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TELEVISION GUIDE
THURSDAY, AUGUST 27 4.40 Upstairs Downstairs 5.35 Scooby Doo 6.00 The Angelus 6.01 News 6.20 Garda Patrol 6.30 Cartoon Time 6.35 Here's Lucy 7.05 What's Cooking 7.30 Some Mothers Do 'ave ' t m 8.05 The Good Old Days 9.00 News 9.15 SBB ina Shui 9.50 Sorry 10.25 Nuacht 10.30 Petrocelli 11.25 Late News FRIDAY, AUGUST 28 5.00 Sesame Street 6.00 The Angelus 6.01 News 6.20 Cartoon Time 6.50 Famous Five 7.15 Nuacht 7.20 Six Million Dollar Man 8.15 A Sense of Excellence 9.00 News 9.15 Greyhound Racing from Harolds~Cross 10.00 Today Tonight 10.30 Late Night Cinema The Strange Possession of Mrs. Oliver 11.50 Late News SATURDAY, AUGUST 29 12.50 Born Free 1.40 Sports Stadium 5.05 Cartoon Time 5.20 Tammy 5.50 News 6.00 The Angelus 6.01 The Nancy Drew Mysteries 6.55 Nuacht 7.05 Saturday Cinema: Red Line 7000 9.00 News 9.15 Best Sellers: Escape from Iran 11.00 Robert Gordon 11.35 Late News SUNDAY, AUGUST 30 3.00 Funky Phantom 3.20 Sunday Matinee: They Got Me Covered 4.50 The Road West 5.45 News 6.00 The Angelus 6.01 Cartoon Time 6.20 The Little Rascals 6.30 Encyclopaedia 6.55 Nuacht 7.00 Three Track 7.20 Sunday Night at the Movie: The Little Prince 9.00 News 9.15 Joe Dolan--Live 10.15 The Sunday Series 11.10 Late News MONDAY, AUGUST 31 5.10 Battle of the Planets 5.35 Lassie 6.00 The Angelus 6.01 News 6.20 The Peppermint Pig 6.50 Cartoon Time 7.00 Search 7.30 Sale of the Century 8.00 Charlie's Angels 9.00 News 9.15 Flamingo Road 10.10 Nuacht 10.15 My Wife Next Door 10.45 Proinsias Mac Aonghusa ag caint le Cearbhaill O Dalaigh 11.10 Late News FRIDAY, AUGUST 28 6.55 Switch On 7.00 News Headlines 7.05 Ryan's Hope 7.30 Coronation Street 8.00 Trapper John, M.D. 8.50 Sight and Sound in Concert 9.50 The Levin Interviews 10.20 Prince Regent 11.15 News Headlines

