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THE SUNDAY TIMES, 8th MARCH 1987 TUDOR TWIST : In support of Dr Leonard's stand against the ordination of women in the Church of England, Alan Hart (Letters, February 22nd) said "we don't adapt the gospel of Christ just because of society's present standards". But wasn't it precisely for this reason that the Church of England was created in the first place, when "present standards" in the form of Henry VIII did not find it convenient to follow the gospel of Christ over divorce. Anthony Allwright, The Hague, The Netherlands
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| THE SUNDAY TIMES, 1st April 2001 http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/04/01/stiireilt01001.html
DAVID QUINN is one of the few commentators to dare to voice views that do not adulate Saint Mary Robinson (Robinson did not live up to expectations at the UN, Comment, last week). Robinson's decision to leave her post as the United Nations high commissioner for human rights was her latest act of funk, in which she comes across as a self-promoter devoid of inner strength. Outrageously, she quit the presidency of Ireland several weeks before completing the six-year term the people had graciously bestowed upon her. And why? Because of a juicier job offer from the United Nations. Now, after four years with the UN, she is running away again, this time because of "the failure to give her office sufficient resources ". As high commissioner, she was not some lowly civil servant powerless to resist the unreasonable demands of her boss. She was a member of the highest ruling body of the UN. It was her job to balance resources with activities, to wangle more of the former or trim the latter or whatever, and still get the job done. It is disingenuous of her to now give the impression that she was some kind of minion subject only to the whims of some higher being. We are now told her "preferred role as an outspoken advocate of human rights", that is, somebody who makes brave speeches from the sidelines without any responsibility for executing her own advice or for the outcomes. Tony Allwright
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| THE SUNDAY TIMES, 24th JUNE 2001 http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/06/24/stiireilt01002.html Why waste money to hear 'no' again ? The Taoiseach, most of his cabinet and all of their European counterparts, are understandably horrified by the no result. It causes embarrassment for the Irish ministers and enormous irritation to the rest. But their collective reaction is illuminating. They all say the ratification process will continue and that the treaty will not be renegotiated despite Ireland's no. They are clearly mired in denial, the first of the classic four steps with which people deal with unwelcome news. However, in a short time, we will see denial change to anger, followed in due course by acceptance, and finally by action. Tony Allwright
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URL is unbelievably long, and you have to subscribe to the Sunday Times to read it in full. http://www.newsint-archive.co.uk/pages/SearchSampleResults.asp?pubsel=SNT&SrchText=send+them+a+sterling+draft&datetype=1m&DateFromDD=Day&DateFromMM=Month&DateFromYY=Year&DateToDD=Day&DateToMM=Month&DateToYY=Year&ResultListMax=100&head=&byline=§=&SortOrder=desc&SortField=Date&Submit1=Search&BackDD=Day&BackMM=Month&BackYY=Year&source=thetimes&SortField=Pub&SortOrder=asc&SortField=EDN&SortOrder=asc&SortField=Page&SortOrder=asc&ST=NS&SortSpec=&ResultMaxDocs=100&Site=ALL&Collection=NI&ResultCount=20&summreqd=yes&indexkey=3E340769478526514202E230
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Sunday Times SUN 11 NOV 2001 Ed: 1RP Pg: Eire Money 2 Word Count: 275
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THE
SUNDAY TIMES, 11th November 2001 Fair trading of online brokers; Money matters
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| TA writes from Dublin: I read your reply to 'DF from Dublin'
who wants to open accounts with a few British online stockbroking companies - I disagree
with your complicated, costly advice. Your reader can easily open an account with www.etrade.co.uk - one of the few UK online
stockbrokers that does not insist on its customers being UK residents. As for paying them, you just need to send them a sterling
draft, obtainable from any Irish bank. E-Trade's fees are cheaper than Goodbody's - a flat
UK£ 14.95, compared with IR£ 20-75 that you quote for Goodbody. Clip at left includes the reply |
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SUNDAY TIMES, 14th July 2002 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/section/0,,2088,00.html
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"Organic food prices plunge" (News, July 7th) because it suggested that, at
last, the benefits of organic food are becoming accessible to those unable to afford the
premium they have hitherto commanded, only to read that the plunge in prices is actually
bad news because a handful of organic farmers, including Prince Charles, are whinging. Then John Humphrys Tony Allwright Editor's deletions shown |
