Galway Advertiser 1979/1979_05_31/GA_31051979_E1_006.pdf 

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TELEVISION G U I D E
YOUR LOCAL CHOICE While the decision to hold the European and local elections on the same date may have been the right one in terms of administrative efficiency, it would be a pity if we allowed all the noise about the new European experiment to divert our attention from the immediate problems of County Council and Corporation. It is true that the powers of our local authorities have been reduced in recent years. This is true of all local bodies. And bearing in mind that Galway Corporation's status has been one of a subsidiary local authority, in no way adequate to the needs of the modern growing city we have to-day, this is all the more regrettable. Galway Corporation needs to be upgraded and it would be interesting to know what the different parties are prepared to do about possible options on reorganisation. There is a grave danger that real issues about local government (and a local election should be basically about local issues--and the actual structures of the local authorities themselves) may become confused under a cloud of "controversies" between the many very forceful personalities in the Galway race in the revived ward system. It is all good fun, and because so many people have thrown their hats in the ring with all types of policies, a healthy exercise in democracy. But there is also work to be done and policies to be planned and adopted. There is also a danger that because of the Corporation contest, Galway city voters may not be as interested as they shoud be in the County Council election. This is a pity because the County Council is the highest level of local government we have in Ireland at present and also because change, if there is to be a change in Galway County Council, is likely to come in the city area. The simple facts of the situation are that Fianna Fail command an overall majority of one in the 31-member chamber. They want to retain that majority and claim to be going to the public on their record. While it is possible that a seat may change one way or the other in either the Ballinasloe, Tuam, Loughrea or even Connemara areas, it is much more likely that change, if change there is to be, will come in the big 9-seat electoral area for Galway city. This places a special responsibility on voters living in and around Galway city. We should not allow either Corporation faction-fights nor lofty talk about the E.E.C. Assembly to divert our attention from the reality. TA CAIRDINEAL AGAINN! Vatican officials, it seems, have a special ability for keeping the media guessing as was proven again with the announcement that the Archbishop of Armagh, Dr. Tomas d* Fiaich was to receive the Red Hat. Since his elevation to the See of Armagh there was little doubt that the successor of St. Patrick would be made a prince of the Church sooner or later. But there were many false starts in the press rumours, and not a few news speculation stories that diplomatic pressures were being used by the Government which claims to rule Armagh, and five other Irish counties, if not to prevent the appointment at least to ensure that the new Cardinal of the Irish Church would toe the line--the official British line--where the question of Irish political structures are concerned. Then, when all the heat died down, the Vatican moved and made its announcement on the British Bankholiday weekend! Dr. Tomas (5 Fiaich is Irish of the Irish not only by birth, breeding, upbringing and inclination but also because he has used his considerable scholarly talents to familiarise himself with so much of our heritage that for some remains a closed book. Not only does he know his Ireland--all Ireland--and its people--all its people of differing religious beliefs and even of none--but he is happy and proud to proclaim this fact to the world. In his courageous moral stand on the H-Block issue no less than his open and honest expression of the belief that, sooner or later, Britain will have to disengage from this island, he has taken the difficult path at considerable risk to his own popularity and to the obvious dangers of misrepresentation. But Dr. O Fiaich is frank, forthright and courageously honest in these matters, as he has been in his open association, on the ground floor, with ministers of so many different backgrounds, opinions and denominations long before ecumenism became the fashion. He is, in short, a Christian gentleman for whom ecumenism, like charity, begins at home, on the ground, in the local parish, by the coming together in frank discussion and open disagreement of individual persons who are readily identifiable as standing for something definite in the many strands of Irish religious tradition. For his own part, he is probably the most representative figure of his own tradition to reign in Armagh since Aodh Mac Aingil at the beginning of the 17th century. That is a big claim but no bigger than the task which faces our new Cardinal at this time of grave difficulty for the Irish people. Ta*imid cinnte go mbeidh se: in ann aige, agus le cuidiu* De* agus cabhair ix bpaidreacha go le*ir, ca" bhfios nach n-eireoidh leis tfls a chur le beartais a tabharfaidh an ceart agus an chfiir agus an tsfocham faoi re*im i dteannta a chdile? Mar nf sfochiin go ceart, agus nf ceart go sfochaln. Recently the Church of Ireland appointed the Rev. William Arlow as an unofficial ambassador of peace in this troubled land where his efforts are already a matter of record. We hope and pray that both men can get together soon. They would have lots to talk about, and a great deal in common. May the Lord guide them in the days ahead.

