago refus ed to aHow TeMIs Elreann into this uniting,, allow independent photo graph ers ia to witness and photograpn me raw o» ne nares. nara jy lately, since at this same venae a few years ago they killed SO hares. IhddV Safly, titay called tMs a ¦Festival of Couraini'."
Herrema house to be auctioned
Correspondent
THE deal between the Irish and French : Governmen ts, which allows Irish carcase Iamb free access to th e French high-priced market free of levies, will be strongly attacked this week by the. British Farmers ' Union and the British Government who want the same deal for British lamb expor ts. Both announced at the weekend (hat they are to put their case for equal access to the French market before the European Commissi on *nd ft it fails to provide a >atisfactory ruling, they will pot their case before the European Court of
Britain holds that if Irish lamb is given free access to the French marke t, then under the Treaty of Rome, British producers are en* titled to similar access. Britain , however , under the Treaty of Accession was allowed to continue Importin g fro senNew Zealand lamb , of wWch she impor ted 250,000 tonne * last year and as long as this situation exists, France is tota lly opposed to giving British lamb free access to her market . Last year, prior to the FrenchIrish deal , when both exports from Britain and Ireland were subject t& a levy of 30p pen- Ib. on lamb exported to France, when the French market was open t o itain , because of her Imports , Br proximity to the French market , was able to export 16,000 tonnes into France as compared with 1,300 tonnes of Irish lamb. It is clear that the French market would be flooded Wit h British lamb , which would be replaced by New Zealand impor ts, if Briti sh producers were given free access to the French market whereas
Vhe former home of Dr Tiede Herrema at Moaalean , Castletroy, Co. Limedck , is to be sold by pub lic auction together with 12 other houses owned by the Farenka company which are to be disposed of by private treat y. It was on the Monaleen Road, a a short distance from his home, that Or. Herrema was kidnapped in October , 1975. The house , which is located beside the second green at Castletro y , Golf Club, is on a site which cost £9,000. Mr. Lionel Sexton, auctioneer , Limerick, who, with Messrs Hamilton and Hamilton , Dublin , are hi char * of the sal* said it was expected that die house would fetch 5Tthe region of £40,000 to £50.000 fa the auction .
Pay proposal for 11 at airport
THE Labour Court has recommended that 11 senior poHce/firemen employed by Aer Ranta at Dublin Airport , who claimed an increase of £7.05 per week because of "major changes" in security arran gements since their last pay agreemen t in 1971, should settle , for a £4 per week Increase backdated to October 1st, 19K , proposed by the Aer Rianta CondafJatJon Conn * cfl last J uty. The company while accepting that the men's level of responssmities had changed, rejected the original claim as being "excess ive". The A 16-week lecture course on union argued that , resul ting from "Ir ish Women at Work: An His- die chan ged security arran gements, torical Pers pective and a Contem- the workers' workload , responsiporary Investi gation " will open bility and .productivity had tonight at he College of Indusrial increased greatly. For example, it Relations , Sanfor d Road , Dublin. contended , they were now superCond ucted bjMCWre wtt niS «nd vising 17 vtTU men in a shift , Patricia McC affrey, the tortures will whereas in 1971 they supervised be held from « pan. to 10 p.m. on nine men. AH otfnr grades, except consecutive Monday evenin gs until the 11 men, had had improvements May 15th next, an* will cow such since 1971. topics as female occupations in pre -industr ial Europe , wori tog wmen in the 19th and early 20th and centur y in Ireland , educationchildtrainm g for work, marria ge, rearin g and social security, trade unions and the needs of women None of the estimated £35,000 taken by four armed raiders from a " iSS' Is ¦ course fee of £20. postal sortin goffice in' Swords, Co. Dublin, on Satu rday had been recovere d last night. .Nor bad gardai made any arrests in conn ection with the robbery. Members of the Post Office ' Union felt that gardai had in the Dublin District Court(27on Workers 1. provided Inadequate pro tection. Six SsJ urd S, Michael McCarth y office employees were held at ^«' addr ess *** **»£* "** post gun-point during the robber y. ^ Replying to the criticism a garda spokesman said security procedures were reviewed after every major theft. Frida y next.
