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22 July, 2004 |
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What's sport got to do with it? 
The Olympics may be the world's biggest and longest-running sporting event, but our strongest memories of the Games often have little to do with the sports involved. In the second part of her two-part Olympics special, An Phoblacht's JOANNE CORCORAN looks at some of the political gestures and various scandals that have made the Games much more than a sporting experience. Photo: Tommie Smith and John Carlos give the black power salute in Mexico The two oranges that shook Apartheid 
Twenty years ago this month, ten workers from the Henry Street branch of Dunnes Stores in Dublin's city centre went on strike to protest the selling of produce from Apartheid South Africa. A year later, the group was joined by another worker, Brendan Barron, from the Crumlin store, bringing their number to eleven. Photo: Catherine O'Reilly, Karen Gearon, Alma Bonnie and Mary Manning pore through some of An Phoblacht's file photos from the famous dispute 
Brendan Archbold was the IDATU union official in charge of the Dunnes Store Strike in 1984 (the strike actually started when IDATU was called the IUDWC). Still an official with the same union, now called MANDATE, Brendan spoke to us about his memories of the strike. Photo: Brendan Archbold Dunnes Strike legacy shows potential of unions 
By Caoilfhionn Ní Dhonnabháin - This summer marks 20 years since the start of the Dunnes Stores anti-Apartheid Strike in Dublin. That struggle stands with the 1913 Lockout as a key moment in the history of trade unionism in Ireland. What is a fair Truth Recovery process? Earlier this summer, Sinn Féin spokesperson on Truth Recovery, Philip McGuigan, accused the British Secretary of State of "breathtaking hypocrisy" as Paul Murphy toured South Africa studying their model of truth and reconciliation. 
There's been a lot of talk recently on whether or not the Pope might return to Ireland. The thing is, asks AN DRAOI RUA, would there be many who would go to see him a second time round? 
One of the least known but most important gunrunning operations in Irish history took place in Kilcoole, County Wicklow, on 1 August 1914. It arose from an initiative taken in early 1914 by Michael O'Rahilly (The O'Rahilly), Director of Arms of the recently formed Irish Volunteers, in conjunction with Erskine Childers, Sir Roger Casement, and other prominent nationalists. Photo: The O'Rahilly An Phoblacht's famous satirical column. Read on... |
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