15 June 2000 Edition

Drugs squaddies to go but killers stay on

15 June 2000

The mother of Belfast teenager Peter McBride, shot dead by British soldiers in 1992, has reacted angrily to reports in Scottish newspapers that soldiers are to be dismissed following positive testing for drugs. Free article

RUC comments slammed

15 June 2000

Sinn Féin Assembly member and Party Chairperson Mitchel McLaughlin has slammed a claim by RUC Chief Ronnie Flanagan alleging IRA involvement in the recent shooting of Eddie McCoy. Free article

McCrea begged LVF to retain arms

15 June 2000

Democratic Unionist MP Reverend William McCrea, who once notoriously shared a platform with mass-murderer Billy Wright after the latter received death threats from his former colleagues in the UVF, was accused in the British parliament on Monday, 12 June, of meeting with the then head of the LVF, Mark Fulton, in the autumn of 1998, in order to beg the organisation not to decommission their weapons. Free article

A party on the move

15 June 2000

Sinn Féin Head Office has recently been upgrading and professionalising the party's Administration departments in Dublin and Belfast. Sinn Féin National Head of Administration, Maria Doherty, talked to An Phoblacht about the challenges of managing a party on the move. Free article

Special needs children neglected

15 June 2000

Despite the economic boom, there is a high level of educational disadvantage in Ireland today. Worst hit are children with special needs. An Opposition motion in the Dáil last week targeted this issue and called for government action to help children and adults with literacy and numeracy problems. Free article

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Strabane on tour

15 June 2000

The Strabane branch of the Tyrone National Graves Association recently travelled to Dublin to visit Kilmainham Gaol. Free article

Presentation to Hunger Striker

15 June 2000

Speaking in County Louth last Friday night at a presentation function for Sean McKenna who was 53 days on hunger strike in 1980, South Derry Mid-Ulster Assembly member John Kelly opened his address to the overflowing crowd gathered for the occasion by quoting from W.B. Yeats' The King's Threshold: Free article

Mallon defends meeting Para Prince

15 June 2000

SDLP Deputy Minister Seamus Mallon has defended his party's decision to meet the heir to the British throne, Prince Charles, describing the welcome as a ``gesture of respect for all traditions in the North''. Free article

Coiste na n-Iarchimí launch

15 June 2000

The launch of the 26-County headquarters of Coiste na nIarchimí will take place on Saturday 8 July at 4pm at the organisation's premises at 41 Lower Dominick Street, Dublin 1. Operating on a nationwide basis, the Coiste was established to co-ordinate the activities of groups working towards the real and meaningful reintegration of republican prisoners into the community. Free article

Fógraí bháis: `Cleaky' Clarke

15 June 2000

The death has occurred, on Tuesday 13 June, after a lengthy illness, of prominent Belfast republican Terence `Cleaky' Clarke. Free article


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