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30 November, 2006 |
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OUT NOW and selling out quickly Early Christmas panto at Stormont 
It was a tale of one chamber, two sittings, a gunman, a putative rebellion and a very confused political situation. Last Friday all eyes were on the white haired octogenarian dressed in a dark pin striped suit most favoured by barristers performing in a court room. Photo: Jim Gibney OPINION: Policing issue of key strategic importance If it wasn't so potentially serious, Michael Stone's assault on Stormont was almost laughable. A man getting stuck in a revolving door at the entrance of the building waving a gun about and being swatted by two security guards. In Stone's case, his motivation was probably self publicity. No doubt his 'art' will be selling an extra hundred pounds an item following his latest political theatre. 
It was a situation made for the conspiracy theorist. The big man, the man of God, the consummate politician, the champion of fundamentalist Protestantism, had just refused to nominate for something he has wanted all his life -- to be first Minister of 'Northern Ireland.' Photo: Mary Nelis Feature: Irish Government signs accord to build nuclear fusion facility in France Last week the Irish government, alongside 30 other governments signed an accord to build a new nuclear reactor in Cadarache in France based on the concept of nuclear fusion. The agreement signed in Paris is of huge importance. It is the biggest scientific project since the international space station. While it must be acknowledged from the offset that nuclear fusion is completely different to the nuclear fission technology, commonly used the world over and which poses real and significant threats to the health, safety and wellbeing of humankind should there ever be another Chernobyl-style accident, the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor is not without problems and danger of its own. 
Eliminating poverty for Sinn Féin is not a mere sound bite -- it is one of our core objectives. That is where we differ from other parties and it is why we will face the ideological wrath of those opposed to any form of fundamental social change or wealth redistribution. Photo: Sinn Féin protesting against the high tax rates for PAYE workers, and the lax approach to tax dodgers, during a tax march in Dublin in 1983 Bhí brionglóid ait agam aréir. Bhí mé ar ais sa seomra gorm, bhí mé ceithre bliana d'aois agus rinneadh oighear den uisce sna píopaí; bhí smugairle ar ár srón is bhí mo dheartháir ag gearán mar bhí bealach druidte chuig an doras le mo stocaí salacha. Letter to the Taoiseach By Barry McElduff 
NB - Bertie Ahern can be contacted on (00353) 1 6194020 or email privateoffice@taoiseach.gov.ie. Address: Office of the Taoiseach, Government Buildings, Dublin 2 Photo: Barry McElduff The All Star awards have been announced and not one of you got the teams right. I am that ashamed of you that I will be trying to come up with a suitable punishment. A season ticket for Newbridge, if such a thing exists, or perhaps a couple of training sessions with Ger Loughnane and the Galway hurlers in January. Or a fishing holiday in Fermanagh. In December. By God, that'll smarten up your ideas. D'eagraigh Conradh na Gaeilge léirsiú lasmuigh de Theach Laighean chun comhionannas a fháil ar chomharthaí tráchta ar fud na tíre Dé Máirt seo caite. Bhí léirsithe eile ar siúl ag an am céanna lasmuigh d'oifig an Aire Iompair, Martin Cullen, i bPort Láirge agus lasmuigh d'Oifig an Aire Gaeltachta, Éamon Ó Cuív, i nGaillimh mar chuid den bhfeachtas úd. Baineann na léirsithe seo le feachtas an Chonartha níos mó comhionannais a chur i bhfeidhm idir an Ghaeilge agus an Béarla sa chomharthaíocht oifigiúil. 
December 1984 witnessed the deaths in action of four IRA Volunteers from Derry. Three of those deaths were summary executions carried out by Britain's undercover SAS regiment, providing further evidence of the continuing British shoot-to-kill policy in the Six Counties. Photo: IRA Volunteers in full uniform fired a volley over the coffins of their comrades Volunteers Willie Fleming and Danny Doherty An Phoblacht's famous weekly satirical column. |
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