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14 February 2002 Edition

Balaclava economics

14 February 2002

I was enthralled by your party conference address so much so that I took out all my balaclavas and got ready to burn them, even the silk Armani one that Gerry gave me. Free article

New face on the block

14 February 2002

Pádraig MacLochlainn will be co-opted onto Buncrana Urban District Council on 13 February, following the stepping down of Jim Ferry. Last month, he was adopted as Sinn Féin's general election candidate for Donegal North East. An Phoblacht's MICK DERRIG visited him to get the measure of the man. Free article

Basque youth in hunger strike

14 February 2002

Seventeen members of the Basque pro-independent youth organisation Segi are on hunger strike in Iruñea to protest against the banning of their organisation and the continuing repression of Basque nationalists. Free article

Stair na hÉireann sna scoileanna

14 February 2002

Ag deireadh na seachtaine, bhí comhrá suimiúil agam le cara de mo chuid atá ag múineadh staire i meánscoil. Bhí caighdeán na dtéacsleabhair á phlé agus caithfidh a rá nach raibh ceachtar againn iomlán sásta fán mhéid atá curtha ar fáil. Free article


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