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16 January 2003 Edition

200,000 voters 'missing'

16 January 2003

mmediate and decisive action by the Electoral Office and Commission is imperative to correct the seriously flawed new electoral register, says Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams. Free article

Fresh sectarian attacks in Antrim

16 January 2003

A 21-year-old nationalist man was rushed to Antrim area hospital after he was seriously assaulted by an LVF gang at around 3am on Sunday 12 January. The man sustained a broken arm and cuts to his legs and body after being hit with baseball bats and cudgels studded with nails in the Greystone estate. Free article

Heath's selective memory

16 January 2003

Amid tight security, the 86-year-old former British prime minister, Edward Heath, was ushered into the witness box in Central Hall, Westminster, to finally give evidence to the Bloody Sunday inquiry. Free article

Court of Appeal upholds "shoot to kill" case.

16 January 2003

The family of IRA Volunteer Gervaise McKerr, who was killed by the RUC in a shoot to kill operation on 11 November 1982, has welcomed the judgement of the Court of Appeal in Belfast that the British government failed to properly investigate the shootings 20 years ago. Free article

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Strand attacked again

16 January 2003

Sporadic stoning from the loyalist Cluan Place into the nationalist Clandeboye area of the Short Strand over the weekend escalated into a sustained attack that lasted over 20 minutes just after midnight on Monday 13 January.

Residents of Clandeboye told An Phoblacht that loyalists had been throwing missiles over the peace wall over the weekend. On Sunday a number of fireworks were... Free article

Memorial plaque unveiled to dead postman

16 January 2003

Hundreds of people attended a memorial mass at St Mary's Star of the Sea chapel on Sunday 12 January to mark the first anniversary of the sectarian killing of postal worker Daniel McColgan. Free article


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