When I met him three months ago, Salah Ajarma was setting up a community centre to keep the children away from tanks and missiles in his refugee camp, Aida. "It's our duty to build hope, dreams and a future for them," he explained. Free article

The people of north Belfast, nationalist and unionist but particularly the nationalist people and the Catholic and nationalist people across the Six Counties must be wondering today whether their lives and the lives of their children are worth a damn. Free article

Thousands of people poured into the streets of Paris and other French cities- including Lille, Marseille, Nantes, Toulouse, Montpellier, Grenoble, Strasbourg and Clermont-Ferrand- late on Sunday 21 April, protesting National Front leader Jean-Marie Le Pen's progression to the run-off election for French president. Free article

The Irish Oral examinations mark a time of year when we have about 50,000 extra Irish speakers in the country, but it only lasts about a fortnight. AN DRAOI RUA asks why that is. Free article