3 November 2013 Edition
UDR, RUC and British Army in the dock with UVF
3 November 2013
COLLUSION between unionist death squads and British state forces – the Royal Ulster Constabulary, the Ulster Defence Regiment and the British Army, and British Intelligence – fuelled the conflict. Free article
UDR, RUC and British Army in the dock with UVF
3 November 2013
COLLUSION between unionist death squads and British state forces – the Royal Ulster Constabulary, the Ulster Defence Regiment and the British Army, and British Intelligence – fuelled the conflict. Free article
Budget 2014: Fine Gael + Labour = ‘Continuity Fianna Fáil’
3 November 2013
MORE CRACKS have appeared in the ranks of the Labour Party as their TDs followed Fine Gael in railroading through a deeply unfair and regressive Budget. Free article
Miami Showband Massacre victims sue British over collusion
3 November 2013
SURVIVORS and families of the victims of the Miami Showband massacre in 1975 are to sue Britain’s Ministry of Defence and police authorities over the relationships between the British Army, the RUC and the unionist death squad killers. Free article
‘Lethal Allies’: Britain’s dirty war in Ireland
3 November 2013
DECLASSIFIED official Whitehall documents revealed in a new book by former BBC correspondent Anne Cadwallader show that successive British governments knew that members of the British crown forces were involved in unionist killer gangs responsible for the deaths of 120 people yet failed to act. Free article
Council ‘reform’ Bill an attack on local democracy
3 November 2013
EIGHTY TOWN COUNCILS across the 26 Counties are being scrapped by Environment Minister Phil Hogan in what the Fine Gael/Labour Government claims is an attempt to reform local government. But Sinn Féin says the move is an attempt to centralise power. Free article
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Shooting history
3 November 2013
LIZ GILLIS meets me in The Patriots Inn, which sits in the shadow of Kilmainham Jail, on the south bank of the River Liffey. Free article
The cold reality of fuel poverty
3 November 2013
THE scourge of fuel poverty continues to affect all levels of society, particularly the old and infirm. Free article
Irish and US trade unions against austerity
3 November 2013
THE RAFTERS of the historic Mansion House in Dublin were ringing on 23 October with fighting words from Irish and North American trade union leaders at a rally organised by Sinn Féin to mark the 1913 Lockout under the banner ‘In Common Cause Against Austerity, 1913-2013’. Free article
'We need a fighting, radical and independent trade union movement'
3 November 2013
PINNED to the Leinster House office door of Sinn Féin Workers’ Rights spokesperson Senator David Cullinane is the front page of the Mandate Trade Union newspaper Shopfloor with a withering criticism of the Fine Gael/Labour Government’s austerity Budget. Free article
Sinn Féin makes history in Omagh
3 November 2013
ANNE MARIE FITZGERALD has made history for Sinn Féin in Mid Tyrone by being elected first citizen of the Omagh District. And more history was made on Omagh District Council at the meeting when it elected two female councillors to the top two posts — Anne Marie as Chairperson and Omagh Town representative Sorcha McAnespy as Vice-Chair. Premium service article
An Rialtas ag bogadh go mall ar leasú an Chóireáil Dhíreach
3 November 2013
MÁS mall féin is mithid, a deirtear, agus is amhlaidh atá maidir le dul chun cinn an Rialtais chun an córas tearmann do theifigh, an Chóireáil Dhíreach, a leasú. Ach, tógadh céim suntasach le seachtain anuas, mar gur glacadh d’aonghuth sa Seanad le rún a mholann athchóiriu a dhéanamh ar an gcóras seo. Free article