Assembly member Mary Nelis, Sinn Féin spokesperson on Human Rights, has called for a public explanation from the Irish News following that paper's rejection of an advertisement for `National Coming Out Day', which is taking place this weekend. Free article

Is sauce for the Russian goose sauce for the NATO gander? Not according to Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, who agreed in the Dáil with US criticism of the Russian bombing of civilians in Chechnya but refused to criticise NATO bombing of civilians and punitive sanctions in Serbia and Iraq. Free article

Cork Sinn Féin has welcomed the abandoning of a lecture, organisied by the Philosophical Society in UCC, which was to feature fascist historian David Irving, who advocates that the Holocaust never happened and that it was a product of Jewish propaganda. Free article

At one level you have to hand it to Fianna Fáil and their PD cousins. Free article

Ireland's first Irish language calendar for the year 2000, based on Vivaldi's Four Seasons, which will help raise money for non-funded Irish language schools, has been launched in Belfast. Free article

The death of Paddy Magee in Andersonstown on 30 October 1999 brought to an end an era which reminds us all of what we as a community have gone through over these past three decades . Free article