17 April 1997 Edition
Old footage now in colour
17 April 1997
Did you ever experience a feeling of deja vu? I'm sure most people reading the headlines and watching the news of events in Belfast this week were probably thinking, ``this has all happened before''. Free article
Guatemalan regime called to account
17 April 1997
As part of Latin American Week An Phoblacht examines the contrasting politics of Cuba and Guatemala Free article
Scriosfaidh Harney Fianna fail
17 April 1997
Rinne Mary Harney ciseach cheart de straitéis olltoghcháin Berite Ahern nuair a d'fhógair sí go dtabharfadh an PD ``athchuairt'' ar cheist na dtáillí uisce agus iad sa Rialtas. Deirtear i dTeach Liaghean go ndeachaigh Bertie le báiní faoin scéal. A chónach sin air! An bhfuil caolsheans go dtiocfaidh ciall chuige maidir leis an gcomhaontas leis an PD de dheasca na heachtra seo? Free article
Workers in struggle: Government denies equality of treatment
17 April 1997
Talks begin today at the Labour Relations Commission between the IMPACT trade union and the Health Services Employers Association. The issue is the pay claims made by 3,500 IMPACT workers who include speech therapists, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, social workers, childcare workers and bio-chemists employed by hospitals and health boards across the country. The workers were balloted on industrial action and voted by over 90% to strike from next Monday 21 April. Free article
Sportsview: Teilifis na Gorgeous!
17 April 1997
It's great not to have to listen to Eamon Dead, Nobby Stiles or cardboard cutout Alan Pransen, when watched the game on the box and such is the case with Teilifis na Gaeilge's ``Ole-Ole'', which covers football sa Spáinn. Free article
Remembering the past: The IRA and the Treaty
17 April 1997
During the weeks following the approval of the Treaty by Dáil Eireann in January 1922, and the withdrawal of the republican deputies loyal to the Irish Republic, all branches of the Republican Movement rejected the Treaty. Free article
Back issue: Brits bomb Dublin
17 April 1997
Following the fire bomb attacks on several Dublin city-centre stores last Saturday 9.April the Free State and British propaganda machines immediately broadcast news reports that a man from ``Northern Ireland'' had been caught and that the attacks were being ``widely interpreted'' as an attempt by the Provision IRA to highlight the plight of 20 Republican prisoners on hunger-strike in Portlaoise prison. Free article
New in print
17 April 1997
Who's Who in the Irish War of Independence and Civil War 1916-1923 By Padraic O'Farrell Published by Lilliput Press price £9.99 (pb) The Irish Civil War - an Illustrated History By Helen Litton Published by Wolfhound Press Price £6.99 Le Deirdre Nic an tSaoir The IRA in the Twilight Years 1923-1948 By Uinseann MacEoin. Published by Argenta. Price £17.50 pb £24 hb. Free article
Editor's desk
17 April 1997