25 March 1999 Edition
7-year-old detained by RUC
25 March 1999
Sinn Fein councillor Cathal Crumley has accused the RUC in Derry of targeting children in a bid to heighten tensions in nationalist areas after a seven-year-old was detained by the RUC on his way home from school last week and taken to Strand Road RUC barracks. Free article
Support for Cookstown district council
25 March 1999
Sinn Fein Assembly member for South Down and party spokesperson on housing, Mick Murphy, has voiced his support for Cookstown district council's threat to boycott the Six County Housing Council (NIHC). Free article
RUC passing report to discredited Stevens condemned
25 March 1999
Pat Finucane's brother, Martin, has condemned the decision of RUC Chief Ronnie Flanagan to pass the British Irish Rights Watch report into collusion between the crown forces and the loyalists who killed his brother's murder, to the Deputy Commissioner for the London Metropolitan Police, John Stevens. Free article
RUC refuse to act over bus attack
25 March 1999
A Greencastle community worker has accused the RUC of refusing to act after a sectarian attack on a bus full of school girls. Free article
Public discussion on the future of policing
25 March 1999
Sinn Fein spokesperson on Policing and Justice, Bairbre de Brun addressed a packed meeting on Monday night, March 22, in the Fort Lodge Hotel, Enniskillen entitled ``the Future of Policing''. Free article
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Derry CRJ - Accepting responsibility
25 March 1999
As part of our ongoing articles on Community Restorative Justice - Restoring Justice to the Community, An Phoblacht spoke to Derry CRJ coordinator Paddy O'Carroll who outlined the development of the CRJ project in Derry. Free article
Former DUP councillor faces arms charges
25 March 1999
Former DUP councillor Kenneth Blair is to face arms charges after appearing at Coleraine magistrates court on Wednesday 17 March. Free article
Youths escape death
25 March 1999
Two West Belfast youths narrowly escaped death when a loyalist gang tried to abduct them near the Village area of South Belfast in the early hours of Saturday morning, March 20. Free article
Irish publishers are English say state
25 March 1999
The launch today, Thursday 25 March, of a new system of grant-aiding books in Irish to be run by the state's Bord na Leabhar Gaeilge will be picketed by publishers of Irish books and by poets, writers and commentators who are being discriminated against by the new system. Free article
Conor Murphy calls for halt to British Army saturation
25 March 1999
Sinn Féin Assembly member for Newry/South Armagh, Conor Murphy, has called for an end to the British Army's saturation of the area. Free article