Lecture course on women at work
£35,000 taken in Swords raid
Man char ged with Dublin murder
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Irish exports are expected to build up gradually to around 6,000 tonnes. The French Governmen t has made H clear that Britain would not be able to export lamb to France at an. but for the massive quantities of lamb she imports from New Zealand , a th ird country. A similar consignment of Iamb shipped at the same time as the .first Irish shipment of lamb , by Devon Meats Ltd. was charged a levy of 30p per 1b. at Cherbourg while the Irish consignment was allowed through free of cha rge. Angrv National Farm ers* Union officials, who feel tha t they , have been upstaged by the manne r in which the Irish have unlocked the Frenc h sluice-gate system, are demandin g strong action from their Governmen t which is now. certain to- rais e the issue at th e/ next Council of Agri culture Ministers meeting in Brussels in a week's time. Meanwh ile the bonanza -for sheep farmers which has raised the> puric e of quality lamb from 56p per 1b. to over 80p is being augmented by an unprecedented demand for mountain lamb for live export to Libya. Mr Conor Boyle, chairman of the Irish Farmers ' Association 's sheep committee said that thousands of lambs were exported to Libya during the past year where the price of lamb is as high as on the French market, though the cost of carriage amounts to 32p per head. Next to the French market , he said, the Libyan market was the biggest outlet for mountain Iamb and between the two, this year should priv e an excellent one for the country 's 30,000 sheep producers.
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GAA's forces rule to be examined
THE DUBLIN Coun ty Board of the GAA has recommended that a committee be set up to examin e a ru le of the association which forbids members of the British forces and the Royal Ulster Constabulary from being members. The recommendation will now be put before the Central Council of the association. The proposal to make the recommendation was passed by a big majority of the Dublin County Board's annual convention in the Na Fianna club pr emises in ' Dublin yesterday. Proposing the motion' Mr Fintan Walsh of the Clao na Gael-Fontenoy dub said his atte ntion had been brought to the rule last September when a form er president of the GAA, Mr Alf Murray; from Co; Antrim , had said in an interview that people in the 8ou«h were resisting any change in t he rule. That statement had surprised him and other members of his club and the opinions of sevvral well-known personali ties in Ulster GAA affairs ha d been sought. Although they disagreed in their attitude to the rule they all seemed to feel th at people in the rest of the country were not interested. His club had also taken into account that there had been a court case brought again st the Magherafelt (Co. Derry) Ur ban Council , during which witne sses for a GAA club which had been refused a local government grant because of the existence of the rule , had said that thev considered that it was out of date. The GAA had succeeded in steering dear of politi cs in its affairs for a long time and be fek . that the existence of tie rule was being used by enemies of the org anisation to discredit the organisati on. He felt it was time that the situation was looked into in all its aspects and chat was why bis club was putting forward the recommendaEddie Macken , of Irelan d shared tion , so that opinion could be dissecond place with David Broome, covered and action taken, if necesof Britain in the Martell Cognac sar y. Mr Don Cotter , the newly reGrand Prix at Harwood Hall, Upminster , Essex, last Saturday, an elected vice-chairman of the count y board, said he thought the time annual invitatio n event in which riders try their hands on horses was inappropriate for the matter to be brou ght up. He was against loaned for the occasion. Derek Rickets, competing there the rule himself, but felt that any for the first time, stood second to move to have it altered , or Broome at the halfway mark but aboli shed, should come from, the then pulle d ahead to win with a North. After a short discussion the sugtotal of 22 points. Macken also improved taking two of the last three gestion tha t the recommendation be rounds to level with Broome (who forwarded to congress was put to had won five times in the eight the delegates, and passed by a big previous years) each finishing on majority. 19 points. The five riders partnered each of the five "strange" horses and then drew lots for mounts in the final round . The other competitors were Ted Edgar and Caroline Bradle y who scored 17 and 14 points respectively. Following another intensive search at the weekend , no trace has been found of Mrs Marion Farrell, aged 19, of Gur teen , Lanesboro , Co. Longford . Mrs Farrell , mother of one child, was last seen on Lanesboro Bridge the Shannon on December 17tJt TBS Minister for the Gadtacbt , Mr over then garda divers from DubGaflagner, spoke of the Irish lan- lSince in, local gardai and volunteers guage as a "precious jewel" and have searche d the river and its urged youn g people to remeoKber that only by constant use cOnM tMs banks in . vain. jewel be kept sparkling when he visited Cutlen, Co. Cork, at the weekend. If frisn was to prosper and attain its rightful pace in our Nine employees of The Fleet society, he said, it was not enough that it be spoken only in the public house in central Dublinwent Gaetncht. ft use as a living lan- on official strike at the weekend. guage must be extended throughout A spokesman for the barmen said that they were given 10 days' notice the entire countr y. The interest being shown in Irish on Christmas Eve and were toW that the pub was chan ging hands. traditional musk , dances, and culture, in recent years, particularly On Januar y 3rd they were told to by youn g peopl e, was "very en- continue work and now "we don't know where we stand" . coura ging?', he said .
