At the time de Valera drafted the Constitution, one of his senior civil servants, J J McElligott, wondered whether it wasn't vitiated 'by stating at the outset what will be described, and with some justice, as a fiction'.But then it is not the only fictional article of de Valera's Constitution. EACH of the first two days of the World Cup competition contained a few moments of genuine theatrics, almost all generated by Fred Couples, but the theme of yesterday's third round was volatility. For a council that has to legislate for a wide variety of human and other factors, there is surely no alternative but to ban all forms of physical assault, however low-level and well-intentioned That was Sutton's policy. THE FBI confirmed yesterday that a bomb had caused the explosion at the World Trade Centre that killed seven people and injured more than 1,000. Because ministers had acceded to British Coal's request for an accelerated statement, Michael Heseltine, President of the Board of Trade, told one of the Cabinet's Overseas and Defence Policy sub-committees on Tuesday morning: 'I am going to make an announcement later today.' There was no opportunity for discussion.The only Cabinet ministers absent were Lord Mackay, the Lord Chancellor, Sir Patrick Mayhew, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, and Gillian Shephard, Secretary of State forEmployment.Letters, page 13.

If I lay in bed, I could see deer grazing in the field outside the window.Within a year my circumstances were improved, as I thought it. The ITV programme schedule is extremely powerful, doing a first class job.' ITV should remain the dominant popular channel in the 1990s, he said, while satellite increasingly devised pay channels.Mr Quinn said that the major 'landmark' programmes of ITV should remain. I had 22 birdies in a tournament in Japan last week and was fifth here last year.'He leads by one from New Zealander Frank Nobilo, and two from Fiji's Vijay Singh and the Lancastrian John Hawksworth.Hawksworth, 31, has missed 17 cuts in 23 starts this season, but he made the shot of the day - a three-iron hole-in-one on the 221-yard 11th.Woosnam's recovery in form stemmed from a practice session before the first round when, by tucking a towel under his arms and trying to swing, he discovered he was standing too far from the ball.'I feel I'm getting somewhere,' said Woosnam, who had stated only 24 hours earlier that if the Ryder Cup was being held next month he would not want to play.He was one over par after five holes but then holed a 100-yard bunker shot for an eagle three at the 562-yard sixth.'That got me on a roll,' Woosnam said. Interest rates are more likely to rise than fall and societies tend to react more quickly than National Savings.

Then, following lunch and with the score on 150, he whittled out Wayne Noon and Kevin Evans in three balls.. Graham Taylor had nervously but successfully come through his first match as Wolves' manager, and was explaining that he sent on Cyrille Regis with eight minutes left because draws were no good for a club that is mightily ambitious about getting into the Premiership. Certainly, a lot of wire had to be replaced but the incident did not result in any delay to the programme.'The project has been plagued with delays ever since Eurotunnel was granted the concession to build the tunnel in January 1986. The anguished intensity comes close to unbearable in the fourth song, 'Oft denk' ich' - nothing forced, just very musical, deeply felt singing.

There's a dignified, terribly civilised air surrounding this latest composer-resuscitation exercise, reminiscent of Parry himself. JOHN SNOW and Fred Titmus, the former England Test bowlers, have been added to England's team of specialist coaches. Adolescent trauma does not have to come over as unrelievedly depressing; other writers have managed to link it to black humour or entertaining social iconoclasm. The supreme court barred Gilchrist Olympio, a strong contender, from standing because he did not submit medical certificates signed by Togolese doctors. NIGEL COUPE, 22, had the distinction of becoming the only rider to defeat a rapid time set by Ireland's Peter Charles in yesterday's I P E Power and Speed at The Horse of the Year Show here. One shoplifter will occupy an officer for half his or her tour of duty, and a juvenile prisoner may consume all of it.

Recurrently, as a result of the cyclic movement of repose, disturbance and repose, the original situation is restated.'Riley's image as an essentially conceptual artist, a white-coated figure who treated the studio as a form of laboratory, was enhanced by her practice of employing assistants to fabricate the paintings themselves - a method which Riley still follows, seeing herself as in essence a 'composer' of images whose execution can be left to others. One day we had a puncture at one of the busiest intersections in the town I had 10 nervous minutes to watch the mayhem around me A couple of boys threw themselves at each other. But the militia don't like the look of these new arrivals, and run and hide behind the nearest wall There's a stand-off The two sides shout at each other. Michael Pearce, for the prosecution, said Mr Wain had hit the crowd waiting at the bus stop at 30mph. Over the years he was always the charming, handsome, adorable, decent football star, who became a Hollywood actor, television ad personality and man about town. The news came as the company reported a cut in pre-tax losses in the year to 30 September from pounds 65m to pounds 5m.Mr Bowkett wants to transform Berisford, virtually a shell company with small property and commodities interests, into an industrial business.