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SUNDAY TIMES, 18th August 2002 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/section/0,,2088,00.html
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Humphrys derides George Bush for "wrecking" the Kyoto
Protocol on Climate Change and points to the need "to get clean
drinking water to the 1.2 billion people who do not have it"
(Comment, last week). The experts, according to their
publications, agree (as do even groups such as Greenpeace
and Friends of the Earth) that
implementing Kyoto world-wide will have negligible impact. It will merely
defer global warming by six years in a century's time, ie without Kyoto
the temperature will rise by 1.9 deg C
in 2094, with Kyoto it will not rise by this amount until 2100 Experts also inform us that the global
cost of reducing CO2 emissions to achieve this derisory benefit will be in
the order of US$ 100 billion per annum between now and 2094, or 2% of
World GDP And who For example, Kofi Annan and the World Bank tell us that US$ 200 billion, ie just two year's "subscription" to Kyoto, is sufficient to provide all humanity with clean drinking water and sanitation and thereby avoid 2 million deaths per year in the Third WorldIt's Tony Allwright
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SUNDAY TIMES, 8th December 2002
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2088-506196,00.html
NO CURE: You report that 360,000 Britons per year require hospital treatment at a cost of about £1.7 billion. Even if the tax on a packet were only £1 and those sick people smoked a packet a day, it would mean that they pay for their own medical treatment in just 13 years. But cigarettes take far longer than 13 years to make smokers sick, not every smoker gets sick, the tax is far in excess of £1 per packet, and smokers die disproportionately younger than non-smokers, thus drawing less in pensions. A successful anti-smoking campaign would have dire consequences on the exchequer and would necessitate compensating tax rises and/or cuts in services such as hospitals.
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August 10, 2003 The Observer THE OBSERVER, 10th August 2003 http://observer.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,6903,1015680,00.html Has Rachel Cooke, with her distaste of the toy boy concept, actually looked at men of Elizabeth Taylor's age ? Can she really imagine that a woman of such verve and vitality could consider having a relationship with any man over 50 - unhealthy, pot bellied, humourless, burnt out and angry - well, most of them. I have this theory that in cave dwelling times, no man expected to live for long - they were too busy out hunting and getting gored to death. Still stuck in that mindset they have not learnt to take their health seriously. And then these pitiful worn-out creatures expect to excite the likes of Joan Collins. Really, Rachel, be realistic. Frances Allwright |
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SUNDAY TIMES, 4th January 2004
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,2762-950604,00.html GOOD GRAMMAR: Humphrys asks: “How did ‘between you and I’ ever happen?” I have been boring my family, and any others who would listen, as to the origins of this common solecism. |
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SUNDAY TIMES, 15th February 2004
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2094-1001627,00.html What is it about professional goalkeepers that they rarely seem able to defend adequately when faced by one-on-one encounters with attacking players? Their only defence appears to be to stretch themselves out with arms and legs extended in the usually vain hope that attackers will trip over them and miss shooting for goal. Any rugby player will tell you that the way to prevent your attacker kicking on the loose ball is to dive on it. Soccer clubs should seriously consider recruitment of experienced rugby players, preferably full-backs, to be retrained as goalkeepers. Walter Allwright, Dublin 4 |
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SUNDAY TIMES, 30th April 2006 - Comments
PROBING QUESTIONS: So Giles Hattersley reckons Sue Lawley is a probing interviewer because she “asked Gordon Brown if he was gay” and “got Ted Heath to say the latter years of his political life had “a certain loneliness and sense of waste”.” Probing would have been to switch these questions around. — Tony Allwright, Dublin. Item to which this letter refers ... |
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The Sunday Times, 12th November 2006
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A killer father such as Gavin Hall may indeed see himself as a victim, but society, the media and the courts do not, and there is no compunction in locking him up for the vile crime he has committed. In Hall’s case that means life, and one might expect that the Greek courts will hand down something similar to John Hogan, who jumped off a balcony with his children in his arms, resulting in his son’s death.