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Irish 'precious jewel', says Minister
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I WONDER if there is any .chance of our getting a three-mo nth year for Roy Mason who, more and more, sounds like the Cock of the North. When he had finished his first 12 months in Ireland he arran ged to have his recor d reviewed. He preened himself rather like a peacock. Actually, the bird I though t of was the mocking bird , but then Roy wouldn 't see it like that. Then, at year 's end, before the ink had barely dried on some of the Mason Admiration Club contributions , Roy took advantage of the New Year to preen himself once more on the ban g-up job he was doing overseas. The tid e had turned against the IRA agus mar sin. Aye. The man may have seen too many Perry Mason shows, and be likes the nice tidy scenarios. British politician s aren 't much given to history , especially Anglo-Irish history. Still I thin k he might just manage to lay his bands on the Whitehall Diary of Thomas Jones, Volume III: Ire1918-1925; land He should eavesdrop on Cabinet Minister Lord Addison telling the PM of the day: "Th e sta tement that the IRA is nearly broken does not carry much weight with me. Such prophecies hav e been made before. " Or Mr Balfour explaining patiently: "At th e heart of Sinn Fein the real ideal was a separate Republic , and nothing would be got by seeing their leaders but humiliation. It may be you can bold on a little by grasping at one tuft of grass after another in the hope tha t you will not go over tbe precipice , bu t over the precip ice you will go, and the tuf ts of grass will not help you. " No, and a puff press isn't much better. Mr Mason is immensely pleased at his long-term successes: in his time be has been able to boast of pulling in men for crimes committed several years before his arrival. He may even pick up the killer of Sam Devenny of Derr y or Tommy Herron of Belfast. One was an officer of tbe Cro wn wbo stands protected to this day by the silence of his RUC colleagues. Aqd , until it is proved otherwise, I will suspect official sources and for ces with the rubbin g out of Tommy Herron , that hapless Orang e paramilitary leader. Murders most licensed should give Roy somethi ng to sgck his
smiling teeth into in the next few months . # * * I see Peggy Lemass O'Brien takes me to task for suggesting that her father , the late Sean Lemass , might have taken an independent line to that of Mr de Valera in Jhis policy on the North. . She quibbles about my "read" of his visiting Captain Terence O' Neill and the policy of co-operation which stemmed from that visit. It isn 't the first communication I' ve had from that quarter. I was writing that scenario for years even when Sean Lemass was alive. It didn 't become a public issue with Peggy Lemass O Brien until .
