26 March 1998 Edition
Youth co-ordinator arrested
26 March 1998
The Sinn Féin Youth co-ordinator in Dublin, Matt Carthy, was wrongfully arrested last Thursday 19 March under an alleged abuse of the Litter Pollution Act, while fellow SFY member Frank O Laocha was verbally and physically assaulted. Free article
No ban on plastic bullets
26 March 1998
NIO minister Lord Dubs last week rejected calls for a ban on the use of plastic bullets by the RUC and British Army in the Six Counties. Free article
Amsterdam Treaty opposed
26 March 1998
Caoimhghín O Caoláin TD voiced Sinn Féin opposition to the Amsterdam Treaty when the proposed amendment to the constitution to ratify the Treaty was debated at the committee stage. Speaking on Wednesday he said: Free article
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Is New Deal a raw deal?
26 March 1998
Community groups in West Belfast have claimed that Labour's `New Deal' for the unemployed is ``dishonest and opportunistic'' and fear that despite it being linked to the much trumpeted arrival of new fair employment legislation it seriously fails to address the equality agenda. Free article
New cumann
26 March 1998
Sunday 1 March saw the founding of a new Sinn Féin cumann in South Armagh at the annual commemoration of the tragic deaths of IRA volunteers Brendan Burns and Brendan Moley. Free article