Attacks carried out last Saturday, 9 September, on the homes of two nationalist families living in the Ormeau Road area of Belfast could have cost five people, three of them children, their lives. Free article

New proposals for the flying of flags announced by the British secretary of state last week are against the spirit of the Good Friday Agreement which provides for symbols to be displayed on the basis of equality or neutrality, says Sinn Féin. Free article

So Wim Duisenberg, President of the European Central Bank (ECB), has told those of us living in the 26 Counties that we need to avoid a `giveaway budget'. So what? Free article

The EU Commission announced on Monday, 11 September, that it is suing Britain over plans to dismantle a nuclear reactor at Sellafield in Cumbria. Free article

What is going on in the asylum division of the 26-County Department of Justice? It is here, under the authority of the Refugee Applications Commissioner, that asylum seekers' applications for refugee status are determined. Free article

Every week, once or even twice a week, 30 to 40 people who have worked with Dublin City Councillor Nicky Kehoe go to doors with leaflets telling people what's going on. They keep residents informed of the answers he received to his council questions. These range from what happened on the area committee, news about lights, crossings and traffic, about an outbreak of meningitis in school, the school warden service, house building, playgrounds, child care, etc. ``People can't have a say unless they know what is going on,'' says Nicky. Free article

Sinn Féin TD Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin has said the Government's housing policy is exposed as ``a catalogue of failure'' by the latest report from the National Economic and Social Forum. The Cavan/Monaghan TD described the Taoiseach's response to the report blaming the lack of housing on a labour shortage in the building industry as ``a lame excuse''. Free article

The decision by Dublin City Manager, John Fitzgerald, to grant permission for a proposed high-rise development in Smithfield, Dublin, is set to reignite the campaign against high-rise developments in the inner city. Free article

Figures from a forthcoming Higher Education Authority report show an increase of over 10,000 in the number of university students living in flats and apartments in the 26 Counties. Free article

On Monday, Sean McManus proposed that the Sligo Co. Council declare their vote approving MC O'Sullivans' Draft Waste Management plan for the Connaught region null and void, because councillors had not received the full submissions which had been made to the council. The plan proposes to burn 44% of waste in the region. Free article