London is an impressive city. It's hard for me to admit that. Until Monday I associated London only with the armed conflict and all the attendant heartache. Although it is now Tony Blair's Britain to shape in his image, when I thought of London I thought of Thatcher and all the pain she brought to Ireland. Free article

As the massacres continue and hundreds of thousands of Albanian refugees flee their destroyed villages, NATO hypocrisy and diplomatic bellydancing continue. Free article

Tá géar ghá le feachtaisí a fheiscint ag bláthú ar ábhair éagsúla a bhaineann leis na h-athruithe a theastaíonn ó phoblachtánaigh a dtitfeadh amach san tréimhse seo den streachailt. Is tá a fhios ag cách céard iad na feachtaisí seo. Free article

Picture this scenario. A thriving state owned oil and gas exploration industry pumping millions of barrels of oil and therms of gas into tankers and pipelines, creating thousands of jobs and generating multi million pound profits for the people. Could this really happen in Ireland? Free article

For reasons entirely connected to earning a living, this Dub has been a stranger to Hill 16 for the last couple of years, but the return to Mecca for the Compromise Rules series with the Australians was almost as good as those distant dreamy days when the Dubs were winning championship games. Free article

The British have announced their latest solution to their ``Irish problem'' - South African-style censorship. From now on, members and supporters of Sinn Fein are banned from appearing on British television or radio. In one afternoon 100,000 people (over 40% of the north's nationalist voters) have been gagged. Free article

Small Soldiers Elizabeth Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels Free article

Media coverage of Sinn Fein March/Youth Conference Prime Time - The Demise of the PDs (RTE1) City Hall (BBC1) Ballykissangel (BBC1) Heartbeat (UTV) Glenroe (RTE1) Free article

The right wing media in Britain are outraged at the arrest of General Pinochet in London last week. The bloody Chilean dictator, who was responsible for the torture and death of 3,000 left wing activists and others following his overthrow - with US help - of the democratically elected Allende government in 1973, clearly has many friends in the British establishment. Not least of... Free article

The week in quotes.... Free article