22 January 1998 Edition

Protesters disrupt anti-refugee meetings

22 January 1998

An anti-immigration group, whose inaugural meeting in Ennis last week was disrupted by Anti-Fascist Action, plans to hold a meeting in Dublin this week. Free article

Parades crisis still looms

22 January 1998

MEMBERS OF THE Lower Ormeau Concerned Community (LOCC) have accused the Parades Commission of failing to ``meet the criteria for independence and impartiality'' needed to resolve the contentious parades issue. Free article

Residents against `Peacewall'

22 January 1998

Residents of Whitewell Road in North Belfast staged a demonstration in the area on Saturday 17 January demanding equal rights. Free article

Garda harassment challenged

22 January 1998

A KERRY man who has been subject to an alleged Garda campaign of harassment has been given leave to seek a judicial review to prevent the DPP proceeding with a number of summonses against him. Free article

RUC stole man's money

22 January 1998

WEST Tyrone Sinn Fein Councillor Cathal Quinn has accused the RUC of ``terrorising'' a 20-year-old Tattyreagh man into handing over £40 last Sunday. Free article

Noraid to confront Black Watch

22 January 1998

Gerry Coleman, Noraid's director of political education, has called on all supporters of peace with justice in Ireland to protest the upcoming US tour of "The Black Watch," a British Army regiment that has done 11 tours in the Six Counties and is responsible for nearly a dozen deaths of Irish nationalists. Free article

RUC harass SF team

22 January 1998

SINN Fein's press supremo Richard McAuley was detained by the RUC for 20 minutes as his car was searched for `munitions' on Tuesday morning in the Glen Road, West Belfast. Sinn Fein Councillor Alex Maskey has called this ``a clear case of harassment'' coming on top of last week's RUC interference with the Sinn Fein talks delegation on Divis Street as it traveled to Stormont. Free article

Robert Hamill Justice Fund

22 January 1998

People in the 26 Counties can now donate to the Robert Hamill Justice Fund. Free article

Fógraí bháis

22 January 1998

James Connolly Poole agus Colonel-Commandant John Graham Free article


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