11 March 1999 Edition

Courts denying Republicans rights

11 March 1999

John James Bradley, a former secretary of the Irish Republican Felons Club, has been fined 500 by the courts for exercising his right to remain silent. Free article

Ringsend and District Response to Drugs: annual report launched

11 March 1999

Friday March 5 saw the launch of the Ringsend & District Response to Drugs (RDRD) annual report and a special graduation presentation. Free article

MBW withdraws funding from Foundry Trust

11 March 1999

Sinn Fein councillor Tom Hartley has described as `political', the decision by Making Belfast Work (MBW) to withdraw funding from The Foundry Regeneration Trust at the end of this month. Free article

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Horrifying Greenpeace Survey results on radioactivity.

11 March 1999

``People round here are afraid to mention it, leave alone study its effects. They are too frightening. They just want to pretend it isn't there'' - and it isn't. Its across the Irish Sea, at Sellafield. Free article

Lurgan Harry the branch man tries it again

11 March 1999

A Lurgan based RUC man, going under the name of `Harry' and who is renowned as a `serial recruiter' attempted last Wednesday 24 to recruit a 37 year old man from the Taghnevan estate in the town as an informer. Free article

Equality - behind the words

11 March 1999

One of the conclusions of Christopher McCrudden in his analysis of `The Equality of Opportunity Duty in the Northern Ireland Act' that formed part of the `Equality and Human Rights: Their Role in Peace Building' report launched in Belfast last Thursday, 4 March, was that the success in ``mainstreaming equality . . . will depend on the willingness of all those involved''. Free article


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