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There is power in a union (Free article)
27 January 2005
In March of this year SIPTU established the union's first Organisation and Recruitment unit and have since expanded it to a staff of nine with an annual budget of over a million Euros. An Phoblacht's JUSTIN MORAN spoke to Noel Dowling, head of the unit, about declining union numbers and the efforts being made to turn the tide.
Unionist paramilitary in-fighting erupts on Shankill (Free article)
27 January 2005
In-fighting between unionist paramilitary groups erupted along the loyalist Shankill Road at the weekend, when the UVF torched up to ten taxis from the Call-A-Cab depot, while a mother of three was attacked in her home by masked men in a connected incident.
One law for us... Wicklow Council threatens to demolish single mother's home (Free article)
27 January 2005
Níamh O'Dwyer, a single mother of two little girls, Claire (five) and Kate (three months), has been given an eviction notice from her small wooden cottage above Lacken in County Wicklow, because it was built, some four years ago, without planning permission.
Irish Celtic fans attacked (Free article)
27 January 2005
Coaches carrying Celtic fans returning from Parkhead last Saturday were attacked by loyalists who had gathered to protest against a Bloody Sunday Commemoration march through Glasgow city centre.
Brian Merriman (c. 1749-1805) (Free article)
27 January 2005
The poet Brian Merriman, nest known for his comic masterpiece, Cúirt an Mheán Oíche (The Midnight Court), died 200 years ago but is remembered in a winter school this weekend, writes AN DRAOI RUA.
Dungannon barracks to close (Free article)
27 January 2005
Sinn Féin Fermanagh/South Tyrone MP Michelle Gildernew has said that confirmation that the Killymeale Barracks situated between two schools in Dungannon will close and that the Kings' Own British Army regiment will be removed from the Six Counties, while welcome, is no substitute for a programme of demilitarisation.
The 5th Column (Free article)
27 January 2005
An Phoblacht's famous weekly satirical column. Read on...
Speller pressed to end SF Housing Executive exclusion (Free article)
27 January 2005
A Sinn Féin delegation led by Housing Spokesperson Councillor Fra McCann MLA and North Belfast MLA Kathy Stanton met with British direct rule minister John Speller this week to raise a number of concerns about housing, including the ongoing exclusion of Sinn Féin representatives from the Housing Executive. They also raised the impact of the…
Just your average freedom-fighting socialist feminist - Remembering the Past (Free article)
27 January 2005
Helena Moloney was born in Dublin in 1883. At the age of 19, she was deeply inspired by a speech given by Maud Gonne and decided to join Inghinidhe na hÉireann. On the day Helena went to join up at Maud Gonne's house in Rathgar, she arrived in the middle of a police raid.
Sinn Féin MEPs to bring Finucane case to Europe (Free article)
27 January 2005
Sinn Féin MEP for Dublin Mary Lou McDonald on Wednesday afternoon delivered a speech in the European Parliament on the case of murdered Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane. The Dublin MEP said that she was following up on commitments made to the Finucane family last week, that Sinn Féin would raise the issue in the European Parliament.
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