who were Cabin et Ministers in his Administration , I never did hear any of them discuss that aspect of his policy. I feel sure .there must be documentation available on the point , which will be of great interes t to future historians . The question of our entry into Europe was one , of course, for tlie electorat e of the Republic rather than the Taoiseach of the day, though I acknowledge the political influence a Taoiseach of t he calibre of the late Mr Lemass could wield. My own recollection of Mr. Lemass is that he was an unreserved Eur opean and saw in th e Common Market an opportunity to expand our markets , a point he mad e many times in his public pronouncements on
SOUNDING OFF by John Heal y after the Arms Crisis. She is, of course , the wife of Commandant J ack O'Brien , who was ADC to Mr Lemass and later to Mr J ack Lynch . After the Arms Crisis he received another posting . What I found new in 'Mr s O' Brien's last letter was the "news" that the Boss Man bad . made it a condition of Irish entry into the EEC tha t General de Gau lle and Dr Adenaeur had been asked , and had agreed , to ' twist Britain 's ar m to get out of Ireland — otherwise Ireland would not join. As someone wbo reported Sean Lemass - for most of his career as Taoiseach, I found this revelation very exciting ind eed. It was certainly a very-well-kept secret in Leinster House , and in the years since, talkin g to men
th e EEC. Indeed , my memor y is that such was bis enthusiasm for the Common Market that , at one stage , he threatened to take Ireland into the bloc even if Britain decided to stay out. Ireland , he said , might go it alone —; a sentiment I admired greatly at the time. There is, of course, a certain element in Fianna Fail today who chose t o regard Mr Lemass's action as an aberration because it does not suit the pattern of verbal republicanis m which Mr Lemass eschewed. Indeed, be took great care to avoid verbalised republicanism to th e extent that , in one Christmas adjournment debate , earl y in his term- (the Department of the Taoiseach then had responsibility for the North ), Mr Lemass
failed to mentio n the North once in a long speech . The omission was noted on the record of the Ho use by Fine Gael Deputy Tommy O'Hara , of East Mayo , who remarke d it was the first time a Fia nna Fail Taois **ch hadn't a line to utter about the North . I am not suggesting that he was any the less a Republic an for that: on the contrary, I would claim he was much more of a Republica n politician than many who went before or who came after him. He set out to change things, and we have bis own words after the Stormont visit that things would never be the same again. Nor were they : it has always been my contention that the drinkin g of a cup of tea did more damage to the foundations of Stormont than did all the IRA bombs an d bullets before or since. That visit undermined the foundations of Stormont. It was an edifice erected on ungenerosity and maintained by a total lack of political generosity. It took but one generous act by an Irish statesman to start it crumbling. He may not have had a conscious wish to destroy it, or Captain Terence O'Neill , who might , had he been a Sean Lemass and a skilful politi cian, have survived it. He fell and Stormont fell. And if the ridding of Ireland of ''the puppe t parliament'? so beloved of all the anti-partition campaigns and the rhet oric of verbal re publicanism was the national aim, we can agree that Mr Lemass; who said so little about republicanism , tur ns out to have been th e best achiever of them all. But then , as I've said, the Irish appreciate the talker over t he doer, the speech-making over the act. Forc e and violence and the mythology or the blood sacrific e has been so interwoven where our dealings with Britain are concerned that we. have not yet the abilit y to recognise that a skilful political act , like th e Lemass visit, could achieve what it achieved — the downfall of an ungenerous; institution . We have yet to accept that Mr de Valera was — in his denunciation of the puppet parliament — Basil Brooke's and Stormont 's greatest prop. When Sean Lemass changed that policy the prop went and Stormont crumbled.
