Galway Advertiser 1976/1976_02_05/GA_05021976_E1_004.pdf 

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COMMENT
A MOST DISTRESSFUL COUNTRY

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By any stretch of the imagination last week's Budget can be termed severe. Its impact has not been reduced by the fact that we have had warning after warning over the recent months and it will not really begin to bite until the effects of increased V.A.T. and petrol prices begin to seep through the entire economy in the months ahead. But the most serious consideration of all derives from the fact that there is little indication that the latest attempt by Richie Ryan and his Government to by the British Special Branch cope with the tremendous problems facing our economy are going to be solved Nobody who known anythine to entice Mealey and others about these matters will be to commit crime. H e was, in by the latest measures. If Mr. Ryan could have assured us that this stiff medicine lieve that death by hunger fact, an agent provocateur for was in fact a cure and that this time next year we were on the road to economic strike is relatively easy. It is the British authorities. Or to recovery and expansion once again, then we might be prepared to grin and bear a slow, silent, non-violent put it at its crudest, some of form of personal protest, those "terrorists" with whom it. But there is no such promise, no such hope. In fact the probable trend of ioneered in this century by "there can be no compromise events is that we may well have to face a second budget later on this year in etc." now lingering under rish Republicans and readily understood by subdued terrible conditions in British a further effort to shore up an economic mess that has got quite out of hand. peoples throughout the world. jails are there because they There are aspects of the present Budget which are quite savage. One thinks were enticed into foolish Small wonder that the name Terence MacSweeney is per escapades by paid agents of immediately of the petrol and car tax increases. Some case might be made for haps the best known in the the British "law and order" these if it were true that we had a nation-wide public transport system. Such India of td-day. But death by forces. fast is a terrible thing and the a system, as we all know, operates only in name throughout the greater part SHADOW OF D O U B T decision of people like Frank When law^and order stoops of rural Ireland and here in the West in particular. The reality is that ambitious Stagg to go through w.th such ^ ^ a protest must give us some examine the vvhole story young people who are prepared to accept whatever limited job opportunities indication of the resentment^ again. Part of it--the Lennon there are, must have a car to bring them to their places of employment. These which has I forced them tocase--has now been ..placed limited opportunities have been deliberately centralised, in Galway city, for such extreme courses of before the Irish public in the action. Sunday Press. But why do example, as a result of Government "growth-centre" policy so that we are rapidly OUTSPOKEN DEMAND We have to wait for Fr. Denis, approaching the situation where only the foolish will travel to work and will We still hope that even at Faul to write a letter to the, papers the previous week; increasingly be enticed to join the dole queue. Better to stay at home on paythis late stage a suitable . before the general public ia 1 1 related than pay most of your salary on transport costs . . . as long as there compromise8 * t f , . "6" ^ " ! 1 made aware of such sordid Surely conare others to support the unemployment gravy-train! as this is his fourth fast, there connections? representatives cerned public will have to be very concrete should try to make us aware Another rather unrealistic concept which the Government seem to want to guarantees from the British of the full story of cases like introduce is a cost of living price index which does not include additional costs Home Office. Failure to this? For like the Littlejohn honour oral promises, hints affair, they cast a large shadow imposed by taxation. The logic of this seems to be that we must all pay for the and ambiguous assurances of doubt about the posrapidly increasing costs of central government without questioning the value (some from the Governor of ibiHty of honourable coWakefield whose connections i o n between our securof the tax-pound we pay for this service. Why not? Should the value for money with U.D.A. personnel do not f and those in Britain, inspire confidence in negotii d the R.U.C. in the offered by our increasingly top-heavy administration not also be open to public ators) have lead to the present North. Simplistic "solutions" scrutiny and should we not be entitled to ask government to tighten its belt like