For example, Danielle Wails, who burnt her son to death
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The Sunday Times, 3rd December 2006
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Brenda Power assesses the proposed legislation to permit householders to “shoot to kill” when faced by an intruder (Comment, last week [“Licence to kill means licence to be killed”]). If it is legally necessary for the owner of a dangerous dog to post a sign warning “Beware of the dog”, then “Beware of guns” should also be de rigueur. — Walter Allwright, Pembroke Park, Dublin 4. |
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Sir, - It is not the [Irish] Labour party that requires the “courage” to table a private members' bill in favour of abortions, so much as the unborn children who need the courage to face the resultant abortions. (Courage on abortion, Comment, January 6th, p1.16 - not available online). — Tony Allwright, Killiney, Co Dublin |
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September 2008 - not available online Sir, - Matt Cooper talks about "the Catholic feast of Lent" (No place for faith in state classrooms, 31 August, page 1-14, Irish edition**). He must have been looking out of the window during his religious education classes at school. Lent is a season of fasting and abstinence emulating the forty days that Jesus spent fasting in the wilderness on retreat, prayer and reflection. It is no more a "feast" than is Islam's current month of Ramadan, which is of course a copy of Lent. - Yours etc, **also not available online |
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Published
in the Sunday Times (Irish edition) on 25th October 2009 - not available online To justify the proposed reduction of the drink-drive blood-alcohol limit from 80 to 50 mg per 100ml, you report that according to HSE research “at least 18 drivers killed in crashes between 2003 and 2005 had a blood alcohol level of between 50mg and 80mg” (“Rural rebellion on drink-drive limit”, News, last week). On its own, this statistic proves nothing. The same research also concludes that 165 drivers were killed with zero alcohol in their system. A few months earlier the HSE told us that over 1990-2006, 65% of road deaths were unrelated to alcohol. You could therefore conclude that sober drivers are more dangerous than drunks. The truth is that no-one has ever demonstrated any increase in accidents attributable solely to a blood alcohol level of between 50 and 80mg. The proposed reduction from 80 to 50mg is all about ideology and self-preening and has nothing to do with road safety. |
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Hydraulic Fracturing [P!] Published in the Sunday Times (Irish edition) on 9th October (available online but behind firewall)
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Notes not the answer [P!] Letter published in the Sunday Times on 6th November (available online but behind paywall)
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About time Dev Óg was put in his place: Silence is golden Sir, / I am shocked. Not content with silencing five priests, the Catholic church has now silenced Father Éamon Ó Cuív for daring to speak out against the sacred Fiscal treaty. Should he violate his pledge of silence, Bishop Micheál Martin will throw him out of the Church. Oh wait, did I say church? I meant Fianna Fail, where gagging a member is apparently not shocking; just a sensible precaution to ensure the corporate message goes out. / Yours etc,
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Hunt for Evidence (and response) Published in Sunday Times on 17 Nov 2014 (but hard copy mislaid) Sir, I trust you will invite Brian O'Connell, John Hunt's biographer, to respond to Erin Gibbons' most recent scurrilous, evidence-free attempt to blacken the name of the late John Hunt, art collector, dealer and philanthropist ("Hunt's legacy long overdue for review", November 10th). For the past nine years, she and Shimon Samuels of the
Simon Wiesenthal Centre in Geneva have tried every trick in the book to
accuse Hunt
yet have failed to produced a single scrap of credible evidence, despite persistent requests that they document their allegations. To the contrary, all evidence uncovered so far, and the world experts who have examined the issue, point unflinchingly to the precise reverse. Yours etc, Tony Allwright Erin Gibbons' response |
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A RISKY
STRATEGY: The shooting dead of an innocent person in London has predictably raised howls of accusations. It was an unhappy incident but I would praise the officer for his selfless behaviour. If, as he believed, he was chasing a suicide bomber, he put his own life at risk. Imagine the outcry if the police had failed to apprehend the suspect and scores of people were killed.