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THE BACK OF THE CAMEL
The rapid changes in Irish political priorities during this holiday season, from the usual Dail and party activities, is a reflection o n the change in the style o f Government that has already taken place since Dr. FitzGerald became Taoiseach. But we should not allow that to hide some of the more disturbing aspects of the pattern which have already set in almost un-noticed. , Dr. FitzGerald may be a g o o d performer o n American television and probably appreciates the value o f letting us see extracts from these interviews o n RTE. H e may feel that speaking three different languages at the opening of the Merriman Summer School in some way impresses -- and of course it does. But there is more to politics than talk and even if we accept that people are o n holidays and that radical reform has t o wait, the performance o n some day to day issues and the priorities given to them, is another matter. Dr. FitzGerald, in naming his 11 for the Senate, had a golden opportunity to break with the sterile politics of the past and in particular to nominate some of those people from the "two communities" in Northern Ireland whose voices he always tells us Fine Gael want heard. Instead he played the old political "powersharing" game of the South, only in this case it was more like a game of dividing the spoils. Confronted o n RTF. with the ridiculous Section 31 situation, the Taoiseach freely concedes that something needs to be done at once about Sinn Fein Councillors. Yet instead of doing something, he waits until the Provisional camp have an M.P. who is not in jail, t o add to their jailed T . D . , as well as their councillors, thus ensuring that whenever Section 31 is finally scrapped, it will be seen to have been forced o n a Dublin Government by the bitter voting resentment of the Nationalist people of the North. Even o n that favourite subject o f economics there are issues that need urgent attention. Has anybody clearly spelled out the full extent of the new Michael O'Leary brief as Mininster for Energy and Industry and what changes, if any, the allocation of the superhuman task of increased employment to the Socialist supremo is going to mean? Honest John Kelly is left with the terrible legacy o f price rises at a time when bank rates and mortgages are rising by percentages which if they occurred by fractional comparison under a Fianna Fail administration would see Michael D . Higgins and the Labour Party calling for blood. Even pure non-contaminated Socialists like Jim Kemmy, Noel Browne and Joe Sherlock o f S F W P are already seen as presiding over an Irish version of Thatcherism, no matter what name they try to call it, and all the speeches.in the world about Articles 2 and 3 or the Constitution will not change that blunt reality. Above all else, there seems to be a type of drift in crucial and relevant areas that dangerously reflects the type of Government we had under Mr. Haughey and which, it was suggested, the people had rejected at the polls. Dr. FitzGerald will have to start declaring his intentions very s o o n , not just on H-Blocks or the North but o n the precise course of the economy, and o n the apparent contradictions between the as yet unfulfilled promises o f the General Election programme o f Fine Gael, and the realities of what is happening. True, it would seem that most of the Fine Gael promises have not yet been forgotten or scrapped and that in overall impact the Fine Gael position, rather than the Labour one, is prevailing in Government. But then there was no talk of an autumn budget. Nor has there been one. Instead it came in summer but the full impact will not be felt until the new V.A.T. rates come in this week-end. Meanwhile Garret is still telling us that we are living 10 per cent b e y o n d ou* means. Perhaps we are. But there are an awful lot of families who are not, while there are many more that see little hope of the employment that would allow them to calculate any independent means o f living. We are not suggesting that it is all Garret's fault and we certainly would be the first to accept that Mr. Haughey and Fianna Fail left office with lots o f outstanding headaches to be tackled. But the reason why many people rejected Fianna Fail is that they wished to see an end t o drift and the initiation of clear and decisive measures that would concertrate o n allowing people to calculate their o w n rate of earning with some sense o f confidence and certainty. Patch-work initiatives and wooly programmes that give with one hand and take with th eother are hardly a change. They might well be the straw that breaks not only the citizen's back but that of the new inter-party Government also.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 5.10 Maya 6.00 The Angelus 6.01 News 6.20 Cartoon Time 6.25 The Enchanted Castle 7.00 The Waltons 7.55 Cosmos 9.00 News 9.15 Funny Man 10.15 Nuacht 10.20 Eadrainn 10.50 The Odd Couple 11.20 Late News

SATURDAY, AUGUST 29 6.20 Switch On 6.25 News Headlines 6.30 Horses Galore 6.55 The Bionic Woman 7.45 Lou Grant 8.35 The Secret Army 9.30 Because Its Home 9.55 Top Rank Fights of the '70's 10.50 Jazz International '80

SUNDAY, AUGUST 30 6.05 Switch On 6.10 News Headlines 6.15 Battlestar Galactica 7.05 The Three Stooges 7.25 Le Corbusier 8.10 Call My Bluff 8.45 Hands 9.15 Broadway Musicals 11.50 Transmission Ends

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 5.10 Super 7 5.30 The Sullivans 6.00 The Angelus . 6.01 News 6.20 Cartoon Time 6.35 Journey into the Himalayas 7.05 Pinballs 7.55 Nuacht 8.00 Rose of Tralee 1981 Parti 9.00 News 9.15 Rose of Tralee 1981 Part II 11.00 The Jackie Gleason Show 11.30 Late News

MONDAY, AUGUST 31 6.50 Switch On 655 News Headlines 7.00 Ryan's Hope 7.25 Let My Tombstone be of Granite--The Story of Frank Ryan 10.40 Festival 11.40 News Headlines

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 6.30 Switch On 6.35 Ryan's Hope 7.00 News Headlines 7.05 Wild, Wild World of Animals 7.30 Coronation Street 8.00 240--Robert 8.55 That's Hollywood 9.20 Wayne and Shuster 9.50 Play into Film: Look Back in Anger 11.30 News Headlines

THURSDAY, AUGUST 27 6.40 Switch On 6.45 News Headlines 6.50 Mart and Market 6.55 Ryan's Hope 7.20 Top of the Pops 8.00 Palmerstown USA 8.50 Where Do We Stand 9.20 Cine Club 10.50 Garda Patrol 11.00 News Headlines

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 7.00 Switch On 7.05 News Headlines 7.10 Ryan's Hope 7.35 Taxi 8.00 Follow the Band 8.55 In Loving Memory 9.25 Withdrawal 9.50 A Gift to Last 10.45 Pavilion Folk 11.15 News Headlines

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Photographed at a reception in the Great Southern Hotel prior to the Marathon Relay run from Galway to Dublin were (L to R) Michael Gallagher, Stewarts Hospital; Bill Coghtan (P.R. O.); Cfc. Claude Toft, Mayor of Galwag Frank Coakley, Stewarts Hospital..

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