14 June 2001 Edition
Misinterpreting the Nice vote
14 June 2001
Here are the facts as we understand them. Last week 529,478 people voted No to ratifying the Nice Treaty. The reasons why these people voted no are in reality unknown. However, some newspaper polls highlighted voter concerns about the Rapid Reaction Force proposals, the loss of political independence in decision-making and the loss of an EU Commissioner. Free article
Irish support for Turkish hunger strikers
14 June 2001
Some 30 people held a black flag picket in O'Connell Street, Dublin last weekend in solidarity with the prisoners in Turkey who are protesting against the inhuman jail conditions in high-security `F-Type' prisons. Already, 23 prisoners, men and women, have died on the hunger strike since last December, when the Turkish army and police stormed the prisons, killing 28 prisoners. Free article
I ndiaidh `Nice'
14 June 2001
Cé gur éirigh le muintir na sé chontae is fiche `Níl' a rá le Nice, níl Teach Laighean sásta a admháil gur chóir dúinn an chonradh a chur faoin fhód agus díospóireacht iomlán a thoiseacht ar cén chineál Eoraip a ba mhaith linn amach romhainn. Free article