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27 February 1997 Edition

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News review

Thursday, 20 February

Irish nationalists react angrily to comments by former Tory Prime Minister Edward Heath linking the Tiananmen Square and Bloody Sunday massacres.


Friday, 21 February

After almost 19 years in custody, miscarriage of justice victims Michael Hickey, Vincent Hickey and Jim Robinson, collectively known as the Bridgewater Three (a fourth co-convicted, Pat Molloy, died in prison), walk free from the Old Bailey.

Saturday, 22 February

Gerry Adams states that any new IRA cessation will be genuinely unequivocal, containing a clear and unambiguous commitment to enhance a genuine peace process.

Sunday, 23 February

A Sunday paper reveals that there is no record in the Registry of Deeds of a mortgage on Michael Lowry's £200,000 Dublin residence in Blackrock despite his December insistence in leinster House that the house was mortgaged.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netenyahu appoints a lawyer after being questioned by police investigating a corruption scandal within his government.

Monday, 24 February

Jack O'Callaghan, father of informer Sean O'Callaghan, is buried in Tralee with full republican honours. A veteran republican, O'Callaghan had disowned his son's activities.

Stephen Restorick, the British soldier shot dead by the IRA in Bessbrook is cremated in Cambridgeshire.

Tuesday, 25 February

Deng Xiaoping is cremated in China.

The Central Bank in Dublin rules out a drop in interest rates as inflation falls to its lowest level in four years amid rising house prices and a rapid growth in borrowing.

Wednesday, 26 February

Gerry Adams says that the Dublin government should have observers at all disputed marches in the Six Counties. Dick Spring calls again for an independent parades commission to be established ``without delay''.


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