sorry state. But whatever the ]jk those proposed in a paper outcome, history will note the published in 'Stagg's native the other sectors of the economy? rather exceptional record of Mayo that all that ' necessary One of the main reasons for our recent massive borrowing would seem to be -- Galway institutions, not j f the "I.R.A. to order always famous for their fear him off the hunger strike" the Labour ideological commitment to increasing public spending, or at least less defence of the weak, on ignore the fact that this is not maintaining it at the same level, while everybody else feels the pinch. Keynes' this occasion. The outspoken possible; for Mr. Stagg was letter of history lecturers not a member of that organis dictum of the 1930's seems to have become a sacred cow in very changed Gear6id O Tuathaigh, Nicho ation. He was a political, noncircumstances. As always, wc arc rapidly becoming the prisoners of some militant Republican--until las Canny and John Pratscheke was important, not hs was set up by agents of economist who worked and thought in a former generation. only because it appealed British "law and order." This Equally depressing is the knowledge that if Fianna Fail had been in power directly to the Irish Govern in turn raises questions about ment to intervene, but also the failure of Radio na there is no reason to believe that they would have fared much better. A little because of the failure of Gaeltachta to report the better perhaps, but it is clear from opposition statements that they do not have certain Dublin daily papers U.C.G. petition (and the to publish it. More significant unsatisfactory reportage of a clear alternative solution either. It is all very well to say now that the National was the decision by some 35 the County Council protest-- lecturers and professors in contrast with the account of a Coalition borrowed too much over the past three years. But before such criticisms U.C.G. to make a joint appeal, similar debate in Kerry Co. have any credibility Fianna Fail will have to spell out where they would cut which rightly stressed "the Council); the failure of R T E granting of those facilities to interview Stagg's relatives public spending, if they were in power, and what alternative strategies they already established by or indeed to talk with Mr. would employ to get the economy moving and employment rising once again? precedent." There are many Frank McGuire, M.P. for complicated aspects to this Fermanagh/South Tyrone-- The fact is that we live in a new national and international economic the only public representative entire case. North or South to actively situation. Wc have not come to terms with this reality as yet Mr. Ryan's Budget concern himself with the WOOLY THINKING docs not get us out of the mess. It simply postpones the day of reckoning for whole affair. But some of the issues are another while. so simple and clear-cut that it remains a rather mysterious question as to why they have EYE ON BOTH been withheld from the people, and inter alia his own Bh6thar na Tr4 den Chon REGIONS general public for so long. As the shock-waves of constituents in East Limerick radh i lathair. Cloisfear tuil- one per cent of a community Such reportage, or lack of it, that the Shannon estuary is leadh i dtaobh an dreama seo practice T . M . disorderly be was probably the cause for the latest budget begin to set the ideal location for an Irish go luath. Ach ceist againn haviour decreases by as much some of the wooly thinking in throughout the economic West coast oil base--even oraibh. Ca mbionn na Gaeil- as 17%. witnessed in the Galway system of our daily lives, our though Clare and Limerick America has been particul geoiri seo ar fad i gaitheamh County'Council debate on the thoughts and our hopes turn are about the only two na bliana, go hairithe nuair a arly impressed by T.M. City issue. Perhaps Councillors once again to oil and to the counties on the West coast bhionn seasamh le glacadh councils in over forty major Glynn, Ruane and Micheal O possibilities of striking it rich without a Gaeltacht popula faoi cheisteanna a bhaineann cities officially support T . M . Flatharta felt it better to off the West coast. A good tion in whose interests Mr. le ceart na Gaeilge sa saol programmes advocating that appeal directly to the "hum rich oil well seems to be about O'Donnell is charged, to poibli? Ni leor an oiche its furtherance will contribute anitarian" aspect of the case the only-thing that can get us work. You take your paper spraoi agus cursai mar ata . . . to world peace. Some schools rather than the issue of out of our borrowing mess at and you make your own in the U.S. and Canada "established precedent" men; present and though nothing choice. actually teach it. tioned by the members of the concrete has yet emerged, we ALL IN THE MIND Dr. O'Grady told