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Lusitania revisited (Free article)
19 May 2005
There are two types of people in this world - those who are cursed with morbid curiosity and those who aren't. If you have always been interested in, say, the Titanic or the Hindenburg, then you fall into the first category and this book may appeal to you.
Bloom miscast in Ridley's Crusade epic (Free article)
19 May 2005
Eagerly awaited from the man that brought Gladiator and Black Hawk Down to the big screen, Kingdom of Heaven is Ridley Scott's take on the Crusades. Like his work all the way back to Blade Runner, it is visually stunning. The final siege of Jerusalem by Saladin's men makes the battle scenes in Braveheart look like a Tom & Jerry cartoon.
Military overflights insult Irish neutrality (Free article)
19 May 2005
Commenting on news at the weekend that the Irish taxpayer has forked out €10 million for foreign and military overflights, the majority of which were US military flights, many to Iraq, Sinn Féin Foreign Affairs spokesperson Aengus Ó Snodaigh TD said it was an "insult to the Irish people and to Irish neutrality."
Same old Sellafield safety record (Free article)
19 May 2005
It's been an action-packed six weeks for the British nuclear industry. First, there were the new names for old companies - we welcome the Nuclear Decommission-ing Authority (NDA) and the British Nuclear Group (BNG) - and new strategies for old problems of how to dismantle aging power stations and make safe thousands of tonnes of hazardous…
The day they burned the Custom House - Remembering the Past (Free article)
19 May 2005
When Dick McKee was murdered on Bloody Sunday 1920 in Dublin Castle, Oscar Traynor became OC of the Dublin Brigade of the IRA. In the early months of 1921 he was called to a meeting by the senior members of the Republican Movement. The meeting was held in 40 Herbert Park, the home of The O Rahilly's widow.
Paris remembers the hunger strikers (Free article)
19 May 2005
• A commemoration of the 1980 and 1981 Hunger Strikes was held in Paris on Saturday 14 May. The event was organised by the Paris-based solidarity group, Solidarité Irlande, and took place at the rue Bobby Sands in Saint Denis area of the city
In search of Blair's legacy (Free article)
19 May 2005
If Tony Blair was, as he was said to have been, shaken by the result of the British general election, in which only slightly over one third of the electorate, 36%, actually voted for him and which saw Labour's majority reduced from 160 to 67 seats, it was not apparent on Tuesday in the Houses of Parliament.
Sectarianism again in Harryville (Free article)
19 May 2005
A number of cars belonging to Catholic parishioners attending Mass at Our Lady's Church in Harryville, Ballymena, County Antrim, were attacked by loyalists on Saturday 14 May. The loyalist gang attacked the vehicles, which were in the chapel car park, with bricks and stones causing damage to some of the cars. An Phoblacht has been told that the…
Early days in Championship races (Free article)
19 May 2005
Well, we saw the next All-Ireland football champions in action last Sunday. The question is, were they in Clones or Croke Park? Seriously, it is far too early to begin predicting who might emerge triumphant in September, but both Armagh and Dublin will be satisfied with their first outing.
School staff day of actions over cuts (Free article)
19 May 2005
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has pledged the party's support to the campaign by education workers who are protesting against the British Government's massive cuts to the North's education budget.
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