18 October 2001 Edition
Ten Freemen laid to rest
18 October 2001
When I was kid growing up in Belfast's Short Strand in the '60s, there were two rebel songs that stirred my heart and that of many another teenager. They were the ballads of Tom Williams and Kevin Barry. Youthful minds created powerful images of Tom facing the hangman: Free article
The shirt off your back
18 October 2001
"We are central to the political life of this nation". Of all the rhetoric in Bertie Ahern's televised leader's address at the Fianna Fáil ard fheis, this was probably the most accurate declaration. Fianna Fáil are central to Irish political life, but not in the way Ahern thinks. Free article
Plan Colombia backfires
18 October 2001
Disease, destitution and an increase in coca production are the consequences of the US's military drug-eradication strategy known as Plan Colombia, according to Hugh O'Shaughnessy, author, broadcaster and columnist with The Observer in London. He witnessed all this against the backdrop of ever-increasing violence, military-paramilitary collusion and human rights abuses during his visit to Colombia in June. O'Shaughnessy was in Dublin last week at the invitation of the Latin America Solidarity Centre. Free article
Dún Sellafield Anois!
18 October 2001
Níl a fhios agam cá mhéad leithscéalta is bréaga a dtig le rialtas na Breataine a inse fá chomhlacht núicleach amháin. Tuigimid nach dtig le muintir na hÉireann ná muintir na Breataine fiú teacht ar eolas beacht cruinn fá gach uile timpiste is meancóg contúirteach a tharla i Windscale/Sellafield ó bunaíodh é i 1947. Free article
Back issue: Blanket men don their own clothes
18 October 2001
AN ATTEMPT by the British administration at Stormont to use the 28-day moratorium announced by Direct Ruler Jim Prior, in his statement after the ending of the H-Block Hunger Strike, to just slowly phase in prisoners receiving and wearing their own clothes has been successfully challenged. Free article
The Stardust tragedy - have we learned the lessons?
18 October 2001
They Never Came Home - The Stardust Story By Neil Fetherstonhaugh and Tony McCullagh Merlin Publishing Price £8.66 Free article