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22 April, 2004

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The 5th Column

An Phoblacht's famous weekly satirical column. Read on...

Irish Times accused of censoring sectarian racist British intelligence document

Former Irish Times editor Douglas Gageby is pictured unveiling a plaque to the United Irishmen at Clifton Street cemetery in Belfast in 1995

BY JOHN O'LEARY: It is assumed that owners of newspapers are closely associated with the Establishment, that they are part of it. It is seldom that evidence appears to confirm this assumption. But now we have clear-cut evidence in the form of the 2 October 1969 letter from the British Ambassador in Dublin to WKK White in the Foreign & Commonwealth Office.

Photo: Former Irish Times editor Douglas Gageby is pictured unveiling a plaque to the United Irishmen at Clifton Street cemetery in Belfast in 1995

Páistí Folláin

There is a campaign to ban TV ads for fast food aimed at children, but this should only be the start of a concerted campaign to make sure we have healthy Irish children, says AN DRAOI RUA.

Easter Lily in Royal Avenue

Alex Maskey promotes this year's Easter Lily campaign

Belfast Sinn Féin Councillor Tom Hartley often tells the story of what life was like for himself as a young teenager walking through the streets of Belfast in the early '60s. In those days, Tom said that nationalists were vulnerable to verbal or physical attack if they were seen openly displaying the Irish News walking along Royal Avenue. By that, he meant a person quite innocently carrying a rolled up Irish News under their arm with the masthead facing outwards as they strolled along the street could be attacked for such outrageous behaviour.

Photo: Alex Maskey promotes this year's Easter Lily campaign

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