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Éire -- 2025 (Free article)
20 January 2005
Looking forward to the year 2025 has been a bit of a pastime throughout the media of late. Although it seems to be inferred that people in general play a passive role, AN DRAOI RUA likes to think that we all can play a constructive part in building a better future.
Anger at jailing of Derry republican (Free article)
20 January 2005
Sinn Féin MLA Raymond McCartney has called on British Secretary of State Paul Murphy to intervene immediately and release Derry man Martin Doherty, who was arrested and jailed on Wednesday for contempt of the Bloody Sunday Inquiry.
The Soloheadbeg ambush - Remembering the Past (Free article)
20 January 2005
On 21 January 1919, 86 years ago, the 3rd Tipperary Brigade of the IRA fired the opening salvo of the Tan War in Soloheadbeg. Information had reached the Third Brigade in December 1918 that explosives were being transported in their area and they began preparations to seize these much needed munitions.
Woman and children attacked in Derry (Free article)
20 January 2005
A Derry woman and two young children were left traumatised after they were attacked by two loyalists at Clooney Terrace at around 6pm on Saturday 15 January. The woman's son and his eight-year-old friend, who was wearing a Celtic shirt, had just left a video shop and were returning to the woman's car when two men, in their late 30s or early 40s,…
PSNI avoid blame as Orangeman gets off (Free article)
20 January 2005
Sinn Féin says the PSNI deliberately frustrated attempts to prosecute a senior member of the Orange Order after loyalist bands breached Parade Commission guidelines during the Whiterock Orange March along the Springfield Road on 28 June 2003.
Bogtrotters struggle through (Free article)
20 January 2005
As the bells of Christchurch pealed out through the stormy midnight air of 7 January last, a group of hardy walkers set out from Dublin Castle on the annual Red Hugh/Art O'Neill walk, over 30 miles of it. Included in this band of hardies were a number of Bogtrotters and friends.
Sponsored Feature: Debating the EU Constitution (Free article)
20 January 2005
Much of the politics of the January session of the EU Parliament was taken up with a debate on the proposed EU Constitution. MEPs from the Conservatives, Socialists and Greens argued that the constitution would mark a new point in the development of the Union, although their arguments were contradictory, some argued that it was just a tidying up…
Marie Wright (Free article)
20 January 2005
There's a story told about Marie Wright by her friends and comrades. It's an account of a single incident that happened after Marie had been released from her first term of imprisonment in 1987 and before she was jailed again two years later.
Henry Fegan (Free article)
20 January 2005
Henry Fegan, a committed and fearless Volunteer of Oglaigh na hEireann, died on 10 December. Henry, born in the summer of 1933, was the eldest of four children. His early years were spent in High Street, Bessbrook and he attended the nearby primary school on the edge of the village. While he was known to his friends and comrades affectionately…
Poll positioning (Free article)
27 January 2005
Percentages are a powerful weapon in modern Irish politics. This week's series of polls conducted by TNSmrbi on behalf of the Irish Times have given an interesting snapshot of not just the state of mind of voters but also and more importantly the perceptions and interpretation powerful voices in the Irish media and political establishment have of…
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