Young Scientists ' Exhibitio n m.ay go to regional centres next fear
By Dick Grogan
TUB AER UNGUS Voung Scientists' Exhibition may develop regional offshoots next year , if plans being formulated by its ¦:. \ < organisers bear fruit. The -three-day exhibition, which closed last night, . was visited by almost 21,000 peopl e; The visitors included the President, Dr Hillery, who spent an hour -and-a-balf touring the exhibits and talking to the young scientists last Saturday afternoon. This exhibition has - been the biggest so far , and yesterday Mr Niall Weldon , secretary of Aer Lingus and chairma n of the panel of ju dges, said that they felt they might now have reache d a plateau of participation. The almost 1,100 projects in this year 's event represent the limit that can be comfortabl y accommodated in the RDS , and the next logical development for the exhibition would seem to be to arrange preliminary exhibitions at a number of regional centres to facilitate screening of the entries , as well as encoura ging more local participation. Mr weldon indica ted that while Aer Lingus itself might not have the resou rces avail able to organise this regional scree ning process, they would not be averse to getting help at regional level from local committees and companies. The Young Scientists ' Exhibition is the national airline 's main sponsors hip, , and its consistent record of success makes th em naturally reluctan t to share or subdivide the sponsorsh ip. However, in the last few years some problems have become obvious, such as the need to weed out some of tfte , less sdentiflcallybased group projects which hav e tended to overlo ad the displ ay, and the desirabi lity of encour aging more indivi dual projects In the physic s and mathem atics sections. The manner in which the Young Scientists * Exhibition might "go regiona l" remains to be worked out. There are Regional Scientific Councils already in existence which Anne-Marie Coady (14) , Nicola McGaley , (15) an d Miriam Lynch(15), of Pobal Scoil losa, could be a sour ce of support and Malahide , Co. Dubl in, who won the award f o r the best group proje ct at the Young Scientist certain county development boards of the Year exhibition. Their prize-win n ingproject was a detailed study of the physiology have already shown interest in arrangin g local exhibitions. of sy camor e trees.—(Photograph: Faddy Whelan) Another point which will have to Intermediate: Peter Conlon , Tere- Dun Lughaidh School, Dundalk, Co. Westmeath; Father Donald be resolved soon is the dichotomy between the work carried out by nure College, Dubl in; Michael Co Louth; J ane Ronan, Loreto Collins, St. Peter 's College, Wexstudents for the exhibition and J ones, Ceard Scoil, Cobh , Co Chor- Grammar School, Co. Tyrone. ford; Peter J . J acxson, St Columtheir established school curricula cai; J im Nyham , Vocational School, O'ConneU' s ba's College, Ratbfambam , Dublin; Eamonn Russell, < for the Department of Education Bandon; Co. Cork. Lil Courtney, Sister Edel Bannon, Our Lady 's School, Dublin; examinations. Senior: Andrew Butterfield , New- Loreto Convent , Fermoy, Co. Cork ; Secondary School, Castleblayney, In Northern Ireland (fro m where park Comprehensive School, Black- Brid Dillon, Presentation Convent, Monagban; Tony Rob inson, Mount mor e dun 60 projects were entered rock; Co. Dublin; Stephen Gilmore, Kilkenny; Jacqueline Harbison , SackvDle Convent , Chapelimd, this year) projects for the exhibi- Friend's Grammar School, Lisburn , Holy Faith Convent, Glasnevin, Dublin; Aidan Ryder, St. Columb's tion form part of the formal school Co. Antrim. Dublin; Gerard Keogh, Vocational College, Buncrana Road , Derry. work of the pupils —the y are Biological Sciences: Highly Com- School,' Newcastlewest, Co. Display awards: Ursula Donn elly, assessed on thes e project sas part infWdfd individ ualprojects: Limerick; Daniel Lennon, St Paul's Loreto Grammar School, Omagh, of the "A" or "O" level examinay, College, Rahen Dublin; Deirdre Co. Tyrone, J unior: Peter Ffanegan, Benea'Nyham, Vocations. McGivern, St. Louise's