13 February 1997 Edition
Mexico's war against its people
13 February 1997
It is just over three years since Mexico's wealthy elite finally gained access to the Big Boy's Club. On New Year's Day, 1994, the country became a member of the exclusive North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), along with Canada and the US. Free article
Roimh éirí na gréine
13 February 1997
Scríbhneoir as Conamara is ea Colm Ó Ceallaigh. Tá trí úrscéal foilsithe aige. Seo alt uaidh ag trácht ar leabhar Gerry Adams, Before the Dawn. Tá an leabhar fós ag díol go maith in Eirinn agus thar lear. An tseachtain seo caite bhí sé ag uimhir a ceathair sa liosta ``hardback non-fiction'' Free article
workers in struggle: Noonan plays strike roulette
13 February 1997
Nurses throughout the 26 counties worked as usual this week after their eleventh hour strike deferral, brought about by significant gains in a stop-gap Labour Court judgement. The 26,000 nurses will now ballot on the new proposals. Free article
Sportsview: Wet Leeks
13 February 1997
My sister was watching `Brookside' so I only got to see the last 20 minutes of the Ireland v Wales soccer match but I didn't seem to have missed much as the score was still 0-0 after 70 minutes as ``the lads'' skated up and down what looked like a mudrink. Ryan Giggs stayed away to keep his curls dry and he was replaced by the silky skills of Vinny Jones, the man who became a patriotic Welshman after failing to locate his Irish grandmother's birthcert (some say it was hid). Free article
Remembering the Past: Leonard McNally arch-informer
13 February 1997
Undoubtely one of the most treacherous informers of Irish history was Leonard McNally. Free article
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Back issue: War with England will be more intense
13 February 1997
``THE campaign against military and economic targets will be maintained and intensified during the coming year.'' Free article
Alas, poor Ken...
13 February 1997
In the film The Greatest Story Ever Told John Wayne appeared as the centurion at the foot of the cross and got his fee for just being there and uttering the sentence ``Surely this was the Son of Gaawwd.'' It has gone down as the most ludicrous `cameo role' in cinema history. In his new version of Hamlet Kenneth Branagh has far surpassed it. Free article
Television: Fond times on old lines
13 February 1997
RTE's Off the Beaten Track series (RTE 1, Sundays, 5.25pm) continues to explore our railway legacy; those lines which have been closed and allowed to fall into disrepair but which still leave their marks, both on the landscape and in people's memories. Free article
News in Brief
13 February 1997
RUC remove photos
Accusing the RUC of using house raids in Belfast as a cover for a ``sinister intelligence gathering exercise'', Sinn Féin councillor Sean McKnight said a Ballymurphy family discovered photographs missing from an album after an RUC raid on Thursday 13 February.
One of the missing photos is of the householder who was told by the RUC last year that his personal... Free article
Editor's desk
13 February 1997
The ugly face of political censorship was shown in Newry this week. Free article