14 August 2008 Edition
Debbie Coyle to fight Enniskillen by-election
14 August 2008
AT a packed selection convention in the Clinton Centre in Enniskillen, 46-year old Debbie Coyle was nominated to fight the local government by-election forced by the refusal of Ulster Unionists to allow the DUP a co-option after the death of Nigel Dodds's father. Free article
Ballymurphy Massacre mural unveiled
14 August 2008
The Ballymurphy Massacre Group, made up of relatives of those killed by British Paratroopers in the days that followed the introduction of internment in August 197 Free article
Seán Crowe to take South Dublin County Council seat
14 August 2008
SINN FÉIN will be proposing the co-option of Seán Crowe on to South Dublin County Council following the decision by Councillor Mark Daly not to contest the next local election. Mark says that although he is standing down from the council he will remain an active member of Sinn Féin. Free article
Homeless mothers threaten to squat in Stormont
14 August 2008
Forty years after a Catholic family squatted in a house in Caledon to highlight sectarian discrimination in the allocation of public housing, two Belfast mothers are threatening to squat in Stormont's Long Gallery. Free article
British Army killer of Belfast teenagers eulogised in Afghanistan
14 August 2008
Lee Clegg the 39-year-old British soldier originally jailed for life in 1993 for the murder of two Belfast teenagers but then cleared five years later, has been secretly deployed to Afghanistan as a 'fighting medic'. This week the Parachute Regiment soldier has been eulogised in the British Tory media for his role in the occupying army. Free article
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Hospital services slashed to save heat and light bills
14 August 2008
Sinn Féin Councillor Paul Donnelly has received shocking new information from a source in Connolly Hospital in Dublin about further savage cutbacks that will affect patients directly. He has revealed that the Outpatients Department will be closing for two weeks from 22 December and elective surgery has been cancelled for six weeks from 18 August to 30 September. Free article
Acht na Gaeilge faoi ionsaí
14 August 2008
Le míonna beaga anuas tá aontachtóirí ag cur dlús lena n-ionsaithe ar an Ghaeilge agus ar an éileamh d'Acht na Gaeilge ó thuaidh. Free article
Racist sign slammed
14 August 2008
Sinn Fein's Alex Maskey, MLA for South Belfast and Policing Board member, has condemned the posting of a racist sign on a house in Donegal Road which indicates that the house is not available to rent to "foreigners". Free article
INTERNATIONAL : Conflict between Russia and Georgia
14 August 2008
Farce has an unwelcome but longstanding habit of intervening in human tragedy. Thus, as war raged between Russian and Georgian forces in the Caucasus, in not too distant Beijing representatives of both countries fought each other in that most timeless of the Olympian disciplines: beach volleyball. Free article
Gaeil Trasteorann
14 August 2008
De bharr chomhoibriú idir 'Glór na Móna', Béal Feirste agus 'Gaeilge Locha Riach' i gContae na Gaillimhe, d'éirigh leo duais trasteorann Ghlór na nGael a bhuachaint don dara bhliain as a chéile. Free article