Comprehen- tional School,Jhn vin College, Fin gtas Dublin;. Cliona . Bandon , Co. Cork; Not so, a* yet, in the Republic, Magulr e, ' Road, s i ve School, St. J ames St Domlmc'a College, Herbert, Lore to Convent, wher e the work carried oat on a Belfast; Robert McQuaid , Aideett Cabra , Dublin; Paula O'Regan , Co. Tyrone. Omagh, project for the Young Scientists' O'Connel Ts School, Dublin; Exhibition may, in fact , dash with Sacred Heart Secondary School, Gearodln Ni Dtalaigh , Colaiste Fiona Quinn, Loreto Convent , ClonakOty, Co. Cork. the curriculum work required of the Iosagain , Bothar Stigh Lorgain , Foxrock , Co.; Dublin; Eitbne Glass, Intermediate. student for his or her Intermediate Catherine Goodhue , Baile Atba Clith: Darina Sloan , Our St. Dominic's Hirf i School, Belfast; or Leaving Certificate examination. Alexandra College, MUltown . Dub- Lady's Grove school, Goatstown , Jean Driscoll. Drishane Convent. The concept of project work as lin; Eoin O Mad again, St J oseph' s Dublin. Millstreet; Mary CHara , St. Louis part of the Stat e examination is College, Nun's Island , Galway; Intermediate—Orna Bacon, Loreto High School, Rathmines; Verona rela tively new down here, but it Lucy Power . Mercy Convent, College, St. Stephen's Green, Leonard , St. Domin ic's - College, would seem that the . spread and Waterford City. DaWta; Patrick Dublin; Cotmel r Cuna tngbam, Cafara, Gtaay, Impor tance of the Young Scientists ' Senior: Ter esa Foskin , Mercy Presenta tion College, Bray, Co. Community School, Falcarragh , Co. Exhibition will force a scrutiny of Conven t, Waterford City; Anne Wfcklnw; Colin Daly, Carmelite Donegal; Mary Mulvey, Convent of wan of introducin git formall y. Keating, Santa Sabin a School, Sot- College, Moate, Co. Westmeatn; Mercy, Moate; Co. Westm etrtn ; ton , Co. Dublin: J ean O'Drlscoll . Fiona. Egan, St. Louis High School, J oan O"Mahony. Convent of Megcy, HUSHSTANDARD S Drisbaoe Convent; Millstreet, Co. Ra tbmines , Dublin ; Paul Gately, ClonakUty, do. Cork; Ma rfoa The winner of this year 's title of Cork. ' Franciscan College, Gormans ton, Grainger, Caritas College, Battj rYoung Scientist of the Year, Donald Co. Meath; Orla Henry, St. Paul' s feratot, DubMn i Michael 'Barr / St. McDonnell, of Limerick , will repre- Sdences— J unior: School, Greenhills, Columb's College, Deny, Keitt TacMnllan , Secondary sent Ireland at the Philip 's Euro- High School, Rathgar, Dublin ; Dublin. pean Contest for Young Scientists Eamonn Niamh Lennon , Loref 1 Convent, Walshe , Vocational School. and Inventors , at Eindhoven , Hol- Newcastlewest Foxrock , Dublin, and holy Child Co. Limerick. . land , next J une. The previous two KiiHney . Co. Dublin; Intermediate: Pete r Craig, New- School, winners have both gain ed major Susan MacDonald; Lore to Convent, ^^^^ 5^1^'^*.¦"^¦^¦WbJT «MWFaHj ^aT<KWP^»^W^glHj». awards at this European exhibition , town School, Wate rford; J ohn Mul lingar , Co. Westmeath; Mary Dolan, St Mel' s College, Longford; McManus , Holy Faith Convent, pr oving that the standards achieved In the Irish event ar e at least as Beroade tte McCormick , Conven t of Glasnevin , Dublin; Trisba Ormond , the Holy Faith, Fm g las, Dublin ; high as those attain ed in the larger Convent. Dungarvan , Co. Enda Sheehan, Car melite College, Mercy European countries. Waterford; St. J ohn Collins, Moate, Co. Westme ath; Angela Margaret Coyne, air education ¦ ' ¦ Michael' s College, Ailesbury Road, ;¦»¦BBT*a»¦ . 't n# ' assm ' Mil 'sf ' Taa ^alsBBBBBsalsBnBsBn aTuTaan^BBBBTa^BiansB^nBBBM^BS^BnBBS Ward nBnaV2anaBiBTJnBBBBBBBBBV , Seamoun t College, Kinvara, Dublin; J itn McGuire , St. Peter 's officer of Aer Lingus and the perCo. Galway. son primarily responsibl e for the CoHege , Wexford ; Cliona Ni Senior: Patric k Gibson , St Peter 's Chiosoig, gll inla^-a-lgrtiflgaluni aagav organisa tion of the Young ScienColaiste Iosagain, Baile yg Co l le g e Stunmerhill Wexfor d. . . tists' Exhibi tion, pointe d out that Atha Cliatb; Michael Patten , C h anel ¦ ; Environmental it was total ly different to its equiand Social College, Dublin. valent competition