us that U.C.G. staff. Councillors live in hope. Would a rich oil Most physical diseases or he took up T . M . when he DINNEAR AN Padraic McCormack and find off Galway Bay be a illnesses are caused by found the pressure of working CHONARTHA Brendan Holland will no good or bad thing for u s ? Bhi ard-oiche ag an slua anxiety, tension or simply the in a busy Dublin hospital too doubt get around in due No, seriously. Oil develop course to explaining how you ment brings big big prob m6r a bhi i lathair ag Dinnear result of poorman's struggle much. Now, he says, he Drugs and other can support a protest tele lems with it. We note that the Bliantuil Chraobh na Gail- for life. go some way to heal wants to pass on the message. cures can gram on "humanitarian people of Cork already face limhe de Chonradh na the problem but strange as it "There are no tricks or gimmicks. It's a perfectly grounds" but dissent from it Crippling rates increases if the Gaeilge sa Salthill Hotel san at the same time. Deputy Cork County Council is to be oiche De hAoine seo caite. may sound a cure can often natural process that even the Robert Molloy seemed to in a position to provide the Bhi Na Teaghlaigh Ghael- lie in our own minds. In fact most sceptical person can infrastructural protection to acha i lathair chomh maith a series of concentration learn to use." have a similar probjem pf exercises, 15 minutes twice a A fee is charged for the conscience though in con bring that natural gas off mar aon le roinnt mhor de not only ease away demning "bombing and other Kinsale safely ashore. They chairde na teanga sa chathair. day, canbut actually increase basic, lessons but then, once tensions attrocities being carried out are already looking for a Chuir se at has orainn ach go the subject's level of intelli the technique has been ex because of ti>e Northern r a t e s subsidy from centra) hairithe cuid de mhaithe agus gence, creativity, memory or plained, there is no need to continue the learning process. Ireland situation" he seemed funds I In other words, we m6r-uaisle na bhforas is m6 concentration. T.M. is promoted by a peace to add to the popular myth want the local benefits of tabhacht ar an mbaile a exploitation, but we want the fheiceail ann, agus freisin In Galway last week was a organisation which is non that Stagg and Mealey were Dublin general practitioner, profit making, the funds convicted bombers. Not true. development costs to be roinn mhaith daoine ata ar Dr. Michael O'Grady, ex simply contribute to teaching. Both are victims of Britain's borne by the entire country. bheagan Gaeilge ach ar mhaith leo a dtacaiocht don pounding the blessings of A TJA. class will be opened 19th century "conspiracy" Cathal Mac Gabhann, duchas a chur in iul. Thracht Transcendental Meditation in the city sometime again in laws, designed to ensure raw Cathaoirleach na Craoibhe, (T.M.) to a considerable the near future. justice for Irish Fenians at Gaeltarra's General Manager, recently re-emphasised that an tUasal O Maidin ar na number of people. T . M . has the time of their introduc made a remarkable impact on tion. Stagg got 10 years for they were keeping their eye daoine seo, ach go hairithe, TOO GOOD TO MISS the Western world during the "conspiracy to cause arson." on the oil situation and were nuair a labhair se ag an Finally, window sign writ last decade or so. It is, in fact, ing took on a new significance Even more importantly in the ready to move if and when ndinnear. Dar leis go bhfuil an ancient Eastern tradition last Monday when we spotted case of Mealey, there it direct the black wealth was found athbheochan na Gaeilge ag of knowledge and has been the following on a well known evidence to link their actions off the Conamara coast. I t brath cuid mh6r de phobal subjected to very rigorous city fish and fruit shop: with the late pathetic and appears Gaeltarra has been m6r na Galltachta nach bhfuil assured of the support of the sasta an Ghaeilge a fhagail examination. tragic Mr. Kenneth Lennon " R a p e s i9p a l b . " Minister* for the Gaeltacht, mar ghne cung de shaol na whose name is back in the Scientific results, tested in Mr. Tom O'Donnell, for any tire a mhairfidh, b'fheidir, go news again this week follow twenty different countries, ing the publication of a book developments along these dti tus ancheid seo chugainn. are quite extraordinary. It has in Britain. The simple truth lines. If you read the Limerick Bhi athas orainn a thabhairt been proved that T . M . has is that Mr. Lennon was press however you will note faoi deara chomh maith go rehabilitated prisoners, re either hired or blackmailed that Mr. O'Donnell is telling r'aibh cuid de bhaill 6ga duced blood pressure, helped Chraobh his Shannon Development dhlograiseacha asthmatic sufferers and, if

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