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Inaction is a weapon of mass destruction Thirteen United Nations Organisations currently operating in the occupied Palestinian territories have added their voices to the growing number of those concerned about the plight of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli detention. 
The community of Loughmacrory and the wider Tyrone area gathered last weekend to take part in a series of events to mark the 16th anniversary of republicans Gerard and Martin Harte and Brian Mullin, who were killed on active service on Tuesday 30 August 1988. Photo: Barry McElduff and Barney McAleer 2 September 2004 Sectarian Attacks - Derry GAA supporters stoned again 
In a weekend of sectarian attacks, Derry GAA supporters had a lucky escape after a bus and car were stoned by loyalists as they returned from Croke Park, two Catholic schoolboys were assaulted in West Belfast and drunken loyalist bandsmen chased a group of young nationalists in Dunmurry. Photo: SF MLA Caitríona Ruane has urged the removal of sectarian graffiti Tensions high in North Belfast Tensions in the Whitewell area of North Belfast are running high in the lead up to a loyalist band parade through the area on Saturday 4 September. A mother of two children whose Banbridge home was attacked by loyalists with a pipe bomb said her family was targeted because they are Catholic. Websites encourage racist attacks British based far-right websites are publishing the details of black and Asian workers and of anti-racist activists in the North and are actively encouraging violent attacks on ethnic minorities. A round-up of the rest of the week's stories. Ó Caoláin questions real value of Spatial Strategy Commenting on the documents released under the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act regarding the 26-County Government's National Spatial Strategy, Sinn Féin Dáil leader Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin said it "raised fundamental questions about the way the strategy was drawn up and about its real value". Politics without convictions - Election SSIA and tax cut bonanza on the way 
Holding onto power is a difficult thing, especially after spending 15 of the last 18 years in government. Last week, 20 fretful Fianna Fáil strategists met in one of Dublin's most exclusive hotels to plan new strategies for the party. Photo: Taoiseach Bertie Ahern 
Clonakilty Sinn Féin Councillors Paul Hayes (left) and Cionnaith Ó Súilleabháin (third left) recently hosted a group of Basque young people who were visiting Ireland. The two councillors took the group to the site of the Battle of the Big Cross, just outside Clonakilty, which was the only rising in Munster in 1798, where they presented each of them with a souvenir book published in 1998, the bicentenary of the rising. Waving goodbye to the Wax Museum? 
One of Dublin's most familiar tourist attractions will soon be demolished, if Fianna Fáil TD Donie Cassidy gets his way. Cassidy, who owns numerous hotels in Dublin City, also owns the building on Granby Row, which is currently leased to the National Wax Museum Photo: Dublin's Wax Museum Guesthouse with historic links 
The official opening of Belleek Fort Guesthouse in Ballyshannon, County Donegal on Wednesday 25 August also marked, to the day, the 80th anniversary of the handing over of the Belleek Fort to the Irish Free State soldiers by the British Army. The Fort had been occupied in the 1920s by the British Army, the Irish Free State Army and the anti-Treaty IRA. It was captured by the British Army on 7 June 1922 and handed back to the Irish Free State Army on 25 August 1924. The Fort was under the command at one time of Captain Thomas Daly, father of Bishop Edward Daly. McBride family welcomes US intervention Jean McBride, mother of murdered Belfast teenager Peter McBride, has welcomed the intervention of a number of US Senators who have called for an investigation into the award of a US Defence Department Iraq contract to a firm led by Tim Spicer, a former Scots Guards officer who was CO in Belfast when her son was shot dead. |
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