``Fianna Fail wants to see change for the better. We want opportunities and a place in the sun for all''. These were just some of the sound bites and platitudes littered through Fianna Fáil leader Bertie Ahern's rally the troops speech last week. Free article

Colombia was back in the news last month due to the visit of U.S. president Bill Clinton to the Latin American country. Free article

Ar an tseachtain deireadh de Iúil na bliana seo, reachtáileadh an chéad Scoil Samhraidh Mhic Reachtain san Áras Pobail ar an Lóiste Úr i mBéalFeirste. Ainmníodh an scoil samhraidh i ndiaidh Henry Joy agus a dheirfiúr Mary Ann Mac Reachtain, beirt a thug a saol ar son saoirse na hÉireann, chomh maith le bunú an chéad scoil Domhnaigh do pháistí bochta i mBéal Feirste, os cionn dhá chéad bliain ó shoin. Free article

If, like me, you grew up supporting a soccer team that was on your doorstep, then this new Europe is a far off country of which we know little. Free article

Irish Republicanism - Good Friday and After by Daltún Ó Ceallaigh. Published by Léirmheas. Price £6. Free article

THE brutal treatment of the young Prisoners (YPs) in Armagh Prison has brought protests from all sections of the Republican Movement. A statement from the imprisoned volunteer soldiers in `A' Company, Armagh Prison, graphically relates how the Yp's were beaten with batons and home made clubs. One particularly sadistic attack, witnessed by the Republican prisoners, occured when a young lad refused to obey a punitive order from a screw. Free article

The week in quotes... Free article