by Colman Cassidy A terrible beauty is stillborn in the rain, as alert, grim-faced, inward-looking men and not a few women stand outside the mortuary at Dublin airport – and wait. Talk is low and spasmodic.  Everyone is occupied with his or her own interpretation of the Gibraltar killings.  There’s an all-pervading sense of grief…
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Colman Cassidy, Evening Press Industrial Correspondent, 25 September 1990 The final shutdown of the 41-year old Gateaux plant last Tuesday is an indictment of the way we are. The Gateaux saga is a classic example in its way of working class inertia turned to fury in the face of market forces – a belief that…
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[This article was written prior to the election in May 2000 for the vice-presidency of Ireland’s largest trade union, SIPTU.] Two part-time union officials – both women – are competing for one of the top three posts at the top of the SIPTU trade union management pyramid. Colman Cassidy assesses their difficulties Nuala Keher has…
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Colman Cassidy, Sunday Press June 6th 1989 The McDevitt sisters, from Donegal are “breaking in a brand new broken heart”, courtesy of Connie Francis, on the car radio, when I hit the brakes.  The first sighting of Croagh Patrick on the road General Humbert took in 1798 from Killala to Castlebar, is something to savour,…
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