in any of the 16 Sciences Junior: Greg ory Delaney, Senior — David Kennerk, Moyle Western European countries which Belvedere College, Gr eat Denmark Park , Clondalktn , Co. St., Dublin; Rita Ryan, Loreto Con- Dublin; College hold such events. Tom Farrell , Carmeli te The other countries deal, firstly, vent, Bray, Co. Wicklow; Fidelma CoUege, Moate, Co. Westme ath: with far fewer projects—they do Stewart , Holy Faith Convent , Kil- Neil Faulkner , St. Columba ^ not at tempt to.involve the particina- ' lester, Dublin. College, Stranorlar , Co. Donegal; Intermediate: Peter Clein, Cres- Michael Mee , St. Benin' tion of hundreds of diUdreri, aa s Vocational 'cent College Compreh ensive, Door- School, Glenam addy, Co. Galway; the Irish event does/ Aer Lingus officials ar e especially adoyie, .Limerick; Ger ardine Coyle, Lily Meehan , St .Benin's Vocation al conscious of the part played by Our Lady 's Second ary School , School, Glenam addy, Co. Galway; the large panel of J udges. Nearl y, Castleblayney. Co. Mona gban. Kevin Murphy, St. Patrick' s 8entor: Patricia Cullen . Domini- College, Swlnford , Co. Mayo; 60 high-ranking Irish 'sdent ists front the Universities and industry give can Conven t, Wicklow; Loui se Don- Monica O"Far rell, Post Primary insideand out Madoto moosuro** ki& their time voluntarily during the nellon, Rockford Ma nor Secondar y School , Scariff , Co. Clare; Michael wKtechbice of styles. O'Leary, Rockland s Youth Centre , y ear, and durin g th e two days of School, Rlackrock, Co. Dublin. Fmedby8kiBedc fBw9O|ien0n. ju dging at the RDS, in the cause ; Highly Commende d- group pro - F oxrock, Co. Dublin; Geraldlne .4M-K - Joanna Bailey, Rath- Quinn , Rat'onore Grammar School, nationwicJe.Makethe of promoting the high est standards ijectS r-J mtior. l i'?;l;aY of "science amon g Irish youth. : down School. Glenagea ry, Co. Dub- Finaghy, Belfast; Helen Sheehan , changeteWarmBfe-arK JW yetoyour saygoodb IflWJ Hj J While the company 's mana ge- lin; Afzal Balltm , Terenure Col- Presentation Convent , Doneraile , windowworries. ment is delighted with the standards lege, Dublin; Barry Condron , New- Co. Cork. wHf Wff m bro chures. and style of this year 's event, there bridge College, Co. Kildare; Mairi n Teachers' awar ds: Brid Kirby, Sendfortree ^M^M , is a feeling, too, that the exhibition Connoll y, Colaiste Bhride, Collan , Crescent Coll Comprehensive Hna Bj nBWan W«HtaWan«aBWa««M aBaa | has reached a watershed , and that Co. Kilkenny; Ray mond Foley, School, Dooradoyle, Limerick; J . new forms and procedures willhave • Ceaifld^lcoi l, Cobh. Co Chor rai; H. Chester , Colaiste Cboilm CBS, T01 CrtttasU^^Ha U ftA WaraMa "«• . VaaaB^aJB * A_ h_anEW9.JI STBWjSJJjr f WBJiBs J . BIW MBat M ' ^/ahl to evolve if it is to find ways of I Paula Goodman, St Dominic's Hieh Swords, Co. ^ Dublin ; Yvonn e I SSfith" »>¦" »*»*)*¦ • developing and consolidating in School, Fall's Road, Belfast. ' Deecan, Pobal Scoil losa, Malahi de, m tSTSitbWm #TJ T27. T.W. J acqueline Molpney, Vocati onal Co. Dublin; Der mot Lucey and the future. School, Kilma llock, Co. Limerick ; Eddie Lucey, Vocational School, The following were the subsidiary awards in the Young Scientist* Ex- 'Karen McGrath , Loreto Grammar Bandon , Co. Cork. School, Omag h, Co. Tyro ne; hibition: ¦ ¦ Dr D. Nolan, Rockbrook Eatfao inNi Mbnrchu, Colaiste losa- School, Dublin; J . B. Cullinane.Park "*- . ' : St. I MERIT AWARDS — garfnj Bothar Sttan Lbntairi , Baile J oseph's Grammar School, Dun¦ Add fM * GROUP PRO J ECTS <Atha Cliath; Deirdre O'Donov an . fannon ; Co. Tyrone ; & C. J unior: J ohn Cadogan , Tallaeh t , Dominican College. Taylor 's Hil l O Gabhain, Oat lands College, Communit y School,. Co. Dublin; *GaJway; David O*Halloran ,' O'Con- Mount Merrion , Co. Dublin; G. School, Conal Clerkin , O'Conncfl' s Schools, n«U's Dublin: Lucy Chambers , Vocation al School, RathBnaBBB Ha MB *alaBB sMMRaaMRWMHUB H|flrikMBttlnM Dublin; Katblyn Hennessy. Loreto O'Man ony, Loreto Convent. Killar- downey, Co. Laois; Sister Bernard ney, Co. Kerry; Louise Plunke tt, Healy, Convent of Mer cy, Moate, Convent, Kfllarae y, Co. Kerry.