23 March 2000 Edition
New collusion revelations
23 March 2000
Sinn Féin Assembly member Michelle Gildernew is today in Dublin to hand over to Irish government representatives the contents of a wallet handed into her Dungannon office which contained a list with details of 23 republicans taken from crown forces files. Free article
No initiatives from British government
23 March 2000
As Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams predicted last week, the intensive political engagement signposted for St Patrick's Day in Washington never materialised. Free article
Sinn Féin encouraged by American support
23 March 2000
The St Patrick's Day celebrations at the White House this year, while clearly seen by the hundreds of Irish Americans who attended as a way to pay tribute to a President who has shown such commitment to peace in Ireland, had inevitably an underlying air of concern and regret. Free article
``As near to murder as you can get''
23 March 2000
A 10-month-old baby and her mother were treated in hospital after a loyalist petrol bomb attack on their home at Glenview cottages, just outside Glenarm near Larne. Shortly before 1.15am in the early hours of Sunday morning, 19 March, the device was thrown through a bedroom window. The window had been first smashed with a brick. Free article
Threats against solicitor not taken seriously
23 March 2000
A Belfast solicitor who took on the work of Rosemary Nelson representing the Garvaghy Road residents has been refused personal protection by the RUC. Free article
Hundreds join Lurgan justice march
23 March 2000
Every one of the 60 names read out ripped the air like a knife. Last Sunday in Lurgan, hundreds of devastated families, relatives and friends stood in silence, grief written all over their faces. In a voice loaded with emotion, Eamonn Cairns, father of two of the youngest men shot by the UVF in the area, honoured each victim. Free article
Australian Irish `welcome' for queen
23 March 2000
Australian Aid for Ireland (AAI) demonstrators made sure that Elizabeth Windsor got the message about Ireland even as the English queen was attending an official welcome ceremony at the Opera House Forecourt in Sydney on Monday, 20 March. Free article