22 April 2004 Edition
Irish Times accused of censoring sectarian racist British intelligence document
22 April 2004
BY JOHN O'LEARY: It is assumed that owners of newspapers are closely associated with the Establishment, that they are part of it. It is seldom that evidence appears to confirm this assumption. But now we have clear-cut evidence in the form of the 2 October 1969 letter from the British Ambassador in Dublin to WKK White in the Foreign & Commonwealth Office. Free article
Páistí Folláin
22 April 2004
There is a campaign to ban TV ads for fast food aimed at children, but this should only be the start of a concerted campaign to make sure we have healthy Irish children, says AN DRAOI RUA. Free article
Easter Lily in Royal Avenue
22 April 2004
Belfast Sinn Féin Councillor Tom Hartley often tells the story of what life was like for himself as a young teenager walking through the streets of Belfast in the early '60s. In those days, Tom said that nationalists were vulnerable to verbal or physical attack if they were seen openly displaying the Irish News walking along Royal Avenue. By that, he meant a person quite innocently carrying a rolled up Irish News under their arm with the masthead facing outwards as they strolled along the street could be attacked for such outrageous behaviour. Free article