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25 July 2002 Edition

Accountability? New impunity for old

25 July 2002

A central tenet of the 'new beginning' to policing set out in the Good Friday Agreement is the requirement that in the future the police service be fully accountable for its actions. Free article

War crime in Gaza

25 July 2002

"It was one of our greatest successes", claimed Ariel Sharon, after Tuesday's air-raid during which Hamas leader Saleh Shahade and 16 others were killed when an F-16 fighter dropped a two-ton bomb in the Mashahreh district of Gaza City. Free article

Déaglán na Madaidh

25 July 2002

This week, AN DRAOI RUA relates some of the folklore associated with Saint Déaglán/Declan and reveals why he is seen as the patron saint of dogs. Free article


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