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THURS. 31st MAY 4.00 South Riding 5.00 Stingray 5.30 Youngline 6.00 The Angelus 6.01 Youngline 6.15 News 6.30 The Golden Harp 7.00 The Rockford Files 8.00 The Mackinnons 9.00 News 9.20 European Elections Fine Gael 9.35 Thursday Play date--Cuckoo Split 10.25 Nuacht 10.3S Folio 11.10 The Golden Harp Festival 1979 11.35 Late News 12.45 2.00 2.30 3.00 315 4.55 6.01 6.5S 7.30 8.00 9.00 915 10.45 11.30 Going Strong The Garden Folio Cartoon Time Sunday Matinee Days of Glory The Riordans Black Beauty Songs for All Seasons Gather Your Dream Tops of the Town News Tops of the Town Sports Scene Late News

THURS. 31st MAY 6.50 Switch On 7.00 Cartoon Time 7.20 Top of the Pops 8.00 Pot Black 8.30 World Week 9.00 Aulis Sallinean 9.20 European Elections F i n e Gael 9.30 Potter 10.00 Positively Healthy 1050 Musical Hour 1155 Newsnight FRI. 1st J U N E 6.40 Switch On 6.55 A Place in Europe 7.25 Kenny Everitt Video Show 8J10 T h e Mystery of Loch Ness 9.00 World Sportsman 9 5 0 European Elections Fianna Fail 9.30 Premiere 10.00 Festival 11.00 Newsnight SAT. 2nd JUNE 4 1 5 Cartoon Time 4.35 The Virginian 5.40 The World About 6.35 Generation Game 7.30 Aisling Gheal 8,10 Coldite 9.00 Old Grey Whistle 9.50 Raffles 10.40 Five Came Back Film SUN. 3rd JUNE 5.20 J u s t William 6 5 0 Taste for Adventure 6.50 Salvage--I 7.40 Sykes 9.00 Kilverts Diary 9 1 5 MacbethPlay 9 5 5 Russell Hardy 10.15 Phylby Burgess and Maclean MON. 4th JUNE 6.45 Switch On 7.00 Indoors Outdoors 7 5 5 Coronation Street 8.00 Call My Bluff 8.30 Tomorrow's World 9.00 Cartoon Time 9 1 5 Nial Sadacta in Dublin 10.05 That Man from Rio--Film TUES. 5th JUNE 6.55 Switch On 7.00 Celebrity Squares 7.25 T h e Tribal Eye 8.25 And Mother Makes 3 9.00 Streets of San Francisco 9.50 A Sense of Place 10.20 The Governer 1115 Newsnight WED. 6th J U N E 6.50 Switch On 7.00 This Is Your Life 7.30 Coronation Street 8.00 KAZ 9.00 Music in Camera Ivan Novello 10.25 Love for Lydia 1)1.05 Newsnight

FRI. 1st J U N E 4.00 Day of the Bear 4.30 Inch High Private Eye 5.00 Space 1999 6.00 The Angelus 6.01 Cartoon Time 6.15 News 6.30 Bailey's Bird 7.00 Suil T h a r t / Nuacht 7.25 Double Top Ace 7.55 Good Old Days 9.00 News 9.20 European Elections Fianna Fail 9.35 Frontline 10.10 Late Night Cinema: The